Adam Tinworth
Journalist, blogger, lecturer in audience strategy at City St George’s, University of London. Tired Dad and a good egg (mostly)
Work blog: https://onemanandhisblog.com
Personal blog: https://adders.blog
- The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment moderation and management. Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform.
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- If you’re a Mac user, you need to give Aeronaut a try - it’s the Bluesky Mac app I’ve been pining for…
- Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer. I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way.
- I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…
- Reposted by Adam TinworthHen Harriers and other birds of prey are still being killed illegally. Enough is enough. Join us and call on the UK Government to license gamebird shooting and help protect these incredible birds before it’s too late. 👇 action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...
- If I want to have a couple of hours completely by myself, I know exactly how to do it: Book myself a ticket for a screening of *Melania*…
- Not for a loved one, but for part of my life that is over. www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/mourning/?ut...
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- Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.
- Life is not a football games. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one…
- Well, this is uncomfortable. Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all.
- That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.
- Om Malik: "Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die."
- Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader. Lovely stuff. adders.blog/2026/01/27/wow-i-on…
- Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from… Warhammer. Slop for the slop throne!
- Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece. "Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early ... adders.blog/2026/01/26/fascinat…
- London can be very literal sometimes. Yes, I’m in Angel.
- Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”. It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads.
- Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. Get in there!
- I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. I’ll certainly be more efficient…
- Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back: “He’s a proper journalist, who swears and everything”. That is so going on my gravestone. It should probably be my LinkedIn bio, too…
- When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I never dreamed that I’d find myself on that stage twice a year 35 years later… #CityStGeorgesGrad
- Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced. Fabulous start to the week. Now I have to decide which day I want to sacrifice to that delight in the coming months…
- Why is DNS propagation so annoyingly unpredictable?
- Welcome back, iPad. Your new screen suits you.
- My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month. I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
- Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while. Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
- Reposted by Adam TinworthTime to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s report for the Nerve on why Keir Starmer’s digital ID policy was actually Tony Blair’s digital ID policy (and also “a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream”) 🔗⬇️
- Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years: "A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035."
- Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products. This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created. apple.news/AKFwHofHJS4u...
- Not saying it’s cold up here on the Downs today, but…
- ‘orses.
- I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.
- Reposted by Adam TinworthIf a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces: "As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and ... adders.blog/2026/01/07/elizabet…
- I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.
- Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society"
- Roll up, roll up. It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog. (Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
- I appear to have deeply confused Amazon’s algorithm. This is not going to encourage me to spend…
- Five for me.
- Possibly the best pub meal I’ve ever had. Kudos to the team at the Rose & Crown, Shilton.
- Sunset on Shoreham Beach
- I have questions.
