Beck Douglas

I’m going to use twitter for good, not evil, and shower people with compliments

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@nicole_cakir @CovingtonEDU @KendraWrites You can live on a teacher’s wage in Aus so presumably better than many US states

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@Wylmenmuir @T_in_Japan Tom says earlier in the thread that he has a self published Japan guide

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

This list is truly wild

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

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[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@vincent_vancode @tamarranicole I hope you also researched birth trauma because my epidural followed by an emergency c-section was infinitely less traumatic than my ‘natural’ birth. I also hope you choose to avoid anaesthetic for your next operation because death is always a potential side effect.

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

I can clearly remember sitting in a house in Edinburgh trying to say the name Mhairi (I’m Australian) before getting slaughtered for also saying ‘moor’ wrong. Anyhoo, I’m glad I found you, thank you for your service !

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@MhairiMcF I am 1 hour away from finishing the audiobook of Mad About You, The first of yours I have read. Your quirky turns of phrase, nuanced characters and humour have me hooked and I’m thrilled you have so many more books I can devour…tbc

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

I adore your original similes and metaphors and it is so refreshing that minor misunderstandings are cleared up rather than the only reason the plot works.
Also love your profile saying you’ve been explaining how to pronounce your name since birth 😂…

[Princess Slayer - she/her 🏳️‍🌈 @Belinda07749345]

Hey America, I just want to clear up a little misconception you all seem to have. 🧵

Australia has guns.

Yes, really.

I drive past a gun shop on my way to the supermarket. At first I thought it was a tattoo shop, because the exterior is so nicely decorated.

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@shadesofnine_ Yeah, fair. It must be soul destroying having fellow Americans fight to keep their guns NO MATTER WHAT. We feel for you.

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

This thread is wild. So many seem to think gun control means destroying every gun. Where is the nuance in the conversation?

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GenIsSolo But still judge myself for not trying hard enough on personal things. Thanks @GenIsSolo

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GenIsSolo I read that and thought, nah, that’s not me but, actually…we were certainly expected to put in 100% most of the time. I’ve unpacked that a little with my sister recently but this is the first time I’ve connected it with the way I act/feel now. I accept my output into the world

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GenIsSolo Good food/exercise decisions or the energy to enact them. ALSO I love my hobbies and don’t want to take time from them. I hate that I hold myself to stupid standards when there’s so much more to it.

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GenIsSolo General ‘thin is attractive’ idea, that lack of self discipline (food/intense exercise) is a person failure - I know intellectually this isn’t true and I’m successful in many ways, a genuine desire to be fit and healthy. I don’t have time, money or mental capacity to make 1/2

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GenIsSolo @kayakuser1 Loved Midnight Sun. Great characters

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@GeorgeIsa1 @GenIsSolo Also loved Shetland! I’m Aussie and my husband is Scottish

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

Oh, how I love @annabelcrabb Incredibly intelligent and delightfully whacky. 100% herself

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

This thread actually cheered me enormously and now I’m inspired to just spend that $30 on something useless but loveable

[Beck Douglas @TheBeckDouglas]

@alliewonder 5 years out from a primary teaching degree (with kids of my own), I still haven’t even applied for a full time job because my family and I will not come out of that 1st year of teaching unscathed.