I write a thing called Five things on Friday. It rarely comes on Friday but you always get more than five things.
#399 features me and @georgeosborn.bsky.social talking about brands x games, a write up of #Interesting2025, AND an incredible website you have to see to believe.
I hope you like it x
Present James is happy past James drafted so much for future James.
Five things on Friday #399 is headed out right now. This week, among other things:
- #Interesting2025
- Tapestry
- And the greatest thing I have ever seen
www.fivethingsonfriday.com/archive/five...
A woman speaking on stage, a slide behind her reads “It rained on me … (and I suffered as a result)
Another woman speaking on a stage a slide behind her reads: “FAIRY TALES ARE NOT BEDTIME STORIES THEY ARE ENCODED SURVIVAL MANUALS ANCESTRAL SOTTWARE PASSED DOWN DURING COLLAPSE”
Another woman speaking on the stage her slide reads “ultimately... There's no single word in English that translates all of the meanings of kombinowas. Bodge, connive, weasel, hack, finagle, and sort out (with a crafty wink) are all facets of this fascinating verbal diamond that sits at the core of Polish culture.”
A different woman is speaking stage her slide is FILLED with photos of her dressed as a robot in the 80s and posters of gigs because she was a Teenage Robot Dancer
Things I learned at #interesting2025
Japanese offers grammar choices you don’t know you needed
Fairytales are encoded user manuals for dark times
Polish has a word for malicious compliance, but not quite that
A woman I’ve know for a really longtime online used to be a teenage robot dancer
Finally made it to an Interesting in London. So so good. Replenished my people are bloody brilliant bucket. Which tbh has been empty for a while.
#interesting2025
Here for agitating around another Sheffield/Northern edition.
A blissful brain fuelled evening at #Interesting2025
There will be a newsletter and I will write about all that I saw.
Rachel Coldicutt speaking at Russell Davies's Interesting 2025 conference launching The Society For Hopeful Technologists
Go @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social 💪❤️ #interesting2025
