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Huw Gildon

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APAC Marcomm strategy person for a living. Mountains, dog, rugby for fun.

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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Working with Gen Z's is fucking great and I love them.
A text from a Gen Z colleague telling her 50 year old boss a James Blunt was written for him, he replies you're fired. Laugh emoji.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He's right again. It's this simple. This is the core of it. If you're still discussing whether these people are right, wrong, consistent, valid, moral or whatever... you have unfortunately already been beaten.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The following two things can be true at the same time. 1) this guy gets way more shit than he deserves 2) Holy hell he has an ability to combine confidence, wrongness, and failure to do the background reading that grates the skin in the exact same way lots of tech bros do.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's probably outdated now but when I was a kid my Nan used to use food pipe and wind pipe to describe oesophagus and trachea. "got food in your windpipe" was choking on something. She was born in about 1904. But for a while this was standard British English I'm fairly sure.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good thread. They had rights. They exercised said rights to promote Milo. They just didn't get the results they wanted. Bc others used their right to tell Milo to piss off. It's not a violation of rights. It's just losing in the marketplace of ideas. The thing they bleat about constantly.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is gold.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Good lord stop with this credulous stenography you're embarrassing yourself.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/08/2026
Chinese robots beat Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games – Clone
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Chinese robots beat Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games – Clone
Tiangong Ultra’s time faster than 9.58-second human world record
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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tweet from Dr. Nikki Washington on 9/28/20 that holds true. A sad truth! This is why I say white America isn't angry enough. And your test was Rene Good. Black ppl have a long memory. Long after the media stops talking we keep fighting. When media stops, you drop the fight. We don't. Ever.
Tweet from Dr. Nikki Washington on 9/28/2020.
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Pusheen The Millennial @millennialpusheen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tl;dr these freaks hate gender studies because they explain the true core of maga ideology and behavior better than Econ or poly sci ever could
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Bumble will also be astonishingly unprepared for how quickly this happens.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This sounds like a plan that will result in a short-term boost of activity, followed by a catering. Men will flock to a place known for being where real women are. Women will leave. Scammers will set up shop. And Bumble will become a reflection of every other app.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Quoted from another thread because it's just such a weirdly enlightening statistic. Three thirds of this group, by definition, have already done the thing only 2/3 say they would do... Polling is weird like that!
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Quoting one's own self is super tacky but this does KEEP coming up.
An earlier post from me that is screenshotted. It says "Twitter made a lot of people feel important. Many of those people confused this with Twitter being important"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/04/2023
Dodo Theory: straight cis white men from nice families are the worst at threat assessment because they are subject to fewer threats than everybody else. They’re flightless island birds who are vulnerable to unexpected rats. Unfortunately, most US government intelligence specialists are dodos.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Read this amazing thread
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Amazing work
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
People are used to software updates. So there's probably an estimable base rate of clicking 'yes' to push software updates. i wonder if you could see a downtick in this given how many software update pushes are now associated with AI features people actually don't want...
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Astonishingly brilliant.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p... This had better be made up of the insides of a vacuum cleaner or we've messed up potentially the best literary reference of all time.
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Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome | CNN Politics
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting sp...
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This is fundamentally about the difference between the idea and the execution. If you know the idea of Breaking Bad then the executions remain faithful to it and you know which to use. Shows like Lost and Pluribus are doomed because they are a series of executions with no idea to be loyal to.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sekiro. Sekiro.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Brilliant summary of the AI situation. It's sort of the inevitable extension of the 'brain as big computer' misleading metaphor. The idea that more compute will get us closer to a brain. FFS we don't even really have a clue how the cerebellum works and that's >half of ALL THE CELLS IN YOUR BRAIN.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/11/2025
if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Hilarious media fail
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
15 today. Bit the vet. Still got it.
My dog scooter nose into the wind on a speed boat.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Somewhere in Canada a genie is explaining to Mark Carney, "OK, so you're gonna be PM that's 1 wish, The Liberals are gonna retain power that's 2 wishes.... But Im gonna need to talk to you about this Oilers winning the Stanley Cup thing you've put down here under number three". *sucks teeth*
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Its a great point but it raises more questions than it answers.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The funny thing about rfk is that when he dies it will probably be impossible to tell whether it was murder, given how much weird shit the guy is up to. They'll be like "we found an absolute ton of arsenic in his blood, but also he was taking arsenic pills"
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ok fair’s fair I also think it should be illegal for teachers to assign Catcher in the Rye but I’m assuming my reasoning is very different
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Canadians have activated one of the single most violent men ever to live.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj9J...
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#TheMoment 'Elbows Up' became a rally cry against Trump
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This manages to be textbook very online teenager's libertarian fantasy AND require billions of dollars of govt support. Absolutely amazing!
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When you are coming up to your fifteenth birthday you get to nap in a sunbeam...
Small old brown dog relaxing in a round bed in the sun at home.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Iron Sky
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Gold.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's astonishing how much of Dems failure is just not being able to interpret survey design and analysis at a level beyond what a three-year-in newbie at a moderately capable market research firm could figure out.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is the correct answer.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In fairness he wasnt ever going to come up with his own ideas was he....
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What is the JAG corps Alex?
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Perfection
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
During a week when many of America's smartest academics and federal workers are losing grant money and jobs there is a HUGE win for Canada, the EU, and UK for science investment and genius visas. This is bad policy.
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drew @dogballs.info · 09/01/2025
Looking for a private service that can help me get this camel through the eye of a needle. I’ll pay anything
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It's kind of amazing how almost 22 years since the invasion of Iraq you have American public intellectuals who still don't grasp that an arrogant President surrounded by reckless and ignorant dilettantes can lead the US into geopolitical disasters. Even in the Western Hemisphere
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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"What do you mean the sign about looking upon my works and despairing is still standing??? No! That's the worst possible - if the *works* are gone but the sign is still up then I'm gonna look like a fucken dickhead! Why didn't you make the works out of the same shit you made the sign out of?!"
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Don't wanna shit on the boys but after Sharks last night and Toulous this week is feeling like this.
Rugby team joke: The withnail and I meme where they show up at the farmhouse soaking desperate and out of touch. The caption is "we're from exeter we've got into the champions league by accident"
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hearing someone state a personal stance should never come with the expectation that they have to convince you or anyone else of the truth of their position. By all means, ask for deeper insights if you want them but they don't owe you a tour through how they made that decision or how you can do it.
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Huw Gildon @huwgildon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is absolutely brilliant. A gonzo-esque report on defeating a coup in the most Korean way imaginable. Slightly shitffaced on soju bombs with a bunch of uncles on a drunken work night. Miss that place so much!!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
i did not leave twitter to have that dumb bitch all over my TL here
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