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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4h

re. No One Goes Out anymore - I think it's absolutely correct to point to the pandemic though I'd argue it was only ever an accelerant, with Phones probably being the main culprit my evidence for this is this piece, which I wrote....in early February 2020: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

do we think I can claim extra Delay Repay if my Delay Repay claim is itself delayed

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h

hatttttttte this I hate it I hate it it makes me so sad I hate it www.ft.com/content/989c...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

googled Tatler because I wanted to look at something and you know what: great tagline, you do just have to hand it to them

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

bought some fancy organic pasta the other day that, if the box is to be believed, will both make me live forever and single-handedly save the planet but, having finally cooked some, I must report that, alas:

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/10/2026

Brendel I agree with this so violently that I actually wrote about this very issue in 2023 for one of my first ever Substacks lmao youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/oh-please-...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/10/2026

oh wow lmao, you guys have fun in London from next week, with that "rain" you keep saying you miss, she's found you now!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/10/2026

feel like when I tell young journalists "just say yes to everything, especially if it means getting newsroom experience" they don't really believe I mean "everything" but truly: I do www.coindesk.com/markets/2014... (yes, this is my hand, getting a tenner out using a bitcoin credit card)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/10/2026

in this week's newsletter! an essay on the many happy times I spent at London Fashion Week (despite never actually working in fashion and instead just being a shameless chancer): youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/on-my-sham...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/10/2026

fully missed the W when walking past this and assumed that it was a movement telling men to embrace their inner Gromit for some reason

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/10/2026

fully missed the W when walking past this and assumed that it was a movement telling men to embrace their inner Gromit for some reason

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/10/2026

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/10/2026

oh yes also I was at Frieze yesterday and I did some vv daft posting from our account if that's your thing (instagram.com/outsidersartsclub)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/10/2026

picking artworks for our OAC first anniversary show (outsidersartsclub.com! November 24! tickets on sale very soon! come hang! buy some art!) and isn't this SO fun, and also so original, I love this piece so much

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/10/2026

in this week's New World column! I come out as a newly minted World Wars Dad: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/10/2026

Ooooh. Do we think it could be this one? It then plugs into the boiler into a thing that's called "cold inlet"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/10/2026

alright fellow mascs just bled my radiators, which predictably led to a drop in water pressure, and usually know how to bring the pressure back up but turns out my boiler situation here is, huh, unobvious - do we think these are the two bits I need to open to bring the pressure back up?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/10/2026

anyway I'm writing a newsletter on Twitter and I think it's going to be good

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10/10/2026

watching a short doc on how they made the De Gaulle movies (I know, I know) and I love that you can't necessarily tell the actor who plays the General in the movies is Armenian while he's in the role, then you see him as himself and: yeah sure, I'd say you see it now www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dx5...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026

I was trying to remember the name of the author of a novel I read earlier this year - named An Underachiever's Diary - and instead Google wrote me an AI short story about an underachiever???? what??? why??? aahhhhh!!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026

anyway yeah, I wrote an unhinged screed against the very concept of online recommendations: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/against-re... [free to read!]

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/10/2026

god yeah the entire roll is just gloriously dogshit, hahahahaha I think I could just about stand by those two, but that's probably it? just never trusting a cheap disposable again

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/10/2026

right so for context I got weirdly paranoid for no reason and decided to only bring a disposable camera, which didn't help as I'm not used to them anymore anyway this one is....quite fun actually? fairly trippy that, IIRC, it was windy, which is why the leaves are so blurry

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/10/2026

went to the Pineapple for the first time this evening and overheard two guys talking about "Dark Starmerism"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/10/2026

very bad for me, a person with extremely poor impulse control and tiny feet, to have realised that Skechers sell kids shoes with a CAR GARAGE in the heel in what I believe may actually be just about my size www.amazon.co.uk/Skechers-Boy...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/10/2026

I wrote up the recipe for MPS (My Perfect Sandwich) earlier this year, if you wish to see my qualifications: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

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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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

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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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

hope you freaks are happy this horror is coming our way

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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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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

oh my god my random vibe check was actually factually correct, there IS something inherently Brown era coded about the Superdrug experience

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

another thing I learnt about modern dating by secretly being a member of those weird Facebook groups for years: Clare's Law should be seen as one of Theresa May's best achievements as home secretary youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/here-i-am-...

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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 · 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

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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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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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026

oh I was DELIGHTED to review Guilty Pleasure - The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else for the Observer, I INHALED it in a single day and just found it so clever and interesting and a pleasure to read: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/09/2026

you know what, fair, that was a correct call from the Tumblr algorithm

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/09/2026

there is something quite upsetting to me about the fact that David Dastmalchian is Iranian and not, to the best of anyone's knowledge, Spanish, in my head this is the face of a Spanish man, I see him and I see vermut, I see strong opinions on tortillas, I see him hovering around a churro

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/09/2026

my words are in an art gallery! for the next week! the terrific Freddie Darke asked me to come look at his new works over the summer and maybe see if I wanted to write a text about/around them, and I was entirely happy to do so, anyway you should go to GPS Gallery before Monday to see it:

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