Calum Stuart
@calumstuart.bsky.social
Journalist, educator and all ‘round word nerd. Subscribe to Currents, a newsletter and podcast series spotlighting human rights defenders in the Asia-Pacific: https://currentsnewsletter.com
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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“Because the thing is: we already have the paperclip-producing machine. It’s just called capitalism, and instead of paperclips, the thing it produces at the expense of all else is profit.” www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
What could happen when the AI bubble bursts - The Dart
Crisis creates opportunity, and when the AI bubble bursts, there will be a chance for a reckoning for tech-driven capitalism.
www.thedart.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Because the thing is: we already have the paperclip-producing machine. It’s just called capitalism, and instead of paperclips, the thing it produces at the expense of all else is profit.” www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
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ultimate = last in a series
penultimate = second-to-last in a series
antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series
preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series
propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
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preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series
propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ultimate = last in a series
penultimate = second-to-last in a series
antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series
preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series
propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
penultimate = second-to-last in a series
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This was a pretty powerful and emotional interview to do – my conversation with Edre Olalia, the lawyer who worked on the cases of Flor Contemplacion and Mary Jane Veloso, two Filipino domestic workers condemned to death, 20 years apart: currentsnewsletter.com/p/flor-and-m...
Flor & Mary Jane: The Story of Two Filipino Women on Death Row
Listen now | Lawyer and anti-death penalty campaigner Edre Olalia talks about his fight to save two domestic workers sentenced to death abroad
currentsnewsletter.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This was a pretty powerful and emotional interview to do – my conversation with Edre Olalia, the lawyer who worked on the cases of Flor Contemplacion and Mary Jane Veloso, two Filipino domestic workers condemned to death, 20 years apart: currentsnewsletter.com/p/flor-and-m...
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John Carpenter 🖤
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
John Carpenter 🖤
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I absolutely love our tenth anniversary cover, beautifully illustrated by @badiucao.bsky.social, paying homage to the Gen Z protesters across Asia and the way they’ve embraced One Piece as a symbol of their determination for freedom and resistance 💪🏼
Really looking forward to everyone reading our tenth anniversary edition! It’ll be with our stockists in November, and is already at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival bookstore 🤩🤩🤩
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I absolutely love our tenth anniversary cover, beautifully illustrated by @badiucao.bsky.social, paying homage to the Gen Z protesters across Asia and the way they’ve embraced One Piece as a symbol of their determination for freedom and resistance 💪🏼
Hey, didcha hear the one where a Scotsman, a drag queen and an independent film distributor walked into a bar? Well, lucky for you, you can now listen to it — my latest podcast episode where we talk about the closure Singapore’s most beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hey, didcha hear the one where a Scotsman, a drag queen and an independent film distributor walked into a bar? Well, lucky for you, you can now listen to it — my latest podcast episode where we talk about the closure Singapore’s most beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
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It really sucks that we don’t have The Projector anymore. The initial shock has worn off, but the problem of finding indie spaces in Singapore remains.
@calumstuart.bsky.social’s latest newsletter/podcast on the closure of the beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
@calumstuart.bsky.social’s latest newsletter/podcast on the closure of the beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
“Not your average cinema”: Looking Back on The Projector
Listen now | Independent film distributor Vincent Quek and drag queen Becca D'Bus on the closure of Singapore's much-loved indie cinema
currentsnewsletter.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It really sucks that we don’t have The Projector anymore. The initial shock has worn off, but the problem of finding indie spaces in Singapore remains.
@calumstuart.bsky.social’s latest newsletter/podcast on the closure of the beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
@calumstuart.bsky.social’s latest newsletter/podcast on the closure of the beloved indie cinema: currentsnewsletter.com/p/not-your-a...
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I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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He was too poor to hire an attorney.
One of his co defendants was able to hire a good lawyer & testified against Boyd for lesser sentence
His trial was only two days.
What did he request? A firing squad. He requested not to suffer.
They suffocated him to death instead.
One of his co defendants was able to hire a good lawyer & testified against Boyd for lesser sentence
His trial was only two days.
What did he request? A firing squad. He requested not to suffer.
They suffocated him to death instead.
Alabama Executes Anthony Boyd
Anthony Boyd, 54, was executed on October 23.
eji.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
He was too poor to hire an attorney.
One of his co defendants was able to hire a good lawyer & testified against Boyd for lesser sentence
His trial was only two days.
What did he request? A firing squad. He requested not to suffer.
They suffocated him to death instead.
One of his co defendants was able to hire a good lawyer & testified against Boyd for lesser sentence
His trial was only two days.
What did he request? A firing squad. He requested not to suffer.
They suffocated him to death instead.
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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
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I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
October 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
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A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
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One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.
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hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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obviously the line was cut before Scarface hit theaters back in 1983, but there's a four hour workprint that floats around online sometimes where he still specifies that his little friend is named Tiny Montana
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
obviously the line was cut before Scarface hit theaters back in 1983, but there's a four hour workprint that floats around online sometimes where he still specifies that his little friend is named Tiny Montana
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Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland.
Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.
No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."
Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.
No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."
In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up
Towns from Washington state to Indiana have seen armed groups begin patrolling the streets after rumors spread on social media about an antifa invasion.
www.nbcnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland.
Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.
No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."
Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.
No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."
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Revolutionary Fighter For Black Liberation Assata Shakur Dies At 78
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Revolutionary Fighter For Black Liberation Assata Shakur Dies At 78
Black Liberation Party member Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, has died at the age of 78, according to family members.
newsone.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Revolutionary Fighter For Black Liberation Assata Shakur Dies At 78
@claycane.bsky.social
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@claycane.bsky.social
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If anyone might want to know more about environmentalism and indigenous rights in north-west Thailand then it's your lucky day! Me latest story: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-enviro...
The Environmentalists Fighting for Indigenous Rights in Thailand
Listen now | EarthRights talks about the work going into pushing back against mining and energy firms setting up in northern Thailand and Myanmar
currentsnewsletter.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If anyone might want to know more about environmentalism and indigenous rights in north-west Thailand then it's your lucky day! Me latest story: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-enviro...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM