Yes! If every problem gets written about in the same hyperbolic register, every problem looks like the same size

The thing about Gabriel Martinelli is that you can't be absolutely sure he won't score

No one outside the Etihad knows the difference between Bernardo Silva and David Silva

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

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This is the most optimistic I have heard any Arsenal fan in the last week

Neil can be misread as 'Heil' if you're in a hurry, which is pretty fascist

something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder"

I hate it here!

Good one. Niche

People using 'alpha', I do not think it means what you think it means

Old Macdonald had a Farm
They call the Rising Sun
And on that Farm he had a cow
And Lord I know, I’m one.

Buster Bloodvessel is 6”2. Which if you ask me is the height of Bad Manners

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Marking also. If you're dependent on student numbers, you don't fail them, especially oversees students whose English isn't up to it (not their fault, they're being criminally ill-served by the system, but that was my experience with them)

It's how I *try* to get through to sixth formers. It might work with some of them and I am not prepared to be more optimistic than that.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

How did we get here? Ultimately, as in my traditional fashion I have been trying and failing to sell for a decade, fantasy football: www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

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(Also, you'll always get my attention with Went the Day Well.)

(Yup, yup, yup, yup. It's all geared to things platforms and advertisers want, not creators and, frankly, not audiences. It pushes audiences towards things (video podcasts*) that aren't why they fell in love with podcasts.)

*Not video podcasts, really. Clips is what they want. Clips = clicks.

Yes, x1000! This is what we're trying to do at Listen & Often. Doing things like James Pond with big stars is all about building an ecosystem for this kind of new writing.

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Or www.patreon.com/listenandoften? The answer, Ed, is yes.

(If artists are going to pander slavishly to their consumers, be their consumers! Make them your slaves!)

Reminds me I came up with this solution to the problems of the new economic model in the arts back on Twitter

Rudy Giuliani, dressed in a yellow suit, with a yellow and blue tie and pocket square

Barry Howard in 1980s sitcom Hi-De-Hi, dressed in the yellow coat uniform of yellow jacket with blue trims and sporting a yellow tie with blue spots.

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You really do have excellent taste

I saw Spoon Halflife play the Astoria, 2008.