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Joined March 2009
...and if that's not your vibe, they also come in Orange Peach, Green Watermelon, and Red Raspberry. Story by @fincarterr
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Green Watermelon and Red Raspberry are among new flavors on London menus, as drug users demand intoxicants as bright and sweet as possible.
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A driver moves through the London night, dishing out Purple Grape flavored K-holes...
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https://t.co/Gys0gFaE2F Wrote this about the summer of 'British Chaos' - a strand of derranged, domestic short-form content that has taken over the world, and possibly large parts of your brain. Its Beatlemania meets County Magistrates' Court.
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From Ibiza Final Boss to ‘Big’ John Fisher to Dannyboy83, there is a growing fascination with British content creators. But why?
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The breaking story of the race to identify ‘The Vietnamese Butcher’—the mystery antagonist of what is likely the first genuine 'snuff' film:
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For years, snuff has been mere urban legend—but now a haunting murder movie is being sold on Telegram, and online sleuths are trying to crack the case.
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“The executioner, wearing Adidas and a cheap Anonymous mask, caresses the victim’s neck with a cleaver, then mimes landing a couple of blows. Already kneeling with his head on a block, the victim straightens up and is hugged by his killer.”
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🔥 My new documentary ‘Bare Knuckle Mother’ is out now on @vice. This is a film about unconditional love and unrelenting violence. Me and @Jonny_Pickup_ worked our arse off to get this over the line. Watch it and share: https://t.co/lIXN55miB5
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Wanna subscribe to our newly resuscitated magazine? Head for the replies...
Michael Holden's new VICE column, taken from the comeback issue of our magazine, has been liberated from the paywall—read @thewrongwriter's take on the modern condition here:
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'The Attention Casino' piece I wrote for @vice now liberated from their paywall. "The ‘zone’ in the casino where we find ourselves is not one of comfort. In fact, it runs on stress, anxiety, and a replica of togetherness experienced mostly while alone." https://t.co/0HR8Gl0SbQ
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Modern life has become an inescapable attention casino where we're perpetually distracted, stressed, and seeking a state of total absorption.
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Michael Holden's new VICE column, taken from the comeback issue of our magazine, has been liberated from the paywall—read @thewrongwriter's take on the modern condition here:
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Modern life has become an inescapable attention casino where we're perpetually distracted, stressed, and seeking a state of total absorption.
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“‘Our best customers,’ one casino game developer tells [the author Natasha Dow] Schüll, ‘are not interested in entertainment—they want to be totally absorbed’... What these players speak about is, ‘the zone… a state of ongoing, undiminished possibility which came to trump the
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“My contention is that the essay doesn’t go far enough. The attention casino isn’t just TikTok, it is absolutely everywhere.”
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“The idea of an ‘attention economy’ is no longer adequate for what we are enmeshed in... A more resonant, relevant image for the contemporary experience might be an ‘attention casino.’ This phrase debuted in a 2019 Medium essay about TikTok whose writer noticed that the app acted
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Vice just dropped a trailer for the interview they did with me about my history in the music world, my photography and my upcoming documentary “On The Lash: The Buddyhead Movie”. https://t.co/XQVanMbrLb
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the Norman invasion continues
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One for all the Martinheads
https://t.co/Vjgrr3l97y A piece I started writing some years ago is finally out online. It's about a heady six months I spent in a rogue squat protection scheme in Shoreditch, 2011 - a creepy, dangerous, and hedonistic anachronism in the middle of a rapidly changing city.
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I loved this
https://t.co/Vjgrr3l97y A piece I started writing some years ago is finally out online. It's about a heady six months I spent in a rogue squat protection scheme in Shoreditch, 2011 - a creepy, dangerous, and hedonistic anachronism in the middle of a rapidly changing city.
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