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Marianne Levy
@mariannelevy.bsky.social
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I write books and essays and reviews.
Often found writing for The i paper
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Wanger Wednesday!

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Find out why our lake is @mariannelevy.bsky.social ‘s Netflix smalltown carpenter boyfriend. Also find out what this is:
May 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A new episode of Wild Swimming Wangers has dropped!

This week @mariannelevy.bsky.social and I are wanging on about Thames Water, tips for newbies, singing and SEXY COOTS:

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Wild Swimming Wangers Beth Morrey and Marianne Levy strike a pose in their wetsuits to let you know it’s WANGER WEDNESDAY.
April 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Are you a wild swimmer? Wild swimming curious? Maybe you hate wild swimmers. Fair enough, we are annoying.

Join me and @bethmorrey.bsky.social for half an hour of kit chat! Body image! Wildlife!

The latest episode of Wild Swimming Wangers is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
The Silicone Skirt is Soft and Snug
Podcast Episode · Wild Swimming Wangers · 23/04/2025 · 33m
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April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Dryrobe regret, temperature mansplainers, dramatic rescues and wild wild swimming parties!
April 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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There’s a new episode of Wild Swimming Wangers - the podcast I do with @bethmorrey.bsky.social. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Wild Swimming Wangers
Swimming Podcast · Updated weekly · Writers Marianne Levy and Beth Morrey come to you fresh from a dip in their local reservoir, to discuss their wild swimming exploits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Found a haunted table
April 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Like seeing the last twenty years on fast forward… I reviewed the tv documentary Twitter: Breaking The Bird for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
This Twitter documentary proves it was broken from the start
'Twitter: Breaking the Bird' is the inside story from the very beginning through to its acquisition by Elon Musk
inews.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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WE’VE TAKEN THE PLUNGE.
This is not an April Fool’s joke, we’re actually doing it.
mariannelevy.bsky.social Marianne Levy @mariannelevy.bsky.social · Apr 1
💦We’re doing a podcast!💦

Episode one of WILD SWIMMING WANGERS is out tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts

Subscribe and follow us on insta @wildswimmingwangers

Because what the world needs is more content about wild swimming. And podcasts.
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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💦We’re doing a podcast!💦

Episode one of WILD SWIMMING WANGERS is out tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts

Subscribe and follow us on insta @wildswimmingwangers

Because what the world needs is more content about wild swimming. And podcasts.
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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She also shared it on LinkedIn, with a longer reflection.
Link here if you want to read it (and share your thoughts with her directly)
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Rachel Los on LinkedIn: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts… | 148 comments
“Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”  –… | 148 comments on LinkedIn
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March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Guys!!! @heavyweight.bsky.social is coming back!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns
Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.
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February 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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⭐️⭐️

‘This is a thriller of the sort that involves people in suits talking at each other, with the occasional close-up of one of De Niro’s troubled eyeballs’

My review of Zero Day, for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Robert De Niro can't save Netflix's glossy, empty Zero Day
If you watch hoping to see a society wrestling with a digital apocalypse, you'll be disappointed
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February 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’
‘Hello calling from sexy literally. I’m just calling to confirm you can still attend your appointment with us tomorrow’
February 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me
February 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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A brand new short story from Garth Marenghi is available NOW as a Kindle Ebook. Unless you own the Terrortome Collector’s Edition or Incarcerat paperback, you will not have this. GO THOU AND RECTIFY.

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Garth Marenghi's Throttle and Bribes
Garth Marenghi's Throttle and Bribes eBook : Marenghi, Garth: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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January 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
a mock up of a vintage style movie poster, with a bright yellow background featuring red, white, and black elements. the title reads "Please Margaret NO" and shows a well groomed man in a suit looking terrified, as a woman with curled hair and red lipstick holds her mouth open in a broad smile. the text below reads "he was a man with the world's largest collection of live butterflies and she wanted to eat them all". a motif of black and white butterfly silhouettes floats along the top of the poster.
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Bjark 🐕
December 31, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Trying to buy a new vacuum cleaner. Do you like your vacuum cleaner? If so, might you tell me what it is?
I am so tired of reading about vacuum cleaners; also, generally.
December 26, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Kids dislike mincemeat so we thought we’d try to top little pies with marshmallow.

Do not do this.
December 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Just been to see The Polar Express which is batshit insane but then I saw Tom Hanks’ assistant’s name on the credits which reminded me of this. If you have a few minutes, it is incomparable harpers.org/archive/2021...
These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett
Tell me how the story ends
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December 24, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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I reviewed the latest instalment of The Famous Five for @inews.co.uk

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Jemima Rooper's return to Famous Five is gorgeously retro
The BBC's big budget family thriller is still as delightful as ever
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December 23, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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December 19, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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I am writing something about A Dog So Small and crying just THINKING about it.
December 12, 2024 at 10:46 AM