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Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 From the river to the sea. He/him
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Its all been fun and games til now but I saved the worst for last. If you’re thinking “But Doc, surely nothing could be worse than the baked beans/toast atrocity?” you are utterly, wildly, HILARIOUSLY wrong. Avert your eyes, mortals, lest you meet the dread gaze of the GRAPEFRUIT OCTOPUS
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"Drinking all the water out of the tap" now feels realistic, at least in the Thames Water catchment
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I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.
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I've got 5p sez he clicked the wrong thing on Temu and ordered a ball pit instead
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I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
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(Also see: the internal staff politics of the Guardian newspaper - a tiny clique of repellent management crackpots who both hate and fear the mass of their employees, the people who do all the actual work, and strive to demonstrate that they’re keeping the lower orders harshly policed).
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I would welcome people getting in touch with specific examples of egregious unlawful hateful abuse *that has been reported to the X system and upheld*
My intention is to construct a broad coalition of people calling for an EHRC investigation, probably pegging that to new EHRC chair taking up role
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pix or it didn’t happen
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I’ve been told that by at least two people I knew from Zoom sings. I did ask if they realised I was sitting down