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elyssa walker

@smallcatastrophes.bsky.social
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english student. nineteenth-century moralist with wi-fi. raised between mexico and spain, culturally and logistically american. currently reading britain like an unusually long social novel.

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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING NEWS: “The individual players don’t matter” says Angela Paxton, as sources say Messi, LeBron, Vesrstappen, Brady, etc., are “devastated” to learn they were largely decorative.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 18h
It’s Banned Books Week. Read them. Do your part to promote open access and to oppose censorship. Support your libraries. Here are some things you can do:
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Let Freedom Read Day | Banned Books Week®
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never played a TTRPG, which increasingly feels like a real loss. Closest i got was Monopoly as a kid when my uncle assured me his wealth would eventually trickle down to me while he and my father systematically bankrupted me. Very immersive world-building, in retrospect.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are people who take both armrests on the plane and then there are those of us who still believe in the social contract. Absolutely THRILLED to be part of the latter boarding group.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rather inconvenient that intergenerational attachment trauma does not respect term dates, boarding times, or the fact that I am already on the airplane.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I spend so much time despairing at how quickly we move on from other people’s suffering. These student journalists stayed with a story for twenty-three months. Kept asking. kept listening. There is a kind of hope in that which I badly needed today.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wonderful, Meta. Meanwhile, my father has seemingly exploited a loophole in content moderation by giving me a physical copy for my birthday and writing something lovely inside. 😭
A photo of my father’s inscription on the front free endpaper of a book that reads “For my Bug, on your twentieth birthday. For your room at Cambridge, and all the rooms after. love, Papá 1 October 2026”An image of a book’s title page. The book is Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s own. The edition is a 2017 Folio Society print.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Twenty today. An Austen heroine would be setting out for a country estate where her life would change irrevocably. I have moved from my bed to the sofa. I shall see what the afternoon brings.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 3️⃣0️⃣: A song that represents your dreamy future self. 🗣️ Wolf Alice 🔊 White Horses I hope she’s brave; that she finds people and places she hasn’t thought to miss yet and keeps her ridiculous capacity to be moved by a song. Thank you for a lovely month.
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Wolf Alice - White Horses (Official Lyric Video)
Listen to ‘White Horses’: https://wolfalice.lnk.to/white-horsesAY Listen to ‘The Clearing’: https://wolfalice.lnk.to/The-ClearingAY —— Follow Wolf AIice xx News:…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣9️⃣: A song with a synth-heavy arrangement. 🗣️ CHVRCHES 🔊 The Mother We Share Some things we share. The chance to know her wasn’t one of them. At least the synths are lovely.
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CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
YouTube video by ChvrchesVEVO
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was raised in a Kermit household. Be kind. Have principles. Occasionally lose your entire mind because nobody else is taking the production seriously.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣8️⃣: A song with a tritone substitution. 🗣️ Billy Joel 🔊 Vienna For someone who keeps reminding me I have time. I do listen. Occasionally I require piano accompaniment and a tritone.
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Billy Joel - Vienna (Official Video)
Official Video for "Vienna" by Billy Joel Listen to Billy Joel: https://billyjoel.lnk.to/listenYD Subscribe to the Billy Joel YouTube Channel: https://billyjoel.lnk.to/subscribe Watch more Billy…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People, this writer has already won. Everyone who’d never heard of the song is now publicising it in protest at being told they should have heard of it. A publicity campaign staffed entirely by its objectors. How brilliantly economical.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣7️⃣: A song for your “I told you so” moment. 🗣️ Leonard Cohen 🔊 Everybody Knows The trouble with being vindicated is that you still have to live in the circumstances that vindicated you.
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Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)
#LeonardCohen #EverybodyKnows #ImYourMan Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows (Official Audio) Shop LPs and more: https://shop.sonymusic.ca/collections/leonard-cohen Subscribe to newsletter:…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣6️⃣: A song for a solo dance party in your kitchen at midnight. 🗣️ Talking Heads 🔊 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) This must be the place. There’s bread and wine here, and nobody expects me to dance well.
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This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [2003 Remaster]
Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [2003 Remaster] · Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads ℗ 1983 Sire Records Company Synthesizer: Wally…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OMG im dying. Sent this to my papá in the hope of being understood. He returned it with corrections. 😭💀
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just discovered “MBTI” and apparently I’m an “INFP.” I did not spend years cultivating a rich and singular inner life to learn that someone in 1944 devised a four-letter filing code for it. Have I truly been insufferable in a standardised way?
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣5️⃣: A song with a passing chord. 🗣️ Nick Drake 🔊 Day is Done A passing chord for a passing day. If my theory is questionable, may my wit plead its case when evening comes. Until then, may the morning be kind.
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Day Is Done
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Day Is Done · Nick Drake Five Leaves Left ℗ 1969 Island Records Ltd. Released on: 1970-01-01 Vocalist, Composer Lyricist: Nick Drake Producer: Joe…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Medicinal use.” Sure. And I suppose the “watering hole” is just a distribution centre for hydration. 😏
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow, am I allowed to call this “rubbish,” or is that cultural appropriation? So glad I bought my merch before this utter catastrophe.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I support a free press, obviously. But access to *this* administration isn’t the same as holding it accountable. What good is being in the room if a boorish pig just gets another audience for his lies and insults? A united press boycott would deny him the attention he desperately craves.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is rich. Surely, the simpler solution here is to stop letting him speak.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣4️⃣: A song for your "sad girl/boy autumn" playlist. 🗣️The National 🔊England Entering sad girl autumn with the melancholy of a middle-aged man.
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England
Provided to YouTube by Beggars Group Digital Ltd. England · The National High Violet ℗ 2009 4AD Ltd Released on: 2010-05-11 Producer, Associated Performer: Aaron Dessner Associated Performer:…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A strange thing I’ve learned about this place: you can watch something disappear from everyone’s feed while it’s still the main thing happening in your house. I’ve scrolled past other people’s weeks like that, too.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣3️⃣: A song you associate with autumn. 🗣️ Nick Drake 🔊 River Man Something for the shortening days, from a fellow Cambridge English student. He did rather more with his time there than I’m managing.
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Nick Drake - River Man (2025 Stereo Mix)
New stereo mix and remaster, sourced from the original stereo mix. "River Man" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 1969 album Five Leaves Left. According to Drake's manager, Joe Boyd,…
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is there a Pulitzer for best photo choice to go with an article? 😆😂
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, this is shit.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣2️⃣: A song for your most delusional moment. 🗣️ The Smiths 🔊 I Know It’s Over Some of my most significant relationships have required no participation from the other person.
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The Smiths - I Know It's Over (Official Audio)
Official Audio for I Know It's Over by The Smiths Read more about TQID here ▶ https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/the-smiths-the-queen-is-dead-album/ Stream The Smiths greatest hits here ▶ …
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent, an invitation to start an argument over breakfast. Delighted to participate.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What a relief that Bari Weiss is finally amplifying the most neglected voice in American life.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣1️⃣: A song for the walk of shame (or walk of fame). 🗣️ The Replacements 🔊 Swingin’ Party “If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side At the swingin' party down the line” (I resisted the impulse to post an Ed Sheeran song)
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Swingin Party (2008 Remaster)
Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records Swingin Party (2008 Remaster) · The Replacements Tim ℗ 1985 Sire Records Company Guitar: Bob Stinson Drums: Chris Mars Background Vocals: Chris…
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There was a glorious time when political satire required a clever writer, or a lot of them. Now it mostly requires a transcript. 😭
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣0️⃣: A song with retrograde (melody backward). 🗣️ Fontaines D.C. 🔊 Marianne Ok, let’s try this again. Posting the same song twice because I think I misunderstood Day 19’s assignment and perhaps confused it with Day 20’s? Help pls?
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Fontaines D.C. - Marianne (Official Video)
YouTube video by Fontaines DC
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Coyote vs. Acme was delightful. It has it all: thrills, jokes, melodrama, courtroom drama. But most of all, it has heart. Buoyed by sincere performances from Forte and Coyote, it finds something genuinely moving in the refusal to stop trying. 🚀 🧨 Boomer and Zoomer approved. The jury is unanimous.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 1️⃣9️⃣: A song with inversion (melody upside down). 🗣️ Fontaines D.C. 🔊 Marianne New single by Fontaines D.C. I *think* the little 3 note melodic motif throughout the song is an inversion???
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Fontaines D.C. - Marianne (Official Video)
YouTube video by Fontaines DC
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ohhhh, it all makes sense now.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Former student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of Cambridge
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Former student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of Cambridge
Cambridge previously paid £5,000 compensation after an investigation partially upheld allegations against Dr James Orr A former student of James Orr who was found to have been bullied by the suspended senior Reform UK figure is reopening a case against the University of Cambridge, after apparent discrepancies emerged over the university’s handling of the incident. The former student alleges that the academic’s claim not to have been disciplined contradicts assurances they say they received from the institution. Continue reading...
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 1️⃣7️⃣: A song for falling asleep on a long train ride. 🗣️ Sufjan Stevens 🔊 The Hidden River of My Life Honestly, most Sufjan Stevens songs make me want to fall asleep on a train and wake up somewhere with a slightly different understanding of my life.
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Sufjan Stevens - The Hidden River of My Life (Official Audio)
Get it here: http://smarturl.it/greatest-gift Lyrics: Suppose the world was not informed by real estate or power lines The hidden river of my life, pursued by love The whispering stone, the valley…
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Boomer father says I need to learn to drive and get more exercise before I go back to uni. I explained that reading takes you places. I have crossed continents and endured wars, and yet this man wants me to do a lunge.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 1️⃣6️⃣: A song for winning the lottery and disappearing. 🗣️ Florence and the Machime 🔊 Dog Days Are Over
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Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (2010 Version) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can’t sleep. I know I joke about the bestiality stuff, but there are people in the FBI who gave years of their lives, their health and their peace of mind to work they believed mattered. Watching Patel today, I’m angry at how little any of that seems to count now. They deserve better.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Perhaps “Reform UK” could change its name to “Same Old Shit UK” and let us all have a moment to enjoy a brief commitment to honesty.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 1️⃣5️⃣: A song with an added tone chord. 🗣️ Oasis 🔊 Wonderwall Like just about any other uni student in the UK, I can actually play Wonderwall! 😅 Never knew what that pesky Cadd9 chord meant until now!
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Oasis - Wonderwall (Official Video)
YouTube video by Oasis
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wow, I’m so relieved we are finally cracking down on the animals behind these heinous crimes.
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Cute Chase from Paw Patrol Wags Tail
Alt: Cute Chase (a dog) from the Paw Patrol children’s series wags tail. Point of view is from behind the dog, giving a clear view of the dog’s behind.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come for the ridicule. Stay for the bestiality discourse (happening now).
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Deathslop seems an uglier extension of familiar celebrity mourning, but AI replicas of loved ones trouble me more. I understand wanting the dead to answer, but I worry about selling that wish back to us, and about the idea that grief is a pain we should never have to learn to live with.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excellent, going to see Coyote vs. Acme this weekend! I’m too Gen Z to have much history with Looney Tunes, which makes me an ideal juror. I told my father he has known the plaintiff since childhood and needs to recuse himself. That did not go over well.
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elyssa walker @smallcatastrophes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m loving Nathan For You, don’t get me wrong. But the feminist in me is wondering how much of the premise (and humor) depends on a white man being allowed to finish explaining a terrible idea. I suspect a woman’s version would be called “Thank You, We’ll Be In Touch” and would be over in five.
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