Jamie Coleman
@notanactualghost.bsky.social
Editor, book doctor, ghost. I make words gooder. https://www.thebestwordsinthebestorder.co.uk
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Isn't it odd how not being on a platform where you are constantly shown things designed to appeal to the worst parts of yourself makes you feel immediately a tiny bit better.
If you like creepy things and beautiful things and writing things, that Evie Wyld is doing a substack. It’s obviously dead good - eviewyld.substack.com?utm_source=g...
Where The Wyld's Things Are | Evie Wyld | Substack
A place for the scary stuff, shapeless things and unsettling ephemera that come up while I’m writing a new novel. May contain ghosts. Click to read Where The Wyld's Things Are, by Evie Wyld, a Substac...
eviewyld.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If you like creepy things and beautiful things and writing things, that Evie Wyld is doing a substack. It’s obviously dead good - eviewyld.substack.com?utm_source=g...
In celebration of International Haiku day.
What I Lick Before Your Face
You may take my balls
But I will lick what remains
And then, dear, your face
What I Lick Before Your Face
You may take my balls
But I will lick what remains
And then, dear, your face
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In celebration of International Haiku day.
What I Lick Before Your Face
You may take my balls
But I will lick what remains
And then, dear, your face
What I Lick Before Your Face
You may take my balls
But I will lick what remains
And then, dear, your face
It would be such a shame if this, in fact, led more people to know about the book. Stupid droopy noodle of a man.
Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde
Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde
Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It would be such a shame if this, in fact, led more people to know about the book. Stupid droopy noodle of a man.
It feels like there’s something important about the gap between how it feels to use the thumbs up reaction on a whatsapp comment and how it feels to receive it.
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It feels like there’s something important about the gap between how it feels to use the thumbs up reaction on a whatsapp comment and how it feels to receive it.
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What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says)
theneuroscienceofeve...
My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic
#Phones #screens #brains
theneuroscienceofeve...
My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic
#Phones #screens #brains
January 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says)
theneuroscienceofeve...
My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic
#Phones #screens #brains
theneuroscienceofeve...
My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic
#Phones #screens #brains
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10/ Thing is: Ivor was up at 4am and will likely do the same tomorrow, so I am shattered and must sleep. But the pix continue to be a delight. Do keep them coming on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - and thanks so much for your donations to Centrepoint. £15k! www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2024 at 10:13 PM
10/ Thing is: Ivor was up at 4am and will likely do the same tomorrow, so I am shattered and must sleep. But the pix continue to be a delight. Do keep them coming on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - and thanks so much for your donations to Centrepoint. £15k! www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore
www.theguardian.com/...
Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?
Yes, yes it is
1/21
www.theguardian.com/...
Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?
Yes, yes it is
1/21
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist Siân Boyle
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore
www.theguardian.com/...
Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?
Yes, yes it is
1/21
www.theguardian.com/...
Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?
Yes, yes it is
1/21
All you’d have to do was add “Lynne” at the end and it would be perfect Alan.
This Kemi Badenoch quote is such a rich text. Steak at your desk? Sandwiches for breakfast? No moist bread?
December 12, 2024 at 9:55 AM
All you’d have to do was add “Lynne” at the end and it would be perfect Alan.
What must the world look like to AI bros?
Aside from all the other ludicrously awful stuff going on here...
What clown sees the modern publishing industry and concludes that the main problem is "Too FEW books being published"???
This is like looking at the Titanic and proposing a hip new way to pump more seawater on board
What clown sees the modern publishing industry and concludes that the main problem is "Too FEW books being published"???
This is like looking at the Titanic and proposing a hip new way to pump more seawater on board
I’m horrified by Spines but I very much enjoyed the way Matilda has written this piece about their so-called disruption of the publishing industry with a tech-washed pay-to-publish model, especially the lack of sales data 👀
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
November 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
What must the world look like to AI bros?
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One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.
November 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.
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Why are MAGA people still so angry at everyone online? They won. They’re getting the President they want back. The wokes have been defeated. Why are they still out there screaming at strangers to debate them? It’s gotta be tiring to be completely incapable of ever feeling good.
November 16, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Why are MAGA people still so angry at everyone online? They won. They’re getting the President they want back. The wokes have been defeated. Why are they still out there screaming at strangers to debate them? It’s gotta be tiring to be completely incapable of ever feeling good.
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Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It
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My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
November 16, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
Reposted by Jamie Coleman
The problem isn’t that Twitter is toxic. It’s that it *doesn’t work* anymore. I’m keeping an account for Arabic content that’s still not migrated but other than that anyone I try to ‘fight’ will not see my posts as they will be buried under blue ticks and spon con.
November 16, 2024 at 1:47 PM
The problem isn’t that Twitter is toxic. It’s that it *doesn’t work* anymore. I’m keeping an account for Arabic content that’s still not migrated but other than that anyone I try to ‘fight’ will not see my posts as they will be buried under blue ticks and spon con.
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I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.
November 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM
I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.
Isn't it odd how not being on a platform where you are constantly shown things designed to appeal to the worst parts of yourself makes you feel immediately a tiny bit better.
November 16, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Isn't it odd how not being on a platform where you are constantly shown things designed to appeal to the worst parts of yourself makes you feel immediately a tiny bit better.