A bad week of reading for me (sick, then preoccupied with dogsitting a very active pup) but a very good week of submissions. Thanks, submitters.
"Irrespective of their age, they were able to get a lot of ants," he told Reuters.
“Four people, including two Belgian teens, plead guilty to trafficking giant ants in Kenya”, Reuters via ABC News
Submitted by Ranjit.
Details are limited, but authorities say there were no injuries, and they are searching for the kangaroo.
“Kangaroo recovered after getting loose on I-85”, WSFA 12 News
Submitted my Mykael, via Linda Holmes.
I do not achieve any Twombly-like liberation from the husk of cliché or the shackles of my personality with this scrawl.
"Gloves on!", Anne Carson for the London Review of Books
Submitted by Robin, with the comment "Encountered as a highlighted sentence in a Discord -- haven't even read the whole essay (alas) -- but I love the sentence!"
He’s a very visible, troublesome piece of story gear.
Tony Gilroy, quoted in The Hollywood Reporter
Amazingly, it wouldn’t be the first time the Pats plane was used by ICE in the offseason 😬
Submitted by Mags.
However, the arrival of the werewolves complicates their relationship.
Wikipedia entry for Zombies (franchise)
He does not look strong and soft to me here, he looks like he may struggle with a supply chain collapse, and we probably won’t cuddle all that much.
"This internet poll is breaking men's brains!", Natalia Antonova for her newsletter The Normie Restoration
Submitted by Andreas.
I probably sound like one of those guys who is always like, “AI will never do this, or I’ll eat my hat!!” and then he has to get his stomach pumped because it’s full of hats.
“28 slightly rude notes on writing”, Adam Mastroianni for his newsletter Experimental History
Submitted by Neil.
It changes in ways that I don’t approve of, and it does so at times that I deem inappropriate.
“Import, Immature”, Spencer Wright for Scope of Work
Matt submitted a sentence from this that was compelling but which was broken up into bullet points in a way that sort of defied sentence-ness. Here is the sentence (if we consider if a sentence):
I look up Alimentos Prosalud, and learn that they were spun out of a company called Zapata Petroleum Corporation, which:
- Was founded in 1953, and named after Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
- ...in Rochester, New York
- ...by future CIA director and US President George H.W. Bush, along with one of his CIA buddies and a few oil scouting and wildcatting guys
- ...and was later used as a purchasing front by the CIA