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Susannah Walker
@susannahwalker.bsky.social
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Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.

Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com

Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · Aug 29
In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵.
Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.
Frizon shelter - a curved space with seats like swings and lovely coloured perspex in the roof and a view of the city of Umeå at dusk. Two teenage girls sit in one of the swing seats having a chat.
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jfcudennec.bsky.social
🏺Facebook archaeology groups might not be completely dead after all
A snowbank on both sides of a cleared sidewalk is shown in cross‑section, humorously annotated like an archaeological profile. On the left wall, three horizontal snow layers are labeled from bottom to top “early snowfall event,” “early snow plough deposit,” and “massive snowfall event,” with a line at the base marking “extent of excavation” down to the exposed pavement labeled “bedrock.” On the right wall, multiple undifferentiated snow layers are labeled simply “snow,” with a vertical gap through the bank identified as a “processional way (pizza delivery)” leading from the sidewalk to the street. Near the outer edge of the right bank another small feature is marked “faunal remains? (tauntaun?),” and the thin wet band along the pavement is labeled “slush layer.” Bare winter trees, parked cars, and buildings are visible in the background.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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ioponomarenko.bsky.social
St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, right now.

Have a happy Christmas time, folks.

And thank you for supporting Ukraine all this time.
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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franglaise.bsky.social
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas

He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic

Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates

He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Dark attic room with stone walls, cardboard on floor with single mattress & antique coffee table (random)
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Actual Mog
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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madlinsudn.bsky.social
Sinister or reassuring message viewed from the bus yesterday.

you are content
billboard in big letters - you can content
December 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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lifeisterrible.bsky.social
this made me so happy
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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No idea.
A cat asleep on a lap. For some reason her tail is hooked over her ear
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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adaspota.bsky.social
Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
susannahwalker.bsky.social
It's not people, it's men.

In the photos it's all the women with their faces blacked out, and the more I look at them, the more it looks like an artwork about power.
davidjroth.bsky.social David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 8d
I've kept a pretty open mind to basically anything that explains how Epstein got away with what he got away with for so long, but I don't have a hard time believing it's ultimately some combination of "rich people are stupid and lazy" and "the law isn't actually real for sufficiently rich people."
December 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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peculiarsusan.bsky.social
Baby owls looking up with wide eyes. Text: THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT WTF FUCKING HELL JESUS CHRIST FUCK ME SIDEWAYS NOICE HOLY SHIT DA FUQ FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that. Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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frodehommedal.bsky.social
Musk WILL turn off Starlink when Ukraine counter-attacks.

Musk WON'T disable Russia's use of Starlink.

But sure, buy a Tesla. Line the Russia-supporting Nazi's pockets. Pretend like it's just the normal "business as usual".
saintjavelin.bsky.social SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 12d
Musk’s Starlinks help russia to kill Ukrainians

Ukrainian military reports indicate that Russian Molniya-2 kamikaze drones are using continuous Starlink connectivity, significantly increasing their operational effectiveness.
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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heresiarch.bsky.social
You’re drawing conclusions from an insufficient sample size. Clearly what we need to do here is take the money from a robust, demographically representative sample* of billionaires and air drop them all into random foreign countries**
jenashleywright.bsky.social Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 14d
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FindsFriday

This Bronze Age shield was discovered in the marsh at Rhyd-y-gors, Ceredigion, #Wales. It dates from circa 1200-1000 BC. 👀💥

#Archaeology #History
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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jimmfelton.bsky.social
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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sardonicus.eu
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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japanauthor.bsky.social
www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-...
70 years of The Ladykillers: how the locations look today
As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
susannahwalker.bsky.social
Sunday return for this…
susannahwalker.bsky.social Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 22d
Friday afternoon obscure question:

can anyone tell me what the highest viewer rating figures were for Brideshead Revisited in 1981?

doesn't seem to be out there anywhere
A young Jeremy Irons pushes a young Anthony Andrews in a bath chair outside a large stately home from the 1981 tv adaptation of Brideshead revisited, for which I cannot find the viewing figures for love nor money.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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catbus.phd
greatest mural ever?
it's in the running
mural of a black and white tuxedo cat taking up the whole end wall of an apartment building At 34‑35 Rugiańska Street in Szczecin, a new mural has been created honouring the legendary cat Gacek – a black and white icon of the city. The artwork was created using photocatalytic paints which, under sunlight, help purify the air. For years Gacek lived near Kaszubska Street, where a dedicated wooden shelter stood and where he became a beloved figure among residents, tourists and the media alike. In 2023, due to health concerns, he was brought into care and found a home. The Gacek mural is a one-of-a-kind initiative in Poland – no other city has created a piece of street art that both honours a local animal celebrity and actively contributes to environmental protection. Once again, Szczecin proves it can surprise with ideas that are both meaningful and practical. same mural seen from a distance, the mural is at the top of a flight of stairs leading up a grassy hill and it looks like a gigantic cat is sitting there looking at you At 34‑35 Rugiańska Street in Szczecin, a new mural has been created honouring the legendary cat Gacek – a black and white icon of the city. The artwork was created using photocatalytic paints which, under sunlight, help purify the air. For years Gacek lived near Kaszubska Street, where a dedicated wooden shelter stood and where he became a beloved figure among residents, tourists and the media alike. In 2023, due to health concerns, he was brought into care and found a home. The Gacek mural is a one-of-a-kind initiative in Poland – no other city has created a piece of street art that both honours a local animal celebrity and actively contributes to environmental protection. Once again, Szczecin proves it can surprise with ideas that are both meaningful and practical.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."

Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England
Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?

Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/&utm-source=Bluesky&utm_campaign=no-palantir-nhs&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-12-2025
Screenshot of Good Law Project & Just Treatment’s tool, reading: “Is your local NHS trust using Palantir’s software? Enter your postcode”
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
susannahwalker.bsky.social
Friday afternoon obscure question:

can anyone tell me what the highest viewer rating figures were for Brideshead Revisited in 1981?

doesn't seem to be out there anywhere
A young Jeremy Irons pushes a young Anthony Andrews in a bath chair outside a large stately home from the 1981 tv adaptation of Brideshead revisited, for which I cannot find the viewing figures for love nor money.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM