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So looking forward to this for my NEW PAPERBACK!!! Out TOMORROW!!! Sex marriage power rage queerness parenting chaos.

Kate Davies is great and I fear it may become riotous. Please come and keep the peace

Me checking the NASDAQ all the time: "ahhhhh yes I see well well well"
Me before April: "NASDAQ is....some sort of....bank.....?"

Ikr, amazing

Same!

Had forgotten THRILL of being picked as one of @waterstones.bsky.social top authors for the next 25 yrs w #maggieofarrell @naomialderman.bsky.social
#SusannaClarke #helenoyemi
@gautammalkani.bsky.social +19 others, hence my colossal grin, freshly rediscovered. www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Thank you!

"top 3 so far this year." Believe me when I say Julianne reads about a gazillion books a month, so this is real feat.

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You too! And your lovely hound

Did You Know They Keep Sooty In A Display Case On The North Pier In Blackpool Like A Glove Puppet Jeremy Bentham?

Thank you. Qantas been so rubbish. 11+ hours of silence and we're still only at Calais

Eighteen hrs from Perth to Heathr...oh. Now 7 hours into a 1975 style coach trip towards but not even AT Calais so help me god

🧵Dressage horses with funny names.

1. Super Mario

42. Son of a Lady

Hampstead Heath today was a frenzy of cross country runners all going in different directions and it was brilliant. Like being caught among muddy atoms

Screenshot of post on X announcing (with the amusing words “Diva down) that my account there has been hacked

I’ve been hacked over in the other place, which in one way is rather a blessing. The process of trying to sort it out is, however, exasperating. This tweet (which a friend screenshot and sent) did make me laugh though, so that’s something!

What those who raid bookshops, ban books, censor and destroy archives forget is that we have a history of resistance and we will defend our freedom to read.

Seized Books! records how @gaystheword.bsky.social and their supporters fought back against customs raids and won.

People sometimes ask me what English exceptionalism is.

In the future I'm going to just hand out laminated copies of this.

Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date - BBC News She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.

Y’all, I really wanna know what happened with this couple. Anyone know THE Liam Smith?

You absolute wonder thank you so much

I'm proud to be involved with an amazing group of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees, who need your help.
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Two Men on a Bike. Another bloody programme with a couple of middle aged blokes on a journey of discovery. Maybe there’s a podcast too 😖 ( quite happy to head of on a tv jolly with a girl friend but obvs too old 😂)

It's a lovely novel

Just had my first Vinted Issue. End stage capitalism much less fun than Gibbons's Fall of the Roman Empire led me to believe

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