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I watched many episodes of Mrs Maisel, ages ago, but I'm pretty sure there was something that stopped me from watching the last few - probably woke propaganda. Also via Amazon Prime (who stiffed me for £100 in subscriptions, but that's another story) I watched the Good Doctor until they had a covid outbreak with staff deaths and plenty of moralising, followed by a trans. episode. I could tell these storylines were carefully inserted, after viewers were hooked in order to spread the message.

Famous luvvies are are an essential part of legitimising the idiocy. I recently had an email from Britten/Pears (classical concerts at Snape, Suffolk) offering a £100 voucher for any ideas in helping them play their part in countering climate change. I replied, telling them why I wouldn't be completing their survey. Actually I'd like to have told them to stuff it right up their auditorium.

Keep on fighting, even though all this bollocks would have been easier with support from your husband. Your talent isn't wasted on us but deserves a wider audience.

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I’m prepped for the Wokey bullshit coming… 🙄

Thanks Brian x

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Yeh, that has happens a lot. A series is really good and then suddenly gets taken over by wokery. My children love Brooklyn 99 which is hilarious but suddenly got overtaken by this and became unwatchable. That's just one example.

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Totally get your reasons for bowing out of twatter Abi. It's like a fkn continuous apocalypse on there. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I've found myself in your head space many times. To remedy this, I attempt to achieve some balance by (at least) topping and tailing the day with a positive or inspirational post (who knows if it helps). I figure it could give a boost for those who are also struggling or those who simply don't have any real support in the real world. At the bare minimum finding such things to tweet certainly brightens my outlook ♥

In the words of Susie Myerson, Tits up 😉

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Brilliantly put, our Bel! 🥰

Tits are 🆙 😁

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💃♥️

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❤️

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Nice to have you back on your podcast Abi. Have to say I felt low hearing Sadiq Khan getting back in. Onwards and upwards though. Mrs Maisel was good. Enjoyed watching it. Loved the mum and dad of Mrs Maisel. Too funny. The return of the responder back on Sunday. Said in work its too dreary to watch as it shows Liverpool in a shockingly bad light. Got bawled out in the office and said nobody wants to watch nice things. I said I do, not watching drug idiots prancing around

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❤️🙏

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Good to have you back. So interesting to hear how your life has improved without Twitter. Doesn’t surprise me. I have zero desire to be on it as I think it could easily become an energy vampire!!! We all need to recharge our batteries sometimes. Please don’t ever stop demanding justice for the covid era. Yes it’s draining but the truth will always prevail

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I doubt I will ever go back to twitter. It was the only social media I have ever done and that was just to read Peter Hitchens (I know...) as in March 2020 he was the only person in media I could find properly fighting the nonsense (I found Piers Corbyn and a few others soon afterwards). I then found a load of other decent people (and enjoyed battling with 77th brigade and getting regularly cancelled) so I stayed for 4 years. But I've had enough of it. It pulls me in too much and it's not really me. I haven't had TV for most of my life and will never get a smartphone. I'm grateful for how it helped connect me with other like-minded people, but I now know other routes to these people, so I think I will just let my 30 days go by! (Although I think I still have a couple of old accounts on there that were cancelled then reinstated later after I had forgotten my login details.)

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Well said. I found Gettr useful in the days of lockdowns, jab pushing etc. but rarely use it now. I dabbled with Facebook and was glad to leave.

I long for pre smartphone days when all car parks accepted cash and, even, supermarkets had human interaction. Sheep just follow what they think is the right path which eventually leads to their demise, so I'm glad there are a few of us who believe our thumbs' primary use is not poking a tiny screen.

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Me too. I also long for those days. I hate these smartphones and smart-everythings (I even resisted the first (eg nokia brick) mobile phones - I never liked the idea of always being on-hand for a phone-call ALL the time) -And those bloody square things you are supposed to take photos of all the time (I deliberately forget what they are called). It's not because I am a fuddy-duddy or technophobe - I'm good at tech when I want to be and even studied coding for AI and engineering at university - it's because I can see and feel how pernicious it all is.

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Yet again, spot on. The addiction is in plain sight and makes me want to do an Alex Phillips - sorry Violet Elizabeth and sqweem and sqweem

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haha - yes me too - especially when I see it happening to children (including mine!)

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💖💖💖

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I wish you were still on TNT. You had a great show reaching an audience around the globe and you were a natural presenter. Yes, you are right actions have consequences but at times we just have to go with our instincts.

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Thanks, Jan. That sums it up perfectly. X

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Thankyou Abi.Just back from a lovely break in beautiful Malaga city so it was great to listen to your positive pod!I was feeling low, being back in the litter strewn streets, with terrible cheap takeaway food joints and the constant grey skies in Nottingham! Malaga had clear blue skies, such friendly people, fantastic good value food, handsome architecture and people and very clean streets and beaches.It's tragic that we have so many people, in the UK, who don't value beauty at all!🙄😪Xx

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