Catherine Mayer
@mayeroflondon.bsky.social
Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. Novel TIME/LIFE out now. New nonfiction 2026. FYI don’t see private messages on here
Like Dame Judi, I remember whole chunks of Shakespeare, galaxies of obscure facts, but my diary is an absolute binfire. Just noticed this entry for next week 🤣😭😱. #memory #forgetting #judidench
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Like Dame Judi, I remember whole chunks of Shakespeare, galaxies of obscure facts, but my diary is an absolute binfire. Just noticed this entry for next week 🤣😭😱. #memory #forgetting #judidench
Big Brother is selling you crypto www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK campaigners condemn ‘creepy’ digital billboards that can track viewers’ responses
Tech company has installed the advertising screens in hundreds of apartment blocks across 20 British cities
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December 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Big Brother is selling you crypto www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Guess the next sentence. Yep.“Racism, homophobia and antisemitism were undoubtedly commonplace in British culture in the 1970s and ubiquitous in school playgrounds.” www.thetimes.com/article/816f...
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Guess the next sentence. Yep.“Racism, homophobia and antisemitism were undoubtedly commonplace in British culture in the 1970s and ubiquitous in school playgrounds.” www.thetimes.com/article/816f...
The tedious predictability of this list. Leaving aside whether you think the House of Lords should be replaced, who would you make a peer? I'd start with Sandi Toksvig
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Starmer eyes 24 new Labour peers to push laws through Lords
Prime minister warned against ‘rewarding failure’ as plans emerge to ennoble party insiders after series of parliamentary defeats
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December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The tedious predictability of this list. Leaving aside whether you think the House of Lords should be replaced, who would you make a peer? I'd start with Sandi Toksvig
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Always curious about tech companies set up to monetise fixing problems caused by tech. This one promises to stop AI impersonations.
imper.ai I looked to see who is behind it and… well, certainly that’s relevant experience and expertise
imper.ai I looked to see who is behind it and… well, certainly that’s relevant experience and expertise
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Always curious about tech companies set up to monetise fixing problems caused by tech. This one promises to stop AI impersonations.
imper.ai I looked to see who is behind it and… well, certainly that’s relevant experience and expertise
imper.ai I looked to see who is behind it and… well, certainly that’s relevant experience and expertise
In his must-read book Dianarama about Martin Bashir, Princess Diana and BBC cover-up, author Andy Webb mentions that Bashir made sexist remarks at a US media awards ceremony. Looked it up. It’s *bad* pressgazette.co.uk/news/martin-...
Martin Bashir apologises for 'tasteless' speech
Documentary-maker Martin Bashir apologised after he had a “moment of stupidity” and made a “tasteless” comment about Asian women, it emerged today. Bashir, who came to prominence after interviewing Di...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In his must-read book Dianarama about Martin Bashir, Princess Diana and BBC cover-up, author Andy Webb mentions that Bashir made sexist remarks at a US media awards ceremony. Looked it up. It’s *bad* pressgazette.co.uk/news/martin-...
If you are the cyclist who just took exception to me calling you a twat, may I say that you are right? You were cycling at high speed *on the pavement* on Gower Street right next to empty cycle lanes. So apologies: I shouldn’t have called you a twat. I should have called you something worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you are the cyclist who just took exception to me calling you a twat, may I say that you are right? You were cycling at high speed *on the pavement* on Gower Street right next to empty cycle lanes. So apologies: I shouldn’t have called you a twat. I should have called you something worse.
Are we surprised? No. Are we ready? No.
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Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok
Researchers uncovered 354 AI-focused accounts that had accumulated 4.5bn views in a month
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Are we surprised? No. Are we ready? No.
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A wonderful man, a great writer. Also enormous fun, mischievous, and the most dedicated smoker I ever met. Thinking of Sabrina, so glad they found each other but so sorry for her now www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A wonderful man, a great writer. Also enormous fun, mischievous, and the most dedicated smoker I ever met. Thinking of Sabrina, so glad they found each other but so sorry for her now www.bbc.com/news/article...
ICYMI @gangoffour.bsky.social's Shrinkwrapped, one of their best albums (despite a vocal from me), has been released for the first time on vinyl. Check out the recommendation from @faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk/record-store...
Five essential Black Friday 2025 vinyl releases
Exploring five stand-out releases from Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, ranging from sunshine pop compliations to soundtracks and long-awaited reissues.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
ICYMI @gangoffour.bsky.social's Shrinkwrapped, one of their best albums (despite a vocal from me), has been released for the first time on vinyl. Check out the recommendation from @faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk/record-store...
It’s not just that the good people are dying. It’s that the good people from a wonderful, rebellious, iconoclastic period of time are dying. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pam Hogg dead: Scottish fashion designer dies
She was known for eccentric and outlandish designs, worn by stars like Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s not just that the good people are dying. It’s that the good people from a wonderful, rebellious, iconoclastic period of time are dying. www.bbc.com/news/article...
We knew an inquiry couldn’t deliver justice to the people we lost. We knew it couldn’t bring them back. We wanted to prevent avoidable pain, unnecessary loss in the future. We wanted lessons to be learned
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Covid inquiry: eight key takeaways from the report
Baroness Hallett’s 760-page analysis paints a damning picture of Boris Johnson’s government’s attempts to protect the public from the virus
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November 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
We knew an inquiry couldn’t deliver justice to the people we lost. We knew it couldn’t bring them back. We wanted to prevent avoidable pain, unnecessary loss in the future. We wanted lessons to be learned
www.thetimes.com/article/1118...?
www.thetimes.com/article/1118...?
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19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
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19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
Trump reserves particular venom for the women who cover him.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
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Tell me they got up and walked out
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Tell me they got up and walked out
“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts.” If you read one thing today, make it this www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts.” If you read one thing today, make it this www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
If you voted Labour at the last election, did you think you were voting for this?
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you voted Labour at the last election, did you think you were voting for this?
Editing aka killing my darlings. #writerslife
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Editing aka killing my darlings. #writerslife
Yes this music is viral. It makes me sick
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AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition
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November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Yes this music is viral. It makes me sick
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Successive governments have made me cry with rage but right now I am weeping with joy and grief. Finally the efforts of campaigners have resulted in an undertaking to preserve the Covid Memorial Wall, our shrine and celebration of our #lovelydead. Wonderful news if bittersweet.
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Successive governments have made me cry with rage but right now I am weeping with joy and grief. Finally the efforts of campaigners have resulted in an undertaking to preserve the Covid Memorial Wall, our shrine and celebration of our #lovelydead. Wonderful news if bittersweet.
As a veteran of legacy media, I'll never pretend that we got things right all the time. Some of the worst stumbles arose from a lack of experience around the table, editorial & lived. But most of us believed in journalism & practised it honestly. And here's the thing: you'll miss us when we're gone
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As a veteran of legacy media, I'll never pretend that we got things right all the time. Some of the worst stumbles arose from a lack of experience around the table, editorial & lived. But most of us believed in journalism & practised it honestly. And here's the thing: you'll miss us when we're gone
Gilead establishes itself not only through violence but armies of strawmen and the active participation of the media
I notice the @nytimes.com has changed the WTF headline "Did women ruin the workplace" to this only slightly less egregious headline, but still.
The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Gilead establishes itself not only through violence but armies of strawmen and the active participation of the media
Everyone keeps going on about how brilliant Joe was on #traitors but Ruth Codd was the standout star. (“Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”)
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Everyone keeps going on about how brilliant Joe was on #traitors but Ruth Codd was the standout star. (“Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”)
