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brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.”
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Got my copy early. Luckily tomorrow is a rainy Saturday so I can devour it. Especially the parts about Keith and Rupert! @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

My book launch t-shirt arrived today.

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

1. Mic is like 90% correct about stuff 2. I'm pretty sure he's the only person I follow that remembers 10 Years Asleep by Kingmaker so that's that

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Here I am very much sitting on the fence about AI.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

The best dresses for summer wedding guests, according to an insane article in the Guardian. This one is primary school art smock meets Alien 3.

submitted 5 hours ago • 130 comments

Just in case you (UK) are wondering who Morgan McSweeney is suggesting we hand over all our data & rights & £100m to (Palantir) for mandatory digital ID cards.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

The Telegraph’s explanation here just doesn’t cut it. The fact that they didn’t have real images of the family in the case study should have stopped this in its tracks way before it go anywhere near publication. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Here I am very much sitting on the fence about AI.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

🚨NEW MEDIA CLUB OUT NOW🚨 Generative AI is a Thief That Vomits Out Stolen Human Work Journalist & author @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social joins PR guru Will Wood on The Media Club with @mattdeegan.com  Listen and watch now: 📺 https://youtu.be/S6_I_H47pV8 🔈 https://podfollow.com/themediaclub

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

First copy in the wild!

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Hey, @royalsociety.org — come get ya boy

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW | A visit to the Media Club It's a mostly audio instalment of the newsletter today with a podcast appearance to discuss the week's media news and talk about 'Breaking'. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/45-a-visit...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

"Item! Block War between Trump Slums and Musk CEO-Swank Block!" "Item! Block War between Zia Yusuf Conapts and Farage Block!" "Drokk! The whole right side of Polling Street is going up in flames!"

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My first book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters, is out June 12. Here’s the cover! It’s a guide to what doesn’t work in the media and how we might fix it. Pre-order here geni.us/BreakingMicW...

submitted 31 days ago • 18 comments

There’s a Beyoncé concert tonight so Liverpool Street is awash with people dressed as cowboys/cowgirls/cowpersons and it is greatly adding to the general joy of the world.

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Nigel Farage says he owns a fishing boat and is "heavily invested" in the industry. But it's still not in the Register of Interests, 56 days after he said it. Where’s the boat, Nigel? Read more from @hopenothate.org.uk hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/04/w...

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Your occasional reminder that Democracy for Sale now has its own YouTube channel. Do subscribe to watch videos like this discussion with the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xas6...

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"What do you do in your act?" "Insider trading, enabling genocide, begging for donations, promising to deliver socially progressive policies but walking back on them when in power, and throwing elections to ensure that fascists win." "And what do you call yourselves?" "The Democrats!"

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Do you have a dad who gets angry at the newspapers and shouts at the TV news? Pre-order a copy of Breaking today and it’ll arrive just in time for Father’s Day. geni.us/BreakingMicW...

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Let's Streisand effect this up a representative from building management [asked] who was responsible for the Reddit post and demanded that it be deleted. The representative allegedly told Yu that negative press coverage would mean “our goodwill will be gone” www.londoncentric.media/p/high-rise-...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

NEW | How the 'no English food on my holiday' woman was stitched up by the local and national press alike... Why did one local story about a dissatisfied holidaymaker get reported all over the country and end up as national news? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/43-how-the...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Today’s playlist is an hour of 70s funk and soul, featuring Edwin Starr, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Etta James, Marva Whitney, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Black Heat, The J.B.’s, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/1is...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments