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Willard Foxton
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Creative Director at Novel Podcasts.

Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, APA, Signal and Ed Murrow Awards.

Toy soldier enthusiast.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 21d
A few months ago I was at the National Gallery, listening to a podcast executive proclaim the “bright future of audio” while literally haloed by angels in 3 metre tall renaissance masterpiece.

He was out of a job by the summer.

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The Halo, the Hype and the Hangovers
A time to take stock in limited series audio
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It’s now remarkably clear - to me at least - that Hegseth is going to do serious jail time for this boat shit
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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New post up: I wrote about why Hollywood Con Queen / Chameleon is one of the smartest, best-told true crime stories ever made.

Wild scam. Perfect protagonist. Top-tier narrative craft.
A reminder of how good podcasting can be when it’s done with real care.

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Why I Love the Hollywood Con Queen
A great story brilliantly told
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November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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This is already a good post, buts it made like 39% better by the knowledge the images are from a 1970s German film, Und Zen read in a German accent, Ja?

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November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Cover Reveal!

“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.

How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.

Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Book Cover for The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran. Red background with white and black text, and a tech circuit background.
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Growing up, I never thought “a mad king” would be a problem in my life, and yet!

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again. I won the 2024 Presidential Election in a Landslide, winning all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot. I one our Nation’s Districts by 2750 to 550, a complete wipeout. I settled 8 Wars, have 48 New Stock Market Highs, our Economy is Great, and our Country is RESPECTED AGAIN all over the World, respected like never before. The last Administration had the Highest Inflation in history - I have already brought that down to normal, and prices, including groceries, are coming down. To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and I have never worked so hard in my life. Yet despite all of this the Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite. They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap “RAG” is truly an “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.” The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out. Despite all of this, I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, and with record setting investment being made in America, they should only go up. There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now! GOD BLESS AMERICA & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Only 2025 British defence procurement could spend £6 billion to produce a vehicle that is so wobbly it makes the crews vom everywhere.

This is literally a problem WE solved with the Whippet in 1918!

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Army halts use of Ajax armoured vehicles after 30 soldiers fall ill
The UK government previously said they were ready for deployment with interest from Nato allies.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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“I’m sorry but the T&C on our suicide machine clearly say ‘no suicides please”

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gerritd.bsky.social Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 5d
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Big agree. It's the best star wars thing I've seen since I was 7.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Oooh model soldier achievement unlocked after 40 years of hobbying - I got cloudy varnish!

Fortunately it was on my little boys water bottle where I was sealing his name we painted on so no major harm done
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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As an AOS player, as the budget draws near, the existence of the Office of budget responsibility (OBR) and the Ossiarch bone reapers (OBR) occasionally gives me confusion when reading the papers.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Am back to editing the novel. So merciless in exposing your own writing flaws. This morning, am going through cutting out 949 instances of the word "just"
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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People love AI art and hate foreigners. Dystopian!

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jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 11d
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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There is no bigger red flag for a human being imho than a self-authored wikipedia page
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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New Sounds Complete Radio post is up — and this one’s about how we found, made, and kept making one of the biggest narrative true-crime podcasts in the world: THE GIRLFRIENDS.

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How we made The Girlfriends*
Skip to the bottom to find out how I personally did not make the Girlfriends!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Last night, because google is completely enshittified, I asked chat gpt how many German capital ships in WW2 were torpedoed by British submarines.

This is easily available data, I just couldn’t be arsed to read 7 Wikipedia profiles. Theoretically ideal chat GPT task

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moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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"Sure. Fuck it."
mattthr.bsky.social Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 13d
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Trying to read General Shaw's medal ribbons in WELCOME TO DERRY to work out what kind of service record he has.

He's got a presidential unit citation, and three campaigns in Europe and North Africa. 8th AF in WW2 i guess?
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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As an audio guy, the best format for this would be voicing up the text messages, imagine hearing RFK’s hideous penguin-from-Batman voice saying things like “wHaEver you dO, My wIfe anD yOur EdiTOr caN nevEr, EvEr knOw”

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kthorjensen.bsky.social K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 14d
I have no interest in reading the Olivia Nuzzi article, but I would purchase an edition of her and RFK’s unexpurgated text messages
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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New Sounds Complete Radio post is up:

• why one of my best story-finding tricks is breaking;
• three banger pieces from Alex Sujong Laughlin on why podcasting is a tire fire;
• AND a rare ray of light: we’ve got a new season of The Girlfriends out

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Links I would slack you if we were colleagues...
Exciting things to listen or read about why society is broken
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM