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Gemma

@GemIsWriting

SFF writer, chiefest and greatest of calamities, also sings a bit. She/her. (Mostly posting at the cloudy place.)

 Isle of Man
Joined April 2010
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Harper Lee’s friends gifted her a year’s financial support for Christmas so she could write whatever she wanted without worrying about money and she used it to write To Kill a Mockingbird in case you're wondering what to get your creative friends this year
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It's almost that time of year when all the tax-dodging celebs appear on our televisions telling poor people to 'give what you can' so that the government can shirk its responsibility towards the most vulnerable in our society. #ChildrenInNeed #pudsey
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@Femi_sorry13 Nov 2023
WHAT THE F**K IS DAVID CAMERON DOING IN DOWNING STREET!?! #reshuffle
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Christopher Lee holding a sword in a library 2003
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One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
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@MuhammadSmiry25 Oct 2023
This is Gaza.
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The Onion, ladies and gentlemen.
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Old people don’t evacuate. At some point you’d rather take your chances at home than try to escape. I think this is an international human truth. Every time I went into a place getting bombed, it was full of old people, disabled people, confused people. That’s who gets bombed.
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🧵As we're talking about the best opening lines in literature, here is a thread of my top ten by Terry Pratchett, who was a master at them ...
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@io928 Aug 2023
Grant Howitt's Eat the Reich Asks If You're Willing to Be a Monster dlvr.it/SvJKCw
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A collection of cute designs from the distant past 1/10
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this a great thread, & goes nicely with my constant argument re: the tories that you aren’t ‘managing the economy’ if no one has a living wage or can afford the cost of living - the ‘economy’ is good only if citizens are thriving under it. if they aren’t, ‘growth’ means nothing
Robert Saunders (@redhistorian) profile pictureRobert Saunders@redhistorian19 Aug 2023
The most powerful idea in British politics is "the economy". Parties promise to "grow", "unleash" or "manage" the economy. It tops lists of voter concerns. But what if we had no concept of "the economy"? Until the C20th, we didn't. And its rise has had major consequences...🧵
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In the chillingly prophetic ‘Years and Years’ by Russell T Davies, Vivienne Rook uses sites inspired by British Boer concentration camps for population control. It’s eerily similar to what the Tories are doing now. They’d probably do it to us too if they could get away with it.
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going to apply 'I have a solution: wolves' to as many contexts as possible
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I see we are playing the “literature will be better/more diverse if we beg for extra scraps from the Arts Council” game … AGAIN The actual answer is structural Time outside of wage labour Want more diverse art? Support unions, the 4 day week, rent control, fight for UBI/UBS
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What a woman.
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Inconceivable horror descends from space and, through a series of terrifying manipulations of your own tiny world, manages to communicate that it thinks your hat’s shit
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@fasc1nate24 Jul 2023
A diver helps an octopus trade his plastic cup for a seashell
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I haven't been able to respond to the formal consultation to close rail ticket offices as it's non-accessible to me. So I've drawn my concerns based on real experiences using the rail system. @HarrietHarman as my MP please speak up for me on this issue. @TransportForAll
Drawing based on experiences travelling by rail. Image split into 8 squares, showing 4 different issues. Each with the present & future if ticket offices are closed. Text reads: PRESENT: The ticket office is a consistent, easy to locate source of info & assistance FUTURE: Closed ticket offices mean using time & energy to find station staff. Making journeys slower & more stressful PRESENT: When there is an emergency, access failure or hate crime ticket office staff can be reached quickly FUTURE: When there is an emergency, access failure or hate crime staff are harder to locate, reducing safety PRESENT: When assistance fails as it often does, companions or other passengers can ask ticket office staff for help FUTURE: When assistance fails no one is there to help. Damaging confidence & making the rail network non-accessible PRESENT: Rail travel is a viable, if imperfect means of travelling nationally for work & leisure FUTURE: Rail travel is unreliable, slower & less safe

ALT Drawing based on experiences travelling by rail. Image split into 8 squares, showing 4 different issues. Each with the present & future if ticket offices are closed. Text reads: PRESENT: The ticket office is a consistent, easy to locate source of info & assistance FUTURE: Closed ticket offices mean using time & energy to find station staff. Making journeys slower & more stressful PRESENT: When there is an emergency, access failure or hate crime ticket office staff can be reached quickly FUTURE: When there is an emergency, access failure or hate crime staff are harder to locate, reducing safety PRESENT: When assistance fails as it often does, companions or other passengers can ask ticket office staff for help FUTURE: When assistance fails no one is there to help. Damaging confidence & making the rail network non-accessible PRESENT: Rail travel is a viable, if imperfect means of travelling nationally for work & leisure FUTURE: Rail travel is unreliable, slower & less safe

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While we’re worrying about AI, the bollards are planning a global revolution
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anyway read @chaedria on the Mackie dress that Kim Kardashian destroyed to understand why five people are about to die at the bottom of the ocean
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Fuck off. Kids who aren’t rich deserve to study art, literature, drama, history etc. We need them. The entertainment and media sector was worth £83 billion last year. It accounts for 3% of total jobs (the same percentage as financial services). Her argument is unserious.
It’s time to stop obsessing about Oxbridge Getting our children there consumes startling amounts of money, time and emotion — but is it really worth the trouble? Emma Duncan Monday August 05 2019, 12.01am, The Times

ALT It’s time to stop obsessing about Oxbridge Getting our children there consumes startling amounts of money, time and emotion — but is it really worth the trouble? Emma Duncan Monday August 05 2019, 12.01am, The Times

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