The London Review of TikToks - 13th June 2026

@beachboyz2men

The incredible photo archive that was nearly sent to a landfill. Special thanks to Gary Leonard for access and help digitizing the slides, and to the Huntington Library for assistance with research.

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@bifa_film

Low budget, big ideas. Peter Capaldi talks creativity and constraint on Doctor Who. Head to the link in our bio to watch the full episode now! Hosted by @karischloe and Joy Hunter Produced by the BIFA Team Recorded at @bleatpost Supported by @kiauk

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@david_epstein

Victor Wembanyama spent an off day during the NBA Finals drawing a statue in a park. Two decades of performance research point the same way: the people who last keep something alive outside the work. Your hobby may be doing more for you than you think.

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@sizzledoctor

From my book Don’t Talk About Politics

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@benhanlin

If you ever have to introduced anyone on stage….do this….

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@nbrody

I’m a social media scholar. Here’s what I say every time another parent brings up The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. #socialmedia #anxiousgeneration #childhood #teenmentalhealth #screentime

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@decmatic

These are glass sculptures I occasionally make. Upcycled/reused 1960s architectural glass pieces from Sweden. You can too. Full instructions are on the website. Or just buy one of mine :-) #upcycleart #glassart #makeityourself

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@doctormike

Not the answer I expected from @Dr. Ali, Psychologist

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@lunchboxenvypod

TicTacTok Stream Lunchbox Envy wherever you get your podcasts

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@mindthefacts0

Could this world first building be the solution to the over heating of the London Underground? #heatwave #londonunderground #bunhill2

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@erin.jackson250

More female managers ✨

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@charlotte.thatisnewstome

Derbyshire’s map redraw is PEAKing ⛰️🥾 and Amber valley could go 4 ways… what do you think? #localpolitics #localgovernment #derbyshire #derby #thatisnewstome

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@jocelyn.oneil

I worked at one of the most famous jazz clubs in nyc for 10 years. here’s one of the many lessons the greats taught me about how to show up. ron carter, mccoy Tyler, dee dee bridgewater. they weren’t on time. they were early, kind & calm. #jazz #jazzmusic #ronCarter #mccoytyner #deedeebridgewater

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@brentforrestercomedy

Generate alternate joke ideas without editing yourself. #tvwriting #comedywriting #jokewriting #theoffice #writersroom

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@socratictranscript

The education system wants you to believe the scoreboard is fair. It's not. We hand every kid the same test, the same deadline, the same grading scale — and then act shocked when the results aren't equal. But we never stopped to ask: were the conditions equal? Because a child doing homework in a quiet room with a tutor, snacks, and two present parents is not in the same race as a child doing homework hungry, in a loud apartment, while managing anxiety their adults don't even know about. Same test. Completely different starting blocks. And the system calls one of them "gifted." Here's what nobody in that system will say out loud: talent doesn't grow in a vacuum. Practice needs investment. Time, money, stability, safety, attention. The invisible infrastructure that lets a child's effort actually compound. When those things are missing, effort alone isn't enough. But the system never accounts for that. It just marks the grade and moves on. Then it takes those grades, sorts children into tracks, and quietly tells some of them what their ceiling is. At eleven years old. Based on conditions they never chose. And we call that meritocracy. Now layer in what's coming. AI is going to amplify everything that's already there. It will scale skill. Accelerate learning. Multiply capability. Which means the kids already ahead get further ahead, faster — unless we are very deliberate and very honest about what we're actually building. Because the skills that will matter most in an AI world are not the ones schools are measuring. Not memorization. Not standardized compliance. Not sitting still and producing the right answer on command. What will matter is how a child thinks. Whether they can ask sharp questions, sit with uncertainty, regulate their emotions under pressure, collaborate across difference, and create something that didn't exist before. Those capacities don't get replaced by AI. They get multiplied by it. A child who thinks deeply will use AI more powerfully than one who was only trained to perform on tests. A child with strong judgment will navigate the digital world more wisely. A child grounded in empathy will build things that actually serve people. The education system is not building that child. It is building a child who can pass the next assessment and stay quiet in the meantime. Parents are out here pouring everything into their kids, trying to give them an edge, and the system keeps moving the goalposts while pretending the game is fair. The real compounding advantage was never going to be grades. It was always going to be the inner architecture. The curiosity. The resilience. The depth. The things that no standardized test has ever figured out how to measure, because those things cannot be reduced to a score. We need to stop asking how to help our kids survive the system. We need to start asking why we're still running this system at all. #education

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