things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Headlines Used to Have One Sentence. Not Anymore.

I forgot about this for a while but the Bryce Elder "Sam Altman's kitchen" piece may be one of my favourite things I've read in business or tech history. www.ft.com/content/b180...

Is manchester becoming too much like london? Come with me on a trip around a high rise city of OnlyFans creators, £6 pints and ever richer overseas students www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

wrote about rising YouTube ad spend by brands with @krystalscanlon.bsky.social on @digidaymedia.bsky.social digiday.com/marketing/go...

so delighted the ‪@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social‬ is open again. caught Perfect Days a weekend ago (and then went down the road to watch Tornado); very tempted to go and see Throne of Blood on saturday www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/throne...

been writing about zero click search a bit recently, inc this one about ad agencies trying to adapt digiday.com/marketing/ag...

got stupidly sunburned today in the pentlands. red kites and buzzards enjoying the updrafts though

busy week in which I very responsibly but very boringly stopped writing a “FTC won’t let me be” headline before I could be tempted to put it into the @digidaymedia.bsky.social cms digiday.com/media-buying...

good cover

back in the saddle at @digidaymedia.bsky.social after a week in porto, with a piece on billboards activated by humidity and rising temperatures digiday.com/marketing/sp...

5. the real crime is cishet norms 4. my ordinary life is very literary 3. the real horror is living in the countryside 2. outer space is terrible for your mental wellbeing 1. driving and listening to the velvet underground

when i was about 15, i stayed over at a friend’s house. we ordered pizza and rented inland empire from blockbuster. thought we were getting a crime flick. nope! what a picture!

from the top of west kip, on sunday. spotted a pair of merlin falcons and a hare in the snow

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The NYT was a wonderful “Lives They Lived” section today. I never expected to see such a beautiful obit for a sea otter! Pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

GRIM

here’s my last story of the working year, reported with @martyswant.bsky.social it’s about the companies selling tools that purport to monitor what chatgpt is saying about brands behind their back digiday.com/marketing/ma...

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

beep beep! i wrote about what brands are up to at the las vegas gp digiday.com/marketing/at...

A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, a Kelce on every tv…

wouldn’t normally post baked goods on main, but i made it to lannan today before they closed and had a genuinely excellent date bun

balerno-glencorse-currie, with a macaroni pie at the loganlea angler’s caf

SS Bluesky choose your flag

wrote about harry kane’s app digiday.com/marketing/en...

loch katrine from ben a’an. not quite coat weather yet

castrol thinks that women are performing oil changes to a much greater degree than previously recognised. the next step? basketball, naturally digiday.com/marketing/as...

bricks make (in) houses digiday.com/marketing/le...

you don’t have to be in new york to report on new york digiday.com/marketing/ad...

definitely midge szn in the trossachs

oh yeah

loch long and beann íme earlier this week - summit full of cloud, but snow still on the ground

monkey man. what a picture!

hungover, barely slept, only been outside once in the last three days but I have arrived at the Sphere

waverley-queen st in february: fallow deer and fog above the fields

West Yorkshire railway station cat dies from terminal illness www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/12/west...

probably last one of the year. balerno-kitchen moss-north esk reservoir-green law-balerno

stealing from a friend but whatever: favourite first time watches oct 24/ killers of the flower moon / the raid 2 / the founder

so the magazine I run with Bethany is almost printed and will soon be shipping (like first week of Nov) and it's going to look very cool

if this makes AI people mad it's not because of the message it's because I had an idea and drew it

here's some really good books I read lately

back to writing about how advertising works after two weeks off. tips, stories, complaints? sam.bradley[at]thedrum.com.

today we went to see ragnar kvartensson/kusama/nan goldin/giacometti at Louisiana

hippo

personally i would like it if manchester united scored some goals in the football net

can't they just put a new plaque up, but screw it in better? www.heraldscotland.com/news/2380110...

good essay alert thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...

🚨🚨🚨 NEW ARTICLE ABOUT THE FAILSUB 🚨🚨🚨 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/titan-submersible-implosion-warnings

this is such a good story https://undark.org/2023/07/19/the-vice-of-spice-confronting-lead-tainted-turmeric/