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Morning wave. A very honest no bullshit account, thank you. What a shower of evil swirls around us eh! I do, recently, detect that there are very real fissures appearing in the totalitarianism that’s planned. It’s coming down imo. The torch has been turned into a searchlight and is illuminating these arseholes for what they are. From a fellow northerner, have a great day. x

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You too Anthony. Thanks for being here. :)

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Nice to hear from you,I am fine thanks,hope you are well too I heard that you moved out of London,I hope it is less frantic there 🙂

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Oh absolutely

I like what Sonia Choquette says" smiling opens up your heart .....and your solar plexus chakra "

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Thank you for honesty as always. I felt the same about Gettr/Truth, I deleted my accounts in the new year. Part of me does miss twitter too but I am stubborn and don’t want to beg to be reinstated, plus I have no motivation to be part of Elon Musk community now. So glad we still get to read your work here on substack and that so many of us have kept in touch. x

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Absolutely. Your ability to sniff out bullshit, not mince words and predict what so many failed to notice as well as your radiant smile in the face of personal battles, I know is also massively missed.

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I was only wondering yesterday how you were getting on with the school search as I knew it wouldn't be easy.

Hopefully twitter will reinstate you soon x

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Yes it’s a hassle for sure and goodness knows what we’ll end up with but both me and his dad are on the same page there. We won’t be sending him anywhere that adds to his stress or can’t mean his needs and I’ll be very clear about that.

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Fingers crossed for you

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❤👆 Julie 👊

I'm hesitantly and lazily going to say 'Amazing' post....I hate describing something generically as 'Amazing' when there's a wealth of words to describe something 'Fabulous(another one of those words😂)...

Yet I'm at a loss(being lazy and mind frazzled and full of heady cold) to come up with anything other than 'Amazing' ....

I love reading your writings even when it's not always 'my bag' because there's always something to appreciate, to take away and to make you pause for a moment with conscious thought to see or understand your perspective of life with all it's traps and treasures...simply i find it 'Amazing' 😂🙏

P.s I'm now up and running here with my first 2 stories published yesterday....hoping my spark will ignite the world 😉🙏❤

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I just noticed and subscribed Robert. Will have more of a look later. Go you 🔥💪🏼

Yeah I’ve been writing a lot of poems right now which makes me feel like a sad soggy chip in the rain 😂 but I find some fire now and again too.

Feel a bit locked out sometimes with the Twitter situation, like who will even read what I post but you just can’t think that way, can you?

And the other day I unsubscribed a load of people who weren’t being arsed to ever open any of my emails. I take no prisoners Robert. Don’t wanna be here? You know where the fucking door is😂😂

On we go mate and I look forward to hearing and seeing more from you. :)

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🙏❤

I'm actually in the midst of revisiting and tinkering with a story partly inspired by you when a few months ago I was trying to get up and running...

"Fuck it! If they go they go(losing readers)"

👆👊❤😂

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You could be talking for me Julie. Suspended by the blue bird in July last year and still waiting to be reinstated. Little miffed that others who were accused of worst things are back on, and I’m still waiting...

Also tried GETTR and met up again with some of my followers who had also been suspended but not quite the same as your regular Twitter “friends”. I’m holding out against starting over too with a sneaky “new account” as it just feels dishonest - mad isn’t it? Still I do have more time on my hands..😉

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Yes, it was a hang out. Many of my old buddies pop up on here or Facebook/insta but there are still quite a few who I just don’t see anymore and that’s very sad. What’s interesting is that it does show you who you meant something to. And who you clearly meant nothing to.

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Thank you I needed that ❤️

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❤️😘

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This is wonderful, your writing style is just lovely and I imagine you speaking how you write....in my head you have posh Emilia Fox voice.....because we've never met! Yet! 🤣 I miss you on Twitter too! Truth be told I'm only on the Bird because I have to use in as part of my Customer Service secret shopper stuff for Aldi ! So if anyone trawls my tweets about returning xyz items and how dirty the baskets were at my local store, they must presume my life is so boring! Anyhoo keep smiling, you bring some sunshine into my days! 😘

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If you heard my voice. It’s SO not a posh Emilia Fox voice 😂😂😂I’m from Rochdale.😂😂

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We miss you on Twitter Julie. Yes you are right about Gettr and Truth. They are not for me so will stay with

Twitter until I get booted. Good luck

and good to keep up with your story.

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Good to hear from you, mate.

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Beautiful,I so much hope you will be fully reinstated on twitter ♥️

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Nice to see you Sybil. What will be will be! I build a shrine to it or I try and build my life. Xx

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We miss you so much. You are such a champion of common sense which I feel twitter lacks. Your honesty, naughty humour and your go getting attitude was so refreshing. Your raw emotion, beauty, mind is just missed.

I often wonder how you are. But feel you are striving in whatever your trying to achieve.

All my love to you and your son.

Lauren xxxx

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I miss you too, lovely. It felt like my social media ‘home’. I didn’t have to write anything ‘long’ or particularly meaningful, just whatever. Felt natural.

Hope you are still doing your rock climbing. We’ll need it when together, we move those mountains xx

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You are such a breath of fresh air, Julie! Thank you for your truths!

I sincerely hope that you are able to find a school that will be the right place for your son. I cannot imagine how difficult it is for you. Things the ‘normies’ take for granted, eh? It’s so wrong that you have to fight for everything for him, but he landed with the right Warrior Mama for sure.

I hope life is generally treating you kindly, and that you can enjoy getting out in those fabulous frocks as the winter gives way to spring. Big hugs xxx

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Ups and downs but I seem to make it, carry on….

Yes feels like with the school they may have to ‘fail’ before he can fly. But if it’s the wrong school and it doesn’t work out, both dad and I are on the same page there. We won’t be forcing him to go anywhere that adds to his anxiety and distress.

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So pleased to receive this today Julie. I often want to ask you about things, particularly about your sweet boy and your striving to enrich his life but it’s so difficult on public forums. You are missed like mad on the bluebird but totally understand your stance. Not much changes but it is good to have exchanges of views with smart people, more than ever now I suddenly find myself living alone. Like you I tried the other two and no matter how hard the vitriolic Twatter rejects want to sell them, they’re not the same at all. I think we should all have a meet up with you in the spring. Xx

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Oh just ask me anytime Janette. I’m an open book. I feel like I might be boring people with personal stuff too. Which is why I don’t give more regular updates.

Yes maybe we could meet up in the better weather. X

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Thanks Julie, we've got this, now more than ever! Take care you please. xx

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And you, lovely :)

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And thanks to all of you have supported my substack. I feel at a crossroads right now as to whether to continue with any of this. Writing is a painkiller but sometimes the painkiller becomes the pain, doesn’t it?

Writing feels like a solitary game.

My main joy at Twitter was people.

I was never bullshitting anyone I was in it to save the world, there “for the kids”. Didn’t have anything to flog.

I was always there for my own mental health, for ME - saying my piece on what I observed as I saw it, trying to have a laugh and raise spirits along the way.

Connect. As humans, I think that’s what we all seek, belonging.

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