The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. The starry-eyed futurists of the song could be forgiven for expecting things to get even better. But even when oil prices were cheap, it was just too expensive to run, so we gave up on that dream, and now are lucky to travel that distance in 7 hours.
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“Our parenting hack of the year so far is having cut vegetables ready at the table when our kids get home from school. The percentage of vegetables consumed is up like 10x” Good tokens 2025-09-26
1953–1961
I always forget that Nixon was a vice president, and I’m still shocked every time I’m reminded of that.
“How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation
Waiting for the Eurostar in that little space - both at Centraal and St Pancras - crammed in with your fellow humans isn’t Brueghel. It’s Bosch.
“A person dies, but capital is forever.” // And, when the worker becomes the self-manager. Capitalism and the Death Drive
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Webcurios 19/09/25 webcurios.co.uk/webcurios… “I COULD GET TO MARSEILLES IN 8 HOURS FFS. What am I doing with my life? Why am I sitting in my pants in Vauxhall typing words about the internet when I could instead be about to visit Southern France and drink pastis and throw fireworks in the streets with wild Mediterranean abandon? I am TERRIBLE at being alive.” // This person’s linkblog style is next-level.
“linguistic pyrotechnics” - Chatty-G tries to explain to me why I don’t like contemporary hip-hop: “2. Wordplay vs. vibe – [Wu-Tang,], Tribe, and OutKast gave you linguistic pyrotechnics. This new wave often gives you murmured hooks and repetition. To an ear trained on lyricism, it can feel like lazy filler."
There is wide agreement that AMS<->LCY is the perfect flight.