Neal Romanek
@nromanek.bsky.social
Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & a media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of novel SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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Golden fleet, golden dome, gold TrumpCard immigration visa, please stop. This is comic book villain shit where Doctor Giraffe has to make every goddamn thing giraffe themed just in case Spectacular Man didn’t get the message sent by the giraffe suit.
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Golden fleet, golden dome, gold TrumpCard immigration visa, please stop. This is comic book villain shit where Doctor Giraffe has to make every goddamn thing giraffe themed just in case Spectacular Man didn’t get the message sent by the giraffe suit.
When I ran @theflintmedia.bsky.social, we produced The Green Line - a networking event in a train carriage bound for the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam.
¡AU! continues the tradition with a green party (NOT to be confused with @greenparty.org.uk) on a train from #Paris to #Barcelona, Feb. 2.
#ISE2026
¡AU! continues the tradition with a green party (NOT to be confused with @greenparty.org.uk) on a train from #Paris to #Barcelona, Feb. 2.
#ISE2026
We're doing a train trip + networking event to promote sustainable travel for the media industry. Feb. 2 from Paris to Barcelona, on the way to the @iseshow.bsky.social trade show! It's called Headway.
Join us!
au-works.com/aus-headway-...
#headway #headwaytoise #headwaytoise2026
Join us!
au-works.com/aus-headway-...
#headway #headwaytoise #headwaytoise2026
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
When I ran @theflintmedia.bsky.social, we produced The Green Line - a networking event in a train carriage bound for the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam.
¡AU! continues the tradition with a green party (NOT to be confused with @greenparty.org.uk) on a train from #Paris to #Barcelona, Feb. 2.
#ISE2026
¡AU! continues the tradition with a green party (NOT to be confused with @greenparty.org.uk) on a train from #Paris to #Barcelona, Feb. 2.
#ISE2026
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Organ-tuning records could be useful for climate studies, said Neil Macdonald, a professor of geography at the University of Liverpool. “As somebody that’s worked on a lot of historical records of climate and weather, I’ve never come across this,” he said.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Organ-tuning records could be useful for climate studies, said Neil Macdonald, a professor of geography at the University of Liverpool. “As somebody that’s worked on a lot of historical records of climate and weather, I’ve never come across this,” he said.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
Best Xmas movie bar none.
Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Katherine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine, released from prison to celebrate Christmas with her husband, King Henry the II. Full of insane one-liners and a star studded cast, this movie demands your full attention as love and hate ensnare each character. 10/10
Katherine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine, released from prison to celebrate Christmas with her husband, King Henry the II. Full of insane one-liners and a star studded cast, this movie demands your full attention as love and hate ensnare each character. 10/10
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Best Xmas movie bar none.
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I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.
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We won’t take any of it. But we’re making a DMZ.
December 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We won’t take any of it. But we’re making a DMZ.
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Miss Lewis took her group on the pier. I am in her group. She bought us a cup of tea each. Michelle Wyatt lost 75p.
December 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Miss Lewis took her group on the pier. I am in her group. She bought us a cup of tea each. Michelle Wyatt lost 75p.
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LOL THE SEARCH FUNCTION WORKS GREAT!
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
LOL THE SEARCH FUNCTION WORKS GREAT!
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I've famously told this story on podcasts a number of times, but I met Gil Gerard as a kid at a celebrity tennis tournament and he tried to pick up my mom right in front of me. Was I mad? No. Buck Rogers tried to fuck my mom, which is the most Buck Rogers thing he could do. Lived up to the legend.
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I've famously told this story on podcasts a number of times, but I met Gil Gerard as a kid at a celebrity tennis tournament and he tried to pick up my mom right in front of me. Was I mad? No. Buck Rogers tried to fuck my mom, which is the most Buck Rogers thing he could do. Lived up to the legend.
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Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance.
You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.
You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance.
You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.
You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.
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They want to stamp out kindness and empathy because they think people alone are easier to subjugate than people together and theyre right
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
They want to stamp out kindness and empathy because they think people alone are easier to subjugate than people together and theyre right
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We're super excited to be returning to the Bagpuss Universe for Yaffle Origins. As mega fans of the Oliver Postbox multiverse, we always dreamed of telling the story of Assistant Professor Yaffle getting his first pair of glasses or whatever. Join us on this barren sphere, in this living death.
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We're super excited to be returning to the Bagpuss Universe for Yaffle Origins. As mega fans of the Oliver Postbox multiverse, we always dreamed of telling the story of Assistant Professor Yaffle getting his first pair of glasses or whatever. Join us on this barren sphere, in this living death.
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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1962, getting into the Christmas spirit
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1962, getting into the Christmas spirit
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One of the biggest reasons why better cities are hard to achieve is the powerful proven psychology of “status quo bias.” No matter how bad an idea was in the first place, once it’s in place, our “loss aversion” means we will fight irrationally hard to protect it from any change to something better.
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
One of the biggest reasons why better cities are hard to achieve is the powerful proven psychology of “status quo bias.” No matter how bad an idea was in the first place, once it’s in place, our “loss aversion” means we will fight irrationally hard to protect it from any change to something better.
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
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Frankincense is the doctor, Myrrh is the stupid sound the monster makes, Kevin.
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Frankincense is the doctor, Myrrh is the stupid sound the monster makes, Kevin.
One of my favorite Bluesky #artists. Buy some of the buck-toothed powerhouses.
I’ve had a cabinet reshuffle on my website so the rodents from the monoprint drawings gallery are now in the Rodents gallery and it’s looking a bit more richly populated in there. Here are a few of the nice dudes to be found there. Look, share, buy, thank you x
www.chloecumming.com/rodents
www.chloecumming.com/rodents
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
One of my favorite Bluesky #artists. Buy some of the buck-toothed powerhouses.
I'm probably the only person in the country who thinks this is Britain dodging a huge bullet
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I'm probably the only person in the country who thinks this is Britain dodging a huge bullet
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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that’s right scout ant there’s no more crumbs on the counter, tell your friends
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
that’s right scout ant there’s no more crumbs on the counter, tell your friends
Haven't seen this list plainly posted yet so...Reiner was already a showbiz veteran when he started directing, but how is this for a first effort?
This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
The Sure Thing, 1985
Stand by Me, 1986
The Princess Bride, 1987
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
Misery, 1990
A Few Good Men, 1992
This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
The Sure Thing, 1985
Stand by Me, 1986
The Princess Bride, 1987
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
Misery, 1990
A Few Good Men, 1992
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Haven't seen this list plainly posted yet so...Reiner was already a showbiz veteran when he started directing, but how is this for a first effort?
This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
The Sure Thing, 1985
Stand by Me, 1986
The Princess Bride, 1987
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
Misery, 1990
A Few Good Men, 1992
This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
The Sure Thing, 1985
Stand by Me, 1986
The Princess Bride, 1987
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
Misery, 1990
A Few Good Men, 1992
The time of year when all middle-aged men imagine for a moment that they’re Kurt Russell in The Thing.
There are many things I like about winter, the holiday lights and cosy fires, hot cocoa and making snow angels, but my favourite of all is how I can see my breath escaping my lips.
It lets me I know I’m not dead yet.
It lets me I know I’m not dead yet.
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The time of year when all middle-aged men imagine for a moment that they’re Kurt Russell in The Thing.