Pip Dunjay

A certain letter broke on my keyboard and I am learning to work around it rather than ctrl c and ctrl v. Can feel my brain fizzing.

Seven out of 10 women in creative industries experience bullying and harassment, survey finds Exclusive: Only half of victims report incidents – and of those who do, 42% say response was insufficient

Only 70%? Haha. And it's not just men bullying women either - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Pliant. Pleasant. Paid.

Just me and the last of the summer flies hanging out in my bedroom all winter, I see.

Had to step over several crates of spilt milk...made the obvious joke. No laughs.

How cute is Slack playing me waiting room music in a huddle.

<3

This is me appealing my late payment of corporation tax fine.

HMeRCy

Brad Pitt Pays $12 Million for a House in the Hollywood Hills

This confluence of money, power, celebrity and real estate is one the most unintentionally powerful pieces I've ever seen - www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/r...

We told my mum about fig wasps and she was VERY upset.

THE HEATWAVE WE DESERVE

When I got there in 2020, it was still the dancing teenager app. So proud to play my part in its rise.

TikTok expands investment and presence in the UK as number of regular users crosses 30 million - Newsroom | TikTok More than 30 million people across the UK now use TikTok each month*, making the UK our largest user community in Europe TikTok continues to grow its investment in the UK, expanding our operations wit...

HALF of the UK now regularly use TikTok - newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/tiktok...

Another useful free bit of the old internet chipped away :(

How housing scarcity influences everything Laetitia@Work #81

V v good via Make Work Better newsletter - laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/how-housin...

Pocket is closing down :( I loved having a stash of articles saved up to read on flights.

Maybe Gen Z would like to drink but just need another sweet cheap alcopop era to get them in (holler at Smirnoff Ice and VK Apple especially)

What’s behind BuzzBallz – Gen Z’s favourite alcopop? This summer’s most popular drink is straight from the corner store

Unreasonably furious that *I* didn't make up BuzzBallz - www.ft.com/content/aaef...

Researchers say the findings offer empirical evidence that engaging with artistic beauty helps us escape the “mental trappings of daily life,” such as current anxieties and to-do lists, and induce “psychological distancing”: the process of zooming out on your thoughts to gain clarity.

Pondering artistic beauty encourages ‘big picture’ thinking A psychological experiment conducted at Kettle's Yard suggests that actively considering the beauty of art increases abstract thinking and “transformative” emotion – helping us escape the “mental trap...

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/arti...

It all feels a bit serious - other than the sauna guys, we've lost a lot of joke songs.

Plus the trains went on pre-planned engineering works all weekend so we had to go up on Thursday evening

Reflections from 2023: I paid 2.5x what a ticket costs in BASEL SWITZERLAND (one of the most expensive cities in the world) to go to the Liverpool #Eurovision shows.

3. The diversity of speakers

Encouraging those not used to speaking meant we had brilliant speakers from far beyond the usual range - so many women (hurrah!), speakers with selective mutism and speech impediments, speakers of Dutch, Japanese and Polish.

2. A good audience

Within minutes of walking in, people were screaming with laughter, clapping every moment, cheering every joke. I've never been in such an *interested* audience - wow, it really made the room sing.

And where the internet felt like a wide playful joyous space (largely) with micro-communities of artists, makers and forum-ites.

Reflections from #InterestingConference

1. A speaker referred to 2013 as 'the good old times of the internet' and you could feel the pang sweep the room.

A time where social media was social, actually connecting you to friends. Twitter was my first job and blogs taught me how to be a strategist.

Distressed - I saw a man in rubber boots on top of a big bin treading all the rubbish down, we locked eyes and I failed to come up with a mildly amused quip.