medium.com/@janhop/who-da… A new semi-personal piece from me about public and private selves, surveillance capitalism, and exposing yourself at a lido.
not the point but I am amused to imagine Michael Phelps reading a series of posts saying "look at Phelps, a disgusting freak with his monstrous wingspan, nobody has a problem with him and he's barely human" and being like, what did I do?
Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the
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ESPN journalist, Dale Johnson, known for great knowledge of refereeing and their processes, provided insight into the fact this is actually the Premier League Match Manager app, not the Fantasy Premier League app.
There will be people genuinely misled by this tweet.
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2.8k retweets for a different shirt, different pair of trousers and he couldn't even be arsed to take his glasses off. submitting a complaint to Mr Musk to have these redistributed to the more deserving posters.
sometimes worry that the Great British Weirdo is a dying breed, good to know that there's still some young talent coming through the pipeline. just need to give them the first team opportunities.
feel like I saw a lot of mockery of this. but just to be clear this is bad and another part of our lives getting smaller, meaner and more lonely because there isn't any profit left to be squeezed from it once the landlords have had their cut.
Nightlife experts warn we're losing one club every two days at the moment - and if we stay on this trajectory, we will have none left by 2030
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Met a tedious man in a pub who said one interesting thing all night: he only drinks powdered milk because he got tired of everyone at home and at work taking his milk. I asked if he liked it and he said "No mate, it's fucking disgusting". A troubled soul.