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6 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A tail has been placed upon me. This means I am not allowed to move. Kitty sitting on footstool....
This is the evening visit. He has arrived, distinctly perfumed, and is claiming he has been out hunting sparrows all day and definitely doesn't have an actual home that he has been snoozing in. No siree.

Also, are there any Dreamies? He believes he could force a few down if so.
Failing that, if everyone in the house could instead go to bed immediately so he can snuggle up on a duvet, then this would also be acceptable.
I have a bag of Maltesers. I am being closely observed.

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John Bull Profile picture
8 Mar
No argument there.

I'm not making a moral judgement on the way the Queen has wielded the monarchy she has created. I'm just explaining how she's done it. And that she's done it WELL.

But the model comes with a cost: It means you HAVE to defend the individuals within it.
Because The Firm has to stick together. If you follow the rules of patronage and public behaviour, you get 100% backing. That's the price for it.

But the UNWRITTEN rule she built in was that you should do anything TOO awful in your private life.
And 'awful', in this model means anything outright criminal, or which makes you look too normal. You need to be relatable, but aloof.

Don't do ANYTHING that you wouldn't want to see on a commemorative plate.
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John Bull Profile picture
8 Mar
Agree.

The Queen has saved AND destroyed the monarchy. She forged it into something fit for the 20th Century by linking it to generational support of an individual, not the office.

But her long reign has robbed Charles AND William of their chance to build generational bases.
The Mail/Tabloid response right now is all:

BUT THE QUEEEEN!

That's fatal for it as institution, in its current form. The Sussex disaster has highlighted that keeping the EXISTING generational support (Boomers, high-end Xers) is incompatIble with support from Xennial and below.
You can't build a new form of monarchy when your powerbase is the Daily Mail comment section. You can only prolong the old one.

And that means when change DOES come, you have no control over the direction it takes.

The Firm got gifted a chance to pivot, and missed it.
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John Bull Profile picture
6 Mar
This.

Also anyone who says you MUST have a webcam is lying.

Stream how you want to, because YOU want to.

For your own wellbeing, create a stream you'd spend time in as a viewer, because you're the person who'll be in it the most.

No point trying to be something you aren't.
And if people tell you:

"To get viewers you need to make your stream like X person's stream!"

Remember: The viewers who LIKE that style are ALREADY watching X person. You think they're going to suddenly start watching you?

Be yourself. Have fun. Assume you'll have no viewers.
If people show up? That's a bonus. If ENOUGH people show up that you can potentially make cash off it? Congrats! You are both good at it AND super lucky.

Now you have a job. One that demands long hours, a LOT of dedication and dealing with people who want you to fail or change.
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6 Mar
Spent an extra half hour in bed this morning. Came down to this look.

Apparently I have disrupted his 9am sparrow-watch nap.

He doesn't really understand weekends. Kitty giving death stare through patio door.
When you get something out of the cupboard you keep the Dreamies in. Kitty suddenly alert and watching, viewed across the kitchen
He's back on schedule now. Time to hide under the pond fountain for a bit and watch the berbs.
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4 Mar
I loathe and avoid these interview questions. Because they carry a lot of hidden assumptions. The interviewee has to parse the "shadow question" lurking within them. Not everyone can.

So, below are things co-panelists have told me they want from these Qs over the years:
"Tell me about yourself?"

This is intended to get you to talk freely about something you are passionate about. It is not there to establish a particular work skill, but to see how you approach things you enjoy.
In some workplaces, it's also to determine cultural 'fit'. If the office is full of people who like doing outdoors things, or the boss is big on them and the company does lots of outdoorsy away days, then they're hoping for someone to say "oh i go hiking/surfing/whatever"
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4 Mar
There are few things more surprising than a cold, wet kitty nose to the back of the knee. Particularly when you are unaware there is a kitty in the house.
"I am here. You have been informed." Tuxedo kitty sat under the table looking up at me.
"Snooze now. Wake me up when you feed the sparrows." Snoozing tuxedo kitty on dining room chair
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