Mastodawn

I was busy in my garden when my neighbour looked over the fence and asked what I was doing ...

I said 'I'm putting all my plants 🌿 in alphabetical order'

She replied 'Really? I don't know how you find the time'

Oh that's easy I said, 'It's right next to the sage ... '

I couldn't resist, but I was in fact on the train, which pulled out 5 mins later

I'm down in Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline

MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS #wrapped (originally for @theguardian.com)

Hey – there's an error widely made after Brexit that I see a lot of Americans starting to make.

Some bad economic stuff is starting to happen to people who voted the wrong way.

The deep temptation is to say "we told you so, you dumb fucks, I have zero sympathy".

OK, yeah, some of these people are racists. No sympathy.

But!

Millions of them are (let's be frank) low-education, low-information voters who thought they were voting for cheaper groceries.

You will need them. Don't push them away.

Some witchery taking place

I don't want to hear your wishy washy "Happy Halloween" woke nonsense. Say "Hail Satan" like you mean it.

Wow! World's 14 highest peaks, at 18 years old!

‘Sherpas are rarely seen as elite athletes’: record-breaking teenager’s fight for equality

Nima Rinji Sherpa is youngest person to summit world’s 14 highest peaks at 18 years old. Now he is pushing for recognition of his community

The Guardian

Very interesting piece - those hard numbers bandied about in the media themselves represent policy choices

We know less about our economy than we like to pretend

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