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A lesson for all of us here: Use the good china, the expensive perfume! Wear your best!
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Heard this story about how the bodies of people who die of thirst in the desert are often found carrying full bottles of water because they’re afraid that if they drink it they won’t have enough left to make it out of the desert
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"oh, like I'm really going to fall in love now" This woman is amazing but what a living nightmare that she had to go through it
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She moved away from him and he thinks she's rude because she doesn't want to be hit on. Oh okay.
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The most hopeful opening line I've read in a long time: "If you suspect that 21st-century technology has broken your brain, it will be reassuring to know that attention spans have never been what they used to be."
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This is a really beautiful piece. I don't think it should be seen as particularly provocative, but it might challenge some preconceptions...
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Here's my first column for @NewStatesman on what it is like to date a couple. Really meant a lot to me writing this one, so would love people to have a read newstatesman.com/culture/life/2
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Without exception, the pieces of mine that have had the biggest response, that people still bring up to me years later, had little by way of "timeliness" or relevance to the news cycle – they were good ideas that I personally clicked with, which were then carefully edited
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Honestly my impression, from writing and commissioning, is that time-sensitivity and "pegs" are overrated, at least in lifestyle/culture/human interest writing. If it's thoughtful, well-written and interesting, people will click – and more time definitely helps with all three
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For those piling onto Victoria: this is how pretty much every digital news outlet works, and it's good of her to demystify it! Whether it's really necessary for us all, as an industry, to sprint to get up the first thought we can find, the fastest we can, is a different question
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The dream: If you want to pitch to @IndyVoices, do it between 7-8am that day on something hot and new and current and fast-moving and trending. And if we both agree on a commission, file 600-800 words within two hours. 
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phoebe bridgers just asked the crowd if anyone read tarot and the entire room screamed yes
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To a UK ear, when Harry Styles says "things like this don't happen to people like me" – this is what he means: vice.com/en/article/3ad
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BEGGING Harry Styles to stop saying "people like me" when he wins something. sir, I am ROOTING FOR YOU, but absolutely no one knows what you mean by that and it does not sound good!!
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Good thread – my life isn't markedly different now, at nearly 32, than it was at 26 or even earlier
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Okay, I actually want to talk about this for a second, regarding millennials and how really goddamn difficult it is for us to make sense of our own age sometimes. twitter.com/rosstraining/s…
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Instead of happiness, Helen Garner on striving for “small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist”
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A good friend of mine is moving abroad and looking to rent out her room in a house near Queen’s Road Peckham from the start of March. If you’re a woman and interested, DM me and I can put you in touch!
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✍️"Now, all the world’s a stage – and all of us run the risk of being reduced to mere players in someone else’s production."
's explores the dark side of #kindess videos.
Read or listen on informed ⤵️
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Proof, if you ever needed it, that air travel is horrendously UNDER-priced.
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I have been laughing all day at the Your Place or Mine premiere/press photos
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Writers do not submit your work for free and please note once you do submit, they claim rights to the work
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I’m launching a major exploration of women and sex – and I want to hear from YOU. Help us to create a revolutionary book for now and for future generations by writing me a letter at deargillian.com.
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"didn't have time to write a short one"
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She may have been Britain's shortest ever serving PM, but turns out she likes writing VERY long articles.
Liz Truss to unveil her 3,000 word essay defending her short stint in No10 tomoz.
Expect her to defend her policies and rage against the machine.
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Man insists wife refers to him as a pilot because he knows a lot about it; different man refuses to call wife an author despite having published six books, touring book fairs and making money from them
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this is a key point about plans to bring back the dodo or whatever: where are the animals meant to live? what would stop them going extinct again?
better to focus on protecting natural habitats to save the amazing species at risk of extinction theguardian.com/science/2023/f
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*sisyphus on the phone with his parents* yeah i’m actually making a ton of progress with the boulder…no there’s not really like promotions…no yeah I can definitely ask
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As a society we’ll look back at moments like this and feel so ashamed and embarrassed by the bigotry and intolerance on display. It’s so very depressing. you are made of steel for the way you handled yourself.
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I won this prize in 2019 and it opened some amazing doors for me. If you are a 16-25 year old aspiring journalist who goes/ went to state school, I would really recommend entering!
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Our Hugo Young Award is NOW OPEN.
Political opinion writing competition for 16-25s
Amazing prizes for winners and runners up
Feedback from experienced journalists
theguardianfoundation.org/programmes/hug
Political opinion writing competition for 16-25s
Amazing prizes for winners and runners up
Feedback from experienced journalists
theguardianfoundation.org/programmes/hug
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"there is no one who can tell you that you did it right. But this is not the condition of life under capitalism, this is life itself"
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Now that certain ties have been dissolved I can share that when this was in edits a BDG suit accused me of "punching down" at AHP gawker.com/culture/failur
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On my nighttime walks I've noticed a striking number of people still with their Christmas decs up – laziness or an attempt to generate cheer by any means possible?
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An arresting quote: “Even... behaviors that I think we broadly as a culture would think of as healthy, advantageous behaviours now have become drugified such that they are made more potent, more accessible, more novel, more ubiquitous”
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"workaholism is a common addiction in response to distress. And like so many addictions, it worsens the situation it’s meant to alleviate"
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This is very true
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name suppression in aotearoa is so cute. like a fun little detective game the government sets for us
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He included the native American character "deliberately... to provoke discussion" of authors writing outside their own experience; a sensitivity reader duly suggested some corrections; now he complains of being "hurt" and has those complaints published. Can everyone get a grip!!
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These suggested cuts seem to have improved the writing tbh
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who has YOUTUBE
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I am a WOMAN WHO LIVES ALONE
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I just singlehandedly fixed my boiler and I feel AMAZING
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Oh no
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Replying to @elle_hunt and @ChuckWendig
This was all that was left of a pigeon partially dyed blue I saw on a suburban town street in 2015! At the time I thought it was an escaped magician’s pigeon or some other bird act. Now I think it might’ve been from a gender-reveal?!
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God the media business is B R U T A L. This was the only fun site left!
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Well, after an incredible 1.5 years, BDG has decided it is done with Gawker 2.0. Can't say enough about how proud I am of the site and all the brilliant people who worked to create it, and what a staggering shame this is. I had an absolute blast, and I love you.
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I am in need of some JOY. What is the last thing you read/watched that sparked it, please??
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This is a truly dismal era we're living through isn't it
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