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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 15h

My post from nine months ago is still true - I get a notification from a different G*rard Butl*r every day. Not even saying his name anymore in case it's like a summoning spell.

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · Jan 20

HOW MANY FREAKIN' GERARD BUTLERS ARE ON THIS APP??
Every time I check in it's like the final boss scene in Enter the Dragon, but instead of mirrors, it's just wall-to-wall Gerard Butler 😑

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 23h

Was really proud of myself for running for 35 minutes today. Felt like I was surely faster than air until I worked out I'm doing an ave 13-min km. 13 minutes! I'm not sure I can call it running after this. Still pleased with the 35 minutes. But wow.

Normal Day Lame GIF

Alt: Tortoise walking in slow motion

media.tenor.com

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 2d

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 2d

Yours in sobriety,
Sasha x

(Good Morning, Midnight)

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 3d

That's so generous of you, thank you. I wasn't in Bridport yesterday so am looking forward to reading everyone's stories and poems. Congratulations to you as well :)

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 4d

Some lovely news: I've won first place in the Bridport Prize Short Story category. It's one of the most welcome and jaw-dropping things that's ever happened to me. Congrats to everyone who won, placed, and entered.
#writers #writingCommunity #booksky #Cumbria
bridportprize.org.uk/results/2025/

2025 - Bridport Prize

bridportprize.org.uk

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 4d

STOP what you're doing and listen to the angels sing. "Here the Deities Approve," Henry Purcell, via Brandon Acker and Reginald Mobley. Utterly magical. (You don't need Tiktok to view the link.)

seetiktok.com/ZNd7q89w7/

One man plays an exaggerated lure while another man in a flowery shirt sings into a microphone.

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 6d

[...] writing off to an address in the back of another book I was reading at the time. Remember how publishers would advertise their catalogue at the back, complete with prices? Anyway, they sent the cheque back, saying the price had gone up. You had to *really* want the books back then.

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 6d

Reading Gone with the Wind. Mitchell's prose is surprisingly modern, and very adept. It just sweeps you along ... until it falls into the most bonkers and literally dehumanising rhetoric.

Have a less depressing story about acquiring my copy of the book, which I am pretty sure came about by [...]

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 6d

There used to be a no-brainer, one-click way to copy a Wordpress backup into Local by Flywheel as a zipped folder, but it's stopped working. Actually, none of the import options work for me. A shame - it used to be really handy, and super simple to use.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 8d

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 8d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to America's and Maryland's and Baltimore's Native People.

This Land Was Their Land: Baltimore’s Lumbee Indians Claim Their History

Thousands of members of the tribe migrated to Upper Fells Point after World War II. Decades later, Native Americans are only now seeing their stories celebrated as part of the “American story” in main...

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 11d

I can't believe I read this and liked it, but assumed "RIP Diane" was some kind of internet slang for something else, damn it.

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 11d

Things I said about Alien, and Gothic storytelling in films set in space:
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/alien-...

Alien (1979): Echoes across space and storytelling - The Haughty Culturist

Unpacking the Gothic monstrousness of sci-fi horror Alien, and how this narrative repeatedly reveals its twists in plain sight.

www.thehaughtyculturist.com

Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 13d

Planning to see doggy horror Good Boy at the cinema? Here's what you can expect (and whether it's a touch watch for dog lovers). 🐾
#GoodBoy #Horror #FilmSky #FilmReview 📽️
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/good-b...

Good Boy (2025): Clever, baffling horror excels at devastation - The Haughty Culturist

The story of a haunted house told from a dog’s point of view, Good Boy delivers an immersive indie horror with heart.

www.thehaughtyculturist.com

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 14d

Every so often the algorithm slips its groove of banality, and shows me something magical. Labi Siffre via TikTok, actually.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpy2...

Labi Siffre - Bless The Telephone (Sounding Out, 21/02/1972)

YouTube video by Labi Siffre

www.youtube.com

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 15d

Many routes survive as footpaths and place names, tracing journeys from remote settlements to consecrated ground. Walk through history and find your path to more knowledge ➡️ w.wiki/FLhS (2/2)

Large flat stone by a mossy dry stone wall with a plaque mounted above it. Text says: These routes were lined with resting stones and inspired folk tales about restless spirits and phantom funerals. This coffin stone in Cumbria, England, lies beside a corpse road once used to carry coffins for burial at St Oswald's Church.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 15d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Ruth Bushi @ruthbushi.com · 17d

This has just come back to me, like the remnant of a weird dream, but Gregg Wallace was live on TikTok last night, answering reader questions. Reader, I didn't.