Slavenka & Obi
Things that made me laugh today, and some that have intrigued me.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Face to Face
Photograph: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump, left, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, deep in conversation in St Peter’s Basilica.
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Monday, April 14, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
This is how we must proceed, Gordon Brown.
What’s clear after recent events is that the fourth global order cannot be restored.
We are not only in a more protectionist era but are moving from a unipolar world where the US was the sole hegemonic power to one that has many more centres of decision-making power.
But because we are also a more interconnected world, we are more vulnerable to crises – from pandemics and climate emergencies to financial contagion.
All the more so because countries can, as we saw this week, weaponise that interdependence and the choke points it creates for their own advantage.
So if we are to have anything approaching a values-based order we will have at some point to agree an updated global charter for our common future, something that builds on the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and the UN Charter of 1945, but is geared to a completely different century.
Waiting Room, Tristan Martinez
Martinez describes the work as “the feeling of being on the cusp of a moment, just as something is about to happen or just after something has happened.”
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
There’s great news coming from Philadelphia Zoo.
Since there were only 44 individual tortoises of their kind in all U.S. zoos combined, the arrival of these baby turtles is essentially a lifeline for the survival of this species.
Unlikely Friendship
In reality, the excited bird couldn't believe her good fortune, picking at an unlimited supply of fur for a nest she was building.
According to the TikToker who posted the video, the cat made his way up the tree the next day for another round of the spa treatment, while the bird returned for more free building materials.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Speed Trap, Clark Winter
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