Russell Davies - undermanager (Page 19)

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Tyler the Creator on editing

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Notes - 12th of October

Hashtags are resistance: https://etymology.substack.com/p/why-platforms-are-killing-the-hashtag Design is hard: https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115033247036038265 Twisted firestarter: https://www.tiktok.com/@rustamdavletoff/video/7537071798987312440 Bad taxidermy: https://www.pi.fyi/rec/cmeftjofn0xp1qu4snhnsptjh World class pedantry: https://www.tiktok.com/@angharadyeo/video/7558789352894270728 Impact editor is an interesting title:

All That Energy

A new Elite Panic song... All That Energy, by Elite Panictrack by Elite PanicElite PanicBandcamp New & Notable Oct 11, 2025 Built in a similar way to this:

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Clear communication from the Atlee government

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Lucy Prebble on finishing things

@sheffielduni A snippet of writer and producer (Succession, The Effect, Mountainhead) Lucy Prebble’s speech this morning when she accepted her honorary doctorate ❤️ “Endings are hard. It’s hard to leave a city that you love and its hard when a period of your life like this ends. But its

Mark Forsyth on diacope

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Presentation Club

Presentation Club update

This is an email I'll be sending tomorrow to people who've booked a ticket for Presentation Club. Hello, Thank you for getting a ticket for Presentation Club. * It's a month away now. November 5th at 7pm. (UK time). * The link to the event will

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Email config apology possibility

A few people have subscribed to 'email versions of this blog' via buttondown. I suspect you've not been getting them because I've configured it wrong. Sorry about that. Hopefully you'll get this on Sunday. I think that now, you can also subscribe

September 27th, as precisely as possible

Christa Wolf wrote this in the preface to One Day a Year, 1960-2000: “In 1960, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia issued a call to the writers of the world, one that instantly appealed to me—they were to describe one day of that year, the 27th of September, as precisely as

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Lost in time, like tears in rain

This post is for everyone asking about migrating from Typepad to Ghost. It is not in the archive so it will disappear when Typepad disappears. (I will put a copy of it on Ghost, too, for the record.) 1. I do not know how to migrate a blog from Typepad

Non-fun run

I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to donate to a good cause. If you&

New news norms

Apart from a brief mention on the radio this is how I learned about the extraordinary events in Nepal. 1. Via TikTok 2. Via RSS Who are Nepal's Gen Z? This seems like a reasonably healthy situation to me.