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Annemarie Cancienne@cancienne.bsky.social |
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Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : bit.ly/3Q72ug0
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I’ve had emails this week from an admin asst named Alec Baldwin and a tutor named Brendan Gleason and the film industry is in bad shape, huh?
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ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ 🍉
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how it feels to live in america
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Annemarie Cancienne
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That the one thing Reform voters ranked as a ‘force for good’ is The Internet really says something.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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It’s that cautious-hope feeling, like you get after a toxic relationship. “Why aren’t you treating me like shit?” “Because…I don’t want to?” “Huh”
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I looked at the breakdown in several string labour seats and the Greens were second in loads. Here’s hoping it’s the environmental poke labour needs.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I feel like the Blyth and Sunderland communities are missing a trick by continuing to vote. The triumph of running in and opening box after empty box.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Same and same. My seat is meant to be Labour’s 2nd safest in the country. Egomaniacal fear that I’ve somehow screwed it for the whole constituency.
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Ray Newman
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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Lauren Laverne playing a stream of ‘get all generations onto the dance floor at this big, jolly wedding’ music is exactly the vibe to send me to the polling station. All sunshine as the Tories crumble to dust.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Zooming in reveals that these ads were paid for by Alan. Alan Mabbutt.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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A great read on the Supreme Court’s decision to create an American King. The options now seem to be: expand the courts, and/or invite the Dutch to take over the executive branch. (A double power move by the Dems, given the natural height advantage of the Dutch)
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Beck-and-call servitude for educated people. (Plus buying connections to whatever industry, guaranteeing their offspring get the job they want without applying)
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Since we’re already 2/3rds of the way to so many dystopias, I vote we throw our weight behind this timeline. Benefits would include musical numbers and inter-robot love.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Fun!
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Andrew Facini
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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I’m due on a game show soon and the thought of ‘modern entertainment’ questions is chilling. I’ve bought old trivial pursuit cards to swot up; they both calm me as well as reinforce the problem.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Why do squats punish you by making you too sore to do more squats? What’s the squats’ game plan? Do squats not want you to do squats? Do squats want to keep all the squats to themselves?
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Nothing fired the imagination in my little kid brain quite like Richard Scarry. I shrank myself down and lived a full life in those drawings. Probably as one of the sausage eating pigs.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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After a while I began reading it with a notebook and pen, as if I'd ever re-read those notes.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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A sliver of raw onion made its way into my tea. I both don’t like it, as well as don’t dislike it so much that I’ll stop drinking.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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One of my greatest shopping moments was finding a pair of Oliver Peoples sunglasses in TK Maxx for £20. Twenty years ago and I’m still floating on the envy of friends.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Side (but important) point: I am quietly obsessed w Oliver Peoples and would cross many roads of heavy traffic to take pics of myself trying on frames.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Recently re-watched Pride, thanks to @gralefrit.bsky.social’s podcast. I’d forgotten how moving it was and embarrassed myself by crying in front of my teens.
This is a lovely thread adding to that story. So having a quick cry in the kitchen before the teens wake and ‘Haha’ at me like Nelson Muntz
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Annemarie Cancienne
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This reads like me winging a foreign language without actually knowing how to conjugate verbs.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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There was a fascinating article about the politics of avocados, and the communities resisting the crop, in last year’s Harpers.
harpers.org/archive/2023...
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Yes! Put on order for when it comes out in the UK.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Thank you for sharing this. I will read - and follow - with interest. 📌
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Joe Scaramanga
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Annemarie Cancienne
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The Wide Awakes are in the air. The Washington Post had an opinion piece last week about how we should be talking about them.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Love the sound of this. Added to my bookshop order. Ta!
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Annemarie Cancienne
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If a new government is like the birth of a new baby - a time of joy, of hope - then this exiting Tory gov’t has been the painful delivery where you tear and shit yourself.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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They could allow holiday postcards as election material. ‘Dear constituent - Comment allez-vous? Having a nice time in France, eating lots of baguettes (oh the pain haha). Our room has a hairdryer and a view of the azure seas but it makes me miss the shit strewn shores of England vote Tory’
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Annemarie Cancienne
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It’s just like the voter ID farce. ‘Oh no, we thought this stupidity would catch *you lot* out’
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Could he be so inept that he’d call a summer GE, when school hols/general hols might mean a lot of people are abroad? (Yes, yes he could be that bad.) But *would* he be that bad? (Probably also yes)
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Annemarie Cancienne
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“We didn’t use Scarlett Johansson’s voice. We used a different actor whose name we can’t tell you because she goes to another school.”
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Annemarie Cancienne
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The book is like a lightning bolt to the brain. By breaking down the structures of comedy (and writing) it becomes the manual you need to help build your Thing (which is prob short of screws and needs a better name. Like Hjärnkaka.)
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Annemarie Cancienne
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MovieSky! My family’s movie month theme is: Movies with brave and excellent doggos that aren’t *just* about doggos We’ve watched Love and Monsters so far and have 3 wks to go. Most searches turn up films like Paw-Some Hotel 2 which is a nope. I have two teens so can embrace most genres. Ideas?
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Annemarie Cancienne
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They’re both nowhere near organised enough to do that, as well as venal enough to do that. We’re subscribers and should access it. And by my understanding of the laws of capitalism, our monetary rights (I have bought a thing!!) trump minor piffles like human rights, libel, etc.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Unless Chat GPT is part of a broader conspiracy to keep us ignorant. (As I type that out I’m both thinking ‘haha, yeah, of course it is!’ as well as ‘ah, yeah, of course it is’).
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Maybe that’s the secret, then? If you have a subscription you are filtered differently and they can’t close off the library access for just one article.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I keep hearing that the New Yorker story on Lucy Letby is blocked in the UK but…I read it? On the New Yorker website. Without using an incognito browser. Is having ‘Place of birth: New York City’ on my official docs the modern equivalent of ‘I am a Roman citizen’?
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Annemarie Cancienne
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Yes to all that. A widening umbrella of ‘life is hard if you’re not part of the .01% with a bunker in New Zealand’
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Annemarie Cancienne
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‘The most common causes of writer’s block “reported by approximately 42% of writers were physiological, such as life stress, general anxiety, depression, and burnout”. ‘ Yes. Also - SOAPBOX: however much these are human-condition probs, they can also sharper and sticker among marginalised writers.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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I’d be wasting my printer ink to get that rejection on paper and tacked onto my kitchen cork board. Someone calculated the chance of being published by the NY’er from a random submission was something like .00001% (give or take a zero). I reckon seen the face of God, there.
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Annemarie Cancienne
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New Yorker is a great rec. Their fiction podcast is like literary espresso; one author reads a story by another writer then dissects it w Deborah Treisman. One episode, Margaret Atwood read Alice Munro. A double espresso, that one.
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Steve Silberman
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My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh. (Sorry the alt text doesn't go all the way to the end, but you can find the poem online.)
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Annemarie Cancienne
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They’re not about anything; they’re about everything.
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Julia S.
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if you see an orca heading for a yacht, no you didn’t
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