John-Paul Flintoff
@jp.flintoff.org
Writer and artist.
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
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"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
Gmail?
I switched to Protonmail which is excellent.
It WAS a headache changing over - passwords and sign-ins everywhere - but that lasted for only a short while and I have been VERY happy to escape from Google.
Also strongly recommend browsing privately with Duck Duck Go and message with Signal.
I switched to Protonmail which is excellent.
It WAS a headache changing over - passwords and sign-ins everywhere - but that lasted for only a short while and I have been VERY happy to escape from Google.
Also strongly recommend browsing privately with Duck Duck Go and message with Signal.
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Gmail?
I switched to Protonmail which is excellent.
It WAS a headache changing over - passwords and sign-ins everywhere - but that lasted for only a short while and I have been VERY happy to escape from Google.
Also strongly recommend browsing privately with Duck Duck Go and message with Signal.
I switched to Protonmail which is excellent.
It WAS a headache changing over - passwords and sign-ins everywhere - but that lasted for only a short while and I have been VERY happy to escape from Google.
Also strongly recommend browsing privately with Duck Duck Go and message with Signal.
It’s NOT been a great week for Peanut.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s NOT been a great week for Peanut.
Made this picture as a thank you to the people who look after sick animals (and do so from the building in the centre of the picture).
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Made this picture as a thank you to the people who look after sick animals (and do so from the building in the centre of the picture).
Helping someone assemble Instagram posts as a booklet.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Helping someone assemble Instagram posts as a booklet.
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
Meaning happens in the spacing.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Meaning happens in the spacing.
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
The cover for this week’s issue, “Sudden Shower,” by Sergio García Sánchez. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/i4knjA
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The cover for this week’s issue, “Sudden Shower,” by Sergio García Sánchez. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/i4knjA
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵1 The difference between a photo album and a compelling micro-memoir?
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
October 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵1 The difference between a photo album and a compelling micro-memoir?
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
🧵 /1
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🧵 /1
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
🧵 1/7
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🧵 1/7
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
🧵 1/7
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
October 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🧵 1/7
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
I enjoyed this in the FT and used a combination of Instagram and TikTok to create the video remix
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I enjoyed this in the FT and used a combination of Instagram and TikTok to create the video remix
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
I just so loved his poem “V.”
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
September 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I just so loved his poem “V.”
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
Oops.
That may explain the relatively low number.
That may explain the relatively low number.
September 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Oops.
That may explain the relatively low number.
That may explain the relatively low number.
Late sun on kitchen tiles.
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Late sun on kitchen tiles.
Behind the scenes at the FT Festival, on the lawn at Kenwood.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
September 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Behind the scenes at the FT Festival, on the lawn at Kenwood.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
One thing you can be sure:
This was not written by ghastly ai.
This was not written by ghastly ai.
June 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One thing you can be sure:
This was not written by ghastly ai.
This was not written by ghastly ai.
“The best ‘reasoning’ [AI] models today ‘face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities’.
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“The best ‘reasoning’ [AI] models today ‘face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities’.
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
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As AI kills search traffic is it time everyone had a newsletter instead of a website?
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
As AI kills search traffic is it time everyone had a newsletter instead of a website?
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
VS Pritchett is horribly underrated. Just listened to Paul Theroux read one of his stories on my favourite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett
The New Yorker: Fiction · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
VS Pritchett is horribly underrated. Just listened to Paul Theroux read one of his stories on my favourite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
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Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
June 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
June 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM