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Richard Blandford

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Author of wrong fiction. #actuallyautistic richardblandford.blogspot.co.uk New novel My Life in Orbit out now.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · Jan 26

My latest novel My Life in Orbit is out now. richardblandford.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-l...

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 9h

Fair enough.

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It would impale him.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 10h

Cat watching Hundreds of Beavers.

Cat staring at film Hundreds of Beavers on a television.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 12h

Listening to a dog-eared audiobook.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 14h

I tear the pages out of books I don't read.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 14h

It was presented very much as a personal style thing and not an environmental thing.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 14h

My favourite one was condemning people for using bookmarks instead of bus tickets.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

His name must have sounded pretty stupid before Tiktok came along.

TikTok star HSTikkyTokky arrested after manhunt

Harrison Sullivan has been on the run for almost a year following several alleged driving offences.

www.bbc.com

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

My ★★★★ review of Clueless on Letterboxd boxd.it/bmsgfN

A ★★★★ review of Clueless (1995)

Paul Rudd does look a bit older now than he does in this film, to be fair. The crowning achievement of the Other Nineties for people with less interesting hai that had little to do with Britpop, Taran...

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

The Dixie Chick is on the grass.
The Dixie Chicks are on the grass...

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

All novels only have one character in them. They're imagining everyone else.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

Checked to see if Chuck Norris had a wife or daughter called Doris. He does not.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying don't leave, but don't pretend an exodus doesn't come at a price and those paying it may be more vulnerable than you.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't heard of that. I'll look it up!

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

While calls to quit bad businesses like Spotify, Meta, X etc have obvious merit, you do have to remember that these are things people use to connect with others. You are essentially asking those maybe already isolated to risk making their lives that bit lonelier on a point of principle.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

And the ghosts people see at 3am are always assholes. Teatime ghosts can be quite nice.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

Waking up at 3am is always a bad idea. Your bleakest thoughts live there.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not failing to do housework, I'm rewilding the flat.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe. Everything before 2016 has turned into vague memory sludge for me by this point.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 2d

I may be remembering wrong, but I recall it as part of a double bill with Seinfeld on late night BBC2, and to the tiny number of people watching, as significant.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 2d

Why can't you watch The Larry Sanders Show anywhere? Seems to have slipped down the back of the sofa of collective memory.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 3d

Might go to La Rochelle and ask for directions to the hotel de ville.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 3d

Scrappy Doo-Godzuki buddy movie.

Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 4d

Wrong'un Love Island

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 4d

Only briefly, before they are sent away.