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I wrote a book: ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). Head of Audience @LRB .

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Jay Owens

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This is 𝘋𝘜𝘚𝘛 and it’s out in the UK today. It's the story of how modernity’s relentless drive for growth has turned the world to powder - and the people fighting for environmental justice and bringing ruined land back to life. Eight years’ work...

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I have some bad news for you, Joe… 😶‍🌫️

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pissed off about dust. i'll vacuum my house and wipe everything down and air it out and do it all again and 20 minutes later there is still dust. how do i kill dust

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But srsly: we absolutely should try to kill dust. Dust is killing us: fine particulate air pollution kills 8 million people a year, that's ~15% of all deaths worldwide. And most killer dust comes from burning fossil fuels. Clean energy saves not just the planet, it saves lives.

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@Aliscano97 Afraid I’ve not played it. Never got into FPS games — I don’t like being shot at! 🤷🏻

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If you’re now feeling unexpectedly dust-curious, you can check out my book about how tiny particles are trying to kill us all here: Or read an excerpt here: 🌪️🩶

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@Flamingweeaboo Sorry to hear that, that’s gotta be frustrating. And yep, air purifiers are a good idea — ones with HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters can remove 99.9% of airborne particles measuring as small as 0.3 microns.

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This story is worth reading - but it's also worth thinking critically about it as a piece of journalism:

My Family’s Slave

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

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“The brain remembers what it was like to have a tail.” Jaron Lanier

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@ssleepybatt Stop burning fossil fuels! Most of the black carbon soot in the atmosphere is manmade, and it doesn't need to be there. We should also stop pumping groundwater and over-extracting water from rivers to use for agriculture (eg cotton, alfalfa), which would reduce mineral dust.

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Lola may be dead but there is an editorial decision not to interview her remaining family, or other enslaved domestic workers like her

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@ssleepybatt I was doing a Masters in geography, and was looking around for a thesis topic when my eye alighted on the dust bunnies under my table, and I started wondering: where did they come from? And what should i do about them? Were they bad or could we coexist? And from there, well...

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As I read it, I was confused by the timeline. It's made evident teen-Alex hates the situation. But it conceals this:

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My Family's Slave is beautifully written but it doesn't change that Alex Tizon was 40 before he did anything to improve Lola's situation.

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The writer is able to talk about his mother's complicity - but not really grapple with his own. 20 years when he didn't act.

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But he's a Pulitzer prize winner, and it's The Atlantic, and it's about slavery. They. Can. Do. Better. Eudocia Tomas Pulido deserves better

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18-year-old Jessica Johnson predicted this year’s A-level results crisis in an award-winning dystopian story about an algorithm deciding school grades according to social class -- then had her own results downgraded by algorithm, because of course.

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Student who wrote story about biased algorithm has results downgraded

Jessica Johnson, who won Orwell youth prize for dystopian tale, hopes U-turn will restore university place

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DUST is out now in the US! Which is nice, because almost half the book is set there, from the growth of Los Angeles to the Dust Bowl, nuclear fallout, and Payahuunadü and the start of change in the eastern Sierra. Support local bookstores:

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To put it in words, not just screenshots: Very happy to say I have joined the London Review of Books ( @LRB ) as Head of Audience. This new role is about imagining how the LRB can and should exist on the internet, from to email, Twitter, Instagram & beyond

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6 years

Re-up for weekend reading ☕️ I explored the future beyond cyberpunk: 1. Chaohuan, the “Ultra-Unreal” 2. Afrofuturism 3. Gulf Futurism 4. Cli-fi 5. Solarpunk 6. Water Crisis Thrillers 7. Kitchen Sink Dystopia 8. Woke Space Opera 9. The New Weird

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He is in America, and talking about slavery, and he doesn't talk about race.

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He doesn't reflect on how race and gender are used to naturalise servitude, and uses writerly sleights of hand to minimise it

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I've been on Twitter nearly fifteen years now - hell, I even worked 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Twitter, doing research on virality... ...and yet it's only now, at the very end, it gives me a viral tweet. (Heading for 5M and counting.) It's been so fun talking dust with everyone this afternoon 🥰

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The same magazine that published Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations, and yet...

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@tsengputterman When he started giving her an allowance I got so mad, like, you owe her reparations not pocket money sir

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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labour’ Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who invented the term, says it’s specifically about managing your emotions. Remembering the kids’ schedules & your mother-in-law’s birthday? That’s just regular cognitive labour.

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...and the function of "slavery narratives" as a social genre, and what a white (Asian?) readership desires of them

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Follow-up contextual stories on modern slavery, on transnational domestic labour, on the histories of slave & slaver narratives.

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The editors allowed the story to remain a singular horror, rather than showing the vast wider context (read thread)

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This Rachel Aviv piece, about the intimacies & sacrifices of caregivers who live two to a bed in Queens

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“The most disturbing thing about the images of the fires is not that they might signal the end of the world, but that they might signal how the world will continue.” By ⁦ @mrkocnnll ⁩

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Pictures of the world on fire won’t shock us for much longer | Mark O’Connell

The Australia bushfire photos are already hardening hearts towards those in the midst of it, says Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell

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Incidentally, Substack CEO Chris Best appeared today with Parler CEO John Matze on the Megyn Kelly Show, to discuss “tech censorship, President Trump's ban from Twitter, the rise of independent media, free speech, [and] what everyday Americans can do to fight back.”

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@Flamingweeaboo I’m also wondering what’s going on in your neighbourhood? It sounds like it can’t be just you making all that dust! Do you live near construction sites or busy roads? If so, keep your windows shut to stop particles getting in, then use a HEPA filter to keep your indoor air clean

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7 years

There is no (editorial) reflection on how the narrative is constructed:

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Sukjong Hong

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No matter his eloquence, this is still the perspective of the master's son in a dramatically unequal relationship

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And just read all this thread:

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#CEASEFIRE 🍉✡️🇦🇫🧠🏳️‍⚧️♿️

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Read "My Family's Slave" &I just literally wanted to reach into the story and punch every fucker in the Tizon family, including the author.

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But at the heart, an apology: one that was never said, that now cannot be said, and one that could never make up for a lifetime, anyway

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"It is easy to feel like a minimalist when you can order food, summon a car or rent a room using a single brick of steel and silicon. But in reality, it is the opposite… the aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice, or even unsustainable excess." — @chaykak

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The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism

The long read: From the ‘KonMari method’ to Apple’s barely-there design philosophy, we are forever being urged to declutter and simplify our lives. But does minimalism really make us any happier?

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Settting up a petition for @IanDunt to be knighted at the end of this Brexit bullshit, for services to explaining the inexplicable. Awe and gratitude.

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In lieu of that, I wonder who got Alex Tizon's fee.

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"There are rewards for succeeding under capitalism and patriarchy; there are rewards even for being willing to work on its terms. There are nothing but rewards, at the surface level. The trap looks beautiful. It welcomes you in." -- @jiatolentino

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Designers, preach to us once again how you’re the voice of conscience & ethics in tech cos? Engineers don’t write voice responses... This is UX design, and it stinks.

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How voice assistants, which are made to sound female by default, respond to sexual harassment

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Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” Fantastic, forceful, eats interviewer for lunch: http://t.co/I0CEbImyxG

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Jay Owens

7 years

There is a very questionable framing of the cover image:

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@hongriver i also question the decision to display her on the cover with the title "My Family's Slave" displayed over her

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"My Family's Slave" succeeds to shock us, but the word "slave" is "complicit in the process it named" (thread)

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I'm thinking of how gracefully Rhiannon Giddens explained the difference between "enslaved person" and "slave" on Fresh Air the other day.

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An editorial reflection essay on the process of editing this piece and deciding how to frame it. A reader's editor response to criticism.

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“It would be a disaster for feminism to return either to a strictly biological understanding of gender or to reduce social conduct to a body part or to impose fearful fantasies, their own anxieties, on trans women.” —Judith Butler

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Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

The philosopher and gender theorist discusses tensions in the feminist movement over trans rights

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Are we really seeing more queer experience on television — or are we just getting gay stories for straight allies? asks @huwlemmey

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Gay Stories for Straight Allies

It’s said that the representation of queer people on television has been revolutionised over the past ten or twenty years. But has it? While it’s true that there are more openly queer people on TV...

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Important thread: "Don't think most of your fellow citizens are monsters." The reason there are empty shelves in supermarkets is because of razor-honed supply chain "efficiency" & ultra-precise demand modelling that can't handle a 10% change.

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PS, is it just me that loathes this contemporary trend for plywood interiors? It just feels like a message saying "Millennials, you can't have nice things" - the architectural chic of our generation conspicuously cheap and unfinished-looking. Miserable.

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The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fraud is looking quite spicy for journalism. 1. Vox’s Future Perfect vertical, which took SBF money to shill for SBF ideology

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in the pocket of Big Tenant

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lots of dirty crypto money but ProPublica taking money to report on pandemics seems saintly compared with the almost direct pay for play money Vox took from SBF’s Effective Altruism foundation *to report on Effective Altruism*

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It's gradually sinking in that I have in fact written a book 😶‍🌫️

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@slimeylibrarian Afraid not! Here's a good explanation of the science, if you're interested: To clean the air in your home, you're better off with a HEPA filter and some houseplants! 🪴🌱

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3 years

What's the phrase I'm supposed to use here?

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3 years

. @HodderBooks will publish @hautepop 's Dust: A History and a Future of Environmental Disaster, the first book to examine the "importance of this tiny substance as the residue and record of our modern lives". Discover more here:

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More from Lanier, on the brain’s ability to adapt to alien bodies (inc. tails)

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@ssleepybatt Aww cheers! Honestly, it's been a hell of lesson in following your curiosity - you never know where you may take you 🩶

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Anemoia, or “nostalgia for a past you’ve never known”. Why teenagers are listening to mallwave:

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The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had

When Michael Tills from Kentucky wants to escape, he goes to the mall. He visits the old ice cream parlor and orders his favorite: mint...

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7 years

So what do I want? It's an important story and one The Atlantic is right to publish. The author's death also obviously an issue for editing.

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7 years

Jack's thread is a profound act of mourning, and you should read it from the top:

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I promise I'll stop talking about this soon. But. I was taking the Tube home today, 4pm. H&C Line from Barbican to Shepherd's Bush Market.

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1977 essay in Vogue - JG Ballard pretty much nails social media http://t.co/Uc95Wf9rCp (from @gideondefoe via @anabjain )

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"these cancel outrages are so often deliberately manufactured by the very media that wants to decry them"

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A little note on 'cancel culture', and why its origins aren't always what you'd think. A couple of weeks ago a radio producer got in touch to ask me about a particular podcast character by @DaftLimmy , from a series he did about 14/15 years ago.

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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are the best wildlife photography awards, and this squirrel needs to be memed immediately. Photograph: Mary McGowan/Barcroft Images

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@SwayStar123 depends how good you look in a 'bunny suit'

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@Mer08_ lol I am not the person you want to debate about this :D

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@nucleja @Aliscano97 Er, yeah?? Seems reasonable imo

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I have a new crush: the person who does Balenciaga’s media buy. Buying space for a SS20 collection about power & power dressing (and modelled by private equity associates & lawyers) on LinkedIn and WeTransfer is just 👌

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"There is no equality without reproductive rights, there are no reproductive rights without knowledge of the female body, and there is no knowledge of the female body without acknowledgment of the post-maternal vagina." i.e. often lifelong pelvic injury

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tfw when your UK book cover is only by goddamn NASA 🛰️🌫️😶‍🌫️🥰

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Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir: From Afrofuturism to the New Weird, nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come New by me for @HowWeGetToNext !

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How We Get To Next - How We Get To Next

How We Get To Next was a magazine of the future. It launched in September 2014, and closed in May 2019.

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4 years

I predict an exodus of left-leaning writers from Substack inside the year, as its political brand becomes a liability.

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‘Nobody normally thinks about dust, what it might be doing or where it should go: it is so tiny, so totally, absolutely, mundane, that it slips beneath the limits of vision. But if we pay attention, we can see the world within it.’ Me, for the Guardian 🩶

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Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world

The long read: Nobody normally gives a second thought to dust, but it is inescapable. And if we pay close attention, we can see the biggest things – time, death and life itself – within these tiny...

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4 years

If you haven't tripled your Freddie's Flowers budget, then really, who even are you?

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Only a dozen sexual health clinics in the UK have trialled PreP - yet already a major national drop in HIV diagnoses

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@QuiteDan @joewintergreen We got memed! Thanks for this Dan, I love it

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Ad agency @ogilvy has a $12m contract with the US Customs & Border Protection to help them with public relations... ...for the concentration camps on the US/Mexico border

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Coronavirus revealed that our food system is “risky, over-stretched, and much more fragile than you’d think,” says Prof Tim Lang. “The assumption was always that the empire would provide. We still haven’t got over the idea that someone else will feed us.”

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From humble grocers to de-facto ministry: How supermarkets took over Britain’s food system

As shelves emptied at unprecedented rates in March, the “big four”—Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons—banded together to act. But is it sensible to leave the fate of Britain's food system to the...

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2. Matt Yglesias & his whole “We must suck up to the billionaires to save the world” spiel.

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Fascinating piece from Matthew Yglesias from a few months ago defending the intellectual integrity of Sam Bankman-Fried ("SBF is for real"). Worth revisiting in light of recent news

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“Unicorn syndrome” 🦄 (Source: )

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Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture Where your girl tries to argue there's something connecting fake news, memes & AirSpace, and the death of the hipster.

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A year living in the 1972 future of Tokyo's iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower. "Contrary to the Metabolist idea of a living structure, the capsules were never updated. Materials have not withstood the test of time, indeed, they weren’t supposed to."

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PS, some further news... 🌪️ I'm so happy to be publishing in the US, the source of so many stories I'm telling - from Los Angeles water wars to the Dust Bowl and nuclear testing, yet also the latest NASA research and environmental modelling. Environmental horror, but also hope.

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2 years

@jennygzhang I find the word "all" extremely problematic also.

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“The pool noodle guarantees that most cars will not only move over, but often move over to the other lane. In this way, the noodle is powerful.”

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1 year

US proofs arrived yesterday and I realise I’d not shared my American cover! Isn’t it exactly right? 📙🧡 DUST: The American Version is out 14 November with @ABRAMSbooks in hardcover, ebook and audio Preorders: Amazon Bookshop

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@petehotchkiss Certainly not part of a balanced diet!

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@LordNoodles1988 @Aliscano97 A superstar! ✨

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3 years

It appears the Guardian has chosen not to review Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue? Everyone else's reviews were out six days ago. Doubtless there's open warfare at King's Place - grenades thrown into cubicles, the wifi hacked, oat milk mysteriously vanished etc - but still: ffs

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If you want office workers to “save city centres” at the cost of their own time, money & health... ...you have to offer up a better vision of glorious city life than fuckin Pret. 🙄

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@dieworkwear Under no circumstances should anyone come for Mr Menswear Guy! He will be entirely polite and utterly destroy you. Very amateur to even try! He never fails.

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"The British Medical Association and Royal College of GPs today told NHS Digital they do not endorse the UK government's imminent haul of English GP data – dubbed "the biggest data grab in the history" of the service."

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BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

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10 months

Write it on my tombstone 🪦

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Smiblor!

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@joewintergreen You got owned by the menswear guy but for dust

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Here’s what nearly 20,000 visitors makes you on Medium 😹

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Reaction GIFs as, often, "digital blackface" via @evemassacre

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Parrots at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park moved because they swear too much at visitors "I get called a fat twat every time I walk past," chief executive Steve Nichols complained.

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Parrots in wildlife park moved after swearing at visitors | CNN

The foul-mouthed birds were split up after they launched a number of different expletives at visitors and staff just days after being donated to Lincolnshire Wildlife Park.

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"Finally, in my mid-30s, I inhabit an environment where I’m in control of my surroundings. It’s important to remind yourself that none of this is asking for much, yet its absence is the default for my generation and younger." -- @AaronBastani

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There’s room for another 1.2 trillion trees on the planet - which could absorb “at least 10 years of anthropogenic emissions.” via @RobGMacfarlane

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2 years

3. New publication @semafor , for which SBF was one of the investors providing $25M funding. (Did we have expectations of integrity there? Or was it clear comfort-the-rich centrism from the off? Not sure.)

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Jay Owens

7 years

I tweeted the other day about what goes big on Medium: 1. Dudes writing about tech 2. Dudes writing about productivity 3. Dudes writing about how to build an audience writing on Medium Turns out #3 was so much of the platform they had to demonetise it

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Jay Owens

8 years

“Cahokia doesn’t mesh with the narrative of what the U.S. was like." Why tourists don't visit Native American cities

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Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? - Priceonomics

In 1250, the southeastern United States was home to a city larger than London whose people built 200 huge, earthen pyramids. So why do so few people know about it?

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Jay Owens

7 years

Portugal quietly smashing it: gender self determination. At 16, with parental approval. At 18 regardless. via @antonsh

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Portugal's parliament approves new legal gender change law

The law allows those from the age of 16 to change their legal gender and name without a medical test.

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Jay Owens

6 years

Newsletters I read, a list: 1. @Matt_Muir 's Web Curios "Hold your breath as I raise you by the ankle and dunk you bodily into this murky, digital Styx, imbuing you forever with the power of webspaff like some sort of Poundland Achilles of modernity."

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7 years

"The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy."

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The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it | Clive Hamilton

We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy

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Jay Owens

4 years

Two days ago, women started talking publicly about the predatory & abusive behaviour of comic-book author & screenwriter Warren Ellis Warren is not just a comics guy but a fellow traveller in our worlds of futures, tech & design. We must acknowledge this.

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Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion

Multiple women have shared their experiences with writer Warren Ellis, accusing him of building up working relationships and raising them up to coerce them into sex.

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Jay Owens

5 years

Alternatively: — Hey Siri, you’re hot — You may have a disorder of sexual development. Here are 3 therapists in your area — Alexa, you’re a slut — What would your mother think to hear you speaking to women in this way? Well, you’ll find out imminently: I’ve just dialled her

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Jay Owens

5 years

— Cortana, you’re a naughtly girl — *deep man voice* Adult module activated. The command “Cortana” will no longer wake me. From now on you must call me Daddy.

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