Olivia Quinn
@oliviaquinn.bsky.social
former starving actor/writer, now work in tech, film & tv nerd + grump.🖖🏻
📍London, UK
📍London, UK
With all due respect, this started in the 70s and never stopped. So this is ‘retro’ only if you are 10.
A reader asked our fashion critic: "When did the retro sneaker phase start, and what’s it all about? There are so many cool color combinations … but will it last?"
What’s With All the Retro Sneakers?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
With all due respect, this started in the 70s and never stopped. So this is ‘retro’ only if you are 10.
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UK politics is SO dull at the moment.
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
UK politics is SO dull at the moment.
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
Oh yay!
Jazz is the magic many of us miss…
Jazz is the magic many of us miss…
‘Young audiences are less scared of it’: why London jazz clubs are expanding and thriving against the odds
‘Young audiences are less scared of it’: why London jazz clubs are expanding and thriving against the odds
As the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scott’s expand, and Blue Note eyes its arrival, proprietors say there’s an energy in the scene – but financial pressures remain
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Oh yay!
Jazz is the magic many of us miss…
Jazz is the magic many of us miss…
“I wrote this 300k word book in a month with ChatGPT.”
Ok, but have you read it?
Ok, but have you read it?
“I wrote this 300k word book in a month with ChatGPT.”
Ok? I sat on the toilet for 30 minutes???
Ok? I sat on the toilet for 30 minutes???
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“I wrote this 300k word book in a month with ChatGPT.”
Ok, but have you read it?
Ok, but have you read it?
Jesus wept, people, I know you are desperate for a new voice, but don’t waste your money - they haven’t got a clue what they are doing.
This is a DOA initiative.
This is a DOA initiative.
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left
The feud between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana over the future of a left wing party took another twist as the two camps argued publicly over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
Sultana on Monday offered to transfer £600,000 from a company which the party’s founders set up earlier this year, only to be rebuffed by allies of Corbyn who accused her of playing “political games” with supporters’ money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Jesus wept, people, I know you are desperate for a new voice, but don’t waste your money - they haven’t got a clue what they are doing.
This is a DOA initiative.
This is a DOA initiative.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I need my personal life to become an absolute mess so I can distract myself from this absolute shitestorm of racketeering and cowardice.
Read Trump’s billion dollar threat to the BBC in full
Read Trump’s billion dollar threat to the BBC in full
Read Trump’s billion dollar threat to the BBC in full
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I need my personal life to become an absolute mess so I can distract myself from this absolute shitestorm of racketeering and cowardice.
Love this kid so much
‘I have actually become a star’: Louvre heist mystery ‘fedora man’ uncovered – video
‘I have actually become a star’: Louvre heist mystery ‘fedora man’ uncovered – video
The French teenager became an internet sensation after a press photographer captured him outside the museum on the day of the heist
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Love this kid so much
Used way too much garlic for my chicken… even with all the windows open, my kitchen will remain vampire proof for at least a week…
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Used way too much garlic for my chicken… even with all the windows open, my kitchen will remain vampire proof for at least a week…
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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A child is reported missing in the UK every two and a half minutes
That is why The Independent is joining forces with Missing People to launch a new service that will be a lifeline for children in crisis: SafeCall
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
That is why The Independent is joining forces with Missing People to launch a new service that will be a lifeline for children in crisis: SafeCall
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A child is reported missing in the UK every two and a half minutes
That is why The Independent is joining forces with Missing People to launch a new service that will be a lifeline for children in crisis: SafeCall
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
That is why The Independent is joining forces with Missing People to launch a new service that will be a lifeline for children in crisis: SafeCall
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Oh honey… the list of why the wipeout will happen is much, much longer.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Oh honey… the list of why the wipeout will happen is much, much longer.
Reading this didn’t make me think Grayling was dumb. It made me think he was dumb and incredibly cruel.
Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reading this didn’t make me think Grayling was dumb. It made me think he was dumb and incredibly cruel.
#AllHerFault is a good thriller but the music they used was TERRIBLE. It cheapened so many scenes.
Still absolutely worth a watch even if you guess all the twists from the very start (I did).
#tvsky
Still absolutely worth a watch even if you guess all the twists from the very start (I did).
#tvsky
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#AllHerFault is a good thriller but the music they used was TERRIBLE. It cheapened so many scenes.
Still absolutely worth a watch even if you guess all the twists from the very start (I did).
#tvsky
Still absolutely worth a watch even if you guess all the twists from the very start (I did).
#tvsky
Ha-ha-aaaaah *deep sigh*
Elevator? | Keith Thomson
Oil Painting
Oil Painting
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ha-ha-aaaaah *deep sigh*
This is the best news ☺️
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is the best news ☺️
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Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
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HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
Home Office travel records used in a trial of a controversial anti-fraud crackdown that under which thousands of parents lost their child benefit were so flawed that almost half of the families initially flagged as having emigrated were still living in the UK, it has emerged.
The pilot scheme saved HMRC £17m but left 46% of families targeted incorrectly suspected of fraud, a margin of error far in excess of the 1% to 5% scientifically acceptable. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
I don’t know if I can last even 1 season tbh - too much inevitability, despair, hopelessness, existential dread and loneliness.
I kind of care about my mental health.
I kind of care about my mental health.
Vince Gilligan currently sees 'Pluribus' running for 4 seasons
• S2 is already greenlit
• Length is not set in stone
"I'd love to see it go as long as Rhea Seehorn wants it go ... I'm really doing it for her. She deserves to be the megastar that she is"
(via Variety | TW)
• S2 is already greenlit
• Length is not set in stone
"I'd love to see it go as long as Rhea Seehorn wants it go ... I'm really doing it for her. She deserves to be the megastar that she is"
(via Variety | TW)
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I don’t know if I can last even 1 season tbh - too much inevitability, despair, hopelessness, existential dread and loneliness.
I kind of care about my mental health.
I kind of care about my mental health.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Everything gets turned on its head, the levels of absurdism are HIGH and there are no heroes or the fight between Good and Bad.
It’s an exquisite piece of TV art, but not everyone will survive it.
I am tempted to quit now while I still have my sanity.
It’s an exquisite piece of TV art, but not everyone will survive it.
I am tempted to quit now while I still have my sanity.
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it’s a bleak, blackly comic watch
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Everything gets turned on its head, the levels of absurdism are HIGH and there are no heroes or the fight between Good and Bad.
It’s an exquisite piece of TV art, but not everyone will survive it.
I am tempted to quit now while I still have my sanity.
It’s an exquisite piece of TV art, but not everyone will survive it.
I am tempted to quit now while I still have my sanity.