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Helen Lewis and I are doing a live event in London on August 3. Tickets here! When the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Version 8 was released in September 2022, a very strange thing happened: WPATH removed references to minimum age requirements for various medical interventions, describing the change as a “correction” in a notice that now reads, weirdly: “This correction notice has been removed as it referred to a previous version of the article, which was published in error.

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A little over two weeks ago, we attended Panathinaikos' coronation at the Final 4 in Berlin. That same weekend, another super interesting tournament took place for the big European basketball fans: the Adidas Next Generation Tournament (ANGT). Real Madrid's U18 team took the title by beating the French team Pôle France, and Hugo González snagged the MVP award of the tournament. Today, we'll focus on the tournament's best player, a huge promise for both Real Madrid and Spanish basketball.

Brandon: Alan, this is a real treat for me because your work has been such a big part of my life. You must get that kind of praise from a lot of folks. Alan: It happens at the conventions. People are very nice. You put these shows out there and you wonder if they’re having any effect at all. Then, when you hear from adults how they used to run home from school to catch them it’s very gratifying.

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Spoiler alert: This post contains descriptions of key moments from Beau is Afraid. Beau is Afraid is maximum Ari Aster. Thanks to the success of the writer-director’s first two films Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster had a $35 million budget to play in his fucked-up sandbox. Beau is Afraid plays all of Aster’s hits—familial guilt, paranoia, drug trips, nude men running around, heads crushed like grapes—and blasts them through a megaphone connected to Dolby speakers for three hours.

For someone that isn’t the biggest fan of fruit desserts, I sure have a few fruity recipes in my portfolio. I’ve had so many terrible iterations of fruit desserts growing up, they scarred me for life. Not sure how relatable this is, but you know when someone brings dessert to your home, or you have cake at a family gathering, it looks great, you take a bite expecting a nice and tender texture, then your teeth hit a soggy raisin or dried plum.

Last week I wrote about looking down. This week I want to write about looking up, though my first example is of looking slightly down and across. Riding Light Rail the other day, I noticed a curious geological feature at the Tukwila Station. Hanging down from the platform were stalactites, those classic cave structures. The urban ones in Tukwila were a half inch to several inches long and resembled soda straws.