Meaghan Walker
LightNews LightNews
banner
slopclothes.bsky.social
Meaghan Walker
@slopclothes.bsky.social
2.1K followers 990 following 1.4K posts
Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. She/Her
Posts Replies Media Videos
slopclothes.bsky.social
I saw a fucking BREADFRUIT TREE today! Also VANILLA!!
Me gesturing towards a breadfruit tree. Me standong in front of a vanilla orchid.
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory
August 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
There’s a technical term:
Image of a youtube video answering the question “how to cut the spine out of a chicken?” with a video called “how to spatchcock a chicken.” The thumbnail shows a man holding a chicken carcass that has had the spine cut out of it and he is about the flatten the breasts and break the ribs.
July 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Fake x slash twitter post from John Jacob Astor @nycslumlord that says “Whatever happens, we have got the lifeboats, and they do not”
June 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
We were never modern.
The Sailor and Banker or The Firm in Danger! published in 1799. Shows a sailor in blue jacket and buff trousers handing a note to a banker in older men's fashion of a long red coat, yellow waistcoat, and buff breeches. Watch fops hang from both sailor's pockets, indicating that he has two pocket watches. This was visual shorthand in caricature to show that sailors were careless with money since there is no point in wearing more than one watch--it was only a display of wealth.
May 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
They open the door.

Gee whiz, we were wondering if you would let us in to your hootenanny?
Cast of Sinners looking out of the juke joint at the new arrivals. Karen and Richard Carpenter
May 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
The average American has three friends.
Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, and Yasmine Bleeth as CJ Parker, and Stephanie and Caroline Holden in Baywatch, portrayed as Charlie’s Angles posing with drawn pistols.
May 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
James Cameron is like
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
OMG, it is not counterintutitive: Doge is no more interesting in efficiency than AI is interested in intelligence ... it is a process meant to break public services so they can shift public dollars to private companies with no accountability!
Start of text (article linked in following post): "...like they wanted to get me from the moment I was walked to the American side." On 4 March, the White House issued a statement celebrating how "Ice arrests of illegal immigrants have surged 627%" during Trump's first month in office. Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian woman who was detained by Ice for two weeks, says while the private companies who own the facilities are run for profit, there's no incentive to get people out quickly. (Highlighted Text) But in the era of Elon Musk's department of government efficiency (Doge), it seems counterintuitive for public money to be deliberately wasted on detaining illegal aliens with the will and means to return home. (End Highlighted Text) Trump's border tsar, Tom Homan, promised "shock and awe" from day one of his administration. Perhaps Becky's incarceration was political theatre - or preformative cruelty. Whatever the reason, in Trump's America, a tourist who makes a mistake can be locked up, seemingly indefinitely. The deportation paper Becky signed bans her from the US for the next 10 years. (End of image)
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Processing this GORGEOUS handknit Rocky Harbour cardigan at #NONIA today! NB Briggs & Little yarn makes the cables absolutely POP with definition. If you are looking for a sweater to last a lifetime made by a Newfoundland nan, you should checkout www.nonia.com!
Jade or teal green v-neck cardigan sweater with cables and moss stitch, wooden buttons, in quality control at NONIA, 286 Water Street, St. John’s NL.
March 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
United States was richest between 1870 and 1913 but then all the rich people died on the Titanic and after a year of salvage ideas going nowhere, we gave up the GDP of the USA to the frigid North Atlantic, where it stays until we
Section of a movie poster with the title RAISE THE TITANIC showing the Titanic getting blown off the seafloor with explosives while lit up by the lights of a half-dozen submersibles.
February 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Anyway, here’s last week’s harvest of snow:
February 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Sitting down to this 2h+ thriller of the United States preparing to be put out of its misery.
A living room with a tv showing footage of the SS United States waiting in dock in Philly to be moved with tugs to Florida and then scuttled as a man-made reef.
February 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
The arrival of the snow plough on my street:
The scene from LotR: Two Towers of Gandalf arriving with the riders of rohirim. Men sit on their horses on the crest of a hill, posing heroically because they have arrived just in time, about to charge down into the valley and save helm’s deep.
February 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Getting Newfoundland Trigger Mitts ready to ship to the US by pulled out 25% of the fingers.
Navy and white Newfoundland trigger mittens, which are mittens with a detached index or trigger finger. The thumb and finger have been unraveled. The back is an alternating pattern of diamonds and triangles.
February 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Cover of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth Open book showing layout of the illustrations. Open book showing layout of the illustrations. Open book showing layout of the illustrations.
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
🗣️🗣️🗣️ This is a call for prize submissions for Canadian MA students or their supervisors!

The Cartier Prize is an award of $500 for 2024's best MA thesis on maritime history by a Canadian student.

👇👇 Submission rules and details in the second image 👇👇
Call for submissions for an awards prize: Canadian Nautical Research Society | Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique | www.cnrs-scrn.org Title says: The CNRS Jaques Cartier MA Prize, $500 and continues: CNRS is inviting students to submit their Master’s thesis for consideration for the Jacques Cartier Prize for the Best MA Thesis. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents either attending a Canadian institution OR a foreign institution, writing on a Canadian maritime topic. The thesis must have been successfully completed and assessed leading to completion in the previous year. The submitted thesis must demonstrate original research and be at least 50 pages/12,500 words in length. Theses must have a maritime focus, broadly defined. Submissions must be received by March 31, 2025. Send a PDF of the work to Margaret Schotte, Chair of the CNRS Awards Committee, mschotte@yorku.ca. Award Criteria 1. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents attending a Canadian university or institution of higher learning, or a similar foreign institution, writing on a Canadian maritime topic. 2. The thesis, cognate paper, or extended research paper must have been successfully completed and assessed, leading to successful completion of the degree in the previous calendar year (i.e., completion in 2024 for the prize awarded in 2025). 3. The submitted thesis must demonstrate original research of an extended order and be at least 50 pages / 12,500 words in length. 4. A PDF copy of the thesis is to be submitted to the Chair of the Cartier Prize Committee. 5. Applicants shall provide a cover letter that includes a brief biography (200-words), as well as mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Additionally, a letter from the candidate's supervisor, graduate director, or head of department in the university or institute in which the thesis is completed must confirm that the work has passed examination (noting the dates of submission and examination, and/or completion of the degree). 6. Theses must have a maritime focus. Areas of research include, but are not limited to, history, history of science and technology, political studies and political economy, literature, archaeology, underwater archaeology, anthropology, geography, sociology, ecology, and any other branch of historical learning related to human uses of the seas, oceans, rivers or lakes. 7. If no thesis is deemed worthy of an award in a given year, no award is given.
January 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
From the Rio Grande to the Colorado, there go our great container ships!

How do they get between the two? Simple.
A train with a boat as cargo. This was a real idea in the late 19th century to cross the isthmus between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait but was never economical.
January 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Slowly gathering the talismans closer to the sacred site. Each day they grow stronger, awaiting the final pieces!

One day she will RISE AGAIN.
2/3rds of a Lego Titanic surrounded by more Titanic kitsch. From left to right: Bright Shark by Robert Ballard and Tim Choi, Long Contemporary Poems that contains Anthony Cronin’s RMS Titanic, the first paperback edition of Clive Cussler’s Raise the Titanic, a Casio electronic game SOS Titanic, Nintento Super Famicom game Septentrion, Nintendo Famicom game Titanic Mystery, and the first retail Titanic game, 1986’s Titanic: The Recovery Mission for the C64. The first Titanic game, however, was made in 1984, before the wreck was discovered, and was shareware.
December 31, 2024 at 8:05 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
The more men’s clothing and sweater news, the more powerful I become.
Images of Luigi Mangione in court with a burgundy jersey-knit worsted sweater over a crisp white button-down shirt. Top stories Luigi Mangione's sweater sells out after court appearance Nordstrom sweater worn by Luigi Mangione during court hearing IMMEDIATELY sells out: Daily Mail Sweater Worn By Luigi Mangione Sold Out Day After His Court Appearance: NDTV
December 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Harper:
Disney’s Alice from Alice in Wonderland siting in a meadow of daisies with the text “I’m not like other girls” in a serif font over her head.
December 16, 2024 at 9:37 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
You’ve heard of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, now AI is bringing us Lgugar’s Flying Male Genitals.
A pixelated crop of the cover if UCLA’s AI generated textbook for the entirely AI based class on comparative English literature. Between a nonsense orange and red flag and a romanesque building is a strange flying object. At a glance it looks like a bent dick and two brown balls with a pair of grey wings. A person is apparently riding the flying genitals, sitting astride the shaft. While this is in keeping with frank and often comical medieval depictions of the male sexual apparatus, it is more likely AI’s poor rendering of a goose or some other kind of bird.
December 10, 2024 at 9:22 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
C’mon, you know they are using the best computer software available.
Foreground is a logo of a woman in a red hat and trench coat, the hat pulled down over her eyes. She is wearing black gloves as well. Around are are the words “where in the world is carmen sandiego? card game”. The background is a partial view of the globe showing the northern hemisphere centered on the Atlantic Ocean. Larger-than-life buildings are situated along the horizon including the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, big ben, the pyramids of giza, and the sydney opera house. A red plane tows a sign saying: based on the classic computer game.
December 7, 2024 at 10:03 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Omg St. John’s let me live!
Bernie Saunders meme of him standing outside addressing the camera in a grey raincoat. Allcaps sans serif font reads “I am once again asking the rain to cease and desist.”
November 21, 2024 at 12:41 PM
slopclothes.bsky.social
Going through my email be like:
Image of a woman wearing a blue knit sweater with a Titanic pattern worked in intarsia, featuring a silhouette of giant Jack and Rose at the bow à la 1997 JC’s Titanic. At the top: You've recently bought Titanic Tunic Pattern, what do you think about it? And the below the image it says: Titanic Tunic Pattern. How would you rate this item? (5 star is very good, 1 star is poor).
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM