Jonathan Pay

8 Sept

So, Mayfair Witches season 2: I liked it, I think I liked it better than season 1. Better than Talamasca, but not as good as Interview With The Vampire. Loved The Vampire Lestat, and really looking forward to Queen of the Damned.

8 Sept

If I had a nickel for every time, Jack Huston was cast in a Witch-y show, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but writers that it happened twice. Related(?) is nephew of Angelica Huston, who has also portrayed many witch-y characters.

8 Sept

*Weird, bloody fat thumb

15 Aug

I cannot get RDJ in Tropic Thunder out of my head in relation to him playing Dr Doom... “I'm just a dude playing a dude pretending to be another dude”

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23 July

Godspeed to parents as we start the UK school holidays.

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@deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest

21 July

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jonathanpay.comWhat We Hid Behind the DevilGet behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things. (Ironic?) There is a line in The Usual Suspects lodged in my head, “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”, and I keep circling back to the fact that the film did not invent the thought, Quote Investigator traces it through Baudelaire with earlier Christian versions before him, so the line has already done the thing ideas do, passed around and sharpened and simplified and misremembered, which feels like part of the point, because I have been wondering if it works better the other way round, what if we convinced ourselves he did instead.

20 July

What We Hid Behind the Devil Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things. (Ironic?) There is a line in The Usual Suspects lodged in my head, “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t…

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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social

15 July

Literally gender-affirming care

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

15 July

I can remember seeing someone's business card, maybe on twitter, more than 10 years ago and I liked to concept so much I adopted it as my own. I can't find that original again unfortunately, but it looked something like this image, only it was also colour coded:

12 July

My AirPods went through a wash the other day, case and all. At first I thought one of the was going to be permanently squeaking at me, but they dried out and have been fine! How resilient is some tech?!

6 July

@maklelan.bsky.social I am so curious about any video housekeeping you do for your videos as you number them all - do you keep a spreadsheet with topic, script, etc?

6 July

Can’t get back to Cornwall soon enough.

6 July

This is from a couple of weeks ago, out on a boat with family. Sun on the water... #SkysOutThighsOut

@drhannahgraham.bsky.social

30 June

Participating in some top-tier gender affirming care delivered by Kurdish immigrants.

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James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

19 June

Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…

George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Hannah Graham

13 June

Replying to @mancalled.horse

Did you see the sign today about hobbies?

13 June

Listening to Biblical Time Machine’s podcast episode on The anible in Aramaic. And while I *understand* using their term “Lingua Franca”, they’re talking about a significantly early use of that phenomenon and part of me would really like them to state that out right…

@natashadevon.bsky.social

12 June

Late to the party, but I finished Dare Devil Born Again yesterday. The ending was simultaneously a thorough spectacle but also disappointing. How does Fisk get to walk away with the deal from the AG that was presented before he slaughtered his way through the hallways of civilians?!

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Natasha Devon

10 June

Replying to @natashadevon.bsky.social

… had that reaction. It’s about what happens when we encounter information that not only challenges our beliefs but our identity. Our brains basically refuses to accept it because if we did we’d go mad. It’s fascinating. (Oh and what I said was true. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govPubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal IdeationGonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues are commonly prescribed to suppress endogenous puberty for transgender adolescents. There are limited data regarding the mental health benefits of this treatme...

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Natasha Devon

@natashadevon.bsky.social

10 June

Once I cited research which found puberty blockers reduce suicidal ideation in trans people by 70% whilst on a tv show. The GC woman I was on with repeatedly screamed THAT’S NOT TRUE! THAT’S NOT TRUE! (not just on air but into the ad break). Anyway I’m reading a book which explains why she ….

8 June

What year is this?!

27 May

Jon is human and will make mistakes.

19 May

Today is my birthday. It’s also the birthday of the late Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca).

13 May

8 May

Voters in the UK continue to vote for FAFO it seems…

8 May

Even after we’ve already established something of a pattern from the last set of local elections…

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Matthew Sheffield

@matthew.flux.community

1 May

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

30 Apr

Shhiiit, earlier this afternoon I pondered memetics of religion & God as a memeplex, and fear that I may fall victim to an SCP protocol soon…

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

21 Apr

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading. It was worth it.

9 Apr

Project Hail Mary was fantastic. Everyman Cinema was fantastic. I do love going to the movies.

10 Apr

My first time at an Everyman cinema too. Really nice experience.

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🧛‍♀️ Najferatu Salam 🩸

@najmahsalam.bsky.social

9 Apr

An absolute banger from Tumblr

My new favourite thing is to use the flash effect on the prequel photo editor app and then let TikTok pick an audio.

25 Mar

📧 Six signs your email programme needs a specialist, not just more effort: 🧪 Bad A/B results? The test design is probably the problem, not the data 📬 Spam folder = active sender reputation damage, not bad luck 🎯 "Monthly newsletter" is a habit, not a strategy

24 Mar

Forty-five percent (45%) (!) of email marketers have a documented strategy. It means the majority are making decisions without one. Which explains quite a bit: why email gets treated as a last-minute channel, why measurement stays inconsistent, why the same problems recur month after month.

24 Mar

A documented strategy isn't a bureaucratic exercise. It's a record of intent. What you're trying to achieve, for whom, and why these particular tactics serve that goal. Without it, every decision starts from scratch. With it, decisions have somewhere to stand.

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24 Mar

Strategic Email Marketing: From Vision to Value covers what a documented strategy actually needs to contain. Something concrete enough to hand to a new team member and have them understand what you're building and why. holisticemailacademy.com/courses/stra...

23 Mar

Most email marketers spend their days reacting. A campaign's due, so they write one. A metric dips, so they tweak something. An idea forms in a meeting, so they build it. You can stay busy and still not move anywhere. Tactics without a strategic frame are just activity. Keeping up isn't strategy.

23 Mar

I've noticed the shift in my own work. Moving from "what shall we send this week?" to "what are we trying to build, and how does this campaign serve that?" changes how you approach everything. The brief, the copy, the measurement. Even what you choose not to do.

23 Mar

Strategic Email Marketing: From Vision to Value walks through what strategic thinking looks like, and how to build the framework. holisticemailacademy.com/courses/stra...

Roughly 40 to 45% of your audience are methodical buyers. That's nearly half your list! Most marketers don't write for them. Not because they don't care, but because most marketers write for themselves. And most marketers are spontaneous or competitive by default.

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It doesn't show up as a tag or a segment. It's just how those people think. Which means the campaign itself has to do the work. One message, written with enough range that each type of buyer finds something to hold onto. That's the core of Buyer Modalities & GenAI.

No four emails, no heavy personalisation infrastructure: Layered copy, and a clear method for producing it consistently, including with GenAI. £90. CPD accredited. Worth it, if speaking to your whole audience matters (which it should!) holisticemailacademy.com/courses/stra...