I’m once again appreciative of @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social today. She stresses the importance of naming what we’re seeing, hearing & experiencing on the world stage & reminds us of the power of social dreaming as a tool to understand the impact of events. We all need to #bemoreZoe tiny.cc/p8p8001

The latest edition of The Culture Fix is out now. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/carobain...

A day full of enormous animals.A giant floof with his fur up on end thanks to upholstery static & the mechanical bull at B’ham New St who needs an engineer to recover. I was meeting the regional director of engineering for Network Rail, so I had a word… The Culture Fix in action 😉 tiny.cc/gmn6001

And it’s out! Ready to read right now - just in time for you to get your weekend leisure lists sorted. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/carobain...

Coming v soon - a Substack called ‘The Culture Fix’ written by me! Please give me a follow if you’re interested in hearing me wax lyrical about how and why culture can give you the shot in the arm that you need to get through whatever’s on your mind 📚 🎥 📺 🎧 🔮

The mournful gaze of cats who are, frankly, *shook* by my decision to have my 8am meeting before serving breakfast #indentured

Late to the party watching #Rivals Realised just in time for bed that Rupert Campbell-Black/Alex Hassell looks uncommonly like Woody from Toy Story crossed with a Moai. Phew, sleepless night averted 🤣

Call for research proposals for a fully-funded PhD in #Psychoanalysis & Culture @ Ulster University, Belfast 3-year research projects with an emphasis on the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis. I will supervise the project. Further details: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...

Doing advent cocktails with a friend. The roll call so far: a gin sour, a mistake in the shape of a shop bought ‘pink ting-a-ling’ 🥴, a last word, and, tonight, a new concoction for me - a tootsie roll. Surprisingly coffee like on the palate. Cracking accompaniment to a mince pie though 😋

Feeling really sorry for Gregg Wallace and his fragile masculinity/narcissism this morning #sorrynotsorry Time for us women of a certain age to bring our main character energy - again ✊

This seems like an appropriate link for my BlueSky debut 😆 Keeping all things crossed that our ‘disenshittification’ era starts right here… www.theguardian.com/science/2024...