None of them have ever spoken to each other like this, and Nella feels the horror of it, the coming repercussions, ringing through her blood. --This week's #SundaySentence is from Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune. Beautiful sequel to The Miniaturist!
a list of nice things for you: a long walk in the summer evening air, the scent of tomato leaves on your hand, seeing someone who is clearly so comfortable being themselves, a bright patterned shirt, feeling squeaky clean after a shower, a light lemon cake, the absence of anxiety
“Theft from the future is the motor of economic growth. Capitalism, which sounds so reasonable when explained by a mainstream economist, is in ecological terms nothing but a pyramid scheme.” @GeorgeMonbiot https://t.co/zAv1JZOpoS
Most people who make fun of the 17th-century mania for tulips
- own zero costly tulips
- have never imported a tulip
- have never participated in an early modern financial bubble
- missed out on pineapple mania and the South Sea and Mississippi companies
Repeating again & again—Billionaire👏🏽Philanthropy👏🏽Is👏🏽PR.
Yes $1B is a lot of money, but had Bezos & Amazon simply paid their taxes—that would've been ~$25B over the last 3 years alone.
Don’t fall for the PR stunts. Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
this is not in cameron highlands but is at lojing, kelantan.
the lojing highlands is where the WORLD’s second largest rafflesia was discovered. 500ha of land has been gazetted for a rafflesia conservation park but this sight of forest degradation is very worrying.
My generation says “No worries” instead of “you’re welcome” to 1) show that doing a favor for someone doesn’t need to be a transactional thing and that we’re happy to help, and 2) because if they really knew how worried we actually were, they’d never ever talk to us again ever.