Lucy Harley-McKeown

Did you GOAGI this year? Some 2025 highlights and some photographs

I did a year-end wrap post, featuring uplifting content about a 10-year medical nightmare coming to an end, and pictures of turtles. Bring on 2026, imo!!!! notthepoint.substack.com/p/did-you-go...

Red Flags: Are We Dating the Same Guy? UNTOLD Are online groups that help women find out more about men they're dating a force for good?

Pleased to say something that has been in the works for over a year is out today! And delighted to have my first development producer credit.
Red flags: Are we dating the same guy? Stream it now on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/r...

tell me you're in DC without telling me you're in DC (this is a free book box near my Airbnb)

With the DC Privacy Summit around the corner on 10/16, we're delighted to say Johns Hopkins professor @matthewdgreen.bsky.social will join us as a keynote speaker. More information available here: dcprivacysummit.org

~~cleansing the timeline~~

five whole years with the love of my life 🥹💓

getting edits back

Mass hallucinations: In search of the rogue AI reporters How a pitch about warring London chicken shops led Steve Dinneen on a journey from Chicago to Kenya in search of a rogue AI reporter

another wild story about AI freelance journalists and pitches that are too good to be true...
www.cityam.com/mass-halluci...

guy with an LRB tote at Notting Hill carnival 😔

I don't use AI transcription (mainly bc I don't want to pay for it), but in my boomer opinion I do think automating that would make me a worse journalist. How else would I excruciatingly learn I didn't ask the right follow up question to someone I'll never get to interview again

mood board from three weeks on the precipice of deadline insanity

Thursday

Do Kwon pleading guilty almost feels like the end of the rampantly illegal degen gambling crypto era. What even was an algorithmic stablecoin anyway

labour mp who posts reform pandering on the incredibly niche social media app for aggro-liberals…..funny bit

Makes me feel so out of touch with the world

is this... Good?

AI meeting summaries are a window to the soul

tfw your baby can't make it to nap time because the board called an emergency meeting

dopamine gap relationship

Let's goooo

my local pub got bar mats to commemorate their cat, Beyonce's, 10th birthday 🥹

The EU’s digital identity wallet has a big privacy problem But there’s still time to fix it.

For @projectglitch.bsky.social, I wrote about the cryptographers sounding the surveillance alarm about the EU digital wallet programme www.projectglitch.xyz/p/the-eus-di...

freelancers 🤝 my cat
Willfully ignoring the feeling of being slightly unstable

Crypto group Tron to go public after US pauses probe into billionaire founder Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons

I AM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND

spam but make it weirdly poetic

The best!

Hackney Half poster my friends (journalists) made making me wonder if I could have chosen something easier to do

today marks two years of freelancing! Thank u to all my friends, editors and employers that keep me and my ideas from LLM-induced redundancy 💝

touching grass

Thank you!! 🍀