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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 29

"Britain colonised the entire world but still didn't get any spices 🤣🤣🤣" the way I HATE this take. What is brown sauce, if not tamarind for breakfast persisting??

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 21

I see your 'booking international travel on your phone' and raise you 'doing your self-assessment on your phone' (I did no freelance work last year, so it's quite a boring submission to be fair)

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 18

Just Cried like CRIED listening to the different things people would do with their money on The Traitors.

Partly because of the vulnerability of it, and partly because what a society we have where IVF is lottery proceeds type luxury. Bless Alexander too.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Jan 16

I don’t think Freddie is dense, per say. I think he’s a good-natured, beautiful young man, and as is often the way with good-natured beautiful young men, everyone he meets is nice to him and as a result he has a charming (but doomed) lack of cynicism.

Spooky Lukey @luke-minded.bsky.social · Jan 16

It seemed staged when he got out of the coffin did it?

In the TV programme?

They weren't really trapped in coffins?

You reckon?

Freddie is denser than a neutron star

#thetraitors

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · Jan 13

One detail that really gets me about the Gaiman story (beyond all the obvious awful shit) was that the plan from the jump was for two rich celebrities to exploit a woman on the edge of homelessness for free childcare.

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 13

I know it's entirely unrelated but Mark Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan talking about masculine and feminine energy in corporations has really thrown me in ways I can't explain. Like, girl shut up! I want to get off

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 13

I actually want to burn every single 'Divine feminine' Bella Freud x M&S jumpers

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 10

January is just a reminder of how little people understand neurodiversity. Dan wasn't being treacherous: he just understood it was a game in a deeply literal sense!

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 10

Sorry but as if you're going to put viscous shite in my hair on national TV

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 9

When did we as a nation decide to pronounce 'clique' as 'click' rather than 'kleak'? I'm too French-pilled for the former. Is it because of TV/the song?

(I know that sounds so old of me but whatever)

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 9

Have people on this site stopped talking about how they really relate to being the Clever one on the Traitors? Because they were happy to drop Alexander down from his cage and will probably end up deferring to him...

No, race is a huge aspect of it and also: some of you are know-it-alls, NOT smart

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 9

I hate gay Halloween. What do you mean you're dressed up as Linda swerving her head when Claudia says "Traitors, —"

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 9

And who counts as a moderate trans person for Sarah Ditum, then? The downside to these sites is I run into a world where this individual gets paid to write this stuff, and reminded it's served to people over their morning egg and soldiers. Profoundly bad for our intellectual & moral collective soul

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Jan 9

Just going to leave this from Sarah Ditum in the Times here - "Parasitic paedophiles are lesson in trans debate"

Parasitic paedophiles are lesson in trans debate
Hijacking of gay rights in the 1970s has echoes today, with children once again the victims
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum

Sarah Ditum
For years they presented themselves as the next frontier in civil rights; a minority unfairly penalised for their private lives. They attached themselves to the gay rights and feminist movements. They styled themselves as defenders of individual freedom and protectors of children’s rights — high-blown words that covered a vicious and grubby reality.

From 1974 to 1984, the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) held a strange place in British public life. Its mission was to fight for children’s “freedom” to have sexual relationships with adults, and it argued for reducing the age of consent to four. No, there isn’t a missing “teen” there. PIE openly advocated for sex with preschoolers. Its members, as a new investigation by Alex Renton has confirmed, included teachers, clergy and social workers.

Lots of people found PIE repugnant. When Polly Toynbee interviewed two of the group’s leaders in The Guardian in 1977, she wrote of her “disgust, aversion and anger”. Perhaps more significant than Toynbee’s emotional reaction is the fact that she was interviewing a networking organisation for paedophiles in the national press.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Jan 9

Enjoy the "I'm not committing libel" inserted here by the paper's lawyers...

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 8

They definitely should've recruited Francesca as Traitor. Let Fozia cook for a bit as a Faithful. I like her

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 8

Gutted I missed this. I'm definitely going to book if they do it again this year. Their little songs! Was thinking about the 40 years of friendship just today on the tube home from work

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 8

Damn. Double homicide (The Traitors)

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 6

What was that Ariana outfit and eyebrows choice though. Between her and Taylor, I'm convinced that being an American popstar is to not be able to dress

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Tom, actually @tomactually.bsky.social · Jan 4

The way these two are constantly making up bullshit reasons as to why Kasim would be a traitor is really rubbing me the wrong way... #TheTraitors

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 5

I'm on his side. Honestly this series reminds me how softly POC men in particular have to tread to be viewed as not too much (aggressive, calculating, haughty etc) in lots of British social and work contexts.

I want to see a breakdown of how that English teacher grades his students by demographic!

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · Jan 3

I'm still thinking about it. Incredible television. #TheTraitors #Traitors

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Jan 3

absolutely amazing. #TheTraitors

Charlotte reading a book called “Learn Welsh” on The Traitors.

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 2

Yin on The Traitors being understood as very smart is fascinating to me but then again. I do love this stuff

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · Jan 2

Most CSA occurs at the hands of family members and in the familial home. Yet many Tories continue to argue that sex ed in school be scaled back as parents know what's best for their children (despite evidence it keeps children safe). She should be called out for it.

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Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Jan 2

Sorry but 'dark feminine' and also I forgot how much The Traitors serves as propaganda/a follow-on scheme for armed services personnel

Salome @salomewagaine.bsky.social · Dec 29

I think Jimmy Carter had a cute little nose