Everything seems to be happening a lot, doesn’t it? I’ve barely even left the house this week because of work and weather, and yet there doesn’t seem to be enough time to either get the work done or keep up with anything else. Instagram was my last footprint in social media and I’ve hardly even looked at it lately, let alone used it. I’m supposed to be disconnecting and reading books and watching films and writing in my notebook at night and I find myself buried in news apps and newsletters and search engines (often while watching Bloomberg with one eye) until 1130pm while also writing material directly on to my phone because it’s in my hand which is the WORST habit. (IA Writer is great for that. DON’T DO IT.)
Onwards.
TODAY:
- US Congress finds itself powerless to take its war powers back. No kidding. Obama didn’t roll back the war-powers creep from the GWB years.
- Dan Catt accidentally boiled his liver
- We have now invented “active sitting“
- “A video of a slender bamboo stalk that somehow grew through a metal lamp post near the World Trade Plaza in Xinchang County, China’s Zhejiang Province, has gone viral on social media. Dubbed the “Indomitable Bamboo”, the resilient plant took root just a few centimeters from the lamp post and made its way inside it through a small opening near the base.”
The Economist excels themselves with this haunted image:
OPERATIONS: script, foreword, prose series development, outline, newsletter,
STATUS: the girl cat is fine – apparently she’s just lost weight and assumed her ultimate form. Less overnight email than at any time in probably the last ten years.
READING: SPIES: THE EPIC INTELLIGENCE WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, Calder Walton (UK) (US+)
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