Crossword compiler. Linguist. Cyclist. Horse watcher. Trying not to succumb to the feeling of having entered a parallel universe since some point in 2016.
Every fact I try to trace turns out to be a lie. In a 1987 study of Laurel and Hardy, the author claims Stan Laurel cross-bred potatoes and onions, producing a noxious vegetable he couldn't convince anyone to eat. The claim appears in several later biographies. But ... 🧵
Don’t let your life 'narrow'.
I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years. The thing I watch happen to people — more than any injury or surgery — is what I call the narrowing.
Most of my patients have no idea it’s happening. They think it’s just aging. It’s not...
No, Trump himself has never visited Ukraine during the war (since 2022). Zelenskyy has invited him repeatedly, but Trump has declined.
Others—such as JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, or Steve Witkoff—have never visited Ukraine.
In contrast, Trump’s associates (especially Witkoff) have visited Russia multiple times; Witkoff alone has gone there on numerous occasions (at least seven times), often meeting with Putin, sometimes alongside Kushner and others.
This behavior on the part of Trump and his team reveals a disgusting cowardice and moral depravity: they shun the under-attack, bleeding nation of Ukraine like the plague, while regularly paying court to the aggressor Putin in Moscow.
@9f8a02e25f71487 Why are nationalist knuckledraggers so illiterate? If you weren't banging on about being English, I'd assume you weren't a native speaker.