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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
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jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h
didn't socialise for three evenings in a row, for reasons ranging from "friend flaking at the last minute" to "general bad organisation", and I was entirely fine until about....twenty minutes ago? but I now seem to have The Zoomies, which is actually real nice and convenient at 10.30pm on a Sunday
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h
7pm: alright I'm going to have a super early Sunday night tonight, be responsible, watch something early then head to sleep 10.20pm: knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 9h
I think it’s actually really important for the Greens to lose that by-election now, cause if they win it will be used to brush away all objections to what they did today
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h
all this conference chat is reminding me of the list I wrote a few years ago of all the stupid things that happened to me at conference: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/19-anecdot...
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h
CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.
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Dylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social · 12h
There’s a difference between sharing someone’s journalism and taking it to make your own content. I’ve had my work lifted multiple times by this content creator. It’s particularly frustrating when he talks about his views growing as local news fades away, while using the work of local journalists.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h
have absolutely no intention of going to see Digger so I decided to read the plot on Wikipedia and, from the bottom of my heart: what
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17h
hope you freaks are happy this horror is coming our way
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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 18h
Pretty dark day for the party when the motion looks set to pass despite opposition from MPs and former leaders practically begging not to do this. Crank takeover is complete and the party is lost for now.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17h
good news! good news! [walking around ringing a big bell] some good news for once!
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22h
hard not to despair at the state of the world!!! if I had to pick between nice-but-flawed Lula and The Failson Of The Worst Man Bolsonaro I would find it easy! how do these decisions keep being a toss-up! they should not be a toss-up! ahhhh!
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
love a game of college football that starts with a large, courageous yet ultimately stupid and pointless yeet of the ball
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
aha! this question comes up whenever I post about it but thankfully I wrote about it at the time, so: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/an-acciden...
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an accidental despatch from the US south
Behold! I have had a thought.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
getting back on my college football bullshit today (go Dawgs) following a timings-in-Europe related hiatus, and: hard to get Very Pumped about this, if I'm honest
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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.
Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "Closeup of the text for the photo that says 

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
something especially madness-inducing about wearing a t-shirt and a light jacket on October 3 in England while reading endless climate headlines about needing to get ready for the worst El Niño winter of our lives
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour have had about half a dozen opportunities to go “it’s tough times, we need to change tact from the manifesto we wrote in 2024”, and every single time they’ve opted for the shortest of short term gains. Governing like they only want one term while most of their policy platform requires two.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
woke up in too good a mood so decided to travel across south London by bus to even things out
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 03/10/2026
Good summary of the law on power of attorney and what it means in the context of the coverage around Ranulph Fiennes
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having now had twenty-odd years of social media depleting our stocks of sanity, like overfishing North Sea cod, I think now might be a good time for a strict social media quota for about 20 years or so, to let stocks recover.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026
Greens really like to make themselves tough to like, don't they
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/10/2026
You know, I'm beginning to think positioning ourselves as the world's shopping centre might not have been the best idea.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
470 pages into my 550-page book about the world wars and frankly, much like the people who lived through them, I've got to late 1944 and I've honestly had it up to here now
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
really interesting to learn how many people think having a public facing career in media is a basic right
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
it's October 2nd and I'm officially nearly done buying my Christmas presents for the year 🙂
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
something very Gordon Brown to me about Superdrug
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
please what is happening to my beautiful wife the Victoria line? for so long she was the fastest and most reliable of all the lines but now every other day she has delays? who hurt my perfect spouse?
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this
My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
some guys are meant to come to the flat to do some electricity checks between 12 and 2 today, really don't want to start cooking so they turn up precisely 30 second before my lunch is ready but ultimately I do just know, deep down, that there is no other choice for me here
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
in this week's newsletter! I spent arguably way too much time in one of those "Are We Dating The Same Guy?" Facebook groups before they got deleted, and this is what I learnt: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/here-i-am-...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
seems to be a really big week for "things I don't understand clearly going quite badly"
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UPDATE: there's a digital reconstruction of this tsunami shared today on Twitter by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - and *HOLY HELL*.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
guy looking up from screen meme
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
feel like being neurodivergent is an endless life of Purposefully Creating Habits so you can do normal things, and for the longest time I could only read on public transport but then I taught myself to also read in the bath, however I must now unfortunately draw myself a bath whenever I want to read
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
me when I can tell I'm going to file late:
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
right! actually starting to plan Marie's Big Midterms Michigan Adventure! do I know anyone who lives in 1) Detroit or 2) Battle Creek and who would like to hang out with me and talk to me about politics? do you know anyone who could point me in the right direction if not? will take any pointers!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope the survivors who came forward years or decades ago know that they are the reason the Cornell case is resonating the way it is. Every single one of you helped pave a path for people to understand the harms of rape and institutional betrayal. Thank you. I know it’s hard. But thank you.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
fascinated by the sitcom premise of some braindead influencers holidaying in Dubai and finding themselves accidentally befriending the Assads observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lib Dem polling, 2024-2026:
a much memed image of a guy calmly eating his dinner in a chippy while it all kicks off behind him
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You either bow down to the assumption that voters’ preferences are fixed or at least exogenous. Or you decide that they’re malleable and endogenous - and so prepare to make a political argument. Better, perhaps, to risk dying on your feet than live on your knees.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
made an underwhelming stir fry for lunch what a tragedy for a Thursday
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
this is v interesting (and, I think, encouraging):
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026
oh I wrote about this a few years ago for a project that ended up not getting off the ground!
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
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