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The word is steal. 'The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.'

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Fantastic episode of The Shift with @theothersambaker.bsky.social and Martha Beck. In the course of my job I have interviewed approx 9876 self help gurus and sundry other ologists. Beck is one of the smartest, funniest and most courageous. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Are you anxious? I’m anxious! (I mean even more than usual…) Martha Beck is here to help on this week’s episode of The Shift podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Love this photo of Judi Dench. This is what I want to look like when I’m pushing 90: lived in.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Love this interview with @chitgrrl.bsky.social in @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/in-scotlan...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"If you feel like you're blowing up your life, ask yourself if the opposite is true. Maybe you're bringing your real life into being for the first time." Sneak preview of next week’s The Shift podcast for subscribers. It’s a perspective-shifter. theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/if-you-fee...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts like this one from @theothersambaker.bsky.social and this one on BBC Sounds. Really good in the car.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Demands, expectations, silent contracts, breaking the silence… Maybe, just maybe, it’s not about sex at all?! theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/gen-x-wome...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The shift podcast is back! First up Kate Fagan (former basketball player, ESPN journalist, @reesesbookclub.bsky.social pick) abt ageing, grief, TODs (?!), the L word & her EXTREMELY conflicted relationship with ambition & success. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The shift podcast is back! First up Kate Fagan (former basketball player, ESPN journalist, @reesesbookclub.bsky.social pick) abt ageing, grief, TODs (?!), the L word & her EXTREMELY conflicted relationship with ambition & success. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The youthification of obituary images and why the pictures we choose to use to illustrate a life matters. open.substack.com/pub/theshift...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Musings and an astonishing view from the train. theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/on-running...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Long shot: anyone know who’s doing publicity for the Mike Leigh film Hard Truths?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

A taut thriller set in deep midwinter. Good thrillers are great executors of structure & transitions from present to (non-chron) past worked so well. Loved the centring of unreliable narrator & explicit questioning of who and what we believe and why. Thanks @theothersambaker.bsky.social for the copy

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"Hollywood actor Michael Sheen is funding a new theatre company to fill the gap left by the folding of National Theatre Wales. He will be the artistic director of Welsh National Theatre..." Michael Sheen the welsh angel :) <3 #MichaelSheen www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 47 days ago • 16 comments

PSA: if you put After Eights in the freezer so you won’t eat them, they taste fantastic.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Women, ageing, success, double standards and why every woman I know has a “popcorn” moment. theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/what-demi-...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

#1 post on The Shift last year, by a landslide. (Bloody typical since I hate this picture and now it’s everywhere. Still, never hurts to be reminded that that way extreme ill health lies…) open.substack.com/pub/theshift...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of women's midlife crises this is a VERY good piece. (I'm one of the lucky ones whose husband does a great deal of the domestic work, but no long-term relationship is easy)

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

0 degrees, feels like minus 5. So obviously @theothersambaker.bsky.social and I went for breakfast at the beachhouse cafe in Portobello. And then a long walk home. (Now attempting to reread Mann's The Magic Mountain as a prelude to Olga Tokarczuk's The Empisium.)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

When I was compiling my 10 most popular posts on the Shift of last year, this was at #3. Since then (2 weeks ago) it’s gone nuts and more than doubled the readership of the post at #2. Guess it must have resonated…! Anyway, here it is, paywall free til Sunday. open.substack.com/pub/theshift...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve taken the paywall off my top 10 reads on The Shift for the holidays. From the picture that changed my life, to the rage tipping point, to things I’d tell my ten years younger self, to the change in the menopause conversation to books that bring me hope… open.substack.com/pub/theshift...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Top 10 episodes of The Shift pod in 2024 incoming… theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/top-10-pod...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Is Red One dreadful? Yup. Did I enjoy the hell out of it? Yup yup yup.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve taken the paywall off my top 10 reads on The Shift for the holidays. From the picture that changed my life, to the rage tipping point, to things I’d tell my ten years younger self, to the change in the menopause conversation to books that bring me hope… open.substack.com/pub/theshift...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

The real person of the year.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Well, I've written a memoir, for certain values of memoir, about my childhood, for certain values of childhood, and sent it out to a handful of writers I admire. (poor bastards) Last night I had a reply, both eminently quotable, and gracious enough to leave me tearful.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Such a good interview!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Says man with absolutely no understanding how far most ASD people will go to avoid a party... (Never mind throw illegal ones during lockdown.)

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

I promised you an extra special Christmas treat and here it is: a bonus episode with the one and only Neneh Cherry talking grief, loss, breakdown, creativity, pickling (not a typo) and why being expected to stop just bc she’s 6-0 makes her want to start a riot. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

I promised you an extra special Christmas treat and here it is: a bonus episode with the one and only Neneh Cherry talking grief, loss, breakdown, creativity, pickling (not a typo) and why being expected to stop just bc she’s 6-0 makes her want to start a riot. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments