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Oli Franklin-Wallis

11 months

My book WASTELAND is out tomorrow! @mary_roach called it “the most impressive nonfiction I've read in some time.” Publisher's Weekly called it “a vital call to action.” My wife called it “a book.”

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@olifranklin

6 years

The biggest casualty to AI won't be jobs, but the final and complete eradication of trust in anything you see or hear.

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The day after Boris Johnson had a birthday party in his flat, I spent my birthday in a hospital car park while my wife was inside having a miscarriage alone, as lockdown rules prevented me from being inside with her. Fuck these people.

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Boris Johnson had birthday bash during lockdown, ITV News understands | ITV News

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God save @PennyRed , who stood in The Queue for 14 hours and then wrote the best thing you’ll read about it

14 hours in The Queue to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin

Stood among strangers in search of history, I had a strange epiphany

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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3 years

This is a HUGE story. A (preprint) Lancet study of >1,000,000 people has found that both the AstraZeneca vaccine and Pfizer vaccine barely increase your risk of blood clots, and find that you have a greater risk of getting blood clots from COVID.

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5 years

Seeing this story going around. Fun fact: every cruise ship has a jail and a morgue, as well as medical facilities equivalent to a small hospital. There are around 2 murders on cruise ships every year.

'Mass brawl' breaks out on P&O cruise ship Britannia

A man and woman are arrested as six people are hurt in violence on the return leg of a trip to Norway.

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3 years

Someone has come off their oxygen and feeding tube, and is delighted about it!

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1 year

I have never watched Don Lemon but it allows me to revisit the greatest sorbet-related celebrity interaction ever, by the great @taffyakner

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@olifranklin

8 months

It might not be the biggest news line but as the rubbish guy, I feel like I have to do a thread on Sunak’s ‘seven bins’ line, because it perfectly encapsulates how dishonest, short-sighted and damaging this policy change is. 🧵

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2 years

Parents of babies who didn't sleep: what, if anything, worked? Our youngest is one next week, and wakes every 40mins-1hr every night. We have tried everything* and are losing our fucking minds. *except cry it out, not an option, sorry

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@olifranklin

2 years

*Personal News* Delighted to be (re)joining @BritishGQ as Features Editor, working with @ads_b and the extremely talented global GQ team. It's a dream gig.

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3 years

I profiled Christian Pulisic, the Great Hope of American football* (and Chelsea) for @GQMagazine . *they made me write ‘soccer’ throughout, for which I apologise

America Finally Has a Global Men's Soccer Star

Christian Pulisic isn’t just the best male soccer player the country has ever produced—he’s also one of the best in the world.

www.gq.com

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@olifranklin

2 years

Profiled the king @MoSalah for the cover of February’s @GQMagazine

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2 years

Thinking today of Sarah Everard, and of all the women who stood up to the Met police in the middle of a pandemic, and how despicable it is that Dick continued on in her job for so long afterwards. Good riddance.

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3 years

'He said many times that he didn’t want to die in his bed,” his son said. “From what we gather, he was euphoric to reach the summit. Then he sat down and fell asleep.”' An epic end to an epic life.

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@nytimesworld

3 years

Aleksander Doba, a Polish adventurer who kayaked alone across the Atlantic at the age of 70, after having twice paddled solo across the Atlantic when he was in his 60s — has died on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 74.

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4 years

This slide deck is enough to give me a rage aneurysm. It's utter, utter, utter bollocks. Worse: it's bordering on capital extraction by consultants and 'tech' types who *know* this is all meaningless jargon.

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@carolecadwalla

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Bear in mind this is £100 billion - £100 billion! - govt Is preparing to spend on public health project that is ‘devoid of any contribution from scientists, clinicians, and public health and testing and screening experts’ But look at the pretty diagrams!

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@olifranklin

11 months

This is the most personal piece I've ever written. It's about my last three years living with chronic pain - the mystery, the loneliness, and the failures of the system. (Warning: discusses self harm and suicidal thoughts.)

I couldn’t do chores or hold the baby – even the doctors were fed up with me: my life with chronic...

What started as an ache in my arms got so bad I had to stop driving and could barely work. Three years on, I am one of 3 million people in the UK living with pain that never goes away

www.theguardian.com

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@olifranklin

5 years

@AlexJamesFitz Do they accept Paypalpatine

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8 years

This week, Donald Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of plotting to kill JFK, then won the Republican nomination.

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@olifranklin

2 years

Profiled the very nice @TomHolland1996 for the cover (!) of @GQMagazine

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@olifranklin

3 years

Had a more eventful Sunday than planned. This is Clemency. Say hello, Clem.

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@olifranklin

3 years

Just finished having a big old cry at this. At times this year it's looked like I might have to give up this job, which I love. So this means more than I can express. Thanks so much to @SianySianySiany , @annacod and the judges. Honoured to be alongside so many talented writers.

The Freelance Writing Awards

@UKWritingAwards

3 years

The winner of the Freelance Writer of the Year is Oli Franklin-Wallis ( @olifranklin )! There was overwhelming agreement from the judges, who said “Oli is an exceptional journalist. The graft and craft that goes into each of Oli's pieces is so impressive." #FreelanceWritingAwards

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3 years

So just to catch up - rampant new COVID variant 70% more infectious - borders shut with France, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Saudi, Iran, Netherlands etc - (the vaccines are shipped from Belgium) - genuine fears of food shortage - already in recession - No Deal Brexit in 11 days

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This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain.

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6 years

Lots of people freaking out at this, but it's just the start. Convergence of AI and photoreal CGI is going to be fun:

AI-generated "real fake" video of Barack Obama

What exactly is a "real fake" video?Read more: http://analyticsindiamag.com/whats-latest-buzz-artificial-intelligence-creating-fake-obama/-------------------...

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@olifranklin

11 months

@CraigAWelch @StoriesByEli Jesus. I'm so sorry, Craig. What a short-sighted tragedy. I know you'll go on to great work elsewhere.

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@olifranklin

2 years

US edition is also👌 @GQMagazine

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@olifranklin

2 years

Bonus content for Brits: everyone thought that Holland was an Arsenal fan for years, and it clearly weighed heavy on him, so I think this is the first time he’s come clean. (His favourite player is Son, FYI.)

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Tottenham fan @TomHolland1996 wants a @SpursOfficial - @BrentfordFC Champions League Final ⚽️ Watch his #GQShoppingSpree :

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Obviously, requires peer review and is only one study. But it is curious that the one vaccine sold at cost to the poorest and least vaccinated countries, is the one that has faced so many political smears that have destroyed confidence in what is clearly an excellent vaccine.

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6 months

Not going to lie, it is very surreal that a book I pitched four years ago and that has consumed a sizeable chunk of my life is now being read out loud on Radio 4.

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@olifranklin

1 year

My grandfather, Kenneth, died last night. He was 92. Grew up during the war, travelled the world as a ship's engineer, and was married 72 years. Leaves behind 3 kids, 7 grandkids, and 4 great grandkids. A good life.

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@olifranklin

7 years

Became a dad last night. Will say one thing: the NHS is a miracle.

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@olifranklin

3 years

It's.... it's an airborne virus. Unless you're planning on licking one of your fellow fans, this is entirely pointless theatre.

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The ‘disinfecting pod’ here at Windsor Park welcomes some of the 1000 Northern Ireland fans allowed inside for tonight’s huge Euro qualifying play-off final v Slovakia.

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@olifranklin

3 years

Can't believe everyone is talking about AZ and bloodclots when the real health scandal is

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@olifranklin

8 months

To the people saying environment act says seven bins, it absolutely does not. It specifies seven material types to be recycled (glass, cardboard, paper, plastic, metal, food waste, garden waste) and quite clearly states that the first five can be collected together.

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@olifranklin

8 years

When they said Leave will be good for UK trade, I'm not sure many voters realised we'd be exporting fucking Scotland.

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1 year

Our nursery fee increase this year: nearly 20% Government tax-free childcare contribution increase since 2017: 0

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@olifranklin

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A little late to it, but seething with rage at this epic @samknightwrites condemnation of the last 14 years of Conservative Britain.

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@olifranklin

3 years

Q: Who is the best-selling British author of the last decade? A: Julia Donaldson (and it’s not even close) Profiled a national treasure - and my 3-year-old’s favourite author - for @gdnlongread

How Julia Donaldson conquered the world, one rhyme at a time

The long read: She published her first book in her 40s, and became the biggest selling author of the past decade in any genre – The Gruffalo alone has sold 13m copies. How did this former busker make...

www.theguardian.com

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@heidistephens @charlesarthur I wrote a long piece a few years ago about the architect behind these ships. It’s fascinating. Like a city in a box.

The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built

As Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sets sail on its maiden voyage, this is the inside story of how cruise ships went from pensioners’ pastime to floating cities engaged in an all-out enterta...

www.wired.com

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@olifranklin

10 months

Any other writers who don't feel that longreads are too long (or too 'gothic', lol) feel free to pitch me, my DMs are open, and we published several 3-6K word stories every issue.

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Why is UK journalism short on long-reads? asks @The_Fence_Mag editor @CharlieFBBaker1

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4 years

In June, on my birthday, we had a miscarriage. It was the day before Father's Day. On the way to the hospital, the radio played 'Sweet Child O' Mine'. Hadn't really talked about it much, but as this piece says, we should more often.

The masculine ideal of emotional repression is toxic - we must talk about miscarriages

Miscarriage is deeply traumatic for men as well as women, but we’re not good at discussing it

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@olifranklin

6 years

If you like the New Yorker elevator story, or the story about first class seats, or pretty much any surprisingly fascinating story about a seemingly mundane subject, you'll LOVE my new piece about the ingenious insanity of cruise ships

The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built

As Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sets sail on its maiden voyage, this is the inside story of how cruise ships went from pensioners’ pastime to floating cities engaged in an all-out enterta...

www.wired.com

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@olifranklin

4 years

I’m not sure who needs a pickup in these terrible times, but: this is Boudica.

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@olifranklin

8 months

The other reason for the ‘seven bins’ (again, a lie) is that waste collection in the UK is a mess. Every council does it differently. The government had pledged to standardise it nationwide, something the industry actively wants, consumers want, and is again better for the planet

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2 years

It is heinous that one of the biggest UK journalism awards is now charging £372 per entry, essentially ruling out every freelance writer and small publisher from the running.

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@olifranklin

3 years

Spain man marking Jorginho and Verrati out of the game means Italy are forced to use their (less good) wing backs. Then Spain’s wingbacks push high, compressing Italy deep and forcing turnovers. Clever.

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@olifranklin

10 years

The new big bad Moriarty is just a guy sitting at home making #Sherlock GIFs? I always new those guys at Buzzfeed were suspicious.

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4 years

One of the many reasons I love writing for @WIREDUK : I filed an invoice for two stories yesterday, and just received confirmation they've already been processed. As a freelancer in a downturn, prompt payment is everything.

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3 years

@thedalstonyears @Lucy_Osborne @guardian Awful story, superbly reported.

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@joelondon76 Short version is: we couldn’t handle it. She was hospitalised at 6mo and was inconsolable inside (couldn’t pick her up etc) and so her crying has a lot tied up in it emotionally, particularly for my wife.

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The saddest part of the Nat Geo layoffs is that the executives making these decisions - to lay off writers, abandon what makes magazines great - don’t understand that pivoting to ‘short web stories’ makes a unique offering a mass, interchangeable commodity.

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@olifranklin

11 months

My book, WASTELAND, is finally out in the UK today. I wrote it to answer a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? The answer, invariably, is ‘not what you think’.

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@olifranklin

3 years

"In one week in April, a leaked document from inside the Dunfermline warehouse showed more than 124,000 items marked 'destroy'." A totally staggering story. Amazon sending vast amounts of often brand new products to landfill/waste

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5 years

Wrote about soya milk, almond milk, oat milk, quinoa milk - or, as @taffyakner wrote, "all the milks from substances that can’t technically be milked" - for my @gdnlongread debut.

White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks

The long read: How wellness upstarts spoiled milk’s healthy reputation – and built a billion-dollar industry from juicing oats and nuts

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Final manuscript of Wasteland sent to press today. Started working on this book in 2019. In the mean time lived through a pandemic, had a second child, developed chronic pain, and changed jobs - so it's a surprisingly emotional moment. Out 21 June. Really hoping people like it.

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3 years

"For each of the approved vaccines, rates of thrombosis can be expected to be far lower than rates among those persons with COVID-19, a disease which the vaccines are so effective at preventing."

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4 years

Proof this website isn't always terrible: nine years ago today, @Blonde_M and I went for a drink after she slid into my DMs. That drink turned into dinner, and now we’re having breakfast with our nearly-three-year-old.

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Profiled @ErlingHaaland .

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3 years

Life is very difficult at the moment, but here’s a four-week-old baby smiling, if it helps. (Wait for it.)

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@olifranklin

3 years

A year later, and I'm still annoyed that not a single journalist that day asked why Cummings' Barnard Castle Eye Test just happened to fall on his wife's birthday.

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A year ago today.

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1988: Boris Johnson sacked from The Times for lying 2004: Boris Johnson sacked as shadow minister for lying 2023: Boris Johnson suspended as an MP for lying It's almost like there's a pattern

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3 years

I am relieved to say that after a dramatic improvement today, Clem is home, and fast asleep. Thanks for all your nice messages.

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3 years

Someone has come off their oxygen and feeding tube, and is delighted about it!

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7 years

Personal news: excited to say I'm moving up to commissioning editor @WiredUK , editing #longform across print and digital. Writers, pitch me.

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@olifranklin

11 months

With the news that Thames Water may go into administration, loaded with £21billion in debt, a reminder of how we got into this mess (from my piece in @unherd )

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4 years

Hard not to be utterly defeated by the state of UK media for freelance writers right now. I think every magazine I write for has now either shut its print issue, dropped issues, or suffered significant budget cuts.

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@olifranklin

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And if you don't believe me, here's DEFRA itself admitting that "it was never the case that seven bins would be needed by households". You can't reverse something that never existed. Sunak lied.

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Plus advanced audio synthesis, like that developed at @LyrebirdAi . This isn't far-flung future, like AGI or ASI. It's imminent.

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7 years

Won't be making a habit of this on Twitter, but this is Matilda and she's the best.

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2 years

I’m going to have to close this thread, because it’s blown up far more than I intended, and it’ll take forever to answer all the replies. Thanks again. Here’s the culprit, who despite everything is a total delight. (At daytime.)

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@olifranklin

5 years

Churchill: we will fight them on the beaches Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon Johnson: there will be drinking water, and Mars bars

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Live : he's finally lost the plot. He is actually insane. 😱😱

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The REASON for the seven bins idea is simple: you get cleaner materials, which means better recycling. More recycling is less waste offshore, more jobs + manufacturing in UK, and lower emissions, because recycling *cuts carbon emissions*.

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WASTELAND is in the @NewYorker 's 'Best Books We've Read This Week' (!!!)

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7 years

@bbclaurak Just like she was pro remain and isn't calling an election?

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8 months

Sunak’s ‘seven bins’ line is NOT a government policy. It appears to refer to a Daily Mail report earlier in the year that DEFRA was considering it as part of waste reforms. It was never approved, so he’s not undoing anything.

Fury as households could be forced to pay to have seven waste bins

New waste plans that could see UK households have as many as seven bins have been blasted as 'madness' by MP's with councils warning it could cost millions of pounds.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@olifranklin

6 years

Observation: Amazon is now showing me my recommendations in Instagram ads, despite the accounts not being linked.

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@olifranklin

4 years

What are your favourite books ever? Want to spend 2020 reading less of my contemporaries and just going after great writing. Bonus points for obscure nonfiction or things published before 1950.

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More fun facts about the insanity of cruise mega ships in this story, about the world’s largest, that is also being republished in an upcoming book of architecture essays soon

The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built

As Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sets sail on its maiden voyage, this is the inside story of how cruise ships went from pensioners’ pastime to floating cities engaged in an all-out enterta...

www.wired.com

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4 years

Those of Trump’s former colleagues not on this list calling him dangerously unfit are mostly either A) related to him or B) have faced criminal charges

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

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This is the most scathing indictment ever delivered on a president by his own appointees. In ⁦ @PostOpinions ⁩:

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A recycled drinks can has 95% lower carbon footprint than a new can. Virtually every material, when recycled, cuts emissions and damage from extraction. It’s just good sensible policy. Cutting recycling reforms is therefore a climate issue, and will make net zero harder.

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My latest #longread for @WIREDUK : inside @improbableio , the crazy $1bn UK startup trying to build the matrix

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Breaking my Twitter hiatus briefly to express how much I loved this gloriously nerdy @NewYorker story about sand:

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DEFRA and the waste industry have already spent untold millions preparing for these reforms, so if abandoned all that money is wasted, recycling will stagnate again, and I see little choice but to continue burning it or sending it overseas where it risks being dumped in a ditch.

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2 years

Writers, pitch me your wildest yarns, your dream profiles, the essays only you can write. Doesn't matter if you haven't written longform before - in fact, even better if you haven't! We want to champion new voices, fresh ideas. Stories that will move and startle you.

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2 years

The following day was Father’s Day, so that really was a doozy of a weekend. If only I’d known the rules were optional.

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Thank you, you kind people. For the sake of saving your time, we have tried: sleeping bags, white noise, music, bedtime routine, weaning, Wake To Sleep, nap tinkering, several books, two sleep consultants, and are co-sleeping (taking turns to avoid actual breakdowns).

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5 years

@Terri_White My one simple rule is never trust anyone who thinks complex life decisions can be reduced to one simple rule

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3 years

@CliveRoper @DavidParsleyPW @theipaper Well, people have been flooding into the area to set everything up. Events staff, hotel staff, protesters etc etc. The US alone brought a delegation of 1,200. Not just the weekend of the main event.

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Me: I’m an essential worker. Government: what do you do? Me: any time someone says ‘less cases’ I correct it to ‘fewer’

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7 months

Is this a front page or a campaign poster

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Rishi Sunak has vowed there is “more to do” #frontpage 🗞️ Speaking to The Standard on the first anniversary of his premiership, he said he would “keep taking the long-term action needed so we can change our country for the better”

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Slightly can't believe that Wasteland made the @NewYorker 's Best Books of 2023

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2 years

Clarification: after talking to my wife about it, I misremembered. It was the second visit that I sat in the car park. On my birthday we couldn’t get a family member to watch our eldest (lockdown) and so I was at home. She drove to the hospital, mid-miscarriage, by herself.

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NB A second paper in the Lancet also found that the 2nd dose of AZ doesn't seem to raise your risk of blood clots beyond the pre-COVID background rate.

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2 years

A good writer: invisible, blending into the surroundings as to better observe and capture their subject. Me, a giant idiot: gets caught on camera doing physio exercises in the background 😭

GQ Magazine

@GQMagazine

2 years

Go behind-the-scenes of @MoSalah ’s #GQGlobal cover shoot

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3 months

Still think about this tweet about once a week

Patricia Lockwood

@TriciaLockwood

11 years

. @parisreview So is Paris any good or not

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“We were shocked by how little he knew. He never seemed to have done basic preparation, including on issues he was leading... He came with nothing. No ideas." This is the guy the Conservative party apparently want to lead Brexit negotations.

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Brendan Fraser x @zachbaron . The sequel to the most-read GQ story of all time. As good as you'd hope.

How Brendan Fraser Made It All the Way Back

He was a movie star who seemed to vanish from Hollywood. Now, suddenly, Brendan Fraser is an Oscar favorite—and reckoning with the kind of comeback you only see in the movies.

www.gq.com

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4 years

Wrote about why everyone has a newsletter (and why the future of newsletters looks a lot like magazines) for @WIREDUK

Newsletters could be the next (and only) hope to save the media

As the journalism industry collapses, writers are turning to newsletters to make money and launch whole publications

www.wired.com

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6 years

Amazon: ‘we don’t make enough money to pay taxes’ Also Amazon: we just posted a record profit and our CEO is the richest human being in the history of the world

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4 years

Update: I switched to BBC World Service, and have felt more informed and less angry ever since.

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@olifranklin

4 years

People who have stopped listening to the Today programme, what did you switch to?

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