A struggling writer, who might very well be the next big thing, but I'll have to leave that to you to decide ko-fi.com/alcanlin
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Some words that were spinning round my head spewed out and ended up in #Twisted50 Get your copy twisted50.com #amwriting #horror
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Wrong about Fahrenheit 451 (my favourite book of all time)
On The Road, the biggest piece of drivel I’ve ever read, hated the characters, hated what they were doing, couldn’t care less what happens, no wonder it was written on toilet paper
#books #writing
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Life just feels so damn long.... oh
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In the North Pole in temperatures of around minus thirty five degrees it’s always important that you wear your protective beenie hat
#Vigil
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If only there had been signs...
If only journalists could have noticed...
If only...
You still believe Nigel Farage is a man of the people?
He represents only himself
He only wants to be able to stuff as much money as he can into the pockets of his Stinky Camel Coat Of Corruption
“It worked, boom.”
That’s Nigel Farage celebrating a Reform UK plot to break election law - by having a US company secretly pay for three influential political polls that benefitted the party.
Earlier in the investigation, Reform’s Head of Policy James Orr and senior advisor Dan Jukes arranged for a Verbatim reporter to pay for the polls through a US company. Orr and Jukes believed the firm was run by the reporter’s American father.
Mr Farage was filmed by undercover reporters from @Verbatim_Media as part of a year-long investigation that Channel 4 News has thoroughly checked and verified.
This meeting took place in his Clacton constituency in July - when Mr Farage was fighting a by-election he called after separate allegations about his finances.
Watch the full investigation on YouTube.
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The Stinky Camel Coat Of Corruption
Any person with integrity would resign…. wouldn’t hold your breath
Our yearlong investigation reveals Nigel Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera.
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The Harvard Law Student Who Sparked Boston’s Underground Rock Revolution
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U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal?
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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys
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Got a craving for a Mars bar now @Feargal_Sharkey
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Alistair Canlin retweeted
For someone who’s used to the London Underground, using the Subway in Glasgow is like stepping into a different world. Travelling with kids just after the morning rush hour, a woman dressed in orange warmly welcomed us all to the station concourse, engaged in chit chat, and then immediately offered us assistance to ensure we purchased the best value tickets for today.
The guy at the window then sold me a day pass that gave me change from a fiver, with the kids only being a couple of quid each as well. The train then arrived and there’s a sort of unwritten code where people ensure that those who were on the platform before them board the train first, as opposed to ‘elbows out, f**k you, and last one on board’s a massive sissy.’
You sit on the train and people sometimes actually want to talk to you instead of just glaring at you like they want you to spontaneously evaporate because you had the sheer nerve to get on the same train as them. ‘Here mate I’ll move so you can sit with your kids’ instead of not bothering so you end up getting off at Kings Cross with three of them by your side while the other one merrily wings their way to Cockfosters.
Finally, when you reach the other end and get to the ticket barrier, your mobile phone wallet hasn’t knackered the magnetic strip on the back of the ticket because there isn’t one - the cardboard has built-in NFC or whatever so you just tap it, the gate opens, and then you piss off and get on with the rest of your day.
Yeah, I know Glasgow’s subway is way, way smaller and there’s only two lines - an ‘outie’ and in ‘innie’ that both go round in a circle in opposite directions so if you get bladdered and fall asleep you’ll always eventually end up where you need to be. However, I didn’t leave the network feeling like I wanted to twat someone or emigrate to Greenland, which unfortunately is something I experience on The Tube more often than not.
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Are you truly dead if a minor celebrity doesn't pretend to shed a tear over you in a desperate attempt at likes?
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How the fuck is it a cap when prices keep going up?
#BBCBreakfast
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