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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 · 16d
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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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 · 4h
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 · 19h
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 · 1d
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 · 6d
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
willardfoxton.bsky.social
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 · 8d
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 · 8d
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 · 9d
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
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It’s absolutely going to burn down. You literally have twice daily fire watches; when I used to play games with a guy who works in the House of Lords library he told me they had NINE fires in 2016

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politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11d
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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My sense here (and we can now see the reverse with twitter being fully Nazi) is a lot of people in the “twitter was mainstream” era had the experience of seeing that kind of beef & that felt like massive pushback to them.

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jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d
i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Just incredible we’ve reached the stage where he’s taking literal bars of gold to make decisions. Like a cartoon supervillain!

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mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11d
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

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How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The long awaited time lapse of how i wrap my tentacle pots for shipping! Lots of bubblewrap around all the limbs then layered up to make a big ball and then secured in the box with paper all around!
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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@stelpavlou.com good answer on the bond stuff. I loved 51st state btw!
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM