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Publisher. Of books - critical/creative/cultural management and the like. Once known as @RoutledgeEditor on the other place. From Southport to London, via Cardiff. YNWA.
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I found myself doing a similar search after reading an FT article about Taylor Swift earlier this year. And, again...
Search results for the word "fuckable" on ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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RIP Martin Parr
Object title We keep buying things Text We keep buying things thinking "that'll look better" and it just doesn't Art on the Underground Photography Martin Parr Signs of the Times BBC 2 UNDERGROUND PHOTOGRAPH: Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The latest MS Windows update has largely seemed to focus on updating MS Office icons such that every file type now looks like a jpeg. Well done boys, good process.
Lousy new MS Excel icon
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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David Runciman on a rambling rant (a rantling, if you will) about depopulation in the lrb. This section on the "pro-natal argument" using the weasel word "alt-right" tells you most of what you need to know.
At present, the pro-natal argument has been hijacked by figures on the alt-right such as Elon Musk (fourteen children and counting), which can make it seem as if harping on about the birth rate is a right-wing thing to do. But that's just squeamishness on the part of the left. The fact that the argument has been hijacked suggests at the very least that there is an argument to be had.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🎵I hate Lime Bikes🎵 (to the tune of the old Marmite advert)
Obviously craven man with a mic pointing at a Lime Bike and saying "so we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately reliant on electricity"
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Is it anything like the old "nobody tells us what to write" discourse from the newspaper columnist brigade a fears years back?
Series of images of Andrew Marr interviewing Noam Chomsky. Transcript: Marr: “How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are..” Chomsky: “I’m not saying your self censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Adapted Screenshot from The Simpsons in which one character (in an arm sling) says to another that "The football manager is essentially ballast."
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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**thus!**
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Mamdani's bullshit-eating grin, now available in gif form.
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The Mamdani grin is a genuinely brilliant coping mechanism when facing bullshit.
Mamdani grinning through some bullshit
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Given the switching costs are so problematic (from/to Apple) perhaps in the meantime there's a workaround
Gareth from The Office wearing a "phone holster"
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Frederic Warburg here posing an unwise rhetorical question to his wife following an exchange about his employer (1922-1935) - Routledge
"What on earth do you mean by calling me a bore?' I asked, rather angrily. This rhetorical question also turned out to be a mistaken tactic, for my wife hastened to tell me. The firm for which I worked, it appeared to her, lacked the indispensable quality of glamour. 'No poetry, no belles-lettres, no book any normal human being could possibly read with pleasure. And you,' she added irritably, 'are getting as dull as your books.'
October 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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All of which reminds me of Frederic Warburg's unwise rhetorical question to his wife following an exchange about his employer - Routledge
"What on earth do you mean by calling me a bore?' I asked, rather angrily. This rhetorical question also turned out to be a mistaken tactic, for my wife hastened to tell me. The firm for which I worked, it appeared to her, lacked the indispensable quality of glamour. 'No poetry, no belles-lettres, no book any normal human being could possibly read with pleasure. And you,' she added irritably, 'are getting as dull as your books.'
October 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."
A Hoxton idiot riding a child's vehicle in an office scene from Nathan Barley
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Enjoyable mention of Routledge in Private Eye by a reader who conjures "Eyes passim ad nauseam et animus iratus" via an old pocket dictionary.
Dead cool Sir, I have just read yet another item about the Teesworks site and Messrs Houchen et al in the latest edition of your organ ("Data Dump", p8, Eye 1658). It mentions both "Eyes passim" and "Eyes passim ad nauseam". Do you think this has reached the stage at which you need an even more extreme level of referencing? May I suggest "Eyes passim ad nauseam et animus iratus", which has a nice ring to it and, according to my dad's pre-WW2 Routledge Latin-English-Latin pocket dictionary, means "exasperation"? Furious exasperation would be better, but beyond any linguistic skills I have. IAN GREIG, Alcester.
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I am somewhat reminded of David Graeber on the phenomenology of giant puppets per @leninology.bsky.social recently Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations share.google/xojKqBQGnxvR...
the second of these essays, originally published in 2007, Graeber reverts to his role as participant-theorist to consider the secret rules governing the dynamic between anticapitalist activists and the police in the US. ‘Cops hate puppets,’ he observes, discussing their habit of seizing and destroying giant papier-mâché puppets before protests. ‘Activists are puzzled as to why.’ Graeber detects an answer in the way the puppets, made from salvaged trash and worn as garish, outsized costumes, are put to work during direct actions. Police, he writes, are ‘bureaucrats with guns’, and the surest way to prov0ke violence is to ‘challenge their right to define the situation’. That was the role of the puppets. Just as a conventional stand-off was developing, the puppets would trundle through police lines and upset the co-ordinates. Graeber engages in a sustained reflection on the various political and ideological conditions which might lead the police, trained to believe they protect the innocent, to become violent towards protesters whose concerns may not seem personally unreasonable to them – a critical problem, because when governments are toppled ‘it is usually at the point when the police refuse’ to fire on protesters.
October 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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"Say Yes, then Do Nothing" - reminiscent of Mel Brooks' on managing upwards - "you say yes, and you never do it" faroutmagazine.co.uk/comedy-class...
The mischievous Brooks grinned, “I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes.” It really was that straightforward, with Brooks admitting, “That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.” He applied the same principle to many of his other films, too, such as when the head of Warner Brothers told him to remove the fart jokes and the scene in which Mongo punches a horse from Blazing Saddles. He’d say reassuring things like, “You’ll never see it again,” and “You’re absolutely right. It’s out,” and then carry on his business as usual. Ultimately, Brooks found this approach saved him countless hours of unnecessary stress and arguments, and he even applied it to life outside Hollywood from time to time. “Don’t fight them,” he mused. “Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Four years ago Co-Founder of Anthropic put out this thread which I just stumbled across and it's kind of interesting to revisit
Tweet from Jack Clark, 11th October 2021: Microsoft trains a 530billion parameter GPT3-style language model. This is the largest LM in existence. (There's also the mysterious multi-modal 1.5trillion+ 'Wu Dao' MOE model but little known about it). Microsoft trains on 'The Pile' dataset. Subsequent Tweet in thread: Datasets here. It's going to be very interesting to watch the politics around datasets play out. Effectiveness of this data-centric approach suggests people are going to try and (eventually) bottle up all the text on the internet to feed their models. Subsequent Tweets in thread: I should note that this is the largest public model in existence, in the sense of being publicly disclosed. One of the reasons I co-wrote this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12427 was because it's clear AI development is becoming very resource intensive and generating a bunch of related issues (large datasets have problems, big compute creates asymmetries), so should make legible to govs
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Worlds most famous living Routledge baton passes from Patricia to Wayne. RIP.
Patricia Routledge
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This looks like a BNP leaflet from Labour.
Political leaflet on a doormat, featuring reference to "reform" (also the name of another far right political party) and union jack design
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Bad Science: The Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline

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news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
Here’s how it works: Produce weak research as an academic researcher, usually relying on observational studies with soft endpoints or survey-based qualitatitive data, under the umbrella of studying “environmental exposure” or “exposure science.” Serve as a paid expert witness in lawsuits against chemical, pharmaceutical, consumer product companies, citing their weak research as evidence. When testimony gets tossed out for methodological failures, repackage and publish it in a predatory journal as a peer-reviewed paper. Now it can be cited in future cases as “published evidence.” Use the paper in new lawsuits or lobbying efforts as “proof” of these claims that are not supported by robust data. The cycle continues….
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Got these on offer in the shops the other day and just noticed the "remastered" feature. It's not the bloody Beatles Anthology for goodness sake!
Packet of Thornton's caramel shortbread bites
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM