Erica Buist
@ericabuist.bsky.social
Writer. Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD). Playwright (Stockroom, Slackline). Journalist (Guardian). Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director (Tupelo Press). Creative Writing PhD. Late-diagnosed AuDHD. Writing a novel but I’m ok.
Social media director (Tupelo Press). Creative Writing PhD. Late-diagnosed AuDHD. Writing a novel but I’m ok.
“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 AM
“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”
“What horseback sport featured at five summer Olympic Games?”
“Jousting.”
Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.
“Jousting.”
Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.
Is the nation dumbing down? These are real answers to real questions on real quiz shows, all from Private Eye's Dumb Britain column.
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
January 20, 2026 at 10:33 AM
“What horseback sport featured at five summer Olympic Games?”
“Jousting.”
Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.
“Jousting.”
Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.
Yesterday London posed very nicely for me from the window of the OXO Tower.
January 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Yesterday London posed very nicely for me from the window of the OXO Tower.
Can’t stop seeing it.
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Can’t stop seeing it.
Trump administration demands lists of Jews “as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses”
Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Trump administration demands lists of Jews “as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses”
Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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If you won't bring severe consequences for these relentless crimes against humanity, if you won't even consider it, if you won't even try then what is the point of you? Not just as a politician; as a human being.
I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
If you won't bring severe consequences for these relentless crimes against humanity, if you won't even consider it, if you won't even try then what is the point of you? Not just as a politician; as a human being.
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I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them.
But this one hit today.
And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon.
fascism wrapped in our own flag
But this one hit today.
And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon.
fascism wrapped in our own flag
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them.
But this one hit today.
And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon.
fascism wrapped in our own flag
But this one hit today.
And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon.
fascism wrapped in our own flag
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
I am so tired of the narration. It’s a pedophile protection ring, kidnapping and murdering their own citizens and trying to start WWIII - we have the info we need, a thousand times over. No more narration needed.
DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.
DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I am so tired of the narration. It’s a pedophile protection ring, kidnapping and murdering their own citizens and trying to start WWIII - we have the info we need, a thousand times over. No more narration needed.
DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.
DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.
We in Britain are proud to emulate the Democrats’ tough line against lawbreaking, corruption and bare-arsed evil: we won’t do anything, or even really suggest anyone should, but so help me god, we will narrate it.
Starmer's spokesman says the reports of Grok's activity is "disturbing" but doesn't say UK Government will take any action
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
We in Britain are proud to emulate the Democrats’ tough line against lawbreaking, corruption and bare-arsed evil: we won’t do anything, or even really suggest anyone should, but so help me god, we will narrate it.
The lack of courage in the “home of the brave” is desperately embarrassing. They’re being dragged into an openly corrupt illegal war by a murderous pedophile to a Democrat chorus of “oh hey, come on now!”, and the only thing that will ever take him down is his own rancid, failing carcass.
If kidnapping a foreign president isn’t enough to get him out of office, why would the Epstein files be a silver bullet?
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM
The lack of courage in the “home of the brave” is desperately embarrassing. They’re being dragged into an openly corrupt illegal war by a murderous pedophile to a Democrat chorus of “oh hey, come on now!”, and the only thing that will ever take him down is his own rancid, failing carcass.
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Well, it’s not as if Trump went THAT beyond the pale. It’s not like he [trigger warning: terrorism] spray-painted a plane.
January 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Well, it’s not as if Trump went THAT beyond the pale. It’s not like he [trigger warning: terrorism] spray-painted a plane.
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"Ho ho ho remember when we thought Bush was as bad as it got hehehe" narrative always ALWAYS ignores the fact: it's because they were as bad as it was allowed to get THEN. That's how bad they could be at that point and they paved the way for it to be the way it is now. Same as in the UK.
January 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"Ho ho ho remember when we thought Bush was as bad as it got hehehe" narrative always ALWAYS ignores the fact: it's because they were as bad as it was allowed to get THEN. That's how bad they could be at that point and they paved the way for it to be the way it is now. Same as in the UK.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to
If one more person shares this with a joke about Stephen Miller being on the end to hide the fact that he has no reflection, so help me GOD I will laugh again
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If one more person shares this with a joke about Stephen Miller being on the end to hide the fact that he has no reflection, so help me GOD I will laugh again
Corporate wants you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Corporate wants you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.
Two things I cannot get past in the new Stranger Things:
The kids are somehow now older than the parents
‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback
The kids are somehow now older than the parents
‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Two things I cannot get past in the new Stranger Things:
The kids are somehow now older than the parents
‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback
The kids are somehow now older than the parents
‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Sometimes my dog barks at me from the other room because he wants food or a walk. Sometimes it’s because he’s on the sofa, and feels very strongly that I should be too.
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Sometimes my dog barks at me from the other room because he wants food or a walk. Sometimes it’s because he’s on the sofa, and feels very strongly that I should be too.
“A few bad apples” is such a weird way to try to dismiss something as not serious. The saying is “a few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH”, not “it’s just a few bad apples so the bunch is definitely totally fine, eat it”
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“A few bad apples” is such a weird way to try to dismiss something as not serious. The saying is “a few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH”, not “it’s just a few bad apples so the bunch is definitely totally fine, eat it”
Is anyone else thinking of contingency plans for if it happens?
Today on The Bunker: Nigel Farage is on the rise, Keir Starmer is stumbling and the Conservatives are fading into irrelevance. Should we be worried? @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @bwalker.uk to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#ukpolitics #farage #starmer
#ukpolitics #farage #starmer
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Is anyone else thinking of contingency plans for if it happens?
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In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.
September 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.