Rachel Connolly
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My novel Lazy City was out last year. Email about work: rachelmaconnolly @gmail .com Substack:
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New fiction from me. A story about inheritance, getting older, loneliness, sex. The works! Proud of this one
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A thing I often think is missing from the uni discourse is that young people who aren't from a pretty wealthy (/academic/high cultural capital) background actually have no idea what jobs there are except the quite obvious ones
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Extremely childlike/baby voice adult woman is suuuuccch a sinister vibe personality wise
mia goth talks about what she would do if she wasn’t an actor!
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'He was 100m school champion... They're not catching him'
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I do think we're overdue a conversation (and maybe even formal education) about what you can do if someone you know personally is spinning out or behaving erratically online
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I think upper/upper middle class people think 'what am I best at' and then try and get into the best uni possible knowing they'll be able to get some kind of internship in publishing or whatever, where most others think 'what practical thing does this qualify me for'
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I don't think people are like 'oh if I do an English degree I'll earn less' its much more a case of 'if I do an English degree I either be a teacher or I work in the call centre I currently work in after school'
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Things like medicine or engineering are quite obvious in terms of where it goes, but the idea that there are jobs attached to something like a history degree is not a thing at all
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Already sick of people who spend their whole time tirelessly advocating for the state to inflict cruelty now bristling when it brushes up against their own life
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The thing about saying wind farms are ugly is that literally every power station is ? Wind farms imo look nice compared to a conventional power plant
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The fetishisation of hard work and bootstraps and heroes against the odds means everyone is very reticent to admit they are where they are bcos of a combination of lucky breaks, being decent at what they do, and structural advantages
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Everytime a high profile journo does something that seems either malicious or stupid i go straight to the early life section of their Wikipedia to read all about their various ancestors' high profile roles in the sugar trade
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The thing of people talking about Shein as if it's a philanthropic organisation which clothes the needy is a good example of how privilege discourse has gone a bit mad imo
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Eternally baffled by how much this country hates lovely old Jeremy Corbyn
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I actually think this is the man most politicians mean when they refer to the mythical white working class voter. I.e. someone who didn't go to uni but has a high salary, probably owns 2 properties etc but still thinks of himself as a geezer
imagine embarrassing yourself to this extent on national television & not having the faintest clue
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Greggs is the youngest ever self made billionaire
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An older man was giving these out to young women at the climate march and this is everything that's wrong with this debate
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My Christmas tradition of not drinking any water for five days
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Obsessed with this disgusting sofa in Barack Obama's lounge
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I wrote about the problems with millennial commentary which frames *us all* as financially precarious for
@guardian
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My favourite ever Derry Girls take is from my uncle who has lived in Derry his whole life and refuses to watch a single episode because most were filmed in Belfast: 'a place with no culture'
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Someone could drop a nuclear bomb on the UK and the terfs would still be scuttling round in the wreckage arguing over who gets to use what toilet
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Watching the police footage it's striking that they're clearly using force just to give themselves something to do, they should never have been there in the first place
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One of life's great paradoxes that all the best gossips are excellent secret keepers
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Many women don't find abortion traumatic or guilt inducing. Acknowledging that reality in the general case would help us move on from treating a health issue as a legal one
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Wrote about influencers as the kind of vanguard of cultural banality, the way very dubious social justice posturing is used to sell the banality, the smear campaigns, etcetcetc. All the hits!!!
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This type of lewdness is a characteristic feature of the heiress brand building effort, an attempt to stake a claim to modernity and position the person as a 'fun young voice', but it never seems to lose the matronly overtones
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can’t get an uber? i spoke to drivers about their self-imposed strike in the face of declining pay and increasing operating costs
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By the time it gets to a YouTube manifesto it's obviously really severe but it doesn't start there and escalates from other stuff that is maybe mildly alarming but that nobody really knows how to intervene in
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Sending my bank account details to this scam as a reward for coming up with the name 'Chip Poncy'
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The 'digging up decade old tweets someone probably doesn't even remember posting to prove they're beyond the pale' model of social justice enforcement is just so plainly unserious, however it's applied
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I love the way the 2012 Olympics opening gets spoken about as if it was like a cultural movement instead of a few hour long government organised ceremony
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When mentioning your famous parents every time you open your mouth doesn't get you enough attention
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Stop putting random people on blast like this my goodness!
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I understand why successful writers and academics don't mind the idea of the retirement age going up but I find it bizarre that they don't see how different a few years is to a person doing, say, manual labour
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Wealthy columnists love writing these pieces framed as if they're about a generation when they're actually talking about the private school friend group of their own spoilt children
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No point trying to make sense of transphobia I suppose, but you'd think that considering the idea of your own bodily autonomy being under threat might make you think about the cruelty of restricting other people's
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Grifters love to talk about their undergraduate degree as an indicator of niche expertise ! They all do it
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This is vv good on Mumsnet anti trans radicalisation
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I guess partly the problem is maybe that the person doesn't have close friends in the normal sense but has an online community instead who encourage it. So hard to know where to start really
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I feel like the default position is ignoring it (or even sometimes encouraging it bcos it's entertaining) but that obviously just leaves it to fester
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It's a manner adopted by those totally unbounded by decency, the voice of a woman who would literally steal your car and crash it into a tree and then giggle and clap
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Depressing that so many young journos are visibly the children of established journalists and politicians, who ofc partook in the obligatory uni politics incase they wanted to do that route, but it's a young black woman being singled out as endemic of corruption in the media
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Obviously putting the responsibility for climate destruction onto women in the global south (as the picture inherently does) is deplorable but there's a wider thing of the problem always being something someone else has to do differently
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This piece on how women (inc the author) can't afford to have children because the cost of rent is too high, written by someone with significant heriditary wealth, is the apex of a trend where people pretend that structural problems impact everyone equally
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you would never see the tories deselect a woman with this cv over some petty factional beef
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Love to have my social life entirely dependent on the weather, like a peasant of old
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A friend of mine who works as a fashion journalist did an Instagram questions thing the other day and someone asked for career advice and she just openly said 'I started out with XX internship, here's the times my parents gave me money and I also went to private school'
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Just think it's pretty dodgy to be talking like this tbh!
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The disappointment of emailing yourself and then momentarily forgetting who the new email is from
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A lot of the 'you couldn't be gay/a feminist/dye your hair pink in Gaza' columnists seem to spend the rest of their time arguing to roll back recent progressive advances in these areas
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Young journos who went to oxbridge and now, as a 23 year old, work as like a producer on newsnight or a correspondent at the times all have the same twitter which is just like: 'This piece in the N Yorker is a TOUR DE FORCE' and then loads of rts of studies on fake news and trump
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Feel like Girls was a show a lot of people felt a little too seen by and then felt they had to decry because of that (which is to say this is good lol)
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These look like hot girl book covers
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Brain dead takes about Ukraine being a coloniser ??? and just made up rubbish about certain minority groups being the most at risk in a war when young men are the ones being conscripted as we speak. Just please learn one thing once that isn't from an infographic
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Of the many ways in which this country was not good enough for the big man, this brand of pedantic, curtain twitching surveillance was one of the most annoying
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Wrote about Ireland's best export: writing and why I don't think it's just about arts funding
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A man in his 60s arguing that young women shouldn't have children to solve climate change is the end point of a conversation which is never about personal responsibility
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The world has given giles coren so much and yet he is so bitter, if he had just been dealt a regular hand would he like be a serial killer
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Wrote about wanting narratives of female behaviour that afford us more complexity, and the currency female abjection is awarded in a patriarchal society
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When you go on a rich person's LinkedIn its always like: st pauls school (AAA in religion, drama and class civ, also Junior Prefect); Oxford; Scuba Instructor (managed tours across multiple islands for 3 years); 3 month internship at the ft; comment editor at the times
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What's the justification, like actually what could it be ?
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I like and respect Jeremy Corbyn a lot for a lot of reasons but an underrated one is that he's a rare English politician who genuinely cares about northern ireland
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Lots of 'cancellings' are actually interpersonal disputes in which one party has managed to find enough evidence of a structural misdemeanor to enable then to reframe the dispute as such
quote tweet with your belief or action that is most likely to get you cancelled
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Theres ~5 opinions that get done all the time in uk media with the same argument and a tenuous hook: the anti trans piece, the oxbridge state school one, one against no platforming, one saying centrism is the only electable left gov, and one saying millenials cant buy a house
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An exquisitely rendered and styled character, like so many great creations the truth of her feels unsettling
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I wrote a novel!!!!
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I wrote about my (very positive) experience of psycho-analysis, and kind of about being a bit weird in general I suppose !
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@mmegannnolan
I actually live on the grounds of my cleaner's manor but she still drives over in her ferrari when she comes for her shift
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Think we should maybe unilaterally move Christmas to a different month, December has been taken by covid
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Wrote about wanting more than these melodramatic personal essays we keep seeing (** not referring to writing about traumatic experiences but about experiences which just aren't that bad!!!)
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Have to say think Colleen Rooney was inspo for the double reveal
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Excl: Great leader is very great, widely beloved by all citizens
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Taken a few weeks but feel like I have a good quarantine routine now. Thought I'd share in case anyone is struggling to plan their time.
Please know I don't want anyone to feel guilty about their productivity in comparison, I'm just someone who deals with stress by hustling hard
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Wrote about a category of person I think of as 'life's losers'
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Think this is a really interesting point re constituency and with the internet also there aren't the same practical barriers there are with drugs, alcohol etc. So someone can kind of endlessly feed an obsession with certain material, a stranger, whatever
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I loved this! Everyone should read it
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Lmao these women literally have the worst marriages and somehow it's Owen Jones fault
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Whenever a good writer dies I just wish the industry as a whole now was less committed to supporting bad, derivative and lazy writing and vanity projects
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Interesting how many 'liberal' London commentators are more keen to appeal to the racism they percieve to be rampant in 'left behind' northern communities than to fix the fact those communities have been left behind
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With someone with a large platform (glinner i.e.) you see how it feeds the problem too, because even the most deranged posting attracts a response (even if it is very small compared to the audience) so it feeds the problem by reinforcing it
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A lot of British media people sharing disinformation aren't breaking news reporters but columnists and the like. There's simply no need for you to be providing lightning speed updates other than to seek attention, it's easy to refrain from doing so
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The campaign to launder a win for racist hyper nationalism begins in earnest
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Thing about these pieces is nobody has to write stuff like this if they are good at writing
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Wrote about something I have wanted to write about for ages: how 'the apps' make everyone act bizarro and a great new book (with a great name: The New Laws of Love)
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There's no safe way to interact either. You'd be like 'oh I think you maybe skinned my pet there' and then tears, instantly!
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Few things worse than re reading your own disgusting writing
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Lol at all the men being 'good allies' by making fun of this, as if abortion is something they should never have to trouble themselves by interacting with
The New York Times is looking for men based in the U.S. to share their experiences with abortion. Fill out this form to share your story.
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I wrote about 'the year in gossip', covid scolding, that zoom 'malfunction' and why I'm not into moralising for
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The behaviour from men that I consider to be a real warning signal is when they get aggressive towards women quickly with almost no provocation (being disagreed with, say), do things like stand up or raise their voice in a discussion to assert their physical dominance
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