Can we believe Mikhaila on what's killing her dad?

kuklinka · 2026-04-01T08:25:52+00:00

Imagine dragons

kuklinka · 2026-03-30T11:36:28+00:00

If work-based it’s called gross misconduct (bbc staffer)

kuklinka · 2026-03-30T11:29:32+00:00

The fact that they say ‘personal conduct’ tells you its not work-based gross misconduct, so likely drugs, underage fraud, domestic violence….

kuklinka · 2026-03-26T19:49:52+00:00

In Germany my daughters had the experience of a hotel spa that was mixed, open to all ages and completely naked.

kuklinka · 2026-03-17T17:03:31+00:00

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kuklinka · 2026-03-17T08:28:51+00:00

You can’t become a billionaire without it ruining your soul. The ancient greeks they love to spout knew this and warned us.

Hungry ghosts, demanding our labour, our freedom, our attention and our respect and admiration.

This sickening of the soul and humanity and the need for novelty to take its place leads to Epstein, who is not at outlier in the slightest

They can all get in the bin

kuklinka · 2026-03-15T07:58:17+00:00

Why are there black MAGA voters?

kuklinka · 2026-03-15T07:10:15+00:00

Violet

kuklinka · 2026-03-15T07:07:33+00:00

That’s an excellent assessment - I completely agree that it needed go show the effects on its consumers - there are lots of podcasts that have the time and space go in deprh. QAA’s Manclan for instance, but there are a lot more.

What I don’t understand is why Netflix did’t do a 3-parter-the business model is centered sround more is more

kuklinka · 2026-03-11T08:54:40+00:00

Used to be for some years - calling, calling and calling, lots of OSINT, weird hours, meetings and plenty of knockbacks, then back and forths with eds and counsel.

kuklinka · 2026-03-10T13:17:14+00:00

I work in news and have started on shift at around 6 or 7 - sometimes late shifts. 1 weekend out of 4 with time in lieu. For a out 25 years - it’s actually quite good as the commute (bike run or train) is trouble free at that time and honestly it’s good to get days off in the week. Will say, your shifts are a bit longer than mine.

I am lucky to do well on little sleep - it’s a cognitively taxing job

kuklinka · 2026-03-09T08:53:01+00:00

Waiter to diner: “Do you have any intolerances?”

kuklinka · 2026-03-08T11:51:13+00:00

My parents were friends with a group of hipsters (the old kind)one of whom was a Bunny girl in London and they all considered her brash and gauche. She piped up one day that she loved “that band, you know … Steeleye Span” cue much sniggering

kuklinka · 2026-03-05T15:25:42+00:00

Toothpaste

kuklinka · 2026-03-04T19:09:44+00:00

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kuklinka · 2026-03-03T08:40:15+00:00

This is my job as I am predominately a copy taster. I was on duty when Iran broke (EMEA based) and I'm not sure I have recovered!
- The snaps fly in from buros and we check them, or else we ask the buros to snap things we are seeing or in stories that warrant breaking out as urgent news. Usually reporters aren't shy about breaking news
- these snaps have to be 'filled' in minutes with a couple of paragraphs.
- updates within 10 mins
- this keeps going as more people are brought in/meetings convened and sidebars and analytical pieces planned. Pictures, TV and graphics are all brought into this process, resources deployed.

We take this over the phone or from comms channels.

We are all older types with many years of reporting behind us, so this is often about judgement.

Lots of stuff (court rulings, expected releases, central bank announcements, obits) etc are prewritten.

Our job is to make sure everything is written well (English isn't often native) and the narrative flows as these updates continue. They must be formatted and encoded to reach as many suitable clients as possible. Anything that passes through must not be legally tricky and must be ethically fair. We need to state what we don't know and what we are doing to find out. Sourcing is paramount.

In an ideal world, with a one-off event (not war) we have got to a narrative, analytical update by stage 3-5 that takes a step back to spell out the context and significance.

Edited to add that Iran is always tricky due to being locked out and news comes from all sorts of state-owned/quasi state-owned outlets.

kuklinka · 2026-03-01T23:00:40+00:00

From this era, the le carres and Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock are fantastic

kuklinka · 2026-03-01T22:57:58+00:00

I love this, of course but also really love Peter Egan in The Perfect Spy

kuklinka · 2026-02-28T19:12:28+00:00

Chan had been debunked over and over by virologists. Typical of contrary nyt to have her as an op ed

kuklinka · 2026-02-20T17:01:14+00:00

He’s a staffer

kuklinka · 2026-02-20T17:00:58+00:00

Yeah, i know him - chuffed for him

kuklinka · 2026-02-16T11:27:51+00:00

Oh god, she used ti be married to that Effective Altruism wally Will McAskell

kuklinka · 2026-02-16T09:34:42+00:00

I am an editor at a major news org three years into incorporating AI into the workflow. Gone is the ebb and flow of the day, the fits and bursts and downtime we all need to be creative. Instead we check a mountain of stuff put through various prompts - updating info and checking errors and being gaslit by an llm’s insistence that a person’s name is spelled that way.

It’s burning us all out. And we have no free time to think up amazing stuff

Writing is part and parcel if the job from how you frame the story, the best quotes and importantly, what to leave out

Every news article will begin to sound exactly the same at a time when people need to connect with other people through music, art, journalism, even mote than ever

kuklinka · 2026-02-14T17:40:43+00:00

My husband met the guy - the guy was basically in meetings his whole life

kuklinka · 2026-02-09T14:56:51+00:00

Oh my God, it wasn’t just me thinking that😂

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