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Jamie Coleman

@notanactualghost

Editor, book doctor, ghost. I make words gooder. https://www.thebestwordsinthebestorder.co.uk

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This is like when Billy Kennedy got caught smoking so to punish him Carl made him smoke the whole pack.

28.01.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where The Wyld's Things Are | Evie Wyld | Substack A place for the scary stuff, shapeless things and unsettling ephemera that come up while I’m writing a new novel. May contain ghosts. Click to read Where The Wyld's Things Are, by Evie Wyld, a Substac...

If you like creepy things and beautiful things and writing things, that Evie Wyld is doing a substack. It’s obviously dead good - eviewyld.substack.com?utm_source=g...

09.05.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ps - BUY MY PRODUCT - www.waterstones.com/books/search...

17.04.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In celebration of International Haiku day.

What I Lick Before Your Face

You may take my balls
But I will lick what remains
And then, dear, your face

17.04.2025 09:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be such a shame if this, in fact, led more people to know about the book. Stupid droopy noodle of a man.

14.03.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels like there’s something important about the gap between how it feels to use the thumbs up reaction on a whatsapp comment and how it feels to receive it.

25.02.2025 09:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says)
The Guardian has done another shoddy article about why smartphones are definitely bad. But what's really 'terrifying' is how many apparent experts are so keen to join in with them.

What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says) The Guardian has done another shoddy article about why smartphones are definitely bad. But what's really 'terrifying' is how many apparent experts are so keen to join in with them.

What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says)

theneuroscienceofeve...

My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic

#Phones #screens #brains

04.01.2025 08:39 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 14
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

10/ Thing is: Ivor was up at 4am and will likely do the same tomorrow, so I am shattered and must sleep. But the pix continue to be a delight. Do keep them coming on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - and thanks so much for your donations to Centrepoint. Β£15k! www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

24.12.2024 22:13 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1
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Decivilization May Already Be Under Way The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattanβ€”and the cheering reaction to his executionβ€”amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...

The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

11.12.2024 21:44 πŸ‘ 7364 πŸ” 1708 πŸ’¬ 334 πŸ“Œ 270
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Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | SiΓ’n Boyle β€˜Brain rot’ is the Oxford word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist SiΓ’n Boyle

Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore

www.theguardian.com/...

Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?

Yes, yes it is
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10.12.2024 13:29 πŸ‘ 275 πŸ” 145 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 36

All you’d have to do was add β€œLynne” at the end and it would be perfect Alan.

12.12.2024 09:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I realised I'd been playing too much Chamionship Manager when I started giving press conferences on the toilet, in my best Wenger voice.

26.11.2024 13:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What must the world look like to AI bros?

25.11.2024 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.

19.11.2024 01:30 πŸ‘ 33604 πŸ” 3014 πŸ’¬ 599 πŸ“Œ 130

Why are MAGA people still so angry at everyone online? They won. They’re getting the President they want back. The wokes have been defeated. Why are they still out there screaming at strangers to debate them? It’s gotta be tiring to be completely incapable of ever feeling good.

16.11.2024 17:15 πŸ‘ 3441 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 359 πŸ“Œ 97

Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It

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My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt

16.11.2024 17:14 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The problem isn’t that Twitter is toxic. It’s that it *doesn’t work* anymore. I’m keeping an account for Arabic content that’s still not migrated but other than that anyone I try to β€˜fight’ will not see my posts as they will be buried under blue ticks and spon con.

16.11.2024 13:47 πŸ‘ 1417 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

I really don’t understand this whole β€˜stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.

16.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 39301 πŸ” 4172 πŸ’¬ 1136 πŸ“Œ 373

Isn't it odd how not being on a platform where you are constantly shown things designed to appeal to the worst parts of yourself makes you feel immediately a tiny bit better.

16.11.2024 16:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0