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Writing featured in Little Living Room & Pink Pansy Magazine All views are my own. @edinburghqueer she/her | ๐Ÿ“ธ: amber.isaacs97 70/200 books read in 2023

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2018
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A reminder - before we start getting lame apology posts - women are not a "learning experience". We should not have to be victimised and traumatised for you to learn how to be a decent human being.
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I'm done with twitter, I get sucked into too much negativity here. I'm over on instagram @ amber.rambles or @ libraryof.amber for book content. Will leave this up til tomororw and deactivate from there, hope you join on the journey ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Natural for my last tweet to have a typo
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โ€ข40% of people on Universal Credit are in work โ€ข68% of people in poverty are in work โ€ข7 in 10 children in poverty are in a working household โ€ขRelative poverty rates among working households increased from 13% in 1997 to 17.4% in 2021 Work simply doesn't pay.
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Conservative Councillor in Alexis McEvoy shared a racist tweet about Ian Wright's decision to show solidarity with Gary Lineker. The Councillor has said: "I am aware that a tweet I sent, and then deleted, has caused offence. "I did not mean it to do so & I am deeply sorry" RT
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A very generous @GrantaBooks have sent me this package of #ImAFan goodies! Iโ€™ve recently bought myself a hardback copy so Iโ€™m going to do a giveaway for these. To enter: ๐Ÿ“– follow me, like and RT this tweet ๐Ÿ“– comment #ImAFan ๐Ÿ“– UK only. Winner chosen Friday.
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Ke Huy Quan was born in Vietnam, fled to Hong Kong, and then came to the United States as an eight-year-old refugee. The White House last month released a new rule that would ban refugees that stopped in another country before arriving at the US border.
"My journey started on a boat. I ended up in a refugee camp ... They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream!" - Ke Huy Quan #Oscars
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Those BBC negotiations in full: โ€œDelete the tweetsโ€ โ€œNoโ€ โ€œOkay, well, apologise for themโ€ โ€œNoโ€ โ€œWeโ€™ll get somebody else in to do your job if you donโ€™tโ€ *Everyone downs tools* โ€œWill you at least promise not to tweet political stuff in the future?โ€ โ€œNoโ€ โ€œOkay, we have a dealโ€
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Week 10 - a very busy one as several netgalley requests came in at once. If I could urge you to read one of these authors, it's Samanta Schweblin, a hugely underrated horror writer imo. If you like Kirtsy Logan, Camilla Grudova, and Mariana Enriquez, you need to check her out.
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And Natives by Akala is a must read. I love that is isn't objective, I want to hear condemnation, and critique, and judgement.
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The fact that the atrocities in Rwanda were only 30 years ago, and yet no one I know knows anything about it, is a crime. Even if you don't read this book, please read up about it. It is horrifying that this sits in silence in western-taught history. #booktwt #BookTwitter
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The best ACOTAR review Iโ€™ve ever read. Itโ€™s as if my soul crept up in this person and guided their fingers as they typed this out ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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This is claptrap. There are no drag โ€˜strip showsโ€™ for children. There are story times, no different from pantomime,which for CENTURIES has featured men in drag telling kids stories without any controversy. Culture has not moved. Itโ€™s simply bigots trying to sow hatred & division
The hateful bandwagon I am on is not wanting toddlers in drag queen strip shows. Dan genuinely thinks that belief is โ€˜hatefulโ€™. Yet ten years ago, no one would have thought this. How has our culture moved so quickly? I havenโ€™t changed. You have.
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Hereโ€™s some context for Fiona Bruce to consider: my friend was hit โ€˜only onceโ€™ by her drunken husband. She is still unable to walk properly 10 years later. โ€˜Only onceโ€™ = a vicious, reckless, selfish, sadistic criminal.
BBC statement on last night's @bbcquestiontime
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BBC presenters policy: Standing up for asylum seekers - Bad Excusing domestic violence - A-OK
BBC statement on last night's @bbcquestiontime
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I seriously back @BorisJohnson to be the new PM . The public like him and he will have a good chance of winning the general election in 2021 if not before. Any one who can stop @jeremycorbyn from becoming PM has my backing .
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the BBC:
Gary Lineker is "stepping back from Match of the Day", says the BBC
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The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenboroughโ€™s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press theguardian.com/media/2023/mโ€ฆ
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Thought I'd share this with mains
Replying to @daynamcalpine_
Went on a date with a guy who prior to the date had revealed he was an escort for men (no issue for me). During the course of the date, he revealed he had 1. been banned from his gym for trashing it while on steroids 2. told me he wasn't working because he was off his...
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This is sad. Multi million pound companies like @ITV, and global singers like @ollymurs, @iamwill, @RealSirTomJones and @AnneMarie and no one can pay a few quid and support a local business. When banks take exposure as mortgage payments then maybe more people will do this. #payup
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