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June 7, 2026

Raw milk and vibes

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June!

  1. A cutting from the Financial Times that reads: "Wembymania has exploded in the US and in France, where basketball remains a niche sport but moody intellectualism is not"
    Nicely done, Financial Times

    Wembymania

  2. I enjoyed this line from Infamous:

    “He listened to me the way you'd listen to announcements in a train station...just enough to hear if there's an emergency.”

  3. Jimi Hendrix lived above a London bistro called Mr Love. It had the best logo

    “It was on three floors. Upstairs was a coffee bar surrounded by a large fish pond and fountain, on the second floor, a dining area painted purple with heart-shaped alcoves and chainmail curtains, and on the lower floor, a smaller dining area and a dance floor decorated like a cave, painted gold, with a heart-shaped area for the DJ.”

    More on Mr Love

  4. “You can't simply use raw milk and vibes to free yourself from the obligation to need health care”

    Sam Kelly of Medicine Red in Tank Magazine

  5. Robby Hoffman, her father and her Porsche.

    “My father always wanted a Porsche. And after he and my mother split, he got one. Instead of paying child support, he decided to buy a used Porsche for about $10,000. We were living on welfare, and he was also living in squalor, but he sent us a picture of it, as if he was trying to get my mother and his family back [Hoffman is the seventh of 10 children]. I grew up knowing that Porsche is the best, and the 911 was my grail car, black with a tan interior. Recently I traded up and got one for $10,000. I don’t have a relationship with my father – he was religious and he was absent and, yes, he was an asshole – but he was really funny, and I’m still half of him. When I look into the rear-view mirror, I see his eyes in my eyes. It helps me have a relationship with him, enjoying something he enjoys. It’s not ideal, but it’s not nothing.”

    SELF-PROMOTION

    More YouTube videos about professional stuff

russell

(There are 1060 of you. According to the traditional British and European long scale systems for naming large numbers 1060 is known as a ‘decillion’. In the US, Canada and Modern British it’s a ‘novendecillion’)

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