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A Quiet Riot With Words & Art

Month: July 2024

Growing Old Wisely

Rape, rape and more rape

HonestInk,

”We’re scared to go out at night alone and short skirts mean unwanted sexual attention: Parisian women reveal safety fears after gang-rape of Australian tourist and say sex attack is ‘catastrophic’ to France’s image days before Olympics” – Daily mail 23 July 2024. Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing changes…

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Words

The kids know

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The young lad that has vanished in Tenerife has kept a lot of us glued to social media group updates for the past two weeks. Wild conspiracy theories, massive assumptions and general armchair detective work had started to become a bit repetitive and pointless. Until today when we find that…

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Sometime around now

Shoot the fuckers

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I didn’t want to write about this but hours later it still keeps bubbling to the surface and filling me with anxiety and nausea and very close to tears. This morning at the cemetery we had a very close encounter with an XL Bully. Something I never want to have…

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Growing Old Wisely

Thoughts for today…

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I was in Keighley Dunelm this morning and I heard the guy on the checkouts say, ‘yay all the gang are here’. The checkout staff are always lovely in there and yes sometimes they have the full black clothes and hijab on. Today all three girls did and the guy…

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  • Grateful things...
  • Accidently finding marshmallows in the cupboard when you're on a diet 👌
  • I miss the musky paper smell and feel of a real old book and the pristine pages of a new one but my eyes are grateful for the invention of the kindle.


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