I talk to the bees. I wrote a book, Is Technology Making Us Sick, about flourishing alongside digital distraction. I organise things @dotsmusiccamden
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This is my book, Is Technology Making Us Sick?, which is about why it’s hard to get away from your phone and how to thrive without giving it up. amazon.co.uk/dp/050029531X/r…
The EU is proposing two clicks, the UK consultation says ‘must ensure that there is a straightforward method’ to cancel and online in, online out. Weaker.
Businesses with subscriptions and memberships will be required to offer ‘one click to cancel’ button starting January 14th:
“Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. The FTC’s rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money.”
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Pleasures of ageing and domestic life part 1,205: when a stain really disappears, completely gone. Today, it’s highlighter pen on a cream sofa.
ALT Cream fabric
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Brilliant
What will grab you by the wrist?
Katherine Rundell on the central impulse of storytelling, in The Bookseller’s Nibbies Salon at Hay Festival 2024 – our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime now.
Enjoy! hayfestival.org/anytime
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This is the wrong thing but it’s a very nice roasting tin
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Ian Douglas retweeted
Queen's Head Yard in Birmingham was demolished after this photograph was taken in 1875.
It's one of over 14 million photographs, drawings, reports, and publications that we hold in the Historic England Archive.
Browse our online collection ➡️ bit.ly/HistoricEnglandArchiv…
ALT A black and white photograph looking into a row of houses. There are two blurred figures in the left corner of the image standing on a cobbled path.
I used to think it was probably best to leave the Elgin Marbles where they were, in Bloomsbury, but then I went to the magnificent Parthenon museum in Athens. Seriously, go, it’s incredible. And they’d fit right in.
Since the Parthenon Sculptures are in the news, this is what I said last year
#RuleofLaw #Reparations
nataliebennett.org/latest/pa…
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This looks amazing but the experience of the Vatican Museums is awful. They sell many times too many tickets so it’s one long queue, hours of shuffling in a suffocating crowd with the Sistine Chapel at the end of it.
I’m pretty sure things that look like fans getting a picture with a celebrity weren’t such a thing with other world leaders
Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump. I look forward to the work we can do together, again.
ALT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump are sitting next to each other at a dinner table in Palm Beach, Florida.
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So what new social media site do I have to join to find out what happened at the Groucho?
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I played the mayor of Hamlin at school yet I have always advocated paying pest control professionals for their work
Timothy West played the Tories' wartime hero Winston Churchill three times, yet he was a passionate life-long supporter of the Labour Party
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Funniest thing The Onion has done for ages
BREAKING: The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims say. apnews.com/article/onion-buy…
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