Tom Hawking
The Guardian
New York, United States
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'In 18 months, we've had 30 cats – and it's been wonderful'
From nursing mothers to senior catizens, you see it all as a foster carer → Read More
The Australian welfare system has always been needlessly cruel. Now it’s punishing half the country
The fact that many ‘necessary’ social indignities can be discarded for Covid-19 only shows how unnecessary they were in the first place → Read More
From Space Invaders to StarCraft: time warp gaming exhibition levels up
Game Masters offers a fantasy arcade featuring 80 playable games and a heady dose of nostalgia → Read More
Tuning out the static: It took 40 years before I found out that I have ADHD
It’s hard not to wonder how things like jobs and relationships might have turned out differently had I been medicated all along → Read More
Science never quite clicked for me at school. Then I discovered science YouTube
I found something I never knew I wanted: fascinating mathematical concepts explained in a way that’s entertaining → Read More
I went through my own Fyre festival working in digital media
I recognised the pattern: owners failing upwards and everyone else cleaning up the mess → Read More
The R Kelly conundrum: does Spotify’s new mute button go far enough?
As many call for Kelly’s music to be removed altogether, the platform introduced a tool that puts the onus on to its users → Read More
How a 57-hour Donkey Kong game struck a blow against online toxicity
Harry Brewis raised $340,000 for a UK trans group and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared in a Twitch stream that was an antidote to the worst of gaming culture → Read More
Cat Condo is the stupidest, most cynical game in the App Store. So why can’t I stop playing?
To win the game without spending money or watching ads, you tap your phone screen as fast as you can, nonstop, for 3,000 years → Read More
The Block is an Australian obsession for many – and a life-changing disaster for some
The eviction of boarding house residents to make way for renovations and TV ratings shows how individualism has triumphed egalitarianism → Read More
America, It’s Your Civic Duty to Punch a Nazi
Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. → Read More
‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Episode 8 Recap: What the Fuuuuuuuck?
The eighth episode of the return of Twin Peaks, wherein things get *really* wacky. → Read More
File Under “Fuck Everything”: Bill Cosby Reported to Be Planning Motivational Speaking Tour
You literally couldn't make this up, but in the topsy-turvy year of 2017, where Donald Trump is somehow our President, poor people burn to death so that rich people don't have to look at nasty old projects, and so on, it kind of makes perfect sense: having recently had his sexual assault case declar... → Read More
‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: Who’s Laura Palmer?
Twin Peaks is back, and we're recapping it! This week: there's a body, but no head. → Read More
The ‘New York Times’ Should Know Better Than to Blame Steve Scalise’s Shooting on Bernie Sanders’ Rhetoric
The news cycle moves so fast these days that it's nearly impossible for the media to keep up; while they're reporting one incident, the giant baby in the White House has done some other terrible thing, and today's headline is consigned to history. (We've written about this before here on Flavorwire. → Read More
‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Digging Deeper
We’re far enough into this series of Twin Peaks for at least some resolution to the many questions raised by the first couple of episodes, and while there are still no answers about what the … → Read More
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Trailer Arrives: All Men Must Die, and Are About to Do So In Droves
All the evidence suggests that our world is going bonkers: there's an unpleasant toddler in the White House, the planet is slowly but inexorably heating up, lunatics are blowing up children in the name of incoherent political and/or religious beliefs, and people are taking Louise Mensch seriously. → Read More
Ariana Grande, David Leavitt, and the Internet’s Thirst for Villainy in the Wake of Tragedy
This morning brought the news that police have arrested a suspect for the horrific attack on the Ariana Grande show in Manchester last night; at the time of publication, he had just been named as one Salman Ramadan Abedi. → Read More
Sir Roger Moore, the Longest Running James Bond, Dies at 89
James Bond fans everywhere, raise an eyebrow in tribute: Sir Roger Moore has died. According to a statement released by his children earlier today on Twitter, the actor died after a "short but brave battle with cancer." He was 89. → Read More
‘Twin Peaks’ Premiere and Episode 2 Recap: The Horror, The Horror
"It is happening again." You've seen the phrase bandied about pretty much everywhere in recent weeks (and yes, a lot on this website.) Twin Peaks is back after 25 years, and everyone who was a devotee of the show in its initial run back in 1990, plus the legion of fans it's accumulated in the years ... → Read More