September 2019 – Postcards

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Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Dark: Mind-twisting TV

September 27, 2019October 3, 2019 No Comments

We’ve recently finished season 2 of the excellent Netflix series ‘Dark’. It’s mind-bendingly fantastic. We were looking for something to watch after finishing Stranger Things, and my partner in crime and awesome TV series finder suggested this. It really fit the bill. Set in the fictional German town of Winden, it follows the stories of […]

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Crime History

True Crime: “The Girl in the Box”

September 25, 2019 No Comments

Not knowing is a hard thing to deal with. Fascinating unsolved crime long read in the Guardian: On 15 September 1981, 10-year-old Ursula Herrmann headed home by bike from her cousin’s house. She never arrived. So began one of Germany’s most notorious postwar criminal cases, which remains contentious to this day.

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Big Brother Big Business Food for Thought Society

“We are in an abusive relationship with our phones”

September 24, 2019 No Comments

This is an illuminating way of looking at what the relationship really is like between us and our smartphones, and more generally with the you-are-the-product companies that provide so many of the services we use on smartphones or other devices nowadays. What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power over […]

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Month: September 2019

Dark: Mind-twisting TV

True Crime: “The Girl in the Box”

“We are in an abusive relationship with our phones”