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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)

@gfrancie.bsky.social

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I make dinner & swear too much. I think that's all you need to know. 'Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives' published by Deixis Press is available now She/her

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 1h

Any particular toppings?

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 4h

A man attempted a passive-aggressive guilt trip when I pointed out he was in my reserved seat. I smiled. And settled into my seat.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 5h

On one hand... my train is delayed. On the other hand.. I will get money back.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 5h

I liked how the girls in the band told dirty jokes, liked to drink, and get up to mischief. That felt eternal.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 5h

I think it is important to to recognise how Billy Wilder's time in Weimar Berlin, and his later work with Ernst Lubitsch definitely influenced so many of his sensibilities. Which were sophisticated, sexy, and queer.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 16h

They genuinely hate the idea of service.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 16h

wise.

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 17h

Oooof.
I am glad I kind of pushed a kind of cultural curiosity at home on my kids. (It also makes me glad that college radio has a revival going on right now.)

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 18h

mmm heroin.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 18h

I am not saying all songs must match a video's mood/content, but when you have certain kinds of content creators using certain songs because they are popular, I do wonder about about cultural literacy/curiosity.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 18h

sometimes I will notice some random song become very big for use with reels on instagram and videos on tiktok. Especially when the song is far away from the content, like Matt Berry's Take My Hand. Even more amusing/bewildering is the use of The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" a song about heroin.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

that is a fantastic name

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

you are so right.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

even a bad movie with sam rockwell is a delight.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

I love Sam Rockwell. The weirder the better.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

I still miss my kid a lot. (what can I say, my kids are some of the best people I know. And I made them! I do good work.) BUT it does make me happy to hear that they are taking to this new life. It's a good way to venture into the paddling pool of adulthood.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

When it came to figuring out accomodation they were initially upset/annoyed with what they were offered and had reservations about living among so many people. "I don't want to be that social." (They are now that social.)
I merely encouraged them to see how it went. (I won't say, "I told you so.")

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

One complaint, "having to do so much walking." (Which I get but they are a good sport about it.)

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

My oldest child has been in university a month. They told me, that the weather hasn't been that bad. They like cooking & shopping for themselves, finds the classes/lectures much more interesting than what was taught at sixth form & they enjoy essentially living next door to all of their friends.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 20h

The counteroffensive to reclaim the frog from the very online incel Nazis is going splendidly.

Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 1d

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

"Plans SORTED"

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 19h

that is always the best fun.