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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)

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I make dinner & swear too much. I think that's all you need to know. 'Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives' published by Deixis Press is available now She/her


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Yep. It is quaint.

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Just a fever dream

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We are here to wreck England with our cheerful upbeat socialist nature.

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A day out with the kids. Celebrating 12 years of living in the UK.

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I recognize my rainier cherries anywhere.

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Lego now has a Robert Shaw minifigure so what's stopping you from building a Taking of Pelham One Two Three model?

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Rainier cherries?

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HRT is a worthy investment.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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This is oddly fascinating in the sense that it doesn't appear that the writer has spent any time with actual artists. He has so little understanding of why or how people make art.

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Finishing up reading a book in the bath sure can deal with the anxiety and the exhausted feelings.

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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All british actors know each other from Cambridge footlights except for Peter capaldi and Craig Ferguson who know each other from an acid house in Glasgow 1981 and I think that’s beautiful

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To the nursery I go.

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Now I want some.

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They are so lovely.

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Buddy. Shhhh.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) 's avatar Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social
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I have been through the American immigration rules/requirements AND the UK ones. And let me tell you, the US ones are pretty awful and bigoted. The fees are so silly. I am very good at providing proof .

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Buddy, you need to stop embracing foolish ideas. You are embarrassing yourself.

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MOST native born British people would never be able to marry/bring over their foreign-born spouse. Which is a pretty terrible thing when you think about it. You do not have the freedom to marry who you want.

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If Labour would like to win people over -they could get rid of the super high income requirements that make it so difficult for people to bring their foreign-born spouse to the UK. The home office won't even allow the sponsored spouse's income to be counted.

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I really don't get angry at people's genteel xenophobia that is dressed up as concern. I DO look down upon them for skipping merrily with enthusiasm towards scammy ideas. If you believe such things so easily, it tells me a great deal about your critical thinking skills and general media literacy.

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Got some clown acting all scared of us immigrants. Listen I am sorry that we are charismatic sexy people who are very good at what we do because we have to be really really good at what we do to be allowed in. We have to know more than native born people about the country.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) 's avatar Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social
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social stress. That is an interesting term. Again, that is a very specific emotional choice. I encourage you to reflect upon your views about us immigrants and think about where those feelings come from.

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Listen, xenophobia is a choice.

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It is a pretty small amount.

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Have you ever gone through the process of being an immigrant to the UK? Because I have. I can tell you that we aren't strolling up and just being given everything. It is a long, complicated and expensive process. We aren't FILLING up every corner. I encourage you to learn more.

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But we need immigrants. P.S. I am an immigrant.

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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Well done!!!

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Sympathy for you. It is such a misery.

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Naomi Alderman's avatar Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social
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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) 's avatar Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social
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Never apologize.

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Helena Fitzgerald 's avatar Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
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lord I see what you’ve done for others and etc

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I think I could grow a better mustache than him.

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I also suggest Creepy Dweebs

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Thanks babe!

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TradCaths are people who didn't get the playground beating they should have had as kids. They are people who choose that path because no one else wants them. (please see certain staff members at the Spectator. And Tim Stanley.)

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It is time.

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It is a GOOD time.

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A scoop of home made peach ice cream on a slice of homemade angel food cake.

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who wants some cake and ice cream?

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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But here's the thing, and I'll say it as someone who monitors and analyzes media: the bad media coverage isn't going to let up. It's going to drive his poll numbers down and it's going to be relentless. There's blood in the water, and maybe it's not fair, but that's the reality right now.

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And I say movie star because she had that quality. Yes she is a great actor but to also be a movie star is a whole other thing. Some people are truly movie stars.

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North by Northwest is on BBC4. One time I watched that film next to Eva Marie Saint. She turns 100 today! (I can tell you that she was the most gracious and lovely movie star I have ever met.)

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) 's avatar Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social
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Well then. Fourth of July is truly here.

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dessert: home-made angel food cake, home-made peach ice cream. And we might roast marshmallows in the fireplace later on as it is cold and dreary out.

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Dinner tonight: hot dogs, wild boar burgers, caprese salad, butter beans & artichoke hearts in garlic and lemon, hummus & crudite, AND watergate salad. (it is a salad if you are in the midwest.) Plus condiments. Because we don't fuck about. Plus root beer.

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EXCELLENT! (save me a plate)

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