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Steph Boland
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Writing, editing and tech | Formerly New Statesman, Prospect | One of those cycling types stephanieboland.co.uk
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Ash Wednesday is humbling because you find out which of your colleagues would and wouldn’t tell you you have something on your face
February 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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💸What if tax reform, inflation & interest rates were explained with memes, not jargon? The 🇨🇴 outlet Economia para la Pipol is translating economics into everyday language. In a new interview, we spoke with its co-founder María Camila González

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This Colombian media outlet translates economics with a dash of memes and humour
“We want to be a bridge,” says María Camila González, co-founder of Economía para la Pipol, the team doing explainers for more than 200,000 followers.
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February 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Trains
February 18, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Are there any other Pancake Day songs? open.spotify.com/track/4CUUTu...
If I Had Possession over Pancake Day
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February 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Hadn’t realised I could view my immunisation record back to 1991 in the NHS app - but I did, found a couple of boosters I should have, and got them booked, all within hours 👇 www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/help...
GP health record - NHS App help and support
Information about viewing your health record, using the NHS App or the NHS website.
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February 17, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Not sure what’s more upsetting: this shift or the abject lack of Scotch pancake representation in the next chart
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Pancake Day reveals a new, highly divisive intergenerational split - while older generations are loyal to traditional lemon and sugar pancake topping, younger adults are more likely to say they prefer Nutella or chocolate spread on their pancakes.
February 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Wuthering Heights (2026)
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Remember the couple from Yorkshire? They are here again.
February 12, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Astonished to read so many reviews of “Wuthering Heights” that describe it as style over substance
February 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Watching the light fade from the eyes of the man I’ve loved for a decade and yet soldiering on in explaining the dynamics of this Six Nations to him x
February 15, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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emerald fennell’s the ragged-trousered philanthropists
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Fascinating data.
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Lovely Wittgenstein story of just nine words — lower line here
February 14, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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“This isn’t really an AI problem. It’s the same problem we’ve always had with any technology that lowers the barrier to entry: the barrier to doing it securely doesn’t lower at anything like the same rate.”

@harrym.com on ‘Hold The Line’ as a vibe-coding case study

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Hold the security: a vibe-coding story
Vibe-coded doesn't mean vibe-secure, so we should try and stop the internet being full of even more broken things
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February 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Best bit of wedding planning so far might be telling one of my flower girls she’ll have a white dress so everybody knows she has a special role, and her contemplating this then saying “I won’t wear it if it’s not sparkly”
February 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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If one has to pick one kind of pedagogy over all others, I pick listening. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes; it widens self-imposed limits; it takes one into another's life, her hard times and, if there is any, her joy, too. There are women whose whole lives have been pornography and prostitution, and still they fight to live. Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak, 2002
February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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For nothing but my own joy and distraction, which bands do you like whose Best Of really is the best of?
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Picture of a gray haired woman wearing a shirt that reads on the back “come see my daughter’s film A Woman’s Work at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2/11 at 11:20am 2/12 6:20pm I am a Jewish mother seeking a girlfriend/future wife for my filmmaker daughter (she is multilingual and has an adorable dog). Please inquire with me”
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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From my vintage advice book collection: a 1971 book for young women. (I can’t get over the subtitle.)
The title page of a 1971 book by Karen DeCrow. The book is called The Young Woman’s Guide to Liberation — Alternatives to a Half-Life While the Choice is Still Yours. The publisher’s name appears at the bottom of the page: Pegasus, a division of the Bobbs-Merrill Company Incorporated Publishers.
February 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Two beautiful poems by Don Paterson about his son Jamie. ‘The Thread’ (from Landing Light, 2003) and ‘The Circle’ (from Rain, 2009).
The Thread Jamie made his landing in the world so hard he ploughed straight back into the earth. They caught him by the thread of his one breath and pulled him up. They don't know how it held. And so today I thank what higher will brought us to here, to you and me and Russ, the great twin-engined swaying wingspan of us roaring down the back of Kirrie Hill and your two-year-old lungs somehow out-revving every engine in the universe. *All that trouble just to turn up dead* was all I thought that long week. Now the thread is holding all of us: look at our tiny house, son, the white dot of your mother waving. The Circle for Jamie My boy is painting outer space, and steadies his brush-tip to trace the comets, planets, moon and sun and all the circuitry they run in one great heavenly design. But when he tries to close the line he draws around his upturned cup, his hand shakes, and he screws it up. The shake's as old as he is, all (thank god) his body can recall of that hour when, one inch from home, we couldn't get the air to him; and though today he's all the earth and sky for breathing-space and breath the whole damn troposphere can't cure the flutter in his signature. But Jamie, nothing's what we meant. The dream is taxed. We all resent the quarter bled off by the dark between the bowstring and the mark and trust to Krishna or to fate to keep our arrows halfway straight. But the target also draws our aim - our will and nature's are the same; we are its living word, and not a book it wrote and then forgot, its fourteen-billion-year-old song inscribed in both our right and wrong - so even when you rage and moan and bring your fist down like a stone on your spoiled work and useless kit, you just can't help but broadcast it: look at the little avatar of your muddy water-jar filling with the perfect ring singing under everything.
February 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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The Circle Theatre | Edward-Hopper
February 12, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Clara Gangutia, b. 1952
The Yellow House
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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A wonderful thing about a head full of earworms from Cruiskeen Lawn is that nobody needs recognise the provenance to find them funny
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Arthur Delaney (British 1927-1987), "The Last of the Garrison", oil on board.
February 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Any excuse to remember the time during a summer studentship in York when Willow played “Africa” by Toto as their penultimate song of the night, followed by “Africa” by Toto again
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM