Dara (Dí) Howley
@didihowley.bsky.social
I’m Irish living in London, I work in museums. Feminism, accessibility, sustainability, LGBTQ+ rights & cats are important to me. Recent masters in history focused on sex & gender. 🌈 ♾️🦻🏻🤕 🏳️🌈 Currently Volunteering Manager @ RAF Museum. Views my own. She/her
Pinned
I’ve decided that my first Bluesky post is going to be my cats as kittens, ta-da!
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Future episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Will be like
I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer.
Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.
I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer.
Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Future episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Will be like
I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer.
Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.
I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer.
Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.
I was pleased to facilitate a workshop on fostering a volunteering community & identity across multiple sites & departments this morning.
There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25
There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25
Day 2 of Heritage Volunteering 2025 is here! 🌟 We're diving into workshops to explore new ideas and tools to support volunteers and communities. Let us know what you're learning and plan to bring back to your organization 👇
#HeritageVolunteering2025 #Volunteering #Heritage
#HeritageVolunteering2025 #Volunteering #Heritage
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I was pleased to facilitate a workshop on fostering a volunteering community & identity across multiple sites & departments this morning.
There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25
There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25
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Happy to take your spare penguins.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Happy to take your spare penguins.
Can we all not just agree on where to put the switch on lamps?
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Can we all not just agree on where to put the switch on lamps?
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🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th!
I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!
My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th!
I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for ...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th!
I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!
My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th!
I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!
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Yeah, ID, that's why I can't buy a house 🤪
It is of course almost 100% certain that *every single word* of this post is a lie.
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yeah, ID, that's why I can't buy a house 🤪
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✈️ Join us on 22 Oct for our next Dementia Friendly Tour at RAF Museum London! Explore our First World War in the Air exhibition in a relaxed, hands-on session for people with early-stage dementia & their carers. 💙
🎟️ Free – booking essential.
📧 rhiannon.watkinson@rafmuseum.org
#DementiaFriends
🎟️ Free – booking essential.
📧 rhiannon.watkinson@rafmuseum.org
#DementiaFriends
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
✈️ Join us on 22 Oct for our next Dementia Friendly Tour at RAF Museum London! Explore our First World War in the Air exhibition in a relaxed, hands-on session for people with early-stage dementia & their carers. 💙
🎟️ Free – booking essential.
📧 rhiannon.watkinson@rafmuseum.org
#DementiaFriends
🎟️ Free – booking essential.
📧 rhiannon.watkinson@rafmuseum.org
#DementiaFriends
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🪧 No Kings Protest Tips
Stay peaceful. Don’t engage. 🕊️
Record safely. Evidence protects everyone. 🎥
Bring water, ID, emergency contact. 💧
Stay with friends. 👥
Know your rights. ⚖️
#NoKings #HumanRights
Stay peaceful. Don’t engage. 🕊️
Record safely. Evidence protects everyone. 🎥
Bring water, ID, emergency contact. 💧
Stay with friends. 👥
Know your rights. ⚖️
#NoKings #HumanRights
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🪧 No Kings Protest Tips
Stay peaceful. Don’t engage. 🕊️
Record safely. Evidence protects everyone. 🎥
Bring water, ID, emergency contact. 💧
Stay with friends. 👥
Know your rights. ⚖️
#NoKings #HumanRights
Stay peaceful. Don’t engage. 🕊️
Record safely. Evidence protects everyone. 🎥
Bring water, ID, emergency contact. 💧
Stay with friends. 👥
Know your rights. ⚖️
#NoKings #HumanRights
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Love meeting people & sharing stories?
✈️ Help deliver STEM & history activities, co-create projects with local groups & connect diverse communities.
Meet new people, learn new skills & make a difference ❤️
For more information and to apply, please visit:
👉 search.volunteero.org/9e2ed3/d3777...
✈️ Help deliver STEM & history activities, co-create projects with local groups & connect diverse communities.
Meet new people, learn new skills & make a difference ❤️
For more information and to apply, please visit:
👉 search.volunteero.org/9e2ed3/d3777...
October 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Love meeting people & sharing stories?
✈️ Help deliver STEM & history activities, co-create projects with local groups & connect diverse communities.
Meet new people, learn new skills & make a difference ❤️
For more information and to apply, please visit:
👉 search.volunteero.org/9e2ed3/d3777...
✈️ Help deliver STEM & history activities, co-create projects with local groups & connect diverse communities.
Meet new people, learn new skills & make a difference ❤️
For more information and to apply, please visit:
👉 search.volunteero.org/9e2ed3/d3777...
Cucumber
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Unwritten
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Unwritten
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand
October 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Cucumber
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Unwritten
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Unwritten
Making a parody video to celebrate murder is a disgusting and obscene flex.
"This f*cking political system sucks," –Jon Favreau on Kristi Noem's AI parody of The Love Boat.
October 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Making a parody video to celebrate murder is a disgusting and obscene flex.
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Would anyone be interested in either a couple-hour writing club or a reading group (academic article or book)? Maybe once a week or every two or once a month?
Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.
Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Would anyone be interested in either a couple-hour writing club or a reading group (academic article or book)? Maybe once a week or every two or once a month?
Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.
Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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It's absolutely wild that we are heading to a world where old queers will sit the young uns down to tell them tales of freedom and rights rather than how it used to be with the elders speaking of the horrors they fought through to get those freedoms and rights for the young uns.
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It's absolutely wild that we are heading to a world where old queers will sit the young uns down to tell them tales of freedom and rights rather than how it used to be with the elders speaking of the horrors they fought through to get those freedoms and rights for the young uns.
Pete Hegseth is a guy who has walked into his dream job and can now reform the entire military based on the wish list he formed while on active duty. Not only is he removing the “woke” but he’s issuing commandments conceived around the day-to-day of commanders and NCOs.
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Pete Hegseth is a guy who has walked into his dream job and can now reform the entire military based on the wish list he formed while on active duty. Not only is he removing the “woke” but he’s issuing commandments conceived around the day-to-day of commanders and NCOs.
There’s an opportunity here to join some dots and make small leaps for those who support Trump and his administration - whether that be passively or fervently. The Administration is holding the public hostage by refusing to negotiate the budget, or even consider Democrats’ amendments
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There’s an opportunity here to join some dots and make small leaps for those who support Trump and his administration - whether that be passively or fervently. The Administration is holding the public hostage by refusing to negotiate the budget, or even consider Democrats’ amendments
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First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here.
blackwhiteandread.com
blackwhiteandread.com
Black and White and Read All Over
Where Scholarship Meets the Public
blackwhiteandread.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here.
blackwhiteandread.com
blackwhiteandread.com
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I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
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PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack.
It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)
It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack.
It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)
It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)
Trump using an image of Biden’s auto pen in place of his face as a presidential portrait in the White House is a level of pettiness I am surprised that I am surprised by.
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Trump using an image of Biden’s auto pen in place of his face as a presidential portrait in the White House is a level of pettiness I am surprised that I am surprised by.
If this new Digital ID is not something we will be expected to show on a routine basis - only at initial stages when getting a job or renting a property - then why is it necessary to have, handily, on our phones? A letter, certificate, or code should suffice.
September 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If this new Digital ID is not something we will be expected to show on a routine basis - only at initial stages when getting a job or renting a property - then why is it necessary to have, handily, on our phones? A letter, certificate, or code should suffice.
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We want it this way.
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We want it this way.
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When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
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There's no topless bathers only old ladies in plastic macs.
September 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There's no topless bathers only old ladies in plastic macs.
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We are deeply sorry to our USA customers and very grateful to everyone who has previously purchased from our shop. We hope to have you back soon.
Muff & kisses,
The VM Team x
Muff & kisses,
The VM Team x
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are deeply sorry to our USA customers and very grateful to everyone who has previously purchased from our shop. We hope to have you back soon.
Muff & kisses,
The VM Team x
Muff & kisses,
The VM Team x