Ryan Murdock

Author of A Sunny Place for Shady People & Vagabond Dreams. Host of Personal Landscapes pod. Editor-at-Large (Europe) for Canada's Outpost magazine. RGS Fellow.

[StickingPlaceBooks @StickingPlaceBk]

Newly published by Sticking Place. Available everywhere or direct from SPB.

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I’ve dropped the gloves again — sixteen years after the original Words That Piss Me Off — to have a bash at the latest assault on the language I love. I hope it gives you a laugh.

https://t.co/YTuHSQalEj

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Tom Feiling joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about Japan’s culture of overwork, extreme forms of solitude, sex doll showrooms, and attempts to save village life and big city prosperity.

Listen on iTunes, Spotify, etc

@AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks

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Tom Feiling joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about Japan’s culture of overwork, extreme forms of solitude, sex doll showrooms, and attempts to save village life and big city prosperity.

@AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks

https://t.co/sKLjUk18HJ

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@dieworkwear I'm so grateful you didn't bring up the national embarrassment that was Justin Trudeau, a man whose only contributions to global relations were "fun socks" and ethnic costumes.

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Historian @hoyer_kat joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about Weimar as the centre of German culture, how Elizabeth Nietzsche tarnished her brother’s legacy, and how democratic hope turned to Nazi terror.

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Historian @hoyer_kat joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about Weimar as the centre of German culture, how Elizabeth Nietzsche tarnished her brother’s legacy, and how democratic hope turned to Nazi terror.

Listen on iTunes, Spotify, etc

https://t.co/7cEkTPTgya

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@RobertGreene It'd be a pleasure to speak with you about it on my Personal Landscapes podcast. Been following your work with great interest since 48 Laws.

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@hoyer_kat @nickfshort I told you the wurst was yet to come!

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@nicholascrane joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about navigating Mesolithic routeways, the legacy of Britain’s Roman roads, and how 7th century pilgrimage reshaped the urban landscape.

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@nicholascrane joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about navigating Mesolithic routeways, the legacy of Britain’s Roman roads, and how 7th century pilgrimage reshaped the urban landscape.

Listen on iTunes, Spotify, etc

https://t.co/9hF2i1VmMF

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@brianlilley I suggest they actually live in the EU for a few years before voting for such an idiotic decision. I was 6 yrs in Malta, 9 in Berlin. Freedom of Movement and the travel convenience of the Euro were great. The rest was a total shitshow. If Carney likes it so much, he shld go back.

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@hoyer_kat I'm halfway through, as of this morning. What a fascinating read!

[Dave @GamewithDave]

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.

Ownership quietly became renting.

[Pubity @pubity]

Lufthansa passengers were trapped overnight in an airplane after their flight from Munich to Copenhagen was cancelled on the runway

Ground staff at Munich’s airport had already gone home and could not transport the passengers back to the airport until 6 A.M. the next day

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Imagine describing beef to someone from the future:

"So it's an animal that eats plants you can't digest, grows on land you can't farm, requires no electricity, purifies water through wetland grazing, builds soil while it moves, self-replicates, and produces complete human nutrition with 100% bioavailability?"

"Yes."

"And you almost got rid of it in favour of... a factory that uses petroleum to ferment microbes into protein slurry?"

"The packaging said it was better for the planet."

"..."

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Robert Kaplan joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about the immediacy of every crisis, how faltering institutions enable fanatics, and why the roots of our permanent 21st century crisis lie in what went wrong in the 20th.

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Robert Kaplan joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about the immediacy of every crisis, how faltering institutions enable fanatics, and why the roots of our permanent 21st century crisis lie in what went wrong in the 20th.

On iTunes, etc

https://t.co/ESlEYfygVS

[National Post @nationalpost]

'The prime minister may promise to sweep aside internal trade barriers, and build things at speeds thought impossible. But when he doesn’t actually do it nobody cares'

John Robson: In Mark Carney's Canada,nothing matters

https://t.co/XJQEiq4m9Y

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