ericabuist.bsky.social
Writer. Journalist (Guardian). Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD).
Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director Tupelo Press.
Late diagnosed ADHD.
Writing a novel but I’m ok.
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here’s the longer video you will want to hear what he said
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My parents are medics and my partner says if I attack my own throat with an implement again he will “tell”.
He’s 47. I’m 40.
But also I really don’t want him to tell on me.
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So many of them have weirdlynot noticed how many of their states have Spanish names. Nice ones too! Florida means in bloom, flourishing. Nice of them to name it for the flora and not its shape, I don’t know if I’d have been so mature.
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Yeah doing it properly is a PAIN, but you build something real. I was basically a lost 20something without a plan. 15+ years later it’s a weird memory but I do still say “Ándale!” and totally mean it.
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Oh yeah the power cuts drove me mad in Mexico, and the bureaucracy was so mad I just ducked under the radar
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Ahhh love your Costa Rica posts. Was it hard because of the upheaval? Y ya hablas español perfectamente?!
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It’s disturbing how uncharismatic a leader they needed to be hypnotised. It’s like being passionately and unflinchingly devoted to the Kool-Aid man.
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WHAT
I thought they were like horse-sized! But hench! That’s like an ELEPHANT
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She did say that her rule when writing it was that she wouldn’t include anything that hadn’t really happened
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I’m so old I remember when they justified invading Iraq to “give those people democracy”. I guess some of them meant “give it away”?
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I still do Never Eat Shredded Wheat!
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What’s gone on??
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At no point do his fingers move between the chords and now I realise this is why when kids pick up guitars they just strum while holding the neck! Animators!
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It so is. You’d have to do it anyway at some point!
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“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
Even if she goes to another school.
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I sort of want him to try now. Hold a contest for the world’s best data retriever.
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I didn’t. To be fair if we’re considering fictional alternatives to Earth, I’d reopen the matter immediately.
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Yes! I mean, unless you’re reading something that has nothing to do with your work, but in that case it’s you resting your tired brain which, if we’re going to sacrifice ourselves to the gods of productivity, is also allowed. Go forth and read!
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Even if he did, a drive that’s been in landfill in British weather for 12 years is surely a thousand percent a write off
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Well I hate that I know exactly who all these people are. What a waste of neurons. They had so much potential.
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🎶 SOON MAY THE DUTY FREE COME, TO BRING US TOBLERONES, CIGS AND RUM 🎶
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I guess it’s fun to burst the cuteness bubble. No one needs to slide in with shocking facts about birds eating their young when the birds in questions look like they’re absolutely fixing to chow down on some tasty lil bebbiz
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Gender-obsessed loonies is a brilliant insult to be thrown out by a newspaper that can focus on little else
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Noooooo the world is a raging bin fire, let people enjoy the adorable sea puppies without the femicidal necrophilia, just a few more minutes 😭
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So weird that it’s American (“mom”) until you get to the salary
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“Ok but selling what?”
“I’ll tell you what we’re selling. We’re selling DREAMS.”
“Ok but what really?”
“We’re selling POWER. We’re selling AMBITION.”
“Is it, by any chance, an insurance scam?”
……. “DREAMS.”
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Wait. It’s over? January’s over?? Can anyone confirm this? I’ve been burned before.
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That’s interesting. I noticed it a lot on the Apprentice, I always figured they thought myself and yourself were just professional-sounding words for me and you
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Bingo
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This isn’t the British, it’s British bigots.
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Ha! And there we were thinking the WH had been taken over by moronic, uneducated looters! PHEW!
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Yeah, Daily Mail is basically Fox News in print form. And our most-read newspaper 🤦♀️
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I mean, it’s the Mail, I’m not sure they’ve ever come forward
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116th and Broadway NY, impressive how much coffee they’ve provided the world thus far.
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Genuinely assumed for a second that this was from the 90s.
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Aside from the fact that this is creepier than a centipede crawling out of your sandwich, given that he wants to force women out of the workplace and raise wages not a goddamn cent, how are people meant to be paying for these babies to live to reproductive age themselves?
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Yeah, only two in the litter apparently. Both beasts. I guess they’re both three and a half cats.