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Just bought Florence and The Machine concert Liverpool tickets for February without realising we are in India that week! If anyone is keen, please let me know and I can share Ticketmaster relisting links.

#AlaskaSummit

Rishi Sunak: 'I'm a total coke addict' YouTube video by Westminster Watch

Lest we forget
youtu.be/nO_fXajyzek?...

Gorgeous location, lovely food
#FarmersDog #ClarksonsFarm

If they cared more about helping people meet up for work over coffee and less about elevating their consciousness, they might have survived.

Exactly THIS! I feel markedly better about work on days when I have met people in person.

The Dog, the Divorcé, and the Death of Community How a street-corner chat revealed the cost of cutting society to the bone.

Read it. Relate to it. Relish the truth.

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Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

We got 99 reasons to be happy and this shows so many of them.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It was the worst of times, it was the even worse than that of times

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

“You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Liberation Day - A PNG Courier special It’ll always be free.

LIBERATION DAY - A Papua New Guinea Courier special edition.

Click through to read it all...

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UK town introduces 'creative tax' to curb rise of freelancers in local cafés As the rise of remote work continues to blur the line between café and co-working spaces, one UK town is taking drastic action — by taxing creativity itself. A small coastal town has made a contro...

Please read this and stay safe. And remember if you do get fined there, you are on your own. We don’t know each other.
Credit : @antphenderson.bsky.social

www.creativeboom.com/news/uk-town...

The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues’ Verbal Flubs Mike O’Brien kept a meticulous log of mixed metaphors and malaprops uttered in meetings over a decade; ‘too many cooks in the soup’

Not all heroes wear hats

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fo...

To be fair, they could make a series out of LinkedIn reactions to Adolescence. It would be disturbing yet entertaining. Let’s call that series Metastasis.

At this point, I’d like to connect with anyone who has not posted their views about Adolescence. Low bar but a bar nonetheless. @graemefraser.bsky.social thanks for flagging this.

Stephen Visits Gary Oldman In London To Talk "Slow Horses," The Show That Fell From The Sky YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Slow Horses fans assemble
@phillipoakley.bsky.social thanks for sharing!
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Careless People — the jaw-dropping account of Sarah Wynn-Williams’ time at Facebook The executive’s harrowing, tell-all memoir questions the integrity of the world’s biggest social network company

Been a decade since I left all Meta platforms and not a single day has there been even a tinge of regret. Regardless of whether this turns out to be true, good riddance!
www.ft.com/content/51d5...

Spotify’s biggest sin? Its algorithms have pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music | John Harris Most musicians can only make money on the platform by writing songs inoffensive enough to get on to one of its vapid playlists, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“sad piano ballads with weird drums”
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The analogies🤌🏽

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Wahey👏🏽

These days when you read news from across the pond, this quote from Severance comes to mind -
“There is good news and bad news about hell. The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.”

It is an excerpt from Matt Klein’s blogpost called “Do Not Be Afraid of the Dark: A Guide to the Dark Mode Shift” that highlights how the West brushed past global issues and the only way out of the mess is to acknowledge them first.

Helluva read this - zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/dark-mode-...

Money cannot guarantee taste exhibit A

George Clooney's wife appointed to role at Oxford University The wife of a Hollywood film actor has been appointed as a visiting professor of an Oxford school of government.

Professor Amal Clooney's husband must be very proud.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2491546...

Apple News needs a better feed.

Ok thanks Sunday Times

Nike’s performance last year as seen through the eyes of one of the most successful fund managers of all time.
Link to full missive here - www.fundsmith.co.uk/media/pirmvy...

The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.

The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan...

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