Jack Monroe - Bootstrapcook

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R to @NoNoImSparticus: Have you considered a sideline in standup comedy because that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in ages 🤣

 
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R to @ChallengeLiars: They’re all blocked but they log in from sock accounts to view my tweets and reply, then switch back to the troll account to post it. I wish when you blocked someone on Twitter it auto-blocked ALL of their linked accounts fgs, that should be a pretty easy thing for HQ to set up…

 
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R to @Dr_RonMoore: They can view public tweets through a web browser, but the worst offenders are not just viewing it, they’re replying to it, which requires them to be logged in to both their troll account and their sock account simultaneously on the same device in order to do so. It’s exhausting.

 
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R to @ADELETU94489294: Things change in a decade, Adele. In my world they can change in the split second of a phone call or an email, for better or for worse. So compiling a dossier of snapshots of where I was at in any given split second over the last decade is not the ‘evidence base’ that y’all claim

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: Since being catapulted into the public eye 10 years ago, I’ve had 8 addresses, 3 literary agents, 2 publishers, 7 book deals, 2 withdrawn, one long tedious process to recover years of missing book royalties, a 2 year libel trial, descended into chaotic, chronic alcoholism…

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: …rapidly declining physical + mental health, multiple hospital admissions for both, spent months in rehab, 4 therapists, 3 broken engagements of marriage, multiple suicide attempts, several complete mental breakdowns, two serious concussions, an ADHD diagnosis, and lost a child.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: And that’s just off the top of my head. So forgive me if I momentarily forget about painting a bit of kitchen wall in one of those 8 addresses once, or drank copious amounts of cheap gin despite not being able to fing stand the stuff because it worked (until it didn’t)…

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: …for buying some nice furniture with my ex and still having some of it after we split up, or having a partner that got me some nice earrings for my birthday once. But every single thing I have EVER said or written about myself and my life was 100% true at the time of writing it.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: Sometimes I get dates muddled up, or I get upset and send horrible replies to people, and I absolutely overcommit myself to things without always accurately considering the level of time and energy they’ll take up. I’m not great at paperwork, time, or fear, and I’m working on it.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: But there’s a vast difference between trying to amend + resolve a decade of addiction, unwanted attention, gaslighting, being taken advantage of, ADHD run riot, people pleasing, being a bit chaotic, and the long hangover of poverty and the impact that has on literally everything,

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: …and being a criminal, a liar, a fraud, a charlatan, a grifter, and an all round heartless asshole.

I know my flaws. I know my chaos. I know the wreckage in my wake. I’m working to fix it wherever necessary, and to work a 12 step program every day to stay sober and make amends.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: The more time I have to spend doing things like *this*, the less time I have left to spend on clearing up the mess and doing my job. I’ve tried ignoring it, it just emboldens you all. So if you really want me to sort my s out, kindly, sincerely, bloody leave me alone to do it.

 
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R to @AlisonTissingt5: The times I have literally actually applied for other jobs to jack this in over the years is innumerable. Supermarkets, McDonalds, charity jobs, steady writing jobs, train driver, bar work, 999 control, to name just a few. I’d earn more per hour at any one of those than I do here

 
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R to @AlisonTissingt5: They don’t. (One of my patrons pays 77p a month, for example)

 
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R to @AlisonTissingt5: The problem there is assuming I’m a celebrity. I’m a freelance writer. I get stopped in the shops sometimes, but I do my own housework and all of my own social media and research and writing etc, and live a fairly wonderfully boring, ordinary little homebody, day-to-day life.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: Finally sorted the link out. Sample tweet to come - they wanna play the ‘spam everything I tweet with bullshit links’ game, I’ll meet them hand-to-hand on the battlefield. Might as well live down to my reputation now, seeing as trying to engage reasonably ain’t going anywhere.

 
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R to @Xeraphale: Ah, the two genders. And just like the other apparent ‘two genders’, I’m afraid I’m neither. You?

 
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