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jack of like six to seven trades (journalist, author, radio person, etc) [email protected]
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Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done. Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 3 hours ago • 440 comments

quite pleasantly Ghost World coded, actually

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

obviously I went straight to that nutter's profile and this is: spectacular

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

forever in our hearts* </3 *and probably the lining of our stomachs, which I doubt have fully recovered

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

right! asking again now I have a clearer idea of where I'll be/what I'll be doing - do I know anyone interesting in Budapest who speaks English (or French I guess) and would like to have lunch or a coffee with me on Thursday, for a piece I can explain more about by email/DM? do *you* know anyone?

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

what I would like to note, quite sadly/bitterly, is that there are quite a lot of people who would love to do games writing that's more than basic reviews (this poster v much included) but 1) no one commissions that 2) the few places that do will offer you two nickels and a Twix for it

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Instagram recommended me (?) the feed of this entirely puzzling account - an AI generated travel content creator, complete with realistic captions but v obviously fake/horny pictures - and at a glance I would say that 90% of the comments treated "her" like she was real, which is just.........huh

submitted 9 hours ago • 30 comments

still making my way through this 14-hour documentary on the entire history of Germany, for some reason, and christ what a fucking faff to have to cross the Alps basically by foot whenever you needed to chat with the pope face-to-face, *what* a faff

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

a cool thing about being over thirty is that you can have a large pizza and three glasses of wine and it will feel worse, body-wise, than if you'd gone on a 14-hour bender a decade before that

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

Social media creating two media universes: one in which you drive yourself into, at best, a lowkey depression being continually served videos of atrocities, one in which you are so under-informed that you vote for someone pledging to deport 20mn people and then go 'wait, he wants to deport people?'

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

Why are we always trying to win them over, its not like they're especially on a charm offensive with the rest of us

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

It’s not clear any amount of adjusted programming would turn this number around.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

reading this otherwise v interesting piece on intimacy coordinators and I'm sorry but this does just feel like another example of "whoops we're so woke we've reinvented old timey racism by mistake" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

let me do it

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment