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Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Suspended from the local parents group for saying Miss Rachel got Shooters
I think it’s time to reinvent the deadbeat dad. For a long time we assume them to be drunken losers who live on their own and only do laundry once a month. But what if they actually became holy scholars in Khazakhstan. Or started a humanitarian non profit
Debating for nearly half an hour with the guy who works at the waste disposal centre over whether aluminium plated panels should go into 'metals' or 'general rubbish'
Here is my contribution to the British Hakikomori discourse: you should watch Welcome to the NHK
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 4h agoI've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...
lrb.co.uk
This morning’s First Edition is about the desperate attempts to make Ceuta look like an “invasion” - and how the EU’s border policies mean this is bound to keep happening. With @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Wednesday briefing: How misinformation and a hardened immigration policy turned Ceuta into Europe’s latest flashpoint
In today’s newsletter: The past week shows how quickly images, rumours and right-wing political opportunism can eclipse the facts on the ground
theguardian.com
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
@trashfuture.bsky.social wah gwan alaikum lads #vocalstim
Look, I think it’s good that a dominant way of learning the news is through ageing comedians with tiny mics and a patronising disposition
Look, the thing is if I died and the reaction my friends had was “he wasn’t every persons cup of tea but he sure was interesting!!” I probably wouldn’t know because I was dead, but it still would suck conceptually
it's a big club and you ain't in it
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterdayThe Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
Making everyone online mad by saying that the Joker is carrying a mental load
Really think this is what irked me about him the most tbh. Just a very ugly writer with no real flair or stylistic quality, whose outsized influence in the industry was also indicative of rock bottom standards and scrape-the-barrel prose
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2d agoHaters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
EXACTLY. This is why AI is bad for education. I learned more from the act of writing and editing my Masters thesis than doing the research and summaries.
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d agoThe thing about writing up a year-long research project is that the act of writing - of making sense of something on the page so that someone else can pick it up and use it - is completely transformational for both your own understanding of it and the quality of analysis.
Instead what will happen is we will come to accept thousands dead every day as another voice in the churning ambient chorus of suffering we do our best to tune out already much like with gun violence or unnecessary deaths due to the cost of healthcare www.welcometohellworld.com/we-have-to-s...
As the guy known universally as "cartoonishly corrupt Mayor" you can trust me when I say...
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d ago“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
Ok so i just realised that I bought a bunch of magic beans
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d agoWhen I was in Tanzania i came across a guy who told me he sold the best coffee on the Island. I bought a bag of coffee beans from him, and just brewed it now. Worst coffee i've had in my entire life it tastes of wet cigarettes
im not telling you what to do, im just saying that some stuff might be better for your drafts/group chat
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2d ago🔺 BREAKING: The children of the journalist and Times Radio broadcaster said he had left a legacy to be proud of
When I was in Tanzania i came across a guy who told me he sold the best coffee on the Island. I bought a bag of coffee beans from him, and just brewed it now. Worst coffee i've had in my entire life it tastes of wet cigarettes
This is the first time i've heard about from distant cousin for a while
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d agoNigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
First movie my child watched with me was Eyes Wide Shut. To this day he still falls asleep if you play the ritual music
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2d agois there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
Watched Obsession this weekend and I have to say that what Bear did really was gross and disgusting. If it was me I’d have started a podcast with Nikki instead
The business of the British press is the recruitment and promotion of cranks and wingnuts to further their own malicious agendas
a lovely little story about people keeping fountain pens alive in my city
Let the ink flow: Collectors and craftsmen keep fountain pens alive in Hyderabad
As writing goes digital, Hyderabad's fountain pen enthusiasts and veteran pen makers are keeping alive the enduring craft and culture of fountain pens.
thehindu.com
There’s an old guy in the park who is eating popcorn with chopsticks
Just met a remarkable young man who told me that thanks to the scolding left's insistence on closing schools during covid, he was robbed of the opportunity to memorise Ars Amatoria by the poet Ovid
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d agoThere are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
