Marie Le Conte
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
I write words good (journalist, author, radio person, etc) [email protected]
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Hello! Obligatory pinned post to say that I'm a freelance journalist and you can find my portfolio at marieleconte.com and my newsletter at youngvulgarian.substack.com, and you can contact me on [email protected]. Always looking for fun/interesting work so do get in touch!
good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home
ordered a chicken and avocado club sandwich at JFK because I was in a rush and, for a fleeting moment, while inhaling it at the gate, I got to finally experience "clinical depression"
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
ordered a chicken and avocado club sandwich at JFK because I was in a rush and, for a fleeting moment, while inhaling it at the gate, I got to finally experience "clinical depression"
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
suitcase was 4.5 pounds too heavy but I refuse to pay even one extraneous cent on bullshit like this so I spent fifteen minutes rejigging everything between my case, my carry-on and my own person, result was a case that weighs PRECISELY 22 pounds, eat SHIT, airline rules
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
suitcase was 4.5 pounds too heavy but I refuse to pay even one extraneous cent on bullshit like this so I spent fifteen minutes rejigging everything between my case, my carry-on and my own person, result was a case that weighs PRECISELY 22 pounds, eat SHIT, airline rules
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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"Like a tomato-based ketchup."
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Like a tomato-based ketchup."
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it’s so sad (joyous, beautiful, life-affirming) to watch him flame out like this
holy cow, I might actually get a chance to vote against him a third time 😌
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
it’s so sad (joyous, beautiful, life-affirming) to watch him flame out like this
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do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you
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Jesus Christ
It said it was sending him a real person to help and then went LOL no just kidding I can’t do that
It said it was sending him a real person to help and then went LOL no just kidding I can’t do that
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Jesus Christ
It said it was sending him a real person to help and then went LOL no just kidding I can’t do that
It said it was sending him a real person to help and then went LOL no just kidding I can’t do that
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This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
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This is also a problem in the non-profit sector, where people think that leadership making six figures is a sin against the public interest, not realizing that means you’re getting leadership that is either inept or independently wealthy.
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is also a problem in the non-profit sector, where people think that leadership making six figures is a sin against the public interest, not realizing that means you’re getting leadership that is either inept or independently wealthy.
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
thanks google 👍
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
thanks google 👍
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
(my viciously snobbish take on the Frick, having finally been, is that if you live in Europe and have put even just *some* effort into going to the big museums there then it just isn't all that remarkable as a collection, but bless the yanks for giving it a decent go)
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
(my viciously snobbish take on the Frick, having finally been, is that if you live in Europe and have put even just *some* effort into going to the big museums there then it just isn't all that remarkable as a collection, but bless the yanks for giving it a decent go)
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Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
I don’t think think “estimated road use” is right approach - at the least drivers should have the *option* of getting a black box fitted that just tracks their EVs usage, but come on, Mel, impersonate a serious politician!
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
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#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
A source said, "The Eric Newman Jazz Band was playing, and before long, Fallon and Corden were up onstage trading Sinatra and Tony Bennett tunes!"
pagesix.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
my fun piece on the NYC/NJ elections is up! www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
my fun piece on the NYC/NJ elections is up! www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace
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Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin