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May 21

I Dream of Restaurants

I have a complicated relationship with food. In the years when most of you would go home for a meal from Mom or Grandma and feel yourselves reset, I had no one to go to but the restaurants that were used to me dining alone. …

Dreams

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I Dream of Restaurants
I Dream of Restaurants
Dreams

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Apr 30

Almost Made It To Dawn

I don’t fucking know. What can I tell you, mate? The world is a sublime mixture of godawful fate and excellent cheese. There is shitty cheese, but we don’t talk about that. Godawful fate, however? Yes, lawd. We are gonna talk about that. I went out in the dark night…

Scotland

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Almost Made It To Dawn
Almost Made It To Dawn
Scotland

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Apr 22

Bitches, I Ain’t Gonna Die Today

What it’s like getting a cancer check done by the NHS in Scotland in 2023. I recently had my breast and a bit of lymph tissue biopsied by the beautiful, wonderful, awesome taxpayer funded NHS in Scotland. No cancer found. …

Nhs

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Bitches, I Ain’t Gonna Die Today
Bitches, I Ain’t Gonna Die Today
Nhs

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Mar 16

Tits On Fire, Rolling Down the Road

I’m dreading the doctor’s office after the experience I had the first time there was titty trouble. My breasts are sore. I woke up yesterday and had a swollen, hard lump in my left breast. The supposedly healthy breast. I had a benign cyst in one breast last year and…

Breasts

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Tits On Fire, Rolling Down the Road
Tits On Fire, Rolling Down the Road
Breasts

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Mar 15

Being Shat Upon From A Great Height

or: Tessa Commented On My Article So this morning, I woke up crying to myself about my sister, how she’s spent a lifetime taking what’s hers and what’s mine. I woke up frustrated that my kid has fucked up the period key on my keyboard and so writing is even…

Jewish

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Being Shat Upon From A Great Height
Being Shat Upon From A Great Height
Jewish

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Mar 12

Sound and Fury in the British Isles

I’ve never been so desperate to see an election come. Keir Starmer might be a plate of uncooked dough, but I’ll take it. Give me anyone but a Tory, please G-d. Whatever is happening here has been happening for a while. It’s starting to stink to high heaven now. The…

UK Politics

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Sound and Fury in the British Isles
Sound and Fury in the British Isles
UK Politics

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Feb 18

Roald Dahl’s Being Edited Off His Own Pages

Puffin Books hired Inclusive Minds to adapt Roald Dahl’s childrens books into “acceptable” works for the modern age. For instance, they removed the word “fat” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They changed many passages of The Witches to appear more woke and inclusive. The Guardian also wrote about…

Censorship

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Roald Dahl’s Being Edited Off His Own Pages
Roald Dahl’s Being Edited Off His Own Pages
Censorship

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Feb 7

An Open Letter to Energy Companies

Dear Villein of the Power Company email account, I reply to your threatening email of today regarding my overdue balance. I’m not sure this is a monitored email account, but if it is, allow me to express my fucking disgust at your pushy demands for vast sums of money. …

Energy Costs

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An Open Letter to Energy Companies
An Open Letter to Energy Companies
Energy Costs

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Jan 26

What Skill Does Love Require?

“So this is it then.” “This is the day, my friend.” “We are not friends, Avi.” “I know.” Avi smiles darkly at Yusuf. “Merely cousins of a sort.” “Well, maybe if we’d all remained in the tent…things would have been different. But Avr’ham sent them into the desert to die.”…

Love

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What Skill Does Love Require?
What Skill Does Love Require?
Love

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Jan 20

General Strikes Have Arrived

Last June, I wrote about how general strikes were surely on the way if the government of the UK didn’t change course dramatically. General Strikes Coming Soon As the first day of the UK Rail strike goes on, #generalstrike has begun trending on Twitter.sylvia-observer.medium.com Well, the Tories did not change course, dear reader. It is late January of 2023 now and the entire civil service, it appears, is going on strike…

UK Politics

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General Strikes Have Arrived
General Strikes Have Arrived
UK Politics

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Observer. I bitch about politics, parenting, and whatever else takes my fancy. I like old people. Use my link: https://medium.com/membership/@sylvia-observer/

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