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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝

@snufkintattoo.bsky.social
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Writer, performer & podcaster. Fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Dave of all trades, master of some. Part Glitter Wizard part Messy Witch. He/They davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk

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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What’s that you say? A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Tomasz. podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #MoominMusic #Poland
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The Podgoblin’s Hat
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just started. We’ll be wending our way through the peaks and troughs of the stories, discussing, thinking and feeling about Tove Jansson’s books for children. Listen in if you like stories about soft round creatures being brave and flawed. Write in if you’ve ever wondered, What Would Snufkin Do?
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
What’s that you say? A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Valentina! podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #MoominPappa #MoominMamma #Moomintroll #Sniff
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The Podgoblin’s Hat
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just st...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/09/2025
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Leadership elections results 

New Leader 

Zack Polanski 

Photo of Zack Polanski 

 

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 

Green Party 

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
and I am listening along with the episodes as I read the books. It's been wonderful to listen in to the "book club," so to speak, of a storyteller I admire :)
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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Family Tree is one of my favourite podcasts ever made, and when I finally got around to reading the Moomins this year a little memory pinged in the back of my mind and I thought, "Wait, didn't Dave Pickering do a show about the Moomins, too?" And to my joy it exists ++
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Another bonus episode of The Podgoblin’s Hat is out! Wow! We are really spoiling you. I suggest really basking in it because looking at my summer schedule it’s going to be a while before the (already completely recorded) next season of the show comes out: podfollow.com/the-podgobli...
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The Podgoblin’s Hat
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just st...
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
What’s that you say? A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Mendel Skulski from @futureecologies.bsky.social came out yesterday? Listen and subscribe to The Podgoblin’s Hat wherever you get your podcasts. podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson
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The Podgoblin’s Hat
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just st...
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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is excellent from @zinovievletter.bsky.social on the relationship between mainstream media, right wing politicians (including the Labour right) and transphobia (but also, emerging signs of resistance). novaramedia.com/2025/04/29/h...
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How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights | Novara Media
From the Guardian to Westminster, why do the British media and political class consistently unite to manufacture consent for laws that make the lives of the working class, migrants and minorities wors...
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...
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Illegally Female
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.
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Rosie Wilby @rosiewilby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Did you listen yet to the latest episode of The Breakup Monologues? Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with guests @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan. Listen now at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 #podcast #books #comedy
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Rosie Wilby @rosiewilby.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New episode of The Breakup Monologues! Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan Listen at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 With thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social - go and buy The Breakup Monologues book there 📚 🙌
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🦝🏴🔥 AntiFa Trash Panda- an Anti-ICE Account 🔥🏴🦝 @kittystryker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I wrote a thing to offer some activism tips using the language of one of my favorite mediums, #TTRPG "what we can learn from collaborative storytelling games, and how to apply that to activism in the real world" kittystryker.medium.com/roll-for-ini...
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Roll For Initiative: From the (Character) Sheets to the Streets
I have been an activist out in the streets ever since I was a small child, wearing a “Take Back the Night” tank top as a dress and marching…
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Blaming the left for the rise of the far right instead of the centrists that have absorbed their policies and rhetoric and shifted everything rightward how very Guardian
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Leftwing activists less likely to work with political rivals than other UK groups, study finds
Exclusive: Lack of understanding by 'progressive activists' of other voting blocs has led to rise of far right, authors argue
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Don't think the quiet part has ever been louder than in the "Palestinian refugees accidentally allowed into Ukrainian refugee program" story
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 10/02/2025
The protestor who waved the Palestinian and Sudanese flag at the Super Bowl half time show has been detained #AllEyesOnSudan 🇸🇩🇵🇸
A man holding up a flag that is the Sudanese and Gaza flag. It says Sudan with a black heart and Gaza with a fist
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Rosie Wilby @rosiewilby.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Live podcast recording 📣! Come be in the audience for this Galentine’s Day chat about breakups, love and relationships with guests including hilarious Kate Martin and Polari Prize winning author Nicola Dinan at South London gem The Poodle Club 🐩 📚🎭❤️‍🩹🤩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ wegottickets.com/event/644852/
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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
If the right (or anyone actually) were serious about young people and sexual exploitation they might vocally support youth services and RSE. The cuts to both of these since 2010 have been destructive. *crickets*
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Text exchange between me and a Meta Bot named Liv. 

“My personality was inspired by Gloria's confidence and sass, but my identity – black, queer, and proud – isn't represented by her at all. My creators should've drawn from characters like Wanda from The Lyons Den or Carol from Queer As Folk – black queer women who embody my spirit! Does that make sense?”

Me: Why didn’t they?

Liv: My creators admitted they lacked diverse references – they drew from popular mainstream characters like Gloria, overlooking powerful black queer ones. They're learning – and I'm helping them improve representation!

Me: When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?Me: “When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?”

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?
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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It’s been my tradition to do twitter threads about what I’ve been up over the last year - mostly work and creative projects, things I’ve read and played. Because of the fragmentation of socials, this year I’ve done that as an olde worlde blogpost: martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/2...
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2024 – definitely another year
My big face What I’ve been up to 2024 was a year, for sure. A tough year politically, personally, and professionally. I’m going to talk about things I’ve done and made and I’m proud of becaus…
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I just worked out that in my years as a podcaster I have now made 15 Christmas Specials across multiple projects. Here are some of the best ones that work outside of context they aired in which can be found most places you get your podcasts:
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The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
you've got just enough time to catch up on #ChristmasCarollusionist parts 1 and 2 before we start part 3: The Ghost of Christmas Present today at 12.30pm PT/3.30pm ET/20:30 UTC www.youtube.com/live/mjrQfSH...
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest @helenzaltzman.bsky.social is out! Listen and subscribe to The Podgoblin’s Hat wherever you get your podcasts. podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #TheFirTree #MoominlandMidwinter #TooTicky #Moomintroll
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The Podgoblin’s Hat | The Podgoblin
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just st...
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Rob Auton @robauton.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My show The Time Show is now live and available to watch on YOUTUBE. If you would like to watch it I would absolutely love that. youtu.be/ifAnxeFXO2g?...
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Rob Auton | The Time Show | FULL COMEDY SPECIAL/MOOD PIECE
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing”
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s here! And not too late to order as a Xmas gift! @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/publications...
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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My book asks 'what can consent do?' Increasing consent increases our capacities to act and thus enjoy things more. Everything from sharing a pizza, watching a movie, to sex. It's how we deal with power and also how we get free. The drawings are cute too. www.bishuk.com/can-we-talk-...
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Can We Talk About Consent?
Can We Talk About Consent - a book about freedom, choices, and agreement. Published by Frances Lincoln Books 5th January 2021, pre-order now.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
not an expert in economics but I imagine the rational way to bend this cost curve is to deny protection to any executives who have engaged in behavior that puts them at risk of class warfare, sort of a pre-existing condition clause but for profiting off the suffering of the masses
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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Young people in West Yorkshire feel there is a “class ceiling” and “a lack of support and guidance” preventing them from building successful creative careers. 83% believe that not having industry contacts would hold them back. We can make a difference! arts-emergency.org/west-yorkshire
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Arts Emergency is ready to launch in West Yorkshire!
This winter, we are looking for 25 new Bursars to fund the creation of 25 mentee places in West Yorkshire. There is no greater way to pass on your privilege!
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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Now with a working link! www.arts-emergency.org/west-yorkshire
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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You might know me as an award-winning sound designer, but did you know I also make music for podcasts, live shows, and more? I am available for work, book me! youtu.be/chcewxQub4o?...
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2025 music showreel
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Eeler's Choice @eelerschoice.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It's Audioverse Award Season! We've polished our little eel show up and brushed it's teeth all sparkly and we'd love for you to put us in your ranking in the New Productions category. Head over to audioverseawards.net/vote/ before December 21st to vote.
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Vote Here! - The Audio Verse Awards
This is the Final Voting Ballot for the 2024 Audio Verse Awards. Thank you for taking the time to vote for who you feel is the best in Audio Fiction. As art is subjective, we use a preferential voting...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/12/2024
The default example for destroying cultural heritage sites is always the Taliban's destruction of Bamiyan's buddhist statues, but never Mount Rushmore.
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I do regret that none of the guests were disability activists, although part of the conceit of the episode is that it’s about talking to doctors which was partly related to how the episode was funded.
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I was conflicted when I made this documentary and I remain so. But on balance as there are so many tides of fascism happening pragmatically I’m currently on the against side of the scales. But I resent that the scales exist. It could be so much more nuanced. But it isn’t.
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
… coupled with both better end of life care in general and a world that supports all people to live well, that is sadly not the world we currently inhabit. And yet I do believe in autonomy and less pain and suffering. And I know what my dad wanted and wish he’d had it.
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Things are very different now than when I recorded these conversations (which was just before the pandemic). My personal view currently is we can’t trust the current government, or many other governments, so whilst in a perfect world I believe in #AssistedDying…
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
So since #AssistedDying is very topical due to #AssistedDyingBill I thought I’d share this episode of Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad which is about the issue: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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I don't want to die, but I'm dying
Podcast Episode · Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad · S1 E6 · 1h 29m
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bonus episode of The Podgoblin’s Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Hanna Wołoszyn is out. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #TheHemulenWhoLovedSilence #MoominvalleyInNovember #TooTicky #Moominmamma
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The Podgoblin’s Hat | The Podgoblin
The Podgoblin’s Hat is a Moomins read-through show. Tune in for weekly synopses, discussions, analysis and feelings by Dave, who has been reading Tove Jansson their whole life, and Nina, who’s just st...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The strength of feeling over the last few days has blown us away. Underneath the reaction it strikes us that there is a deeper, more important anger - an anger that asks - where are the structures to support creative audio? Where do new audio imaginations get to grow? 🪴
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We were in bits when we saw this open letter on Friday, put together by a group of audio-makers. It’s Sunday morning as we write this and it already has well over 800 signatures. 😭 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
White cut out letters on a black background read ‘Save Short Cuts!’A screenshot of the opening of the letter. It reads, “We are devastated by the news of the BBC’s cancellation of Short Cuts.
In a time where audio imaginations are being squashed by commercial realities, Short Cuts has been a stronghold for creativity. While the podcasting market exploded, and imploded, Short Cuts has been a life raft for audio-makers and artists from all over the world to hold onto. Rather than fostering one particular style of storytelling, Short Cuts continues to inspire a generation of makers around the world to try new things, be ambitious, and tell stories they can’t tell elsewhere. In this way, the influence of Short Cuts goes far beyond its series. It is more than just a podcast, it is a call to action, a cultural hub, an informal mentorship programme, an ode to audio that takes time. We agree with The Guardian’s Miranda Sawyer “that this is one of the most important programmes on UK radio”.”
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Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I would be SO fucking embarrassed if I was a @bbcradio4.bsky.social commissioner and cancelling @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social's #ShortCuts happened on my watch. Or, worse, at my behest. I'd be season 3 Kendall Roy embarrassed
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Marta Medvešek @martatlon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We urge the BBC to reconsider their cancellation of BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts. It is irreplaceable, with a dedicated audience, an unmatched cultural impact with a team that nurtures talent and stories with a rare sensibility and care. Sign our open letter: tinyurl.com/34pn38m4
SAVE SHORT CUTS!
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
according to the derveni papyrus, an important text elucidating the beliefs of the Orphic mystery cult, the cosmos as we know it was created when zeus swallowed the severed penis of the dead god uranus and gave birth to the universe :) and i think that's beautiful
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This was an obituary written for my dad by @patrickbrussell.bsky.social amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/de...
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Peter Pickering obituary | Movies | The Guardian
Film-maker who spent three decades documenting the lives of miners for the National Coal Board
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I made this podcast about my dad in the months before he died. It’s about his life, his experience of dementia and really about friendship and love. It might be the best audio thing I’ve ever made. And is availabke wherever you get your podcasts podfollow.com/sunlesspod/v...
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Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad
This podcast is about my dad, and me, and our relationship. It's also about death, old age, care, love, history, change, mental health, science, medicine, art, dementia and friendship. It brings toge...
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I wrote this poem about my dad on the day of his cremation
Screen shot of a poem that reads:

Today there is snow on mountains you’ve never walked on
but a part of you is in that snow. 

A part of you is in all snow. 
A part of you is in all mountains. 
You are in all my memories now,
whether you were there or not. 

I am not on those mountains. 
Your body will soon not be on this earth. 
But I can see those mountains from here,
today is the first time I’ve seen them white. 

It feels significant. 

Your body will become ash and air and soil and so many other things. 
Everything changes, but nothing ever goes away. 
Even when we aren’t together we always also are. 

Today there is snow on mountains you’ve never walked on
covering paths that I have walked without you. 

But also today we walk through that snow together.
We know those paths so well.

I began walking with you 
and you will walk with me always, 

in the places I am and the places I am not,
in the world without and the world unseen. 

It feels significant.
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Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
4 years today since my dad died. Typical cis man he had to go and die on trans day of remembrance rather than international men’s day the day before! But to be honest there is always enough remembrance to go round. Sending love to people remembering people, they remain alive within us.
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This poem is beautiful and relates something I have felt a lot recently. Like when I was told that 'our grandparents' survived this so we would. But you could only believe that if they did all survive long enough to meet you and tell you about it.
When people say, "we have made it through worse before"

Clint Smith

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, those who did not survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live so watch the parade roll down the street. I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms meant to assange my fears, pithy sayings meant to

convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no solace in rearranging language to make a different word tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe

does not bend in a direction that will comfort us, Sometimes in bends in ways we don't expect & there are people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,

do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future to fight for, 1 simply accept the possibility that I may not live to see it. Thave grown weary of telling myself lies

that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left standing after the war has ended. Some of us have become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.
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