Digital Folklorist, PhD @RCACommResearch • she/her • Illustrator for DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? by @danny_robins out now! 👻
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1 Nov 2024
Today I delivered a eulogy for my Dad, Peter Walker, who passed away suddenly on October 4th, aged just 58. Here it is in full 🩷
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They should have seen it coming, really.
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I'll never forget that Letterboxd review where someone said the girl they had a crush on told them they looked like the waiter from The Triplets of Belleville.
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Enjoying the last two sentences of the BBC's obituary for Gene Shalit
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I don't think I can name an artist who painted his dogs with as much profound reverance as David Hockney did.
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“They are intelligent, loving, comical, and often bored. They watch me work; I notice the warm shapes they make together, their sadness and their delights. And, being Hollywood dogs, they somehow seem to know that a picture is being made.”
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Jun 12
Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species
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I have a working theory that poltergeists are just regular ghosts with dyspraxia.
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nothing but respect for MY backrooms
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Disclosure Day. Why are aliens such crap pilots in movies? Why are they always crashing? Are aliens dyspraxic?
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Jun 11
The state of affairs in the UK is scary if you’re not mentally strong or have a support system. The economy is crippling and people are making every effort to show their dislike and hate towards people who have different religion, race or protected characteristics to them
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Jun 10
And honestly, the Belfast incident should be declared a national emergency. We’ve seen acts of domestic terrorism, people have been displaced and homes destroyed. We need to address and acknowledge the severity of what is happening or we normalise it.
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I'll hear "visit your town Facebook page for local events" and it's just chock full of grotesque AI-generated flyers and people being appallingly racist and Islamophobic.
They'll write books in years to come about the damage Reform has done to this country's moral psyche.
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I'm not kidding, getting my PhD wasn't anywhere near as hard as my GSCEs. It took me several tries to get a pass grade on my Maths, and retaining information for over a dozen different exams was exhausting.
How 16-year-old me managed it without collapsing I'll never know.
My daughter completed exam 22 out of 24 for her GCSEs today. I’ve never seen her so exhausted. Is this really a sensible way of measuring children’s success? #gcses
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Jun 10
Men see women as property. That is why they will only react when a foreign man violates a woman he believes is his. It is never about actually protecting women and girls lives. To them, it’s about protecting “their property”. Only they are “allowed” to cause these women harm.
Jun 9
More women are killed by femicide in Northern Ireland by white men than any other race or nationality.
Where are the riots for that?
#Belfast #Ulster #NorthernIreland
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I don't think I can manage today because my brain decided to remind me this Doctor Who line exists.
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This era was when I stopped watching. It had become too Marvel-ified for its own good. I think I bailed once I'd heard the "I Am The Doctor" leitmotif for the 75th time. The Capaldi era is apparently an improvement; should I give that a go?
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RT @Taj_Ali1: I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown…
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Someone posted on here "Dr Who is like something bullies came up with to be cruel to nerds"
and i still think about that a lot
I don't think I can manage today because my brain decided to remind me this Doctor Who line exists.
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