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Dr Kate Fitzgerald

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Writer, hound mother, goat botherer, film dingus, AuDHD, she/her. "Too shouty." - Everyone ever. Vampire Fangs. Laugh Bag. Uncle One-Tooth. raisingdemons.ghost.io boxd.it/1fUL

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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Muscle memory is wild, I was watching the new Pulp film on Mubi and suddenly a switch flipped in my sad, dead brain that made me jump up and perform this very complicated dance sequence with 100% accuracy after 30 years. My arms are a bit sore now, though. Poor Gran.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Uncut 4k restoration when?
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me with my Bluesky mutuals
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David Bowie in Twin Peaks: Hell God Baby Damn No
Alt: David Bowie as Phillip Jeffries having a breakdown in TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME. He is sitting at a desk, wearing a Hawaiian shirt under a white suit. His blonde hair is in a quiff. He is surrounded by 3 other men in black suits (David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan and Miguel Ferrer). They are looking down at him with concern and perhaps a little confusion as he shouts: "Hell God Baby Damn No!"
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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh no! :(
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I'm not looking at the news today for the sake of my mental health," she said, firing up another Adam Curtis documentary.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You’ve got three on the go now, Bob. Which are you prioritising? ROMEO AND JULIET in Olde English, A CHRISTMAS CAROL in Late Modern English, or “Untitled LABYRINTH Sequel” in Goblin?
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Robert Eggers Tackling ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Adaptation as Focus Wins Bidding War (Exclusive)
Where art thou? Here art thou: The feature project will be the filmmaker's next after his upcoming 'Werwulf.'
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Think I just saw Germaine Greer walk into the butchers.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even in this skinny apocalypse, every single day somebody new likes this list on Letterboxd + I think that's beautiful...everything I do is for my fellow fat grrls. letterboxd.com/thathagengrr...
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the cinematic canon for fat grrls
A list of 34 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Babycakes (1989), Bachelorette (2012), The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Booksmart (2019) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pah! That's just Anthony Andrews, I'm not scared.
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The Three Children (1946) | BFI National Archive
YouTube video by BFI
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Lana Del Rey's Energetic Hair Flip
Alt: Lana Del Rey walking cheerfully by, flipping her hair.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone got a film-related memoir they can recommend? Seeing as I’m starting with these two, perhaps something not by the recently deceased? Doesn’t have to be an audiobook.
Screenshot of the audiobook for Sam Neil’s memoir, DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS?, read by the author.
Screenshot of the audiobook of Terence Stamp’s first memoir, STAMP ALBUM, read by the author.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?
Black and white still from AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (1966). A donkey sitting in a field surrounded by a flock of sheep.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Emotionally I’m here.
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Basil Brush Chaos
Alt: Basil Brush, a fox puppet wearing a green suit with a red cravat. He’s laughing and the subs read: “Chaos reigns” as spoken by the fox in Lars von Trier’s ANTICHRIST. It’s funny because that fox is nothing like Basil Brush. In fact, I suspect they would not get along at all.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I quite enjoyed Leos Carax’s career retrospective short, especially the sick burn directed at Polanski, but then, after the credits…
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Satire from 1981 that could trounce a proponent of the Normie Industrial Complex in 2026, as well as AND AT THE SAME TIME empower a sick Victorian child.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pathetic little Queensland weasel of the week. “…a Triple M Gold radio interview (which started by playing the lyrics "Tom Tate, he's our mayor and he is great" to the tune of English pop band Madness's Our House)” 😐
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White House issues conflicting account of Aussie mayor's Trump dinner
Tom Tate declared he had dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. An ABC investigation has uncovered conflicting recollections about the headline-making trip.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
THE SIN, Julio Romero de Torres, 1914.
Description from The Julio Romero de Torres Museum:

"The scene unravels with a green sunset with the Almodóvar Castle in the background; in the foreground, the Chruch of Saint Hipólito in Córdoba and the beauty of the nude woman, lying down in a similar way to the Velázquez Venus, back-turned indifferent to the scene that is taking place before her. Four old gossiping women dressed for mourning argue about the convenience and occasion of the sin. The honor of this woman is the object of an animated conversation among them."

One of the old women has a sterner face than the other three, who seem to be delighting in the gossip, all facing her as though all talking at the same time. She, on the other hand, stares straight at the viewer as though judging them, too. She holds up a round mirror in front of the young reclining woman, in which a reflection of her indifferent, almost amused face can be seen. She doesn't give a fuck.

https://museojulioromero.cordoba.es/en/project/the-sin/
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Got knocked out twice in a row and now I can’t get up.
My last four watched on Letterboxd: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (2023) dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 5 stars; THE NOVELIST’S FILM (2022) dir. Hong Sang-soo, 5 stars; MY NEIGHBOUR ADOLF (2022) dir. Leon Prudovsky, 3.5 stars and SICILIA! (1999) dir. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 4 stars.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ocean Photographer of the Year Winner Julian Anton’s photo of a male seahorse and two new-borns.
Black and white photo by Julian Anton of “An adult seahorse pictured with newly born juveniles in the shallow seaweed-filled waters of Moorea, French Polynesia. Although they are unlikely to be related, their arrangement creates the impression of a farewell, as if the tiny seahorses are gathering around a father after he has released them into the world. Seahorses are now rare in French Polynesia so this image was the result of long hours of searching among the seaweed.”



Description taken from: 

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/winners-gallery/?winners_year=2026&winners_category=the-ocean
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 10/09/2026
This is going to be the dedication to my next work (c.1935)
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love the Public Domain Cinematic Horrorverse. JANE EYRE: MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC is coming soon, I suspect.
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Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned - Official Trailer (2026)
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That there's some strong metatarsal bones.
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Martha Graham - HERETIC
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These are the people who, a century ago, would have had a servant to tell their child a bedtime story.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just found out my friend group didn’t invite me to Telluride.
Screenshot of a post from Ocente Pipoca on Twitter of four actors at the Telluride Film Festival 2026: L to R: Andrew Scott (crouching in front, short dark hair, wearing a tight white T-shirt, smiling with teeth), Carrie Coon (her hand on Andrew’s shoulder, short blonde hair, wearing a burgundy top, smiling with teeth), Rebecca Hall, straight, brown hair that goes just past her shoulders, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans with a black blazer, smiling with teeth) and Sandra Huller (short blonde hair, wearing a black long-sleeved top and trousers, smiling without teeth, as usual).
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Songs for crying in the shower 12.
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Smash TV - Sunday Will Never Be The Same
YouTube video by Smash TV
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The paintings of Amedeo Modigliani prophesied the 21st century culture wars with alarming accuracy. For example, here's Graham Linehan.
This is a painting by Amedeo Modigliani from 1916, not of comedy writer and raging transphobe Graham Linehan, but of a man called 'Monsieur Deleu'. The figure possesses the artist's signature elongated form. M. Deleu is seated with his head tilted to one side, one eyebrow raised, his small lips pursed. He's judging you. He knows more than you. He is wearing a bright orange jacket and a fruity little white necktie, which would be delightful, were it not for the Hitler hair.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Geraldine Chaplin? Brat. Tom Conti? 365 party girl. Helen Mirren? Everywhere, so Julia. And— I hope the cast and crew of NAPP were “bumpin’ that” to cope, because jfc.
My last four watched on Letterboxd: HEAVENLY PURSUITS (1986) dir. Charles Gormley, 3 stars; NOT A PRETTY PICTURE  (1976) dir. Martha Coolidge, 4 stars; REMEMBER MY NAME (1978) dir. Alan Rudolph, 3 stars and THE MOMENT (2026) dir. Aiden Zamiri, 3.5 stars.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old.
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Studio Ghibli The Cat Returns
Alt: Gif from the Studio Ghibli film THE CAT RETURNS. A black and white cat walking on its hind legs flings a ginger cat over a high fence. It lands in a bush, kicking its hind legs frantically attempting to dislodge itself. Meanwhile, the black and white cat dusts of it's paws and walks away, satisfied.
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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Call for subs!
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Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Putting out another call into the job search void: I am available for lecturing, research, proofreading, copywriting etc. Research interests inc. gothic, folk horror, ecocritcism, cultural materialism, post-war British theatre, David rudkin, toxic nostalgia, and more! 😁
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today, we're gonna post any 4 horror movies with a location in the title. #HorrorFam #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky
Poster for LAKE MUNGO (2008) featuring a grainy, blurry close up of a teenage girl. The tagline reads: IN 2008, ALICE PALMER DIED...HER NIGHTMARE DIDN'T.Poster for TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016). A man runs down a destroyed train track, clutching a little girl in his arms. Behind them is a derailed train with broken windows, on fire. Helicopters are flying overhead. Poster for A FIELD IN ENGLAND (2013). Detailed line illustration or etching of a man in 17th century dress, including a black broad-brimmed hat, walking though a field of long grass towards a patch of large mushrooms. A human skull and a toad can also be seen hidden in the foliage. Poster for THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974). An illustration of a Volkswagen Beetle covered in enormous metal spikes, its headlights beaming aggressively in the dark.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Joan!!!
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Joan Chen’s Closet Picks
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I'm a domestic pet, goddammit! My life has value!I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
Black and white photograph titled ‘Dog and Cat in Paris’ by Annick Gérardin, date unknown, but likely taken some time in the 1930s. 

A white (and possibly ginger?) cat and what looks to be a Jack Russell terrier standing on a balcony, their front paws resting on the wrought iron rail, looking down into the street with interest.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post your favourite first-watches of August.
My favourite first watches on Letterboxd in August:
ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (2017) dir. Hong Sang-Soo
THE ASCENT (1977) dir. Larissa Shepitko
MAUVAIS SANG (1986) dir. Leos Carax
BETTER DAYS (2019) dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
CITY OF PIRATES (1983) dir. Raúl Ruiz
ALPHA (2025) dir. Julia Ducournau
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957) dir. Billy Wilder
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
ITIM (THE RITES OF MAY) (1976) dir. Mike de Leon
EQUUS (1977) dir. Sidney Lumet
PHOENIX (2014) dir. Christian Petzold
MARAMA (2025) dir. Toa Stappard
TONI ERDMANN (2016) dir. Maren Ade
ELGAR (1962) dir. Ken Russell
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) dir. John M. Stahl
SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This man has always deserved more respect. Scrolling through that liquidation sale was misery-inducing. Stream MAD GOD.
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Animator Phil Tippett Retired and Closed His Studio This Weekend
After over 40 years of stop-motion and CG work, Phil Tippett's career and Tippett Studio went out on a down note.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hello! Some of the popular pylon pictures that I posted have been sold, but just to clarify the situation, these are The Pylons That Remain, and can be found here as originals for sale: www.chloecumming.com/inkwater
Landscape format pylon drawings in ink with vermillion and purple in the sky and black complex structures Blotty pylon with an eyeball seraph , ink and watercolour, moody colours and marks Simplified pylon, deft lines and washesLeaning pylon on a hillside desolate , green and pale blue sky, spidery lines
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tom Conti: “One of the world’s rarest pigeons was eaten by one of the world’s rarest falcons.” <‘Mysterons’ by Portishead plays>
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Fortean Review of the Year 1994
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
This is measured, empathetic, and necessary. Do share.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky More like 'Funeral Friday'. Lost my mind watching SHMOEDIPUS, couldn't figure our whether I'd seen it or not. Finally realised I was thinking of TRACK 29. This is better. Self-proclaimed Denis Lavant fan had not seen MAUVAIS SANG. Shame! 🔔
My last four watched on Letterboxd: MAUVAIS SANG (1986) dir. Leos Carax, 5 stars; SHMOEDIPUS (1974) dir. Barry Davis, 3.5 stars, PIGSTY (1969) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 4 stars and NINE TO FIVE (1980) dir. Colin Higgins, rewatch, 4 stars.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Kuroneko Antichrist Thesis Enys Men
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Simultaneous loathing and appreciation for how well Pierre Clémenti pulled off my standard 2am breakdown haircut, especially considering whoever did it was most certainly on a buttload of drugs.
Pierre Clémenti in PORCILE (PIGSTY) (1969) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini. The haircut in question is a curly, dark bob that falls just below his ears, with a blunt, short fringe, only about an inch long, otherwise known as “baby bangs” — a look alt-leaning girls have been trying to pull off since around 1900. Unfortunately, not many of us are a hot Italian man with dark eyes, full lips and sharp cheekbones. He even suits a conquistador helmet and the act of consuming human flesh. That being said, if you want this haircut, do it anyway, no matter what you look like. Life’s too short, Tim Curry is dead and some people have wars in their countries, Kim.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It was like this last year, we got to around July and suddenly it was one celebrity after another.
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the mangosphere @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm taking submissions for this list letterboxd.com/mangmangmang...
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Films with incongruously dramatic mutual toothbrushing scenes
A list of 2 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Bring It On (2000) and Force Majeure (2014).
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#WyrdWednesday Black Shuck is a huge hound with glowing red-eyes, or sometimes just a single eye, who haunts the fens, lanes and churchyards of East Anglia, and is often viewed as an omen of impending death. 🎨 by Graham Humphreys and John Francis
Painting of Black Shuck, a big black dog with glowing red eyes and sharp pointed teeth. In the background are some tombstones.

By Graham Humphreys from 'The Usborne Book of the Haunted World', 1995Artwork of a leaping Black Shuck depicted with a single black eye.

By John Francis from 'World of the Unknown: Ghosts' by Christopher Maynard, originally from 1977 but recently republished.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has this happened more than three times? Please let me know. Data required.
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Young Girl Finds Strange, Injured Man in Barn
Films in which a girl with a wild imagination completely misinterprets the reason why she has just found a suspicious, wounded man in the barn. Suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Doin’ a 9 to 5 tonight, I think.
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can remember She’s gone to heaven With heartache free.
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Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt Emmylou Harris - The Sweetest Gift
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Songs for crying in the shower while maintaining the delusion that it's still the 20th Century. 11.
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Björk - Army Of Me (feat. Skunk Anansie) Stereo HD
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Actual footage from the inside of an overstimulated neurodivergent brain.
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Comic Strip Presents Four Men in a Car
YouTube video by A J
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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Best writing in a KR film, I think.
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