@joannanadin.bsky.social
Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
Ever since we made them ‘consumers’ rather than participants this has been an issue. (Not all, obvs. But a distinct sense of thinking they can consume content as quickly and easily as possible and spew it out and get the grade (or get ChatGPT to))
Yes. Obvs. Some of us never even started. But the cost is a drop in the ocean compared to dairy and beef farming. (And am trying to reconcile that with not being vegan, which I can’t for medical reasons.)
Poets in the Bath / Bristol area, this one’s for you…
www.curiousmindsfestival.co.uk/events/small...
Come to this free online event as part of the Good Grief Festival! I’ll be talking to former children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho about how books can help children deal with grief. www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
Snap!
If anyone is at LBF I’ll be on the main stage tomorrow at 3.45 talking about being a ghost. And if any friends aren’t booked to the eyeballs, let me know, otherwise I will basically be wandering around stalls in a daze for the remainder of the day. www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...
I don’t think the Lindt Master Chocolatier has reason to be that smug when all he’s done is make an oblong Ferrero Rocher.
Jakki (sp?) Brambles is giving me Victoria Coren Mitchell vibes in a good way #totp
So many. I have hideous flashbacks to something involving glowsticks and neon leggings in Brixton Electric
Dear god. *shudders*
But I won’t hear a word against Kelly Jones.
I can never listen to them again. I overplayed that album and it’s like when you once got horribly drunk on gin and cherryade and now you get memory heaves
It would be so nice if dictators and warmongering tangerines could, idk, stop being testosterone-fuelled bellends for five minutes so my kid could pay her heating bill (and also so innocent people don’t die anymore, obvs).
Big up to the student who showed up to tutorial in shorts today. That level of optimism brings me joy.
Rewatching Sliding Doors (one of my many comfort films) and it is a tickbox exercise in my London 90s:
- excessive Grolsch
- Bertorelli’s
- smoking inside
- radical pixie haircut
- dickish boyfriend with swarthy eyebrows
Minus the living in a fancy flat and being, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow
If it helps, I can express my contempt even louder.
Our latest BBC West reporter has a Somerset accent and a man bun and I am here for it.
It’s also baffling because if they think we can’t tell they’re eejits. They just look cheap
Make it stop!
Yes! This. It’s all TOO MUCH.
I just read something of his yesterday and the phrase ‘deeply savoury’ has a lingering ick even now.
Anyone lurking around Frome on 26th March, would be lovely to see you at this event for After Darcy…
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Hope tells me Labour will learn from this. That they’ll stop pandering to wankers and remember who they’re supposed to stand for. Experience reminds me too many ARE the wankers now. Green didn’t split the Labour vote. Labour split the Reform vote.
Make hope normal again.
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚
People are exhausted, the moral panics labour have taken an active and willing part in are exhausting, we need change, we need better, we need this
The endless attacks on oppressed and marginalised people, disabled, immigrants, trans people, its not what people want
But it is what politicians want
We shouldn’t have to vote tactically. We shouldn’t have to painstakingly analyse small sample polls with huge error margins to figure out how to stop our least preferred candidate winning. We shouldn’t have to be bombarded with conflicting party propaganda about who is in front really. It’s madness.
£1million worth going at my uni at the moment. And yet we’re building new campuses constantly.
On Reform's "British culture" bullshit.
I grew up in a culture that has endured for 800 years despite attempts, both obvious and insidious, to snuff it out by a much more powerful neighbour. If your culture can't withstand a few Turkish kebab shops, your culture ain't all that. 🏴
Passion fruit. Taste like Lush invented them and the texture of claggy spit.
Watching Robert Aramayo win Best Actor is just GORGEOUS.