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Tracy King

@tracyking.bsky.social
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Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence. Books: Learning To Think (Penguin) The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins) Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 8h
Specifically the editor is looking to start running video game reviews, so if you are looking for paid work in this area please pitch her! And please RT!
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about medical misogyny and the male gaze (re Paterson and the news that it has happened again) unherd.com/2026/09/put-...
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Put medical misogyny under the knife
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“And I’m worried about what this data is for. In a climate of AI replacing people, I can’t help but worry it will be used to train AI to replace coaches and instructors altogether.” That is precisely what the data is for.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about medical misogyny and the male gaze (re Paterson and the news that it has happened again) unherd.com/2026/09/put-...
unherd.com
Put medical misogyny under the knife
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shakesfuckingpeare
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week I interviewed some of the nurses and healthcare staff who worked in intensive care during covid. One of them wanted to go on record as saying how utterly fucked - dead - we’d have been (and still would be) without migrant healthcare workers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference
The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A drawing by Pants of a mustachioed man looking joyful in anticipation of spaghet
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Adam and Little Eve www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1987
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The twins are 79 this week! My aunt had a fall and broke her arm but that has not affected her wine consumption, don’t worry.
Identical twins, greying black hair. One in pink and one in blue. The one in blue has a cast on her arm.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haha this is wonderfully difficult and also leads one to commit some spectacular fallacies. “Well he looks like a Tim, and his hair is definitely Tory”.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Turned my lounge into a set for some filming tomorrow and Pig decided it was about her
A cat on a piano stool in front of a grey backdrop. In the foreground are video cameras.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ANUS tree is good but I live near PENIS tree.
A tree and bushes that look like a penis and balls
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was extremely hard, not only to narrow it down but also because four of my top picks aren’t in the database. Some extremely obscure 80s Amstrad titles, and no XCOM for some reason.
A nine panel image of videogames:

Stardew
Minecraft
Fantasfy world dizzy
Fire emblem
Discowrld
Ffix
Hitchhilker’s
Pokemon yellow
Civ ii
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Grey concrete paving slabs from above. One of them has two blobs of old blackened chewing gum and a bit of curved plastic which together look like a smiley face
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was at the RNLI in Hastings earlier this year, they have a very good boat on display and a guestbook to sign. I drew a picture of a friendly sea creature helping them out.
An RNLI guestbook with various messages from children. The bottom panel is a smiling giant octopus helping the boats along.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If the BBC want comedy sketches that ‘work today’, maybe they should commission some new sketch shows?
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@mralistairgreen.bsky.social is this you doing a bit
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In theory this eventually kills the usefulness of LLMs but in practice we lose a whole load of skills (including interpersonal and community) for a generation or two ah well I’m sure some guy who hates interacting with other humans will be along to explain why that’s okay actually
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is absolute perfection.
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Friz Frizzle @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!" [Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
all the time dude
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just did a shoot in Sarehole Mill, for secret Tolkien reasons
A woman standing in front of a wall painted with a green hobbit door like Bag End
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today’s t-shirt is a criminally under-rated bit of feminist horror history
A middle-aged woman on a train wearing a Misty comics t-shirt
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Legs @diddia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m going to make an influencer video about products that have transformed my skin, but the products are fags and booze.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.
Miscellaneous beach finds laid out on a black background. Among the colourful finds featured are false nails, finger prickers, toy soldiers, toy animals, fake flowers and foliage, a plastic nose, Lego, a soy sauce fish and a covid test kit.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very sad to hear this. I knew her slightly, she was wonderful to talk to and very generous with knowledge and wisdom.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*enjoys self*
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Damn, this goes hard. Great way to start a book
The beginning of Alice Oswald's new book "Rhapsody: A Manifesto"
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have found a comic I wrote as a teen called The Adventures of Pig Cat which I seem to recall was part of a series I had going instead of attending school.
A crude comic strip in biro about the adventures of a pig cat
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Pissport to Piddington”
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Told Jelly her support acts all cancelled
A blurry ginger cat looking put out
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Damn this is good
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fascinated by this thread of what parents gave their kids for dinner tonight, and how it compares to my childhood memories of Smash and tinned hot dog sausages or Findus Crispy Pancakes and Supernoodles: www.reddit.com/r/UKParentin...
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From the UKParenting community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the UKParenting community
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Agreed. Keep it going to the very end
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just did a memoir writing workshop at a literary festival and this was the vibe
A middle aged woman in front of a mic, laughing
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shoot me through the eye please
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RIGHT I’m not defending obvious sociopath Elizabeth Holmes BUT the reason her head is wobbling weirdly in that clip is that she’s rocking her baby with her foot
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get this watched (and buy Ian’s book)
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Birmingham friends! I’m running a memoir-writing workshop at the Sutton Coldfield Literary Festival this Saturday at 2pm. Do come! It is FREE but you need to register in advance here: www.suttoncoldfieldtownhall.com/programme/la...
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How To Write Your Life Story - Tracy King — Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Hall
Have you ever thought about writing your life story? Or perhaps you have already made a start but need some guidance. Join acclaimed memoirist Tracy King for a one-hour workshop that will inspire and ...
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I see Brits are being thick about what ‘Jewish’ is, a sort of No True Jew fallacy
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a huge potential untapped market for when the pervert glasses ruin glasses
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pervert glasses might even kill off glasses entirely. Put all your money into contact lenses and Lasik.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am fairly new to glasses, I only need them for reading and until the last few months I could still read small text easily without them. Such is ageing, but I just experienced a brand new feeling which is ‘start to panic because I can’t find my glasses, only to realise they are on my fool face’.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Look at this
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Generative AI would be viewed a lot more positively by the public if the people making it and most heavily pushing it weren't all, to a one, billionaire nazi sexual predator absolute fucking freaks. Helps a lot, if the literal face of your technology isn't a sieg heiling freak with Allegations
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There’s one in Weston-Super-Mare, here we are on a hot date
A fibreglass hot dog pouring ketchup onto its head on a seaside pier. In front of it is a woman taking a selfie.
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