Damon Lord
@damonlordwriter.bsky.social
Pronouns: he/him. Cis, 🏳️🌈, 🏳️⚧️ ally
PhD student English & Creative Writing
Associate Lecturer (English lang)
W.Bro/Comp, linguist, Welsh 🏴, Esperanto-speaker
Worcs Poet Laureate 2023/24
www.damonlord.com
Newsletter: damonlordwriter.substack.com
PhD student English & Creative Writing
Associate Lecturer (English lang)
W.Bro/Comp, linguist, Welsh 🏴, Esperanto-speaker
Worcs Poet Laureate 2023/24
www.damonlord.com
Newsletter: damonlordwriter.substack.com
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Intro:
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
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when it rains all weekend, you are required to order more books than you could possibly read in your lifetime
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
when it rains all weekend, you are required to order more books than you could possibly read in your lifetime
Intro:
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
October 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Intro:
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
🖖 Name: Damon Lord
📍 Location: Worcester, UK
🌍 Nationality: 🏴
💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
Read around!
Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD.
Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.
Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD.
Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Read around!
Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD.
Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.
Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD.
Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.
Looking forward to performing tonight at 7 p.m., Script Haven, High Street, Worcester, for National Poetry Day!
forwardartsfoundation.org/event/a-pand...
forwardartsfoundation.org/event/a-pand...
A Pandemonium of Poets - Forward Arts Foundation
We have a pandemonium of poets to celebrate National Poetry Day and raise funds for local charity Snoezelen. The evening...
forwardartsfoundation.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Looking forward to performing tonight at 7 p.m., Script Haven, High Street, Worcester, for National Poetry Day!
forwardartsfoundation.org/event/a-pand...
forwardartsfoundation.org/event/a-pand...
My latest article:
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
open.substack.com/pub/damonlor...
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
open.substack.com/pub/damonlor...
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My latest article:
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
open.substack.com/pub/damonlor...
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
open.substack.com/pub/damonlor...
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Perhaps overdoing the research for my writing? I'm researching the weather and cloud cover for a particular location on a particular date to work out if the Sun is likely to have been shining through the window at the time for a scene in my novel.
August 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Perhaps overdoing the research for my writing? I'm researching the weather and cloud cover for a particular location on a particular date to work out if the Sun is likely to have been shining through the window at the time for a scene in my novel.
Working on my novel; I can't type or spell this morning. Typing "orange plastic chair" and somehow it corrected to "orgasm patrol chair". I give up. 😆
August 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Working on my novel; I can't type or spell this morning. Typing "orange plastic chair" and somehow it corrected to "orgasm patrol chair". I give up. 😆
A two-part story, from love to tragedy, told in only six words. An unknown graffiti artist upstages Hemingway's six-word story. #narrative #graffiti
August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A two-part story, from love to tragedy, told in only six words. An unknown graffiti artist upstages Hemingway's six-word story. #narrative #graffiti
Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
Click to read the latest edition of my newsletter! damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/disability...
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
Click to read the latest edition of my newsletter! damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/disability...
Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
damonlordwriter.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
Click to read the latest edition of my newsletter! damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/disability...
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
Click to read the latest edition of my newsletter! damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/disability...
Recently I saw some horizontal stripe flag pin badges on a colleague's bag. Curious, I asked what the flags were. They were the asexual flag and non-binary flags. I thanked my colleague for educating me.
July 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Recently I saw some horizontal stripe flag pin badges on a colleague's bag. Curious, I asked what the flags were. They were the asexual flag and non-binary flags. I thanked my colleague for educating me.
Walking to work yesterday morning, I almost (but didn't) bumped into a man, due to my poor eyesight. I have huge gaps in my vision.
He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude.
Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind.
🧵 1/
He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude.
Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind.
🧵 1/
June 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Walking to work yesterday morning, I almost (but didn't) bumped into a man, due to my poor eyesight. I have huge gaps in my vision.
He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude.
Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind.
🧵 1/
He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude.
Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind.
🧵 1/
Reposted by Damon Lord
Olympia Dukakis in "Tales of the City" - BOTD
June 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Olympia Dukakis in "Tales of the City" - BOTD
"Is he blind?" - What happens when an airport security officer ignores you and directs all questions about you to a family member instead.
damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind
damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind
"Is he blind?"
Disability discrimination: "Does he take sugar?"
damonlordwriter.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Is he blind?" - What happens when an airport security officer ignores you and directs all questions about you to a family member instead.
damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind
damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind
Long weekend ahead. Settling down in the garden with a few books (I usually read several at once) and a beer.
May 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Long weekend ahead. Settling down in the garden with a few books (I usually read several at once) and a beer.
Goodbye, Duolingo. I've decided to stop using Duolingo.
Why?
They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.
Why?
They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.
May 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Goodbye, Duolingo. I've decided to stop using Duolingo.
Why?
They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.
Why?
They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.
Reposted by Damon Lord
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
A very interesting and engaging thread on what the late Pope Francis did to modernise the Catholic Church.
www.threads.net/@authorcathe...
www.threads.net/@authorcathe...
Catherine Carr (@authorcatherinecarr) on Threads
It's rare for a Pagan to mourn the death of a leader of the Catholic Church, but Pope Francis was definitely the most Christlike Pope of my lifetime.
His family fled Italian fascism to go to Argentin...
www.threads.net
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A very interesting and engaging thread on what the late Pope Francis did to modernise the Catholic Church.
www.threads.net/@authorcathe...
www.threads.net/@authorcathe...
Reposted by Damon Lord
Star Trek is the GOAT.
March 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Star Trek is the GOAT.
Reposted by Damon Lord
It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
Had a good long chat with one of PhD supervisors yesterday, and meeting with the other supervisor next week. I'm truly thankful for the opportunity to explore ideas with them. Afterwards I sat down and wrote a load of notes, which cleared my thinking for the next steps of this project.
March 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Had a good long chat with one of PhD supervisors yesterday, and meeting with the other supervisor next week. I'm truly thankful for the opportunity to explore ideas with them. Afterwards I sat down and wrote a load of notes, which cleared my thinking for the next steps of this project.
I was at a lecture from an academic librarian today, who warned us all of the increasing inaccessibility of reliable resources from certain locations of the world, due to actions such as the "Enola Gay" deletion. I fear for the future. #LGBTQrights
1. The Trump Administration’s attempts to erase LGBT history have once again bombed.
In a sweeping attempt to instances of "gay" and "transgender" from government websites, they've targeted the Enola Gay WW2 aircraft for removal.
The latest from S. Baum.
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In a sweeping attempt to instances of "gay" and "transgender" from government websites, they've targeted the Enola Gay WW2 aircraft for removal.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Enola Gay Aircraft, Which Dropped the Atomic Bomb, Targeted Because It Said “Gay”
It appears that the aircraft photos are on the chopping block simply because they use the word “gay.”
www.erininthemorning.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I was at a lecture from an academic librarian today, who warned us all of the increasing inaccessibility of reliable resources from certain locations of the world, due to actions such as the "Enola Gay" deletion. I fear for the future. #LGBTQrights
Remember when Tesla was woke?
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Remember when Tesla was woke?
I feel seen
Writing my dissertation is just me staring at a blank page for 2 hours, typing one sentence, then rewarding myself with 3 hours of memes.
March 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I feel seen