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Hi, Friend. Several years ago, aided and abetted by Literary Twitter, I started gathering poems with joy in mind. It was 2017, and I needed more joy, and so did you. We all still need it. So here is a slightly updated and revised compilation of those poems shared by readers and writers in a very long thread. I’ve linked to some; others you’ll have to hunt down yourself online and in print.

What the fuck were they thinking? Pierre Poilievre was on the East Coast Tuesday night, and decided to visit some people. I’m sure he’d describe them as Regular Canadians that he’s fighting for, but it was less that and a group of Diagolon supporters currently staging some form of protest-encampment in anger at … well, that’s unclear. The Opposition Leader, who seems frankly hammered, met with a group who, amongst other things, is led by a man who talked about wanting to rape Poilievre’s wife.

Greg checking in to continue on with part two of our mini-series on shot quality vs. shot quantity. We are looking at why point shots are a bad tactic/strategy. Part 1 - Shot Quality vs Shot Quantity - recommended reading so you understand the terms and references made below. Part 2 - Point shots suck The “point'“ is the area just inside the offensive zone blue line where defensemen on the offensive team are normally positioned.

Data from 15 law enforcement agencies show many police departments are taking longer to respond to 911 calls as they grapple with officer shortages. Longer response times lead to underreporting of crime and may decrease the likelihood that reported crimes get solved. There are no national standards for collecting and reporting response times, but many police departments publish Calls for Service data which makes up a record of every incident a police department responded to each year.

The most critical component of a family event is pizza. Pizza carries so much of the weight in social situations. Everyone has an opinion about the cheese, sauce or crust. Pizza inspires conversation about more pizza. About home towns, parties, memories, late nights, festivities, and birthdays. Because it’s connected to our lives, it links together people like synapses in a neural network. A few weeks ago my dad invited me, Christa and Charlie over to a cousin-fest.

This week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins to share her ideas on how American academia has framed and problematized authoritarianism, especially when it comes to China. A deep and subtle thinker, she offers thought-provoking critiques of some of the assumptions that have become nearly axiomatic in political science and other social sciences in their approach to understanding politics in China.

Broad with Polly Vernon By Polly Vernon The ideologically un-rigid, all-embracing, joyful / scathing / loving/ sorrowful / hopeful / exhausted world view of a multi-award winning journalist, author and 'atypical' feminist (unapologetically obsessed by fashion and beauty.) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbG7y6Wwr52io7yv

When worn well, polos can be dressed up with a jacket or dressed down with jeans/shorts. Fantastically versatile with an air of power. I’m a big fan of polos, but I too often see people wearing misfit shirts or in ways that just seem obnoxious even when well-fit. I’m hoping this can serve as a PSA. And please stop with the big ponies. Note: This is an adaptation of djsamson’s great polo guide post a few months ago, which was deleted because OP seemingly had a non-disclosed affiliation with the custom polo startup Vastrm.

Thank you to all the people who’ve recently taken out paid subscriptions. I’d actually forgotten to make a “please pay for this because I need to pay my rent” post in a while so it’s been a nice surprise.  I was going to write about something else entirely this week but then the Guardian commissioned a number of people to talk about Poor Things and it annoyed me. They went to a lot of people!