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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

At some point will Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) turn into Big Beauitful Legislation (BBL) 😁

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I always thought lemons didn't have seeds. My husband did the cooking and any lemon segment he'd put in food or drink was always seedless. Only after he died did I realise - he'd been deseeding for me all this time. I think about this often.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Just shouted “hey siri, where are you?” to find my phone, my hearing aids said “hey I’m over here”. Thanks for that, really useful. Would be very helpful if the default response to that prompt only played through the iPhone’s speaker

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Over the moon that we made the Sunday Times TV pick of the week for our Aldi vs M&S showdown next week! Catch it on Good Friday at 7pm on Channel 5 📺

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Wish that recipes always listed ice in the ingredients when it’s needed during the process. I need to make sure I have it in stock like everything else

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

75 days deep into dry January now, it's going to be a long stint this year 👀 also feeling content with having less fun too.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wonder if they split the bill evenly at the Last Supper or if Jesus picked up the tab

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

At what point do we acknowledge that getting people to eat plant based diets at the scale required to mitigate climate change by 2030/40/50 is unlikely? Targets are slowly being missed, meat consumption barely changes and mass behaviour change is exceptionally difficult.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Google AI just told me that papaya grows quickly in the UK and get fruit in 9 months 🤣 I guess their AI isn't very good at determining the context of the phrase 'fastest growing'

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Word economy and direct language are the most important factors in creating effective social media scripts. Make statements of fact, avoid rhetoric and each line should be able to stand alone as a complete statement. Get to the point, quickly.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

People are very quick to dismiss ChatGPT outputs when they know they are ChatGPT outputs. When they don't know, their reaction is completely different!

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I know that hustle culture is dead and prioritising sleep is definitely the new flex, I love my 8+ hours. But when it comes to work, I can't beat the feeling of getting up at 6am and getting loads done before 10am, even if it means going to bed at 9pm.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Every now and again I like to sit down and consider what activities are considered normal today, yet will seem almost medieval in 100 years. I reckon being able to drive a car is one of them.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I meditated most days for a decade and then between 2021 and 2024 I did 1,000 days of breathwork and in conclusion, morning breathwork sets me up for the day better than meditation does, however meditation is better for calming anxiety and existential dread. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've spent 20yrs working for some of the world's largest social media firms and the fact is most people don't comment. So when the Internet is blowing up about something, it's largely meaningless. Everyone would do well to remember that.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Noticed a lot of shops adopting the 'LGBTQ+ friendly' tag on Google Maps and wondering what they're actually doing to qualify that? Because I get the feeling they're adding it simply when they don't discriminate, which is literally a legal baseline.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Daylesford Organic had to write-off £1m of out-of-date or obsolete stock. I hope they donated the food to a food bank or similar charity, because it was probably enough to feed up to four people.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Google searches for 'vegan' and 'veganuary' have been going down consistently for six years, dropping around 75%. Plant-based has done precisely the opposite, increasing around 75%. It appears that veganuary needs to make way for plantanuary* (*Gold star for a snappier name)

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Another Adobe Premiere update and another bug appears <sigh>

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

People say the country is going down the pan and then become outraged when the most insignificant change is made to anything they interact with. Even when science overwhelmingly supports the change.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Being held hostage by a delivery today. Hope it bloomin well turns up soon!

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Every day I go to the shops, buy more food and drink, yet still don’t have anything at home which I can cook.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Anyone doing ‘last minute gift shopping’ today is an amateur. This is early still.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My iPhone wrote “he’ll definitely look after thou” instead of “you” and it’s the first time autocorrect has made something sound better

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I often think about the woman on the train to Bath who shouted at us for mocking her poshness simply because my girlfriend was pulling silly faces at me. I guess that’s the downside of thinking you’re the main character

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

One great part of freelance life is that all my major projects already finished for the year so I will be fully embracing hibernation mode for the next two weeks

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I was wondering why I felt so bleurgh this week and now I’ve just seen the sun for the first time in five days and I’m it’s all starting to make sense

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The farmers planned the protests with the Met Police so emergency services were briefed about the disruption in advance. JSO turn up wherever they want, without telling the police. Can you spot the clue as to why they police treat them differently?

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Tesco have increased the price of some of their mince pies by 40% (£1 per pack) this year, more than any other supermarket who are mostly adding ~25p per pack. Oh, but look, you can save money by using your Clubcard. Sorry @tescoofficial.bsky.social but that looks like a complete racket

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Instead of "Diary of a CEO" can we have "Diary of someone who doesn't need money or fame to be happy" as I think it would teach us far more about a happy life.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Tomorrow, a new Lidl will open a few minutes walk from my home and I'm proud to say it's one of the most exciting events that I've been looking forward to all year 😁 god I love supermarkets

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Wishing for the 21st December to get here asap so there’s a glimmer of joy because days will be getting longer again 🌞

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The carnivore diet is terribly unhealthy over the long term, and it also excludes alcohol from your life, which is yet more proof of how restrictive diets excel at stripping the fun out of food and drink.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Is tweet the accepted term to describe a post on threads/X/Bsky? Or is it the right term 'post'? I feel like tweet should be added to the dictionary for a short-form text-based social media post.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is killing off part of our city’s heritage. For the first time in hundreds of years, London will no longer have wholesale meat or fish markets. Can’t express how utterly horrifying this is for London’s food world: London's 850-year-old food markets to close www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Smithfield and Billingsgate: Meat and fish markets to close

Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Anyone who promotes a fad or extreme diet has never truly eaten a healthy balanced diet.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Realising that almost every single diet on social media is essentially made for people who know little about food and nutrition.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Threads is like a festival where you bump into really interesting people, talk for two minutes, then never see them again. Hopeing bluesky is better at community 🤗

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Feel like we need an end to scientists on podcasts explaining how single ingredients have life-saving properties. I swear it just makes people more anxious about their diet.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Bookmark for my future self. When I consistently do the things that are good for me, I feel great. When I give in to the short-term instant gratification monkey, less great. It's wild that I still need to say this, but hey ho, that's how my brain is wired. I'll have forgotten by Sunday.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Nothing's new is it, the food environment concept was invented around 400BC 😂 "... Hippocrates who first argued that health was a product of environmental factors and highlighted a need for harmony between the individual, social and natural environment."

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Looking at the environmental data I've calculated that the quickest way to reach net zero is to ban America

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Bought some low caffeine coffee, it's a 50/50 mix of Swiss water method decaf and regular beans. Now drinking coffee twice as often as before 😂 It's highlighted the reason I drink coffee is almost purely for the caffeine. Based on this experiment I might just start injecting pure caffeine instead.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Started watching the Matt Rife Netflix special and it’s painful… what was he thinking?

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

We're meant to eat more plant-based, so I bought some soya yoghurt, it's the strongest plant yoghurt nutritionally, however it's utterly depressing compared to full-fat greek yoghurt

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Found my old secondary school reports and it’s completely blown my mind, they’re essentially an ADHD assessment every year.

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

After the bout of food poisoning last week, resulting in 7 days of potato, bread, banana, rice and limited calories, my stomach is back to normal strength and I am eating everything I can get my hands on

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Woke up feeling refreshed from a (short) night’s sleep and clear headed. What a beautiful feeling! 🤩 Remember having this once before, back in 2009 😂

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Gavin Wren @gavinwren.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Extreme diets have always had short shrift from me, however over the last 2-3 years I've been ill on so many occasions that I'm willing to give anything a try now

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