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Tim Holden
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writer at a fruit company
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The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“Her blatant sexuality is offset by an ironising sense of camp and a deep streak of cynicism, as she wonders whether to wrap her little finger round a series of hot but useless men.”

Wait, who wraps what little finger-wise?
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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my favorite passage of his
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!

this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:

docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I recently had an expansive convo with two of the kickass leaders of a HUGE collective action archiving project, and it's out today.
check it out: youtu.be/xrCElwgY5Co?...
Volunteers Archived 10,000 Signs from National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)
YouTube video by 404 Media
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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PLAIN_2.BMF
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
my Works are locked for editing by another user (ye Mighty), notify me when it is available
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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> GO UP LADDER

I do not understand 'go up'

> USE LADDER

Use ladder with what?

> CLIMB LADDER

You climb the ladder

> LOOK

You are in a museum gallery. It is dark, but a display case glints in the dim light.

> EXAMINE DISPLAY CASE

It's full of jewels!

> PICK UP JEWELS

You take the jewels.
October 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.
September 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...
She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.
As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.
slate.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?

Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I’ll take four more seasons of The Paper, yes please.
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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if you give the villages a brain, they will immediately begin to plot against Tom Nook
AI-Powered Animal Crossing Villagers Begin Organizing Against Tom Nook
An LLM breathed new life into 'Animal Crossing' and made the villagers rise up against their landlord.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I loved Chris’s inclusion gap diagram the first time I saw it and I still find myself coming back to it. Well worth a watch if you haven’t already caught this video from WWDC25. developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
Principles of inclusive app design - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Discover how understanding disability can help you create better apps for everyone. Find out how to make your apps more inclusive by...
developer.apple.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"Oh, hello, Slartibartfast, what are you doing here?" "Oh, pottering, pottering," said the old man gravely.
September 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM