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jack of like six to seven trades (journalist, author, radio person, etc) [email protected]
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new bit of engagement bait has made me realise that I apparently love nothing more in this world than to read precisely three to four novels written by the same person, and stop exactly there

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

You do you, hun.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

went straight from the airport to the pub for a friend's party and I can't remember the last time I did that but I can tell you, for certain, that I have aged past doing that since that last time, I'm so tired, I'm too old for this, call me Marie L'Icarus

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

went to see a play a few months ago and the queue for the ladies was endless; Kristin Scott Thomas, legend that she is, marched in, asked the assembled crowd "are we sure all the cubicles are actually taken?", and took it upon herself to test several doors and reveal that some cubicles *were* empty

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

had someone come in to a museum today and ask chatGPT how much it cost to enter and chatGPT gave an imaginary number and the person asked "are you sure it isn't free" and chatGPT went "I am sorry. Yes, entry to this museum is free" and then the person showed me that and demanded free entry

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

can I get some aaaaahhhhhhhhhs in the chat

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

in this week's newsletter: some fun exciting news! that explain why I'm currently in Budapest! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/what-we-ow...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

in this week's newsletter: some fun exciting news! that explain why I'm currently in Budapest! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/what-we-ow...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

sitting on a terrace in Budapest and typing up my notes and Orban's convoy just drove past bit on the nose, I would say bit on the nose

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India in 2014. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Not only does the senator identify himself but it’s pretty incredible to think that ‘we didn’t recognise a sitting US senator for the state that we are visiting’ is somehow a reasonable defence

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

obviously am no design expert but if, say, I were to open a hotel in Budapest, I don't know that I would go for a two-tone design, when it comes to the name of the city

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

been in Budapest for just over 24 hours and done four interviews with various Hungarians and I would say that my main achievement so far is that I think I can now just about pronounce "Magyar Péter" in a way that no longer makes people physically wince

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

@radiobeartime.com saw one of your compatriots in Buda

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

complicated national identity status confirmed by the fact that I walked past a French restaurant in Budapest and reacted by thinking OI OI

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

interviewed a bunch of people and so now I have a bunch of interviews to transcribe

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

can only speak for myself but it's v striking how much I've mostly stopped consuming media online, phone/laptop are for social media and work but books/cinema/etc overwhelmingly happen offline for me now, only way not to get overwhelmed/still feel like you have some quality control

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

every fiber of my being, every sinew, every inch of my brain wants "thank you" in Hungary to be "danke", and yet, and yet

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hungarians strike me as a quite no-nonsense people, which is unfortunate for me, a medium nonsense person

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

a hearty thank you and lmao to everyone who recommended me the thermal baths in Budapest I went in, had what I thought was a series of pleasant sits in several of the baths, went out for a break and a vape and realised I'd been there for: 14 minutes ✨ hyperactivity ✨

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments