Charlotte
@charlottevickers.bsky.social
Theatre director & leftist
Currently: studying gender
Prev: Andromeda (CPT); Autumn (Park/North Wall), Cymbeline (Globe Theatre)
might post about books, cats or d&d, but work more likely
www.charlottevickers.com
she/her
Currently: studying gender
Prev: Andromeda (CPT); Autumn (Park/North Wall), Cymbeline (Globe Theatre)
might post about books, cats or d&d, but work more likely
www.charlottevickers.com
she/her
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
Richard II: Guys vs Dolls
February 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Richard II: Guys vs Dolls
doing a new challenge: the "bareback london", in which you get your phone stolen so have to rely on using memory and actually reading signage to make your way around the city
February 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
doing a new challenge: the "bareback london", in which you get your phone stolen so have to rely on using memory and actually reading signage to make your way around the city
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Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
my most parasocial relationship (derogatory) is with someone on another team at my regular quiz night
January 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
my most parasocial relationship (derogatory) is with someone on another team at my regular quiz night
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“stop worrying about the bats and the newts” is genuinely quite a grim thing to say!!!
Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
January 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“stop worrying about the bats and the newts” is genuinely quite a grim thing to say!!!
No growth on a dead planet is such a good slogan, it desperately begs the question why Rachel Reeves decided to use the word “growth” to justify her anti-planet economic policy in the first place
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
No growth on a dead planet is such a good slogan, it desperately begs the question why Rachel Reeves decided to use the word “growth” to justify her anti-planet economic policy in the first place
Full Faithful endgame is actually more devastating than I could have imagined #TheTraitors
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Full Faithful endgame is actually more devastating than I could have imagined #TheTraitors
come now, I’ve read the Bible, Frankie and Charlotte should’ve kissed #thetraitors
January 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
come now, I’ve read the Bible, Frankie and Charlotte should’ve kissed #thetraitors
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idk man it feels a bit not good to be mouthing off week after week that there’s no money for disabled people and everyone needs to work themselves into an early grave and then going and spending £9 billion on nuclear bombs
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
idk man it feels a bit not good to be mouthing off week after week that there’s no money for disabled people and everyone needs to work themselves into an early grave and then going and spending £9 billion on nuclear bombs
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Huge mental and optical gymnastics required to insist that what Musk did was anything other than a Nazi salute. We can debate what it means, the fact that he did a Nazi salute, but it's as clear a sieg heil as you'll ever, ever see.
January 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Huge mental and optical gymnastics required to insist that what Musk did was anything other than a Nazi salute. We can debate what it means, the fact that he did a Nazi salute, but it's as clear a sieg heil as you'll ever, ever see.
devastating when one of your favourite faithfuls uses a long word and you know their minutes of screen time are numbered
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
devastating when one of your favourite faithfuls uses a long word and you know their minutes of screen time are numbered
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I'd like everyone to know that the hot to go dance in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs is "quite rough on the wrists" as my party bard put it
January 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'd like everyone to know that the hot to go dance in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs is "quite rough on the wrists" as my party bard put it
quick question, has anyone looked into william shakespeare’s obsession with cowslips
December 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM
quick question, has anyone looked into william shakespeare’s obsession with cowslips
cannot express enough how little i need a wrap up of my year from, for eg, my banking app, dishwasher tablets, and supermarket shops. it would be so unbelievably fine for me to not have that.
December 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
cannot express enough how little i need a wrap up of my year from, for eg, my banking app, dishwasher tablets, and supermarket shops. it would be so unbelievably fine for me to not have that.
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One Partridge to rule them all,
One Partridge to find them,
One Partridge to bring them all and in its Pear Tree bind them.
In the land of Christmas where the rest of the gifts lie.
One Partridge to find them,
One Partridge to bring them all and in its Pear Tree bind them.
In the land of Christmas where the rest of the gifts lie.
December 19, 2023 at 10:46 AM
One Partridge to rule them all,
One Partridge to find them,
One Partridge to bring them all and in its Pear Tree bind them.
In the land of Christmas where the rest of the gifts lie.
One Partridge to find them,
One Partridge to bring them all and in its Pear Tree bind them.
In the land of Christmas where the rest of the gifts lie.
i've just never ever ever been sat watching act one of wicked the musical and thought, wow, i wish that whole thing was 60% slower and had a pause every other minute
December 12, 2024 at 12:37 AM
i've just never ever ever been sat watching act one of wicked the musical and thought, wow, i wish that whole thing was 60% slower and had a pause every other minute
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I am shaking. I am relieved. I am devastated. I am furious. I am bereft.
The puberty blocker ban is a death sentence for some
particularly vulnerable trans youth. It is unconscionable.
When will the people with the power to help sit up and listen?
It’s a scandal. A cover up. A crime. I’m so sad.
The puberty blocker ban is a death sentence for some
particularly vulnerable trans youth. It is unconscionable.
When will the people with the power to help sit up and listen?
It’s a scandal. A cover up. A crime. I’m so sad.
December 11, 2024 at 1:09 PM
I am shaking. I am relieved. I am devastated. I am furious. I am bereft.
The puberty blocker ban is a death sentence for some
particularly vulnerable trans youth. It is unconscionable.
When will the people with the power to help sit up and listen?
It’s a scandal. A cover up. A crime. I’m so sad.
The puberty blocker ban is a death sentence for some
particularly vulnerable trans youth. It is unconscionable.
When will the people with the power to help sit up and listen?
It’s a scandal. A cover up. A crime. I’m so sad.
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My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
December 3, 2023 at 1:13 AM
My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
my fiancée won taskmaster live today (her birthday <3) and I fake proposed because I can’t bear anything not to be about me
December 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
my fiancée won taskmaster live today (her birthday <3) and I fake proposed because I can’t bear anything not to be about me
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i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities
not an original observation but i was just explaining that the UK higher ed sector is in a bad financial position to my mum (who’s lived in austria all her life) and it is actually a very strange thing to explain that the ‘education sector’ is struggling
December 2, 2024 at 8:28 PM
i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities
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Israel has obliterated the mausoleum of Simon Peter, the Apostle of Christ, in Shama, southern Lebanon.
A sacred site that has stood for over 2,000 years, now lies in ruins.
This is not “self-defense”.
This is a war crime and a crime against history.
A sacred site that has stood for over 2,000 years, now lies in ruins.
This is not “self-defense”.
This is a war crime and a crime against history.
December 1, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Israel has obliterated the mausoleum of Simon Peter, the Apostle of Christ, in Shama, southern Lebanon.
A sacred site that has stood for over 2,000 years, now lies in ruins.
This is not “self-defense”.
This is a war crime and a crime against history.
A sacred site that has stood for over 2,000 years, now lies in ruins.
This is not “self-defense”.
This is a war crime and a crime against history.
vi arcane I’m free on Tuesday
November 30, 2024 at 10:04 PM
vi arcane I’m free on Tuesday
work update: I'm currently assisting the wonderful Jen Tang at the marvellous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on one of my favourite @shakespeare.bsky.social plays, Cymbeline - only one of these people is on Bluesky so you'll just have to believe me that it is true, then come see the show from Jan 2025 x
November 29, 2024 at 2:15 PM
work update: I'm currently assisting the wonderful Jen Tang at the marvellous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on one of my favourite @shakespeare.bsky.social plays, Cymbeline - only one of these people is on Bluesky so you'll just have to believe me that it is true, then come see the show from Jan 2025 x