- Webcurios 04/08/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes I had a genuinely-chastening professional experience this week which I will share with you because, well, it contains a LESSON of sorts. I was asked at short notice to record a podcast on Monday to talk about That Fcuking Man and the Twitter rebrand, and I said a happy ‘yes’ because, well, I’m a middle-aged…
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- Webcurios 28/07/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes God, it’s been an awful week for bloviating cnuts, hasn’t it? SHUT UP NIGEL SHUT UP ELON SHUT UP AND FCUK OFF AND SHUT UP! Sadly, though, they won’t do either of those things, and we will continue boosting and bolstering their utterances, however untrue or unhelpful they are – that’s simply just how things…
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- Webcurios 21/07/23 - Reading Time: 32 minutes I had a genuinely unsettling experience last night; I was at some sort of PR event thing (it’s organised by a friend of mine, attendance was an act of solidarity rather than an endorsement of an industry I fundamentally despise, honest guv) and it turned out that an unsettling number of people in attendance had…
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- Webcurios 14/07/23 - Reading Time: 38 minutes Hi! I’m back! Has…has anything been happening? Did I miss anything? LOL JK! Sadly I missed NOTHING – one of the side effects of being an occasional pseudo-journalist (not this, to be clear – I promise you I am under no illusions as to what THIS is, and it’s certainly not journalism) is that holidays…
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- Webcurios 23/06/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO! I am always reminded around this time of year of that time approximately nine years ago, when I was still working at Hill+Knowlton and Web Curios was (remarkably) published on the company’s actual, proper corporate website, and I chose to open a late-June edition with a riff about how I was alone…
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- Webcurios 16/06/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes It has, it’s fair to say, been something of a trying week for stumpy-fingered populists. More than enough ink has been spilt on That Fcuking Man and the parties and the lies (and my thoughts on him remain unchanged); a similar amount continues to be spaffed on That Other Fcuking Man and whether or not…
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- Webcurios 09/06/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes It’s ok, everyone, you can stop worrying about the killer future AIs – RISHI AND JOE ARE SORTING IT! Of course, as any fule kno, the main reason you should stop worrying about the killer future AIs is because they’re significantly less of a problem than non-killer present AIs, which are currently being wrangled by…
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- Webcurios 02/06/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes One of the side effects of writing Curios (other than a generally unhealthy posture and attitude towards my fellow man, RSI, chronically-stained teeth as a result of approximately seventeen daily litres of very strong tea and a complete inability to ever really ‘switch off’ to any meaningful degree) is that, despite having a media diet…
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- Webcurios 26/05/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE WELCOME TO WEB CURIOS IT IS FRIDAY HOW ARE YOU? Oh. Sorry. Still, for those of us in the UK it’s yet another three-day weekend (as I believe it is for those of you residing in North America), so hopefully the illusion of freedom will cure at least a bit of what ails…
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- Webcurios 19/05/23 - Reading Time: 33 minutes I went to Alton Towers yesterday. It was BRILLIANT – honestly, pro-tip, a midweek April/May visit outside of school holidays is ideal, 10m queue times and minimal hordes – but as a result now feel like I have been trampled by several herds of variously-sized ruminants (things nooone tells you about getting old – your…
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