Dispatches from a retired Welshman in Italy, watching birds, feeding cats, shouting at the internet, and accompanied throughout by Steve, a hypothetical gerbil.
Gwyneth Paltrow, the patron saint of expensive wellness, has disclosed that she now plunges “sparingly, and for less time than her husband Brad.” This information has been shared with the world. We are invited to consider what it means. That Gwyneth and Brad have separate cold plunge durations is...
#satire
The Aristotelian Email Protocol™ is part of The Cult of Better's ongoing series examining how ancient philosophy is repurposed to sell common sense...
#loneliness
72% of American teenagers have tried an AI companion. Nobody knows what it’s doing to them yet.
#childhood memories
Photo by Denley Photography on Unsplash Kilvey Hill loomed behind our street in Swansea like a sleeping giant, all through my childhood in the late...
#memoir
Life in a 1950s Welsh Household Author in about 1955 We lived at Wern Fawr Road in Port Tennant, Swansea, until I was eight, packed in with Nan and...
#cats
The longest con in domestic history, and why we keep falling for it Larry, Jasper and Tippy guarding the tomatoes against stink-bugs on my patio...
#productivity
How I Cleared My Mental Fog Using a Pencil and the Back of a Gas Bill Finally, a cognitive offloading system rooted in the ancient wisdom of the...
#wellness
How a discredited 1930s cancer treatment became a five-star Amazon category Steve the Hypothetical Gerbil's summary, for those in a hurry: A German...
#grift
Because the business model is working exactly as intended. Facebook recently showed me an ad for a device that claims to reverse Type 2 diabetes...
#internet
Gareth's been in a mood all week. Turns out it started with a hosting bill. Not his own, mind. He doesn't have a website. Gareth thinks websites are...