I'm only a few hours into this, and I think Apple are already starting to make me hate rounded corners. ME! Who rounds corners on every chart I create. TOO MUCH ROUNDING. #Tahoe

Do you like #Halloween? Cultural Strategy? #Metrics and or data points? Then I have a tasty #sociallistening treat for you: speakerdeck.com/kimlovesstuf...

So far, I have not been wowed by any of the Jaws 50 merch, but this set that includes both Ben Gardners head (sans eye) and 'the leg' has me interested: mondoshop.com/collections/...

It is still amazing to me, how many dudes on LinkedIn will spend hours crafting carousels where they quote only other dudes in the industry. And I mean dudes who are considered liberal. Women exist in your industries too!

Wow. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was even more heavy handed than Thunderbolts AND the rest of the Mission:Impossible series put together.

Beginning to think I am the only person in the world who though episode one of "The Studio" was 'okay'. Sure, it was funny, but was it Silicon Valley funny? Or is it just that we now live in a post-irony/satire world, like how the final season of Veep was already not as ridiculous as real life?

The era of all-over print/sleeve-print/tie-dye band and pop culture shirts needs to die, soon. It was horrible enough in the 90s, and I didn't even know I was autistic then. What if I like horror (a lot), but also nice, more subtle design? What then, huh?

A little #sociallistening something that I shared last week around where #astrology communities are showing up now that social is a very different beast. speakerdeck.com/kimlovesstuf...

My autism really comes out whenever I’m forced to take a busy train.

The Common Thread tour all-dayer in Camden in October is the first punk/hardcore show I've been genuinely excited about forever. #showsforoldpeople

Honestly, it's so depressing looking for a new flat. There's such a massive disconnect between the amount of space/quality of the building and the ridiculous amount of cash being asked for it. Worst time, worst timeline.

Two people walked out of the screening of The Monkey I just went to. Do people not watch trailers before they lay down cash for the cinema anymore? I also had to tell an adult human to stop their constant texting during said screening. Movie was still laugh out loud good regardless.

It seems that this year there are White Lotus people, and there are Yellowjackets people. Both appear to be trying to widen their fanbases, but I wonder how big the audiences for either really are. This is the same problem that what used to be called 'prestige' shows run into all the time.

Big shout out to Labour and their election pledge to ban section 21s from day one. We are seven months in and the renters bill is making slow progress. All this to say I’ve now been section 21’d TWICE in the last three years. Renting in the UK is a horrific joke.

You know what I miss? Blogrolls. I know we have recommended substacks now, which is a move in the right direction, but outsourcing curation to algos and not trusted creators was where it all started to go badly downhill. BRING BACK NUANCE.

I am very much here for @vaginamuseum.bsky.social's #menopause exhibit, which opens March 1st. So proud of #genx for being the first generation to openly talk about/normalise this stuff. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/exhibitions/...

It's a shame that Automattic let it slowly die before deciding to get involved. Tumblr was the best of the social internet for so long.

There's so much good stuff happening here. #horrorsky #goth

I know that this week/month/year has been challenging so far and there's so much work to be done, but it's imperative that we still try and find joy where we can. With this in mind, I recommend you search Le Tigre: Deceptacon on your streaming service of choice and remember the good times.

Fellow cozy gamers. This has just made my day!

Just eleven long days until the season 3 premiere. Maybe fill them with a Doomcoming listen?

There's a real lack of understanding within UK agencies of how social listening/social intelligence works. A lot of people seem to think you type something into a dashboard and insights pop up. This is not the case.

One for the #romantasy girlies. I'm here for wearing your book love on your nails: www.ectogasm.net/products/ill... #booksky

This absolutely cannot happen.

Reminder to self, because I always seem to 'forget' this at the moment: The clients who nickel and dime you over fees, are ALWAYS a nightmare to work with. It is not worth your time. Repeat until integrated.

I am here for a week that holds both a new moon in Aquarius and Imbolc. This is the energy we need right now!

What's interesting about 'new' (2025) social media compared with 'old' (golden era) social media is that now there are fewer 'safe' platforms, there are fewer opportunities for platform-specific identities...

2025 is really making me want to move back to 1996, mostly for the sense of possibility and hope, but also because music was much better. Currently listening to Exile in Guyville. What about you?

I posted a longer version of this on LinkedIn, but by now, you've probably already seen the news about RedNote being at the top of the App Store in the US and the free apps charts in the UK (two places above Threads).

I'd really start leaning into #sociallistening tools that allow you to monitor non-Meta/X platforms, folks!

true crime show: "his father and his brother described him as a perfect nice guy"

I finished the final episode of 'Somebody, Somewhere' last night. I didn't want to. I hate final episodes, they feel so, well, final. But it was perfect and complete and everything that was great about the show. Please make more #TV like this. It's all disappearing. I miss it.

For the first time in my life, I'm actually able to put what I've learned through the Tour de France being on every Summer in my house to professional use. #SocialListening: where disparate interests are a superpower.

Is it late enough in the month for the Christmas episode of My So Called Life? Should I ease myself in with one of the earlier Chrismukkah outings instead?

Won't someone spare a thought for the Sonos adults with multiple streaming services? My Spotify wrapped is super different to my Apple Music, and to my YouTube music, (and it makes it look like I don't listen to much music at all).

I'm running some analysis on #booksky right now, to see how it differs to booktok, booktube and bookstagram. I've already looked at top genres, key audience metrics and general vibes. What else would you find interesting to understand?

as every single company you have ever bought something from emails you for black friday, you find yourself fondly remembering your life's great purchases. outside, planes fall from the sky as all humanity gives into a beautiful consumer reverie

On the off-chance you're interested in how to do #sociallistening on TikTok, using it for cultural insights beyond micro-trends, and the differences between text-based and video social listening, I'm doing a webinar tomorrow: exolyt.com/webinars/how...

Thanksgiving is gross and bad, but I will still use this week as an excuse to rewatch 'The Myth of Fingerprints' and 'Home for the Holidays'. They just don't make miserable indie Thanksgiving ensemble pieces like they did in the nineties.

It's wild that social has been around long enough now that there's a whole generation of people working in the industry that did not understand until very recently that communities were the entire point of social media. We were community managers, not social media managers.

Valley Winter Song by Fountains of Wayne is peak cosy cold-weather music. 21 years later, I still reach for it as soon as the weather turns. In fact, let's take a couple of minutes to appreciate how great 'Welcome Interstate Managers' still is.

Dark Winds Season 2 is now (eventually) available in the UK on Now. Just in case you didn’t know because I haven’t seen anyone talking about this. So far, it’s as good as season one.

When I think about the potential long-term impacts of Pluto in Aquarius, I feel pretty positive for society as a whole. My eighth-house Aquarius moon, however, has different feelings. Lol, joking, we know Aquarius moons don't have feelings.

It's so nice to have a space where I can complain that no one I know in real life anymore even knows who Jawbreaker are, let alone listens to them, again.

Unacceptable. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Oh hey, looks like we're actually over here now and I should publish something on this profile I've been sitting on for a year. Nice to find so many of you again!