Dr Marie Allitt
@marieallitt.bsky.social
Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
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Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
edinburghuniversitypress.com
(To pin) You can download my book *Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care* for free (open access) here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...
Paperback coming Feb 2025
Paperback coming Feb 2025
How do you handle being ghosted all the time? I think it does happen to me more often than most people, and it really robs you of any self-esteem. It also doesn’t help that I’m incredibly sensitive
It’s not the kind of thing you’re taught to manage or prepared for
It’s not the kind of thing you’re taught to manage or prepared for
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
How do you handle being ghosted all the time? I think it does happen to me more often than most people, and it really robs you of any self-esteem. It also doesn’t help that I’m incredibly sensitive
It’s not the kind of thing you’re taught to manage or prepared for
It’s not the kind of thing you’re taught to manage or prepared for
Their use of GenAI to promote *checks notes* workers’ rights tells me everything.
The medium is the message
The medium is the message
Join me, Alan Mardghum, Heather Wood and others for Your Party’s rally with the Durham Miners Association!
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Their use of GenAI to promote *checks notes* workers’ rights tells me everything.
The medium is the message
The medium is the message
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Using GenAI - something which robs workers of agency - to advertise a political event based on solidarity with workers is a flex I'll give you that....
Join me, Alan Mardghum, Heather Wood and others for Your Party’s rally with the Durham Miners Association!
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Using GenAI - something which robs workers of agency - to advertise a political event based on solidarity with workers is a flex I'll give you that....
This is dreadfully sad news. Alice made a better world for everyone, not just Crip kin. It goes a bit darker now, but hopefully we can follow her examples. My deepest condolences to those who knew her personally.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is dreadfully sad news. Alice made a better world for everyone, not just Crip kin. It goes a bit darker now, but hopefully we can follow her examples. My deepest condolences to those who knew her personally.
Ahhhhh, just started watching Death by Lightning and the first shot is in the Army Medical Museum stores!!! 😍
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ahhhhh, just started watching Death by Lightning and the first shot is in the Army Medical Museum stores!!! 😍
It says it will honour your objection, so let’s hope so!!🤞
(It was glitchy to get to the right page at first, but worth it)
(It was glitchy to get to the right page at first, but worth it)
Meta is using your Whatsapp messages and Facebook & Instagram DMs to train its generative AI. If you want to object, you can do so here www.facebook.com/privacy/genai
How Meta uses information for generative AI models
Learn how Meta uses information for generative artificial intelligence, generative AI models.
www.facebook.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It says it will honour your objection, so let’s hope so!!🤞
(It was glitchy to get to the right page at first, but worth it)
(It was glitchy to get to the right page at first, but worth it)
A role I interviewed for a while ago is hiring again. Do you think I can get away with the same application? I figure that if they want to give me another chance they will, and if they feel I’ve already had my chance, they won’t
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A role I interviewed for a while ago is hiring again. Do you think I can get away with the same application? I figure that if they want to give me another chance they will, and if they feel I’ve already had my chance, they won’t
This 100%! I feel like we never hear about or have criticised the actual thing, only ever the *idea* of the thing.
(Is this postmodernism? Peak simulacrum?)
(Is this postmodernism? Peak simulacrum?)
This is probably a crazy idea, but wouldn't it be better to react to the *actual* budget, rather than to every leak and piece of speculation in the months beforehand?
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This 100%! I feel like we never hear about or have criticised the actual thing, only ever the *idea* of the thing.
(Is this postmodernism? Peak simulacrum?)
(Is this postmodernism? Peak simulacrum?)
How many rejections can a person take until they simply turn to dust?
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How many rejections can a person take until they simply turn to dust?
I passed her in a Waitrose once
Pam St Clement to return to EastEnders as Pat Butcher in dementia episode
Pam St Clement to return to EastEnders as Pat Butcher in dementia episode
The beloved character, played by Pam St Clement, returns next month in Nigel's memories from the 90s.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I passed her in a Waitrose once
My social media is swamped with ads saying ‘We’re Hiring…for volunteers’
I don’t think you should be allowed to use the word ‘hire’ when it’s voluntary and unpaid 🤬
I don’t think you should be allowed to use the word ‘hire’ when it’s voluntary and unpaid 🤬
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My social media is swamped with ads saying ‘We’re Hiring…for volunteers’
I don’t think you should be allowed to use the word ‘hire’ when it’s voluntary and unpaid 🤬
I don’t think you should be allowed to use the word ‘hire’ when it’s voluntary and unpaid 🤬
One of those days, happening more and more often, where my passion for anything and everything is completely gone
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One of those days, happening more and more often, where my passion for anything and everything is completely gone
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We’re going to need a bigger little treat
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We’re going to need a bigger little treat
Reposted by Dr Marie Allitt
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
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To be clear, Streeting is a mendacious, morally vacuous creep who will say and do anything for power.
That's the verdict of all who knew him in student politics and all who had the misfortune to work with him after.
He's just as awful as Starmer, possibly even worse.
An awful choice for PM.
That's the verdict of all who knew him in student politics and all who had the misfortune to work with him after.
He's just as awful as Starmer, possibly even worse.
An awful choice for PM.
Labour MPs say Wes Streeting's stock has risen within the party after extraordinary No 10 briefings against him on Tuesday night
"They've managed to create a situation where Wes is the victim/the adult in the room"
report @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @adampayne26.bsky.social
"They've managed to create a situation where Wes is the victim/the adult in the room"
report @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @adampayne26.bsky.social
Labour MPs Say No 10 Briefing Has Increased Wes Streeting’s Chances Of Becoming PM
Labour MPs have told PoliticsHome that Wes Streeting’s stock has increased among members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, particularly its soft l...
www.politicshome.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
To be clear, Streeting is a mendacious, morally vacuous creep who will say and do anything for power.
That's the verdict of all who knew him in student politics and all who had the misfortune to work with him after.
He's just as awful as Starmer, possibly even worse.
An awful choice for PM.
That's the verdict of all who knew him in student politics and all who had the misfortune to work with him after.
He's just as awful as Starmer, possibly even worse.
An awful choice for PM.
Please, please don’t let Wes Streeting become PM! I beg! I plead!
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Please, please don’t let Wes Streeting become PM! I beg! I plead!
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I continue to believe most of the "back to office" rhetoric is coming from older guys who just want there to be a bunch of people in the office for them to chat with when they're lonely
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I continue to believe most of the "back to office" rhetoric is coming from older guys who just want there to be a bunch of people in the office for them to chat with when they're lonely
This thread and Qts is top tier! Timeline cleanse
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This thread and Qts is top tier! Timeline cleanse
Nothing like a Tuesday to bring you back to earth with a bump
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Nothing like a Tuesday to bring you back to earth with a bump
What a bizarre thing to say. It’s a new beginning! A dream for writers! This is what happens with franchising everything - it’s inevitable to have restarts when it’s a new actor
Just…get new writers who do have ideas
Just…get new writers who do have ideas
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What a bizarre thing to say. It’s a new beginning! A dream for writers! This is what happens with franchising everything - it’s inevitable to have restarts when it’s a new actor
Just…get new writers who do have ideas
Just…get new writers who do have ideas
Well, Vinted is now useless 🙄
All bubbles burst I suppose
All bubbles burst I suppose
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Well, Vinted is now useless 🙄
All bubbles burst I suppose
All bubbles burst I suppose
*BANG* Did you hear that?
I think that was the final nail in the coffin of my academic career
Rejected for the last post I had a shot at and it’s tumbleweeds here on
I think that was the final nail in the coffin of my academic career
Rejected for the last post I had a shot at and it’s tumbleweeds here on
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
*BANG* Did you hear that?
I think that was the final nail in the coffin of my academic career
Rejected for the last post I had a shot at and it’s tumbleweeds here on
I think that was the final nail in the coffin of my academic career
Rejected for the last post I had a shot at and it’s tumbleweeds here on
Has pretty much every computer programme and app done an update overnight that in many cases has made things look completely different!!!?
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Has pretty much every computer programme and app done an update overnight that in many cases has made things look completely different!!!?
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