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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

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I write words good (journalist, author, radio person, etc) [email protected]

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Nov 20

Hello! Obligatory pinned post to say that I'm a freelance journalist and you can find my portfolio at marieleconte.com and my newsletter at youngvulgarian.substack.com, and you can contact me on [email protected]. Always looking for fun/interesting work so do get in touch!

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Thank you!!

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Yes!

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Thank you!

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yay! see you in Feb I hope!

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thank you!!

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February!!

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next one in Feb!

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see you in February!

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come to the February one!!

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come to the February edition!!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5h

jesus fuck what the hell we sold out in just under 24 hours

oh my god

what

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THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5h

gonna go out on a limb and say that it's bad to watch ten hours of tiktok a day www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

oh wow I hate that one

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 10h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

also there's a reason why the devs let you choose right? ie Hades 1 had three separate endings and I ended up grinding until I got all three, because I could tell that was doable for me, whereas sometimes I'll just take the regular easy ending, cheers

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

yeah I *adored* it and managed to win against every third act boss with every character, so I think I proved myself there, but also: same as you, no hope of beating the heart, and tbh I didn't mind that much? the rest of the game was so good anyway!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20h

*yes I mean Act II, the real ending not the secret ending, decided incredibly early on that Act III in Silksong, like the Heart in Slay the Spire and 4/5BC in Dead Cells, are achievements that may seem fun to others but are ultimately Not My Problem

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20h

I FINISHED SILKSONG I BEAT THE FINAL BOSS* I DID IT OH GOD

actually ran out of patience at the penultimate boss in Hollow Knight so this means so much to me

also love that it apparently took me 49 hours and 22 minutes, guess I'm making "finishing in under 50 hours" an important benchmark

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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