I missed this at the time, but this is really another demonstration of why Sam Anderson is one of the best magazine writers alive www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

South Korea's exports to tiny Kyrgyzstan just reached half a billion Dollars in one month. This stuff is obviously not headed to Kyrgyzstan but is going to Russia. The West is guilty of a collective failure on Ukraine: chasing short term profits instead of shutting down autocrats. We must do better.

I wrote this, about the worst thing that ever happened to me, and now I chose to deal with it www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Wrote about imagination, memory, and the time medication caused me to stop dreaming. open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

Substack being down is presumably going to mean a massive surge in Bluesky traffic for the first time in years.

The joy of print newspapers, according to @chrislhayes.bsky.social (the FT Weekend is even better, obviously)

Rare case of someone who should lose their job because of AI

Every one of these "If only it were possible to..." plugs for AI is animated by an incredibly deep resentment of either talent or authorship.

Does anyone use solid shampoo and/or conditioner? I’ve been trying them out and would appreciate more recommendations. (So far Grom or Hair Blocks are winning, but I’m not 100% won round yet.)

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

This is the best magazine profile I've read in - oh, I don't know how long. Makes you nostalgic. Even if you don't care a jot about Ken Burns or his films (I've never even seen one), find some time for this. www.gq.com/story/ken-bu...

This is just another masterful piece of writing by @tomlamont.bsky.social. Fascinating, entertaining, poetic, human. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Finished reading Wasteland by @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social. It’s excellently researched, beautifully written and very informative. It’s taken me a while because at times the topic was as bleak as you’d expect, but I am so glad I read it. I feel better able to make my own small difference.

An @nytimes investigation finds staggering levels of insider dealing: The Trump administration confers benefits on the UAE (despite security concerns) as the UAE confers riches on the Trump family. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

It’s not enough. They should pay the $150k fine per book.

Starmer should now appoint Reeves as Deputy PM, use her change of position to renegotiate the fiscal rules, suck up six months of shit press for it, and actually start doing some policy rather than this ming vase government.

The timing of this is objectively quite funny.

Having a fact-checking team is perhaps my favourite part about working at @gqmagazine.bsky.social, and this piece about the @newyorker.com's infamous fact-checking department captures some of the joys of the process. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is an insane caper (emailing Mi5 from the Apple Store! A fake bomb hoax! Dead-drops in poo bags!). Make time to read it.

The plastics treaty has failed again. The petrostates are using waste and recycling as a distraction - it will allow them to keep producing in perpetuity. Hard to feel hopeful when the lobby has America’s backing.

Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.

This is a nightmare

I posted about not posting. (Or: ‘why being offline as a creative is career suicide’) open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

"This is a high-stakes moment for anyone invested in what plastics might be doing to our health." Read @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social's latest for us! nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...

We don’t know exactly what plastics are doing to us. But the evidence is bad enough for us to act now. My essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...

Sharing this for the simple reason that it's worth knowing about. This will kill parts of the internet you dislike, but it will kill a much larger part that you probably value.

This is great. www.vulture.com/article/atte...

Washington Post is now engaging in discrediting its own sources to protect it’s owners economic interests. WaPo is not just a biased publication, it is a bad faith actor!

Musk put himself in a pickle here. Either he was lying about Trump being in the Epstein files, or he was right and is simply ok with (and potentially wants to work again with) a President with ties to Epstein

Does this mean they've paid back all the writers they owed money? www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/rollin...

I’m not sure I’ve seen enough discussion about the fact that when cars are “self driving”, they are actually just owned by a company, and that company can turn them off whenever they like.

Really want to do a longread on how everything became pistachio flavoured, and why Dubai chocolate is a recession indicator. (Dubai Chocolate is everywhere because record pistachio crop two years ago needed a market, whereas cocoa is in shortage. It's not TikTok, it's profit margins.)

The "free speech absolutists" are now literally policing what you can say to enter the so-called 'land of the free'. I never really thought we'd get here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The first piece from our 2025 GQ Heroes issue, on Caroline Darian - née Pelicot - and her campaign for justice in the aftermath of her father’s trial. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/caro...

This is an excellent bit of profile writing and football pundit-punditry www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...

Headline vs reality: Telegraph says Rayner 'demands tax raid on savers'. Then in the same article explains that, of 8 alleged proposals, only one is on savers (a pensions lifetime allowance) and 7 are on investments. All of them are focused on the extremely wealthy.

If you're an "A.i." apologist working for a consumer-facing generative "A.i." or LLM company I sadly have to block you out of self-defense. I'm a writer and visual artist. Your industry is stealing from me, so I have to do what I can to limit your access to my feed. 🤷

- @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social takes a fairly simple idea - exploring what happens to all the things we throw away - and really runs with it; traveling the globe to expose lots of dirty truths. Really recommended for anyone who’s interested in the environment or just how the world really works

Thrilled that not one, but THREE of our writers at GQ are nominated for Features Writer of the Year at the BSME Awards!!! 💪 @samprkr.bsky.social @hayleycampbell.bsky.social @benallenwf.bsky.social

I have a lot of thoughts about this essay and its politics, but broadly agree with its thesis: we're talking about the wrong things. nymag.com/intelligence...

Before, After. (Personal news, I guess.)

A las 10 podréis escuchar en @avivirser.bsky.social una entrevista a @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social sobre la sucia realidad de lo que tiramos. Sí, sobre vertederos y la mierda que hay no solo en sino también tras ellos y el insoportable impacto ambiental de la lucrativa industria de la basura.

A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death. This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

This story, by the legend that is @evrat.bsky.social, is both wildly timely, impeccably reported, and quite possibly the most insane murder story I've read in years www.wired.com/story/deliri...

Wrote about The Question, and being the kind of writer you want to be. open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

I have such a soft spot for Charlie Cox, and @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social's excellent interview with him has only encouraged that www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/char...

@jay.bsky.team Hi Jay. I'd love to reach your press team, but haven't been getting responses over email. Is there someone on here you can recommend? (It's about an opportunity with GQ.)