Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

Kids these days and all but there is a dude playing endless videos without headphones in front of me rn and he's definitely Boomer bordering on Silent Generation (I wish)

The Stranger Things making off is a throwback to the great era of dvd extras. Storytelling & world-building nerdery gold. We need more of this

This is totally normal. Nope. No problem at all.

Shocking really? I thought it was telegraphed from the first few minutes of the first episode. www.thetimes.com/article/5346...

For the umpteenth time: Citizens, whether naturalised or not, are citizens. In a state under democratic rule of law, you cannot apply different penalties for the same offense based on a citizen’s origins. The nature of the offense is irrelevant. This shouldn’t need explaining.

I was sitting in a Belsize Park café I often frequent and had my back turned to Ryan Gosling the entire time.

Conde Nast somehow merged my digital account with someone else’s print New Yorker subscription in the US. I have their name, street address and full personal details. Have for years. Hi, Sarah.

Out: Audiobooks aren’t books. In: Video podcasts aren’t podcasts.

Being a woman is googling a fairly common ailment and reading “doctors aren’t yet quite sure why…”

I can’t believe you missed the chance to tell the weirdest Saint Nicolas story yet, @empirepoduk.bsky.social, the one I grew up with in Lorraine where old St Nick saws back together the bodies of 3 little boys dismembered, cured and PICKLED by the local butcher 7 years earlier! Happy Christmas 🩸🔪

Now i’ve watched the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. You should too (now coz they get taken down fast). It’s not even anything you haven’t heard before. It’s still damning. Both US and Salvadorian govt had a chance to respond and opted not to.

When you write an email like this, you want it leaked. As you should. Nobody is surprised that this is Bari Weiss’s cbs.

No one has a natural right to that land. Everywhere, borders are stories we tell ourselves, fictions that hold for a little or a long while, usually born from a more or less steady end to a conflict. How wide we set the lens when we look at that story matters.

Look, I know this wouldn't be The Guardian if they didn't try to shoehorn colonisation into it, but if you're gonna make colonial borders half your explanation, you really ought to go back a century more and consider Thai imperialism as well. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Can someone explain why, in the age of hypertargeting, I, a non-Academy non-entertainment industry random in London, keep getting “for your consideration” award season ads?

This is a good summary of what's going on at Preah Vihear. I covered this back in 08 & nothing's solved, it's just deadlier. Int'l law is with Cambodia on this one but Thailand won't let it go. Cambodia has a lot more to lose and far less to defend itself. All it can do is beg for peace & allies.

Always fun hearing people who don’t know French making up words and their meaning. And then calling it snooty because it’s (supposedly) French.

@thetimes.com please tell producers of the Story: the word is “metteur en scène” not métier, it just means director (literally one who puts into scenes). There is no pretension or double meaning to it. Kevin Maher just totally made this up.

Some short and sweet common sense from @damon.kiesow.net. I read and nodded a lot. kiesow.net/a-few-things...

Year in Reviews received so far: my music app, my bank app, my podcast app, my games-i'm-addicted-to app, my professional network app, my trains-I-took-once-this-year app... This will stop, right? Right?

Very happy for the young’ns. Few things are more impactful on a young life than study abroad.

I wish British GPs would stop mistaking sending a youtube link for practicing medicine

I started covering this conflict in 2008. No, it did not get solved "pretty quickly". Or at all. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

when I ask LLMs for title/tagline ideas for my women's history podcast, all they can come up with is some version of "herstory" and please allow me to hurl

Once again I was not asked to do a Nieman Lab prediction (as if) so once again I’ll be petty and point out they’re more hope than prediction.

And this is why you can never, nor should you try to, isolate science from the humanities.

Indie media gets ripped off across borders now: spotted @jim.londoncentric.media ´s snail farm story on French public radio, uncredited of course www.instagram.com/reel/DRVTNf7...

The "we went the proper route" argument from 2nd gen immigrants is like Boomers saying you just need to scrimp a little to buy a house – wilfully ignorant of reality to the point of cruelty.

I'm getting a bunch of new subscribers to my newsletter, mostly based in Germany, direct from homepage with no referral source, even though I've not published anything lately or advertised. If you can explain it, please do.

People are hallucinating the meaning of a piece of AI “art”. Worst timeline once more.

It’s a pretty scary time being an immigrant, even a lawful one.

what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism

what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism

I have officially passed the upper threshold of 16,000 words on the dissertation and will have to make some cuts but by Jove, it is getting quite... good?

Honestly, newspapers, you can't keep doing this. There are 18 words of the story I came to read on this entire (wide) screen.

Getting near my final word count on the dissertation and... can I please, pretty please, just get an extra 2,000 words?

Tried to preorder from Boots to just make things faster at the store tomorrow morning. The fastest they can do a click & collect order is... 6 days. Always stunning to find a company with no online retail game in 2025.

I (unscientifically) estimate I've spent at least 15% of my dissertation research time on choppy library wifi, incessant logouts from databases, inexplicable blocks on useful sites and ebooks suddenly becoming inaccessible.

Watched House of Dynamite and sure, it’s a race to nuclear war, but I found it soothing the way it portrayed competent US government

Make it make sense: ebooks with page numbers that change depending on device/screen size. What other use is there for page numbers except being able to reliably tell someone "hey, check out page 64"?

The way the Today show has interviewed two separate white tourist families about the Jamaica storm in the last 15 mn, but not one of the hundreds of thousands of dual citizens or Britons with Jamaican relatives tells you all you need to know about immigrant representation in this country’s media.

Knowing exactly who these people are and then… inviting them round to the house for your teenage daughter’s birthday 🤯 🤢 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Me on the Internet 2005: swatting away pop-up ads 2015: swatting away autoplay videos 2020: swatting away GDPR policies 2025: swatting away AI assistants

If in 2025, you subscribe me to your newsletter without asking, I won't just unsubscribe. I will mark you as spam, block you and do everything in my power to destroy your domain reputation. Sorry not sorry.

I’m ok (except, you know, the journalism job market…) but I am holding up multiple very dear people through extremely tough mental health moments and my god, is this just what middle age is going to be?

@radiofrance.fr Il serait si bon, pour l'accessibilité et pour la recherche, que vous publiiez les transcripts de vos émissions. Un vrai casse-tête de référencer les propos d'un chercheur quand il n'y en a aucune trace écrite. Et puis sympa pour les malentendants...

If you wanna see life, go to your public library. And I don't mean in the books. I'm sitting between a couple high school girls giggling, an older man annotating sheet music with a very serious face on and a middle-aged man failing to hide his tears while handwriting a letter in Chinese.