David Roskin
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David Roskin
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🏜 Ginger man, writer, whimsy professional
🦭Lifestyle & culture writer: Guardian, Mashable, Yahoo etc
🪐Email: [email protected]
✍️Bylines: www.davidroskin.com
🧛🏻Newsletter: https://substack.com/@davidroskin
🏳️‍🌈 📌 Northerner in London
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Going to do a quick thread of some of my favourite pieces in recent time for a mini re-intro and to eventually add to a feed when I work that out!
Life lately
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Read my latest piece for the Guardian, asking what happened to vibrant and saturated colour in film! I chat with experts and critics to get to the bottom of it: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Hollywood’s dark era: where did all the colour from movies go?
Blockbuster sequel Wicked: For Good has become the latest film to receive complaints about both the lack of colour and the inconsistent lighting
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you're the colleagues that got caught cheating at the Coldplay concert
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Perfect game
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The pictures I take of my boyfriend vs the pictures he takes of me
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Weddings are so much fun aren’t they
August 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The photo, the artist
July 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Did I miss the memo to start using a horrifically ugly Instagram story font
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How is The Walking Dead Dead City still having Maggie change her mind on Negan every few episodes, Yoko Ono move on!!!
July 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Bear Season 4…not bad but lost the magic? Where was the plot? The tension? Anything? It felt like a collection of one off episodes
July 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
More snapshots of Madeira
July 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Mountains for days
July 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sunrise hike at Pico Do Areiro
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sometimes you just need to hike for miles then eat a sandwich then swim in the sea to be healed and restored!
July 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Big solo hike today
July 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Well it took 9 hours, 1 diversion and 4 attempted landings to get here, but Madeira is beautiful from the few hours I’ve spent here
July 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🩵 Protect Scouse Dolls 🩷
July 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My fifth Glastonbury was a dream. As much about the music as it is the people that make it 🎉
June 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Turned 30, roasted in a rooftop sauna and wrote about this weird age milestone open.substack.com/pub/davidroski…
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m back on Substack after a little break open.substack.com/pub/davidros...
Why Do People Who Hate Travelling Insist on Backpacking?
An ode to the two women who hated their lives
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Crowdfunding to buy HBO some LAMPS because there is no need for The Last of Us to be this poorly lit EVERY EPISODE
May 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Recently
May 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
From Albanian mountains to British Countryside real fast
May 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM