Caroline Butler
@carolineonline.bsky.social
Audience Insights Consultancy // ex-PRH Head of Marketing Social Intelligence Insider 50 Winner 2024 // Futurebook: Startup of The Year Shortlist 2024 www.convertculture.net | convertculture.substack.com
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
Dutch people on the radio again explaining how something works better there and why. I would guess the PM has taken note of how things are set up where his missus has come from?
blog: leeslinks voor op zondag (met Phoebe Bridgers, Andy Burnham over de Smiths, Charlotte Gainsbourg over Serge, Homerus lezen met de Fat White Family, Issy Wood en Idles) www.stereomedia.nl/2026/07/that...
Look at that, you let Mick Jagger down. I hope you're happy.
I remember when Sapiens came out. Everyone at PRH was reading it. I tried 5-6 times and I always stopped at the hunter-gatherer part. It read like word soup to me. I assumed it was me and I was too much of a thicko to follow it. Well sir... open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...
Sapiens
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Have put up so much black out shit on the windows to manage the HEat from the outside it looks like the flat is being turned into a trap house.
blog: leeslinks op zondag (met Oscar Scheller, de Sleeves, Joan Didion over de Grateful Dead, Truthpaste en m'n Bandcampontdekkingen van vorige maand) www.stereomedia.nl/2026/05/just...
Highlights of the free Harlaam liberation day festival: The Dutch version of Teenage Fanclub and the Flemish Rosalia (singing in Portuguese) but also the kids scaling the fence at the entrance and throwing themselves off the other side as they could not be arsed to q
We are on a train with 100 15 year olds singing pop songs and screaming at each other in Dutch whilst swigging cans of cocktails
News here is now on the elections coming up in the UK this week and how many people are expected to vote very differently...
It's liberation day here in the NL with two minutes silence and so many flags flying half mast. Very moving watching the broadcast.
Do I know.anyome travelling to India who can pick me up a dress I have fallen deeply in love with and am separated from by taxes, import duties and postage?
Joris has been in the loft for hours going through old zines while I've been trying to learn the impossible language of his people! BAH
So it turns out genetics and viruses are key for most autoimmune diseases like ME and MS. Not just being a people pleaser. What does this mean one wonders for those quacks that have been saying (with no evidence) its the latter?
Don't understand why having a royal family is a really bad idea and it's just a bad egg? consider a) the met protection team & their role in all of this and what that implies re: accountability and b) how class ridden our society is (famously so) and what having a monarchy speaks to in that context.
I often feel it's a shame I don't have a teenage child to embarrass with my dorkiness.
The Dutch government have been pushing people to get emergency packs for a few years. Now half of households have them. It's in case of major outages of some sort from banking services going down to no clean water. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/02/half...
Half Dutch households now have an emergency kit at home - DutchNews.nl
Half of Dutch households now have an emergency kit at home or are in the process of putting one together, according to research by broadcaster RTL. This is a sharp rise compared with 2024, when only 1...
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Listening to people talking about phone free gigs. It used to be when we had press at the front, taking photos at gigs (before everyone had a camera) they got to do the first 2 songs (no flash). Maybe an etiquette that was kinda the same could be encouraged? It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
First day working at PRH and first author event? Peter Thiel. I don't remember anything he said but how really really fucking rude ans weird he was and that he had a bodyguard. Genuinely quite scary. But everyone seemingly enthralled by some sort of business genius they all thought he had.
Every recipe at the moment starts off delicious and then they add an unusual bean. This has to stop. NO MORE BEANS unless it's an actual bean originated recipe. I know the world has a lot of issues but adding beans where beans DO NOT GO must end NOW. Thank you.