The Problem With Men
There’s a man sitting in the GP’s waiting room, and he’s doing that thing men do when they’re pretending everything is fine. You know the one. Legs spread wide. Phone…
Observations
X as a Free Speech Haven?
Let’s Talk About What’s Actually Happening There’s a narrative doing the rounds right now, and it goes something like this: X (formerly Twitter) has become the last bastion of free…
The Quiet Familiarity
On Working in Tandem With a Machine That Learns You I’ve noticed something happening. Not all at once. Not with fanfare. Just gradually… almost politely. Over time, and with a…
Venezuela Isn’t a Headline… It’s a Slow Human Emergency
There are crises that explode into view… and then there are the ones that never quite end. Venezuela belongs firmly in the second category.Not a breaking story. Not a sudden…
The Pub and The Library: Using Twitter and Mastodon Together (Without Losing Your Mind)
Right, so you’ve been on Twitter for years. You know the game. You understand the chaos. And now someone’s told you about Mastodon and you’re wondering if you need to…
The Geometry of Worth
You know what nobody tells you about low self-esteem? It’s not actually about you. I mean, it feels like it’s about you. God, does it feel personal. Every stumble, every…
What Have We Learnt This Year? (Spoiler: Probably Nothing)
Another year dissolves into the rearview mirror, and here we are again, pretending we’ve grown wiser. The headlines scroll past like some grotesque carousel… political chaos, economic tremors, wars that…
The Great X-Files: How a €120 Million Fine Became the EU’s Most Expensive Own Goal
Right, so let me get this straight. The European Union, in all its bureaucratic wisdom, decided to fine Elon Musk’s X platform €120 million for… checks notes… misleading blue checkmark…
The Age of Prosperity
Or: How We Learned to Decorate Around Poverty and Call It Progress We are repeatedly informed that we live in the most prosperous era in human history. This is not…
The Gluttony Season
On Christmas, Capitalism, and the Violence of Plenty Every December, we perform a ritual so absurd that if you described it to someone from another planet, they’d assume you were…