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@PennyRed

Author, journalist, feminist, nerd. Screenwriter: The Haunting Of Bly Manor, The Nevers, Carnival Row. Latest book: 'Bitch Doctrine'. Patreon below. they/she

London/Los Angeles
Joined January 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 18

    A Short History of the Worst Timeline

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  2. Retweeted
    Dec 5

    Just got married on the internet.

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 6

    This is an immigrant family, newly arrived in Germany. The boy in the yellow shirt will go on to invent the COVID vaccine.

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  4. Dec 6

    This is in half an hour! Join in, it’ll be fun!

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  5. Dec 6

    At the peak of a nightmarish global pandemic, we got married online, with nobody else physically present. The reason we did this is the exact same reason that, despite being suspicious of the institution, I decided to marry this person at all: Because I’m not a fucking idiot.

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    Dec 6
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    Dec 6

    Ever spent an afternoon on the back patio of ? Do you want to ever again once we are out of this horrifying mismanaged pandemic? Help keep our beloved neighborhood spot alive

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  8. Dec 6

    The signal did indeed cut out right in the middle of me saying my vows and my sister had to text me with what the officiant was shouting, which was ‘you have to sign out and sign back in again’.

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  9. Dec 6

    Dear people who are subscribed to my Patreon: this is why I haven’t posted in a month, thank you for your patience, I shall very shortly actually write about this in the way I’ve been trying to for ages and ages.

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  10. Dec 6
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  11. Dec 6

    Yes, those are the plastic bits from orange bottle caps, which we had not planned to exchange as rings but happened to have on us for sentimental reasons and now that’s my wedding ring I guess.

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    Dec 5

    Just attended my first Zoom wedding - I went Business Megaformal. Other attendees dressed in dragon onesies and Batman outfits. Some composed limericks to commemorate technical glitches. The couple exchanged high fives and plastic rings. It was a delight. Congrats !

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  13. Dec 5

    Just got married on the internet.

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 3

    The radical left is a stressful place to be a conflict-avoidant person who hates bullying, toxic in-group drama, and watching well-meaning people shout at each other. The problem is that I hate nazis more than all those things, so I’m kind of stuck here.

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  15. Dec 3

    The radical left is a stressful place to be a conflict-avoidant person who hates bullying, toxic in-group drama, and watching well-meaning people shout at each other. The problem is that I hate nazis more than all those things, so I’m kind of stuck here.

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  16. Dec 3

    Feminists want to end patriarchy so we can spend more time fighting each other. ... (Seriously, infighting is a feature- not a bug - of a dispersed global movement with real internal differences and a lot of people channelling their fury into changing the world for the better.)

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  17. Dec 3

    ‘Feminists are their own worst enemies! We would get so much farther if we would all stop fighting!’ Oh, stop it. Firstly, it’s not feminists holding women’s liberation back. That would still be patriarchy. Secondly, feminists LOVE to fight each other. It’s our favourite thing.

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  18. Dec 3

    I see that all the feminists are fighting again. Good. I always get a bit worried when the internal drama stops, it means we’re too busy firefighting to fight each other.

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    Dec 2

    Black Mirror is trending so I invite you to join in on one of and my favorite car games, 'One line Black Mirror Episode pitch.' I'll start: 'What if Airbnb, but much too much?'

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  20. Dec 3

    Have you even moved house as an adult until an enormous bottle of non-water-soluble personal lubricant has spilt over everything? The problem is you can’t hold onto anything long enough enough to clean it and repack it, because everything is so slippery. So very, very slippery.

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    Dec 2

    I have a Facebook pal from the old days in my pub screaming about “am not taking a vaccine, you don’t know what’s in it” this is the same guy who used to buy ecstasy pills off a one eyed guy called Ganga Gary.

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