Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
Joined February 2010
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24 Oct 2020
This is for all arts orgs trying to rearrange their seating plans to be Covid-safe.
PEOPLE DO NOT COME IN PAIRS.
If the only single seats you offer are tucked into the corners of your auditorium, I’m fucking judging you. Even after making allowances for the position you’re in.
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May 29
RT @miffythegamer: It only took a tiny minority of bigots in the 1980s to introduce laws which persecuted gay people.
We overturned those…
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Apr 28
One of the screening questions for alcohol addiction is: do you ever get annoyed when someone’s questions your alcohol usage.
I think Westminster has collectively triggered this warning and should reflect on its relationship to alcohol.
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Apr 16
One of the most avoidable mistakes in arts PR is the temptation to dress up what is clearly bad news as the opposite. Conductor just quit? No, they've renewed their contract for one year! Burned your season to the ground? No, the ashes are "a bold statement of renewal".
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11 Oct 2025
I think you people severely underestimate how sexless the average person's life is lol
10 Oct 2025
No s*x for 2 years and get $800 million, Can you?? 👀
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6 Aug 2025
I genuinely thought this was parody 😬
5 Aug 2025
Introducing the first AI prototype of a British MP🇬🇧🤖
When constituent and local business owner, Jeremy Smith, approached me with this idea, I was very excited to work with him. The AI revolution is happening and we must embrace it or be left behind.
neural-voice.ai/mark-sewards
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20 Jul 2025
David Cotter describes himself as an academic but appears unable to understand the difference between ‘relaxed’ and ‘relaxing’ and is unwilling to do even the most elementary research about Relaxed Concerts. But he’s complained about them anyway. 🤦🤦
thecritic.co.uk/democratisin…
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27 Apr 2025
yea you’re right cīs women have never had the experience of getting sad after trying on clothes that are made for a different body type
26 Apr 2025
Transwoman is furious after learning that dresses are made for ‘people’ with narrower shoulders and shorter arms
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“Unexpectedly”
Does this have a different meaning in British English to American?
2 Apr 2025
Tesla sales unexpectedly plunge to three-year low bbc.in/3R0j3uc
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1 Apr 2025
I appreciate that anecdotes are not data, but when opera is done well it has the exact opposite effect on me!
(My trip to this particular run of Tosca was made even harder on the blood pressure when I heard just before curtain that all the trains home were messed up…)
1 Apr 2025
Did you know that research suggests that listening to classical music like opera can lower your blood pressure and boost your mood? 🎶
So, the next time you're stressed, skip the sweet tea and just let Tosca work her magic.
#WNOtosca
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28 Feb 2025
I’ve changed my mind. David Lammy should have knee’d him in the nutsack. Twice.
28 Feb 2025
David Lammy is getting a lot of vitriol today for being a hypocrite, which on the one hand I can understand. But on the other hand he’s the Foreign Secretary, what was he supposed to do? Knee him in the balls and call him a c*nt?
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27 Feb 2025
I am a doctor. A patient just informed me that the words anti-vaxxer is offensive to some. Ok, from now on l will use the more scientific term, dumbass.
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25 Feb 2025
As someone who spend their entire teenage years surrounded by public school boys, I'd just like to clarify that misogyny is not the preserve of working class boys.
24 Feb 2025
Really interesting- Sunday Times magazine interview with Sam Fender
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18 Feb 2025
Carolina López Moreno - who was so fabulous in the LSO Rondine at the Barbican - has replaced Lisette Oropesa in the Royal Opera’s Faust. #operanews
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it’s so weird how i’ve always been into a crunchy/organic/natural lifestyle and for a very long time it was insanely blue-haired liberal coded, and now all of a sudden i’m standing in a room full of eugenics-obsessed white supremacists
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19 Feb 2025
So it’s very deeply acceptable to breastfeed your child and subsequently not want people to leer at your chest, and it is wildly concerning to me that anyone might not see how those things are different.
18 Feb 2025
Blake Lively 'openly breastfed' son Olin in front of Justin Baldoni but claims she was 'flustered' when he leered at her in a low-cut dress trib.al/nWU2AlA
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16 Feb 2025
You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.
Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.
16 Feb 2025
Elon Musk and DOGE have reportedly saved the US over $100 billion
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17 Feb 2025
Bravo @RegentsOpera for the epic Ring cycle 👏. Not a weak link in the cast and a unique opportunity to be really close to the action. If you can make cycle 2 starting next Sunday, go!
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4 Feb 2025
Whether Lucy Letby is acquitted after a retrial or not, the uncertainty surrounding her conviction is a major argument against the death penalty
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