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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 15h

07/10/26 • something came in the post for me

A rude mood chameleon broach by the fabulous https://pop-up.studio/

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

« schools with no money = country with no future » 🫶🏻

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

06/10/26 • charity shop find: book about outdoor cooking for 50p • sparks memories of winter BBQs in France — e.g. boat to an island on the Loire, clearing snow to dig a fire pit, oysters on a grill • and thoughts about… the cookery book as a work of [creative non]fiction: discuss

Photo of a hardback book called River Cottage Handbook No.17: Outdoor Cooking, by Gill Meller, introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Cover image shows two fish, a flatbread and some veg grilling over a fire

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is now a good time to brag about not having read any Jeffrey Archer?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

05/10/26 • still knackered from taking part in yesterday’s grassroots kettlebell finale — my gym Tu Nova got the 🏆 for best performance of 2026, and while I didn’t win anything I did learn more about what I can be capable of (PB of 222 reps military snatch with a 12kg bell in just under 12 mins 👀💪🏻😴

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

04/10/26 • too tired to explain why, but today was good

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dreamt that David Byrne had just bought the Severn Bridge 🤷‍♀️

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do ask because you might be (I’m not on any medication for my MS currently and I think that’s why I’m not allowed)!

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just been informed that having MS — an autoimmune disease — doesn’t make me eligible for Covid vaccine top ups and

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Nadia Vulvokov Asks How?

Alt: Bemused ginger woman asks “How?” and I’m with her

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

« Her “illness” was old age, the nursing home would be her “prison,” and it was her duty to give up desiring to be healthy, to be able to move freely, and to make her own choices, because she was no longer capable of any of those things and never would be again. » I might have to read this

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The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

A few years ago, Didier Eribon’s mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy. After several months of resistance, Eribon and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home. A ...

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What also destroys credibility is forwarding the use of ‘AI’ as a reliable research tool in this context

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I too would like an answer to this legitimately concerning question

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22/09/26 • woke this morning from a really *really* enjoyable dream in which I was singing and dancing in a revamp of this ⤵️

m.youtube.com

Car Wash | "Workin' at the Car Wash, Yeah!" Theme Song

YouTube video by Universal Pictures

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21/09/26 • I may be feeling depressed about the state of everything, but how bad can it really be if an oak tree pelting me with acorns can make me laugh anyway?

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Politicians everywhere selling out citizens to corporate/billionaire interests at the expense of the planet. Canada doing the same with its "AI for All"...mutton-dressed-as- lamb plan. From neoliberalism to nihiliberalism.

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lost me at ‘artificial intelligence’ Or was it ‘sovereign’? 🤔

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20/09/26 • lie in • lazy Sunday

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

19/09/26 • with cooler weather coming I’ve been looking out for stuff to wear in our unheated gym and today found a pair of Sweaty Betty joggers (or whatever, that would have cost about £90 new) for a fiver, plus a decent sweatshirt for… 50p 🥳 • puy lentils and sausages — comfort food — for dinner

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If we were in a situation where there were no flora and fauna left to eat first, wouldn’t delicious cyclists also be off the menu?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“the conceptual gap separating living and non-living”

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

18/09/26 • after reading the words “Penis Soccer” in a post on here, had an interesting time trying to imagine what that might look like and wondering if it might be something I’d actually watch

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Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center @rushalzheimers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. Some people don't know that for people who are HIV-positive, the infection actually makes its way to the brain early in the disease process, which can lead to HIV-associated dementia. #HIV #AIDS #AIDSAwareness #HIVAwareness

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17/09/26 • sang happy birthday to my mum over the phone and made her laugh • bought a book! Er…

Penguin Classic 2000 edition of Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, with a very beautiful B+W photo of a big rock called ‘Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona’, 1872, by William H. Bell on the cover. It wasn’t on my wish list at all but I found it in a charity shop for a quid so 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“the collective emotional and psychological labour of” dementia

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think they were named after astronauts and I was in Aldrin, can remember Gagarin as well but not the others (though I’d guess there’d probably have to have been an Armstrong)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sept. 16, 1926: Bicycling past a waterlogged soccer pitch in Essex, England, after the River Roding flooded.

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

16/09/26 • a lingering effect of my (1st and hopefully only episode of) MS is that my legs feel burning hot all the time so wearing shorts, especially in this cooler weather, is 👍🏻 (plus I need the vitamin D) • taking a wrong turn on a routine walk home can be mildly amusing

Photo of a very neglected looking boat (full of brambles) peeping round a corner onto a fenced alley behind red brick and slate roofed houses, a ‘NO PARKING’ sign bottom right, taken in the centre of a north east of England town that isn’t by the sea

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And King Cnut might like to have a word about ‘de-recognition’?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s a really weird experience, isn’t it!

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hoping I’m more in shock than it was 😳

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not deliberately, and it hopped off when I stood up again so it must be OK?

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