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jousmar.bsky.social
Bestselling non-fiction author (the ‘This Book Will Make You…’ series), editor, ghostwriter and journo (& ex-Cosmo columnist). Had cancer, didn’t love it. jousmar.substack.com
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Dear Americans, the level of batshittery the rest of the world can take without having a collective heart attack has been reached. Please try to rein it in, yeah? You’re too big to be behaving this badly. Ta, your pals over in Europe.

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literally every time I talk to friends

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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Having a child is realising that loads of oldie worldie-sounding illnesses exist. Hello, hand, foot and mouth disease!

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My latest piece is a convo I had with a friend about how she feels like a failure in love. “How can it be a failure to want to seek love? What is love but consistent, relentless hope?” jousmar.substack.com/p/failure-at...

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Have any other cancer survivors found the whole aftermath-period incredibly weird and hard to deal with – almost more so (well, in a different way), than being smack-bang in the middle of the shitstorm? #cancer #cancersucks #coloncancer #cancerawareness

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My love letter to cities: pump that filth, beauty, mess and magic into my veins. jousmar.substack.com/p/a-love-let...

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I’ve just discovered 2 subscriptions I forgot about, both expensive & both which I’ve had to continue until the end of the 12 month contract. I know not many people see my posts, but if you do, pls could you tell me you are also paying through the nose for useless shit? Misery loves company. Thanks

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Reading has never felt so needed and necessarily than right now. Let me bury my nose in a book, inhale deeply (just me?) and forget about this dumpster fire of a world for a bit. #booksky #reading #libraries #author #books #escapism

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*Posting is currently turned off 😆

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I had my last wisdom tooth removed on Tuesday and am appalled by the fact that I’m still in pain four days later. In films people do it with pliers and crack on with their days just fine.

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"Musk holds onto grudges tighter than I hold onto good jokes and if he isn’t waylaid soon, the potential consequences are so extraordinary that trying to verbalise it makes you sound exactly like the kind of nutter the ‘dark MAGA’ folk want you to sound like." jousmar.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Whoop! Thank you 🙌

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Thanks so much for the repost! Glad my piece struck such a chord with so many people and that I’m not the only one thinking the world has lost its mind.

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Bluesky’s “feeds you might like” are so off-base I’m questioning my own identity. Should I know what those acronyms mean? Why does it think I’m into gaming? Should I be?

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Just starting out on here and want to be pals with bookish sorts, peeps who know things about politics, and funny fuckers. (Are you allowed to say “fuckers” on Bluesky? Let’s find out.) Oh, and librarians! You’re the best. #booksky #politics #uspolitics #ukpolitics #libraries

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Stop saving stuff ‘for best’. Wear the fancy shoes, use the good china, drink the expensive wine. Yes, you risk damage (these material things speak of greater fears) but surely the bigger risk is to open a cupboard full of missed opportunities at the end? jousmar.substack.com/p/stop-savin...

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Does anyone else feel guilty if they’re not listening to news podcasts full-time atm? I don’t even want to listen to them. It’s like a fomo/toxic productivity thing. I want to listen to music… but just don’t. Ok, am making a pact with myself: more music, less traumatising wtf-is-happening news.

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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

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I thought having a baby, having cancer & turning 40 all in the same year would cure me of my petty self-doubts. I WAS WRONG. WHAT A CROCK. My new piece is on how big experiences don’t always lead to eureka moments of self-realisation – & that's okay: jousmar.substack.com/p/why-do-i-c...

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