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Ruth
@ruthbushi.com
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Freelance writer in Cumbria published in the Guardian, Independent etc. Covers film & fiction at thehaughtyculturist.com. Author, 'Decoding The Turn of the Screw.' Bridport winner, 2025!
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Ruth @ruthbushi.com · Oct 2
Me changing the bed by myself
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Obviously people can do what they want to their faces and bodies. We've also entered an era where every other celebrity - and your friends and family - has a new face every time you see them. It's so ... normalised, yet so disorienting.
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Accidentally deleted the critical php table that runs my 10-year-old, 100,000-word website 🫡
a woman in a suit is holding a magazine and saying i 'm not crying , you 're crying .
Alt: A weeping man in a t-shirt says "I'm not crying, you're crying!"
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November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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A dissolute writer wakes up in rehab with no memory. There's something odd about the place, but he doesn't know what. Then he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway. Read my novel Dead Writers in Rehab to find out what happens next.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Writers...
Dead Writers in Rehab
Buy Dead Writers in Rehab by Bassett Davies, Paul from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Before she was famous, The Birds and Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier wrote UK Government travel warnings, famously beginning with her short pamphlet "Don't Lucknow."
a group of people standing in front of a dang sign
Alt: Groups of people face palming
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November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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First thoughts on Humans in the Loop and, for me, how this cautionary tale of AI chimes with anti-Indian sentiment in the global gaze. Currently streaming on @Netflix in the UK and worth a look. 📽️ #FilmSky
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/humans-in-the-loop-2024-film-review/
Humans in the Loop (2024): Deftly told tale of India and AI | Review
A simple story with many threads, Humans in the Loop proves haunting and painful on the things we stand to lose.
www.thehaughtyculturist.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Is this a thing now? Newspaper republishes story it ran a month ago, but changes the date to appear brand new. The pics meta data actually suggest they were uploaded in September, so who knows, maybe it comes round every few months.
Metro newspaper headline reads "The first-class train hack that annoyed my boyfriend but saved us a fortune", published Nov 22 2025 Metro newspaper headline summarised on MSN reads "The first-class train hack that annoyed my partner but saved us a fortune", by same author, published 1 month ago
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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"Jewellery belonging to refugees could be seized to pay for housing" - but why stop there? Why not seize their clothes and shoes, hair and teeth? Surely there's a system by which we could deal with these vermin and process their belongings. We'll turn them into currency. How brightly we'll burn.
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The only explanation that makes sense is that Donald Trump is and has always been a foreign agent tasked with destroying America. As an agent of chaos, he is unparalleled.
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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What we talk about when we talk about Burka. By u/ sister..crystal on TikTok.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Laughs in H1N1
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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For any one who would like to listen - especially other discouraged writers - here's my short piece on BBC Late Show last night (around the 2 HR 20 mark)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#WritingCommunity
The Late Show - Armed robbery and The Roadtrip of My Life (12/11/2025) - BBC Sounds
Becky speaks to a man who was once in a gang but now helps support young people.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Number crunching: Increase in accidental prisoner releases

From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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You could go through my 20-year gmail history and every work email account I've ever had and you won't find even one that makes me sound like a pedophile in any context because I am not a pedophile.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Things I said about Predators ... in great detail
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/predat...
Predators (2010): The very best and worst of us - The Haughty Culturist
Meaning and metaphor in Predators, a story about the kind of people we wish we were … and who we fear we really are.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Major incident declared as train details at Shap in Cumbria, BBC reports.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Major incident declared as train derails in Cumbria, but no injuries reported
Avanti West Coast says:
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November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A new month is a great chance to start a new page! 📓✍️ With that in mind, submissions re-open for our Flash Fiction, Novel, Poetry and Short Story prizes on 15 Nov (2 weeks today!)

Everything you need to know, including word counts and eligibility, can be found on our website at bridportprize.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A House of Dynamite: Not with a bang but a whimper
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/kathry...
#filmsky 📽️
A House of Dynamite (2025): Not with a bang but a whimper | Review - The Haughty Culturist
Disparate ideas of America and existence collide in House of Dynamite, which is nothing if not thought-provoking - but it lacks resolution.
www.thehaughtyculturist.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Gotta love a bit of Gothic terror. 📷 by me, at Castlerigg, Cumbria.
In the foreground, a circle of dark grey rocks standing upright. In the background, the hills with low, grey clouds and a rainbow's end.
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The problem isn't that there are too many Black and brown faces on your television set, but that there aren't enough. Your discourse is so white that anything which is not like you is always and eternally alarming.
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Still laughing at this review for John Carpenter's The Thing
Review by Brian Collins on Letterboxd. Text reads "For almost 40 years people have been asking if it's Macready or Childs when the answer is neither. The credits clearly say that John Carpenter's The Thing."
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM