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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 01/06/2026

Pride month gaslighting already full steam ahead, folk! Labour should be ashamed of themselves and of the bad quality tribute act of the far right that they became.

Labour Party post on Twitter wishing a happy pride month.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 22/05/2026

It’s 2026 but the CoP sure makes it feel like US late XIX century.

Segregation-era public restrooms. First door says “ladies”, the second one says “men”, and the third says “coloured”.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 30/12/2025

During the holidays, really @plos.org? 🤬

Multiple Plos One e-mails with invitations and reminders to review a paper.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 10/12/2025

The bottom one is giving Idi Amin underwear vibes…

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 11/09/2025

If your empathy has a rather restrictive colour palette, it’s not empathy; it’s white supremacy.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 11/09/2025

Been thinking a lot about this recently… “The narcissistic pact of whiteness is a concept coined by Brazilian psychologist Maria Aparecida Bento, referring to an unconscious, unspoken agreement among white people to uphold racial privileges and silence discussions about race and racism.”

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 28/08/2025

Damn! This Radiohead sequence does hit hard...

Top Radiohead songs on Apple Music, featuring Creep, Let Down, No Surprises, High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, and Karma Police.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 15/08/2025

For context. This is Labour’s heartland. North East, metropolitan, young (very large student population), and many college graduates in the area.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 20/07/2025

Going through my games backlog now I am on leave - this is me doing some research... 😵‍💫

Screenshot of of a Youtube video on "How Not to Give up on Dark Souls"

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 16/07/2025

It’s graduation day… 🎓

Me wearing my red and grey UCL PhD gown and graduation hat.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 13/07/2025

From yesterday… Yes, it was sweltering! 🥵

Me wearing a green bowler hat and blue jacket, shirt and bow tie. I am also wearing a brown macramé mushroom on my lapel.

My name tag for the dinner table with a wax stamp on the right.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 07/07/2025

An appropriate response has been given

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 17/06/2025

And yes, this is a thing... As if we didn't have enough issues already!! 😩

4. Avoid oral antihistamines. As noted above, all oral antihistamines including newer-generation antihistamines, such as Claritin, Zyrtec (cetirizine, Pfizer) and Allegra (fexofenadine, Aventis Pharmaceuticals) dry the eye. This can worsen ocular allergies in two ways. First, less tear production means less tear flow and inadequate flushing of environmental allergens from the ocular surface. Second, decreased tear volume results in an increased concentration of inflammatory mediators on the ocular surface.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 07/06/2025

Fellow hay fever sufferers will know it… 💊🤧

Screenshot of confirmation of purchase of hay fever medication, including nose spray, tablets and eye drops.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 07/06/2025

It’s rose season… 🌹

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 12/05/2025

The manifesto in 2024; the speech now. The country has not changed that significantly in less than a year, so…

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 09/05/2025

Not really mine - but this was my first contact with a computer as a 6 year old…

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 28/04/2025

Dehumanisation of people who are either queer or disabled. Sounds like something we have seen before, not that long ago… P.S.: I used ‘queer’ in this context because this is obviously going to impact not only trans people. Any ‘non-confirming’ person (cis,trans,non-binary) is a potential target. 😞

Segregation era toilet doors. They read “ladies”, “men”, “colored”.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 08/04/2025

From London. If you haven’t seen it yet, do check it out… ☺️

Me in front of the Royal Academy of Arts building with a sign which reads “Brasil! Brasil!” in the background.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 14/03/2025

Those days when you look like a real academic… 🙈

Me wearing my nerdy glasses, a pink shirt and a wool sweater vest during a work call.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 09/03/2025

Have you tried this? It can help if you are travelling - also you can tell someone to just fill the bottle once it's empty... (does not work for orchids though, but they can survive a month without water easily)

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 27/02/2025

Starmer having his meme moment…

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 27/02/2025

“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is becoming the oppressor” Paulo Freire

The Telegraph headline.

Suella Braverman:
I will never be truly English: here is why
For decades, political leaders have been afraid to celebrate Englishness for fear of being labelled nationalistic or xenophobic

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 23/02/2025

Dear @theguardian.com, this is a rather simplistic take on something which is a lot more complex. Your headline is accurate, however it lacks nuance. It’s grey and you are representing it as black or white!!