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I just received 5 coffees from Tony Lindsell on @buymeacoffee! buymeacoffee.com/camscampbell/c…

Steven Pressfield has spent decades studying the art of storytelling. "The female carries the mystery" has become one of his core principles, and once you see it, you'll see it everywhere. Here's how he explains it: "In Moby Dick, the sea is the female, and the sea carries the mystery. The whale dives down into the sea. In Lawrence of Arabia, the desert is the female and the movie is shot to make the desert absolutely gorgeous. Then there's The Magnificent Seven in Japan by Akira Kurosawa. It's the same story of a village that hires gun-slinger samurai to defend it, and the female in that story are the rice fields that produce the rice that the bandits want. At the very end of Seven Samurai, The final thing, when the samurai have won and the bandits have been killed, is the villagers planting rice. So that's a principle that I will have: The female carries the mystery. I'll ask myself, for any idea that I have, what's the female in this story? Is there a mystery? And why, what is it? What is, what is the mystery? And the mystery is almost always something that cannot be solved. It's like... What is life? What is the sea? What is the ocean? It gets back to God. It gets back to creation. It gets back to life."

I just received 3 coffees from Dsohemi@comcast.net on @buymeacoffee! buymeacoffee.com/camscampbell/c…

I just watched Anna Karenina (2012) #trakttv trakt.tv/movies/anna-ka… #AnnaKarenina #trakt

New episode up now. The Tombs of Atuan (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin, the second part of Earthsea, with guest Frank Cottrell-Boyce in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. @frankcottrell_b @unamccormack @i_am_mill_i_am open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5Hq…

Dear @DirectLine Please give phone users an option to turn off the hold music so we can work without the annoying music while waiting for an operator.

Congrats @juddtrump ka-ching! Outstanding snooker!

Someone should tell John Virgo how to use ‘begs the question’.

@PotNoodleDing Thanks. I don’t think I’ve seen her before

@camuel I think it’s Maike Kesseler

Who’s reffing Higgins v Guodong’s match tonight? #bbcsnooker #WorldSnookerChampionship

Anna Karenina: Don't Steal Rolls open.substack.com/pub/camscampbe…

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your Last Four Watched 👀

@NotionHQ Do you have any plans to increase the view for the timeline feature to allow for gant charts over broader time periods as I've illustrated for authors as an example?

@OVOEnergy having to sign into the app every single time is a real pain and makes no sense. Can you please make it stop?

God bless Mark Selby. And thank you. 💪 #mentalhealth @markjesterselby @ShabzYJewellBBC

If Mark, myself and John are struggling then 100% the other players will be too. We need to help them and give them someone to talk to. Don’t suffer in silence.

A truly superb interview with @Ayaan - Ayaan Hirsi Ali - on this week’s Planet Normal. A “warrior for free speech”, she gives her damning and extremely moving verdict on the UK’s shocking rape-gang scandal - in a specially extended interview. Starts 36 minutes in … The chat beforehand between myself and Co-Pilot @AllisonPearson is also worth listening to !! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

STRUGGLE SESSION EPISODE 3: @jordanbpeterson is denounced by the College of Psychologists of Ontario and sentenced to reeducation by the Red Guards of Chairman Trudeau's CCP (Canada Communist Party)

The story so far. 1. I am not a racist. 2. I didn’t post a racist tweet. 3. My tweet did not incite violence against any protected characteristic. 4. My fairly innocuous tweet was deleted a year ago. 5. Senior lawyers say my tweet does “not come near the threshold for criminal prosecution”. 6. But Essex Police upgraded the accusation from Non-Crime Hate Incident to offence under the Public order Act. Why? 7. Essex Police visited my home but refused to specify either the accusation or the accuser. 8. Under pressure, Essex Police deployed the terrorist-fighting Gold Command to investigate a solitary Welsh journalist 5ft 4 inches who still believes in freedom of speech. Weird, I know. 9. This is all nonsense. Deeply sinister, frightening nonsense and wholly disproportionate police over-reach if you ask me. 10. Last night, I realised I no longer feel safe in my own country. A terrible moment. As Elon Musk said, “This must stop.” It really must. @elonmusk

@NotionHQ Please could we have timelines that show longer than one year for historians? It would be such a killer feature! Something like this: