E-comm businesses: if a customer hasn't logged in for 6+ months say, before checkout try asking 'Is xxx xxx still the correct delivery address?' Would have saved me a bunch of frustration and some family no doubt a bit of confusion when my kids' Elfs on the Shelfs arrive.

Had a candidate turn up to her interview today in full Halloween outfit. kind of makes me want to work with her more.

WhatEdsWant now collects 75 calls for pitches every week (up from 50). Take a look: whatedswant.substack.com

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In China even the latrines look like pandas

Anyone else quite enjoy seeing typos in posts and messages these days, because it means chatgpt wasn't involved?

For at least an hour Pope Leo was being called Pope Leon, perhaps thanks to the BBC notification writer. #influence #callthecopyeditor

Finally a Psychology degree, five platform launches and 25 years of journalism pays off

A day before the Air India crash Ryanair drops this. Yikes.