Elle Hunt
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Freelance writer, mostly @guardian , Brit/NZer, she/her. elle.hunt.freelance @theguardian .com, DMs open
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The UK really has no concept of how to cope with heat. I've read advice to carry a bag of frozen peas under your shirt on the train. Right now on the radio they're suggesting you rub yourself with a raw onion ("but it only has a palliative, not a preventative effect")
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Me on the phone my dad this morning: "Everyone I know has got Omicron, or knows someone with Omicron. Everyone's Christmas plans are up in the air. Everyone's depressed"
My dad: "This the worst I've seen the English cricket team in my lifetime"
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It's so upsetting to see England go back into lockdown in the same desperate situation as 10 months ago. I've just emerged in NZ after 2wks' quarantine and the contrast is heartbreaking. There's no explanation other than thoroughgoing government incompetence; I'll never forget it
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This isn't a heatwave, it's the new normal and the UK is woefully unprepared, putting their bedsheets in the freezer and eating four ice creams a day and celebrating like it's bloody Proms instead of registering it as the emergency it absolutely is
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Nepotism in the UK differs to nepotism in the US in the same way that Ricky Gervais’ The Office differs to Steve Carrell’s: It’s subtler, nastier, and arguably more effective in achieving its aims
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All this and you just know everyone will heading out at high noon with their canned cocktails and pork pies and their SPF 15 "because they want to get a bit of colour"
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Back on dating apps and a bloke had in his bio "not interested in ONS" and my immediate response was well yeah stats are boring chat
...which is reflective of how bad I am at dating apps
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We were talking about the forecast at the pub the other night, 37C in the north of England. One pal fairly punched the air: "bring it on!" Buddy you don't know what you're dealing with. Get ready to stuff a bag of peas under your shirt
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When I lived in Sydney it could be uncomfortably hot walking to work before 7am. I'd stay late to make the most of the aircon, then scuttle home. I remember sitting in bed at night and a steady drip of sweat from my elbows. The way you cope with heatwaves is not going outside
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We are now four years closer to this reality. Nothing meaningful has been done to stop or even slow it
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This is what I have always imagined tall people talk about when they're together
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I was at the Southbank a few weeks ago when it was uncomfortably hot, more furnace than festive. I was hunting for shade but droves of people were walking by the river, clearly determined to "make the most of it". But it's going to happen every summer and it's going to get worse!
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So refreshing to see a column on trans rights, written by a cis woman, that finally represents my position and the position of the overwhelming majority of women I know!
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Meanwhile, on the radio, a listener has a question: "But if you put your socks in the freezer won't they get hard?"
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My little sister lives up a hillside in Wellington, New Zealand, and has a private cable car to get to her house. For her Halloween party this weekend, she has hired a student to sit in it for 2.5 hours, dressed as the Grim Reaper
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Lot going on here
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From Justin Timberlake's public betrayal of their relationship to the relentless bullying of Chris Crocker for saying to leave her alone – every layer you peel back to Britney Spears' story, there's cruelty. We're only just starting to scratch the surface
#FreeBritney
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Nearly 50% of the British public want to scrap the 9am-5pm, five-day workweek and replace it with a model with fewer days and hours, says new poll by Survation. This is what’s drivng the “great resignation” imo: we thought the pandemic would result in these changes, and it hasn’t
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One in 5,000 women are born with Rokitansky syndrome and have an absent or underdeveloped cervix. "It's a condition that is stigmatised," writes this woman affected. That stigma is perpetuated by insisting women are defined by their reproductive system
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New Zealand votes rejects Labour and bring back the National party: opening the gates to no-fault evictions, foreign property investment, lower capital gains taxes, ditching welfare reforms and rail, more cars and roads and escalations in the culture war. Dismal stuff
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When asked whether he was relieved Whangārei city had escaped tsunami damage, the Whangārei District Council chief executive replied: “Oh shit yeah.”
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This should be understood as unequivocal proof of how the threat of "cancel culture" is weaponised to work for the powerful, and the aggressors
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She is 33 years old.
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Mortifyingly I forgot that, here in New Zealand, we thank the bus driver
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This from Beyoncé is revealing of the determination and clarity of vision you have to have, as an artist, to resist the influence of standards set by tech platforms on your work
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Increasingly hard to avoid coming to the conclusion that we don't know what to do about our desires and – rather than interrogate them – we'd prefer to opt out of the possibility of pleasure at all
Ozempic doesn't just suppress your appetite.
I talked to patients who took the drug to lose weight— only to also effortlessly stop biting their nails, compulsively shopping, drinking alcohol, and so on.
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To a UK ear, when Harry Styles says "things like this don't happen to people like me" – this is what he means:
BEGGING Harry Styles to stop saying "people like me" when he wins something. sir, I am ROOTING FOR YOU, but absolutely no one knows what you mean by that and it does not sound good!!
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Many cafes, bars and restaurants – in my experience, especially the high end ones – have gender neutral toilets. So does my uni. It's fine!
West End's Playhouse Theatre has been blasted for its gender neutral toilets, forcing women to "file past men at urinals".
Trans activist Felix Fern: “I'm not sure what the problem is. People don’t mind single-sex facilities on trains and at home.”
@cristo_radio
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@Felix_F_Fern
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"My experience now helps me empathise with trans people." An important perspective
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Easy one, he's the prime minister of New Zealand. Next
In the interests of balance, someone should now ask women how they define Chris Hipkins.
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@KemiBadenoch
@jennirsl
There are so many women who vehemently disagree with this. When will you hear us?
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People talk about wanting to buy because rent is "throwing money away" – I've never seen it like that (not being responsible for repairs, being able to move is valuable) but god it would be nice not to have this shadowy self-interested figure holding ultimate power over your home
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What's a song you'd truly be content to never hear again? Sweet Home Alabama for me
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This is a good thread full of useful advice for not spreading fake news, but I would argue that another legitimate and underrated path is not posting at all
Before sharing a post about Ukraine, it's worth following these steps (devised by
@holden
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1. Stop - take a breath, when things make us feel shocked, sad or angry we're more likely to smash that share button without thinking. That impulse can be exploited
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Are people afraid of going to the dentist? Or are they afraid of sudden, large expenses?
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Wonder how many people are planning to take this up "From 2024, any Brit up to the age of 36 will be able to live and work – at any skill level – in NZ for up to three years"
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New Zealanders: your friends in the UK need your support rn. It's easy to feel removed from the situation, but the mood is desperate and going to deteriorate (the Seasonal Affective Disorder is bad enough). A sympathetic ear or distracting story of normal life might go a long way
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A New Zealand fact more people should know is that Neil Finn's wife Sharon has a shop selling chandeliers called Sharondelier
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“Perhaps the most disturbing part was the number of British journalists who were interacting with [trolls] and amplifying the lies.. I learned from a very early age that the incentives of publishing are not necessarily aligned with the incentives of truth”
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“It’s degrading. It’s demeaning. But on the other hand it takes two to tango. There must be women posing for all this” incredible take from the wife of the MP accused of watching porn in the Commons
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Solidarity with Marie. I have had this experience for speaking out as a trans-inclusive feminist as well – dismissed as immature and naïve, jumping on a fashionable bandwagon, trying to be a "pick me" girl. Nothing more feminist than belittling women who disagree with you, right?
on a brief serious note - I've received hundreds of tweets from gender critical people today and dozens of those were accusing me of being a handmaiden, of trying to get the attention of men, of not being a feminist, and so on
to set the record straight:
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Little bit of personal news! I am moving to Norwich in September to do the MA in fiction writing at the University of East Anglia. I'll still be freelancing, just less. I'm really excited to be a beginner again
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“It is clear to me that these alternate realities aren’t just dumb luck or geographical good fortune. They are the result of different political choices”
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Wrote about the surrealism of normalcy in my first month back in New Zealand for
@guardianweekend
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No that's not it.
Vilified for standing up for women: why did the Harry Potter generation reject JK Rowling?
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Settle an argument: is Alien a horror film? Give reasons why pls
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After a solid Saturday morning blocking session, I cannot stress this enough: transphobes, do not @ me
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A reminder, once again, that "cis" means "not trans". It's not a slur and anyone who tells you it is is showing their agenda
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“If Gareth Southgate seems exceptional now, that’s because our lives are being shaped by characters who mask any pretension to decency or seriousness or even intelligence to succeed in the pantomime that is political life”
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People talk shit about dating apps but I just matched with a Roomba programmer with two in his flat called Dustbin Hoffman and Vac Efron
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It's been called the age of "anti-ambition": many people who used to find themselves living to work are now working to live
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A fact I am burdened by is that Kelsey Grammer has his wife's name tattooed on his crotch to prevent him from cheating
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To all the staunch defenders of the five-day workweek in my mentions 1) I did not draft or carry out the research; you may engage with those who did above 2) it is not my job to make a four-day week function within the economy 3) have you considered stanning for anything else
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Gender-neutral spaces would not have saved Sarah Everard and it's grotesque to use her death to bang this drum
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Have been in freedom in NZ for less than an hour and already lost my mum in The Warehouse
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The greatest gift of all: a negative test! Two women came to my door to tell me, then gave me a round of applause 🥰
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My feature on British Nepo babies, one of my favourites I've ever written, has has been wiped from
@viceuk
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@juliamacfarlane
But London could have *stopped* being an international travel hub in March, had the gov actually closed borders. There are still planes to New Zealand and Australia
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When you identify as a liberal feminist and find yourself aligned with Putin, Lebedev, and the same conservative parties seeking to restrict abortion, surely you must start to wonder – hmm, am I on the right side here
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“You have to be earning a huge amount for childcare not to be unaffordable. We have a joint income of almost £80,000 and it’s stretching us – I have no idea how those earning less manage”
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Just saw back-to-back profiles on Hinge: "Looking for a woman who understands my love for The US Office" and "I won't shut up about Peep Show, you should watch it if you haven't already" and, like... on what planet do men think women live
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Not an original point but worth continually restating that the dehumanising way we talk about other people on Twitter, on dating apps, etc is unsettling and pernicious and will have far wider ramifications than just how we treat each other online
i saw a therapist last yr bc i kept feeling like everyone hates me, and my therapist kept saying, "just bc you feel something doesn't mean it's a fact," and about a year later, NBC has a headline story that says "everyone hates this guy"
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Setting aside the content, it's incredibly thoughtless of an MP to make a junior (underpaid?) member of his staff the face of this issue, and expose her to personal and critical commentary on Twitter
Katy works for me. She is single & earns less than 30k, rents a room for £775pcm in Central London, has student debt, £120 a month on travelling to work saves money every month, goes on foreign holidays & does not need to use a foodbank.
Katy makes my point really well.
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@bellamackie
@gregjames
The full quote: "I can remember every match since 1960 and this is the worst I've ever seen English cricket. It's not just the team, it's the management, the very structure of the game. And no one is prepared to say anything about it... The world is a very troubling place"
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I asked if he had first responder training; she pointed out that that would be counterproductive
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The royalists swarming around this tweet are quite something to witness
“Perhaps the most disturbing part was the number of British journalists who were interacting with [trolls] and amplifying the lies.. I learned from a very early age that the incentives of publishing are not necessarily aligned with the incentives of truth”
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I only want to hear Ruby Tui on any sports now
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"Why should any CEO make more than the actresses whose labor and beauty they sell? Why should a second-year management consultant at every major consulting firm make more than every single writer I have ever known?" Oof
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@AdamRutherford
@Scientits
It eventually concludes: “So – I spend lots of time online. Your generalizations about "people who spend time online" must know all these "viral memes" is simply wrong and you should be careful about the assumptions you make about people and your readership”
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Eating sandwiches from a pharmacy
What’s considered normal in the UK but isn’t anywhere else?
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It might take losing his job for this bloke to understand his actions. "It's not what I actually believe... I didn't actually mean the harmful things I said... This isn't me, I am a good, decent person" – sure, but it IS you, isn't it mate
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I would simply resign
In March 2020, she was spending hours each day in virtual meetings. She pinned her secret work crush to her screen to stay engaged.
But one day, people could see a reflection of her laptop. A colleague asked, "Why do you have Jake pinned to your screen?"
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@gregjames
making the point on Radio 1 this morning that for many the Queen's passing will have brought up memories of losing loved ones earlier in the pandemic: "As a nation we're not good at dealing with death"
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I apologise for any offence caused to space
@elle_hunt
@abnerpastoll
The problem wasn’t the question it was the dismissive way you claimed horror couldn’t be set in space
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"...'terf' which is 2021 for 'witch'". Good grief. Maybe now that it's 2022 then we can accept that "terf" is a useful descriptor for those feminists (because it's not all feminists!) who seek to deny rights to trans women?
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PSA FOR NEW ZEALAND: tomorrow is GOOD FRIDAY. You will not be able to buy ANY ALCOHOL. Buy alcohol TODAY
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Is it my husband who is out of line? No, it is sex workers who are wrong!
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This, from the NZ Human Rights Commission, is a deeply satisfying letter to read
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Solidarity with Owen, and once more for the people at the back: SM wasn't fired, she was not singled out or even named in the letter of staff condemning transphobic views, and she continued to write a weekly column for months afterwards before then deciding to leave
OK everyone, this is boring, there's one trillion more important things in the world, and I'm sorry to inflict this on your timeline!
For the last few years, Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore has had, let's say, a bit of a grudge against me.
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Is it just me or is there something in the air at the mo? Feels like my entire social circle is in upheaval: sudden breakups or escalations, changes not just in job but industry, big moves – as if there's some pent-up late-pandemic, pre-recession steam urgently being blown off
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I think many people here would be surprised to learn that Twitter typically makes up <1% of traffic to any Guardian story, even the ones it seems like "everyone" is talking about
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“a new, money-shaped shadow is looming over millennials’ dating lives and relationships: Welcome to dating in the age of the housing crisis”
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