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Chief Engagement Officer at Business Writers Ltd. Helping companies create engaging conversations that inspire people, build brands and drive change. Championing #OneEAST_UK, #Norwich & #Norfolk, UK http://linkedin.com/in/huwsayer/

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The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference! Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!

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"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

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Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 325 days ago • 3 comments

Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...

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"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700." But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."

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A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days. Fascinating interview.

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I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor

submitted 333 days ago • 8 comments

Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 333 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ?

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It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

submitted 334 days ago • 73 comments

I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.

submitted 334 days ago • 8 comments

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

submitted 334 days ago • 2 comments

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

submitted 334 days ago • 2 comments

Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures | Business News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/revolu...

submitted 334 days ago • 0 comments

Reporting on climate change is awesome because the people who think everything else is a conspiracy will say there’s no evidence besides the oil company memos that say like “make sure you lie about this, so we don’t make less money”

submitted 334 days ago • 13 comments

"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

submitted 338 days ago • 14 comments

Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters

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Pressure that the Ukrainians should absolutely ignore - especially when the US has stopped supplying them with weapons. Ukraine needs to identify every Russian weakness that it can exploit, & hit it as hard as it can. This is a war Ukraine has to win, for its own sake & for the security of Europe.

submitted 338 days ago • 4 comments

One of my crunchiest enviro opinions is that everybody should stop using gas-powered leaf blowers AND lawn mowers. The leaves are fine, chill. Lawns are unnatural monocultures that suppress biodiversity. Let 'em grow, or replace with native plants, or if you gotta mow, get a manual reel mower.

submitted 340 days ago • 25 comments

Not just the Garrick Club. Foreign Office officials may wish to reconsider their membership of the Travellers Club, which still doesn't admit women. Current British ambassador to Japan is a woman and many other ambassadorships past and present increasingly female. 1/2

submitted 340 days ago • 1 comment

Measles is the most contagious virus we know of, can cause devastating complications, and increases vulnerability to all infections. It’s horrible and deadly, and we have the tools we’d need to eradicate it. We can’t afford to let this get out of control again.

submitted 340 days ago • 12 comments

Reiterating that measles infections target and deplete your memory immune cells, leaving you more vulnerable to any infections for years, including things you might’ve previously been vaccinated against. Measles vaccination is multi-hazard mitigation!!

The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference! Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!

Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.

My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!

"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...

"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700." But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."

A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days. Fascinating interview.

I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor

Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ?

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures | Business News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/revolu...

Reporting on climate change is awesome because the people who think everything else is a conspiracy will say there’s no evidence besides the oil company memos that say like “make sure you lie about this, so we don’t make less money”

"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters

Pressure that the Ukrainians should absolutely ignore - especially when the US has stopped supplying them with weapons. Ukraine needs to identify every Russian weakness that it can exploit, & hit it as hard as it can. This is a war Ukraine has to win, for its own sake & for the security of Europe.

One of my crunchiest enviro opinions is that everybody should stop using gas-powered leaf blowers AND lawn mowers. The leaves are fine, chill. Lawns are unnatural monocultures that suppress biodiversity. Let 'em grow, or replace with native plants, or if you gotta mow, get a manual reel mower.

Not just the Garrick Club. Foreign Office officials may wish to reconsider their membership of the Travellers Club, which still doesn't admit women. Current British ambassador to Japan is a woman and many other ambassadorships past and present increasingly female. 1/2

Measles is the most contagious virus we know of, can cause devastating complications, and increases vulnerability to all infections. It’s horrible and deadly, and we have the tools we’d need to eradicate it. We can’t afford to let this get out of control again.

Reiterating that measles infections target and deplete your memory immune cells, leaving you more vulnerable to any infections for years, including things you might’ve previously been vaccinated against. Measles vaccination is multi-hazard mitigation!!

Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soars

Love this green horse statue - seriously spooky.