Deputy head of audience at the Guardian. Personal account. The best song is Little Lamb Dragonfly #blocktheblue
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Garry Watson, the last living actor from Hollywood's silent era, is 96 today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson…
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How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."
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Ever punctilious, Leonard Barden tells me that the record for newspaper columnising is held by Sid Hartman, who wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis from 1945 until his death at the age of 100 in 2020. 74 years and 140 days, according to Leonard
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There's a trend on Chinese social media where they imitate AI videos and it's beautiful
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Happy birthday to chess player and writer Leonard Barden, 95 today. He has been Guardian chess correspondent since 1954. Any longer journalistic stints, or is 70 years a world record?
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The disproportionate hate for Scrappy Doo is reflective of society's prejudice against small people who have the gall to be confident and assertive rather than "knowing their place."
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All those times I was called a paki and beaten up, I didn’t realise that they had legitimate concerns. I’ve been so stupid
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It's weird that we talk so much about a "loneliness epidemic" but we don't really talk to people about how to make friends or why they are not making friends.
So, a few things.
I've said this before and people get very angry about me — but something has to replace smoking.
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If parenting a newborn seems harder now than it did for your parents, know that it's not just cultural factors (less family and friend support). Babies literally wake up more than they used to!! For a whole extra hour per night at 3 mo old, due to back sleeping and breastfeeding.
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people are not impressed by new technology. it doesnst register. there was a time when a "video call" in a TV show indicated that it was the future. just having a video call made it "the future".
then we got video calls, and no one cared. it was kind of cool for like, a day.
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Dems spent years trying to find a cheat code, a la “Crooked Hillary,” to sear negative impressions of the GOP into voters’ minds, and I love that it was a teacher, through years of experience with misfit children, who was like “have you tried ‘weird’?”
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You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?
This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone.
Why?
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My favourite anecdote from the brilliant @DPMcBride book Power Trip
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kamala if you're reading this do NOT acknowledge the coconut memes. I repeat: do NOT acknowledge the coconut memes. the children will turn on you
