Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
@animalarchaeology.com
Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
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Links to find me and my current work.
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.
Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
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when we talk about Overton window moving to the right, this is what we mean
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
when we talk about Overton window moving to the right, this is what we mean
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Terrible conditions for a little one to be faced with. Please help Omar if you are able to.
shorturl.at/lA4Hz
shorturl.at/lA4Hz
December 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Terrible conditions for a little one to be faced with. Please help Omar if you are able to.
shorturl.at/lA4Hz
shorturl.at/lA4Hz
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Oh no. Just what I feared would happen today 💔
Please help. I fear the next transfer won't do much more than cover food and school fees.
Please help. I fear the next transfer won't do much more than cover food and school fees.
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh no. Just what I feared would happen today 💔
Please help. I fear the next transfer won't do much more than cover food and school fees.
Please help. I fear the next transfer won't do much more than cover food and school fees.
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Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to...
mondoweiss.net
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
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After Uvalde, I knew nothing would get better until multiple american systems were destroyed. Two years after an anti-police uprising, 300 million americans watched live footage of cops listening to a classroom of babies being slaughtered.
And nothing happened.
And nothing happened.
December 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
After Uvalde, I knew nothing would get better until multiple american systems were destroyed. Two years after an anti-police uprising, 300 million americans watched live footage of cops listening to a classroom of babies being slaughtered.
And nothing happened.
And nothing happened.
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Attending @tag2025york.bsky.social come to a Wiki Clinic & chat all things @wikipedia.org with me & Fran!
Got an article you want to fix?
Want a better picture on your article?
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We'd love to see you!
Got an article you want to fix?
Want a better picture on your article?
Just want a badge?
We'd love to see you!
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Attending @tag2025york.bsky.social come to a Wiki Clinic & chat all things @wikipedia.org with me & Fran!
Got an article you want to fix?
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We'd love to see you!
Got an article you want to fix?
Want a better picture on your article?
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We'd love to see you!
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Delighted to write my first article for @artsprofessional.co.uk celebrating disability! @ncace.bsky.social
Thanks to my three wonderful interviewees: Kyle Lewis Jordan @davidturners.tcgs.co & Jessica Thom ! It’s been such pleasure to hear your stories!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Thanks to my three wonderful interviewees: Kyle Lewis Jordan @davidturners.tcgs.co & Jessica Thom ! It’s been such pleasure to hear your stories!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Nothing Without Us: Disability in the arts and cultural sector - Arts Professional
Dr Mai Musié, senior manager at the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE), speaks to three leaders working at the intersection of research and the cultural sector about disability...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Delighted to write my first article for @artsprofessional.co.uk celebrating disability! @ncace.bsky.social
Thanks to my three wonderful interviewees: Kyle Lewis Jordan @davidturners.tcgs.co & Jessica Thom ! It’s been such pleasure to hear your stories!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Thanks to my three wonderful interviewees: Kyle Lewis Jordan @davidturners.tcgs.co & Jessica Thom ! It’s been such pleasure to hear your stories!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
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Step Forward provide vital services for youth in Tower Hamlets, including their phenomenal LGBTQIA+ youth groups, one of which my trans non-binary kid attends (they are also Autistic, that's another point of support!). Without Step Forward Tower Hamlets would undoubtedly be a worse place.
So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.
Ellie's fundraiser for Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
www.justgiving.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Step Forward provide vital services for youth in Tower Hamlets, including their phenomenal LGBTQIA+ youth groups, one of which my trans non-binary kid attends (they are also Autistic, that's another point of support!). Without Step Forward Tower Hamlets would undoubtedly be a worse place.
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3 - NO PROGRESS AT ALL for single mom Maha's rent, though... every single gd month she is hours away from eviction because no one ever gives to this family. Change that. Click "monthly."
Progress: £49/800
Deadline: December 29 but earlier is better with bank closures!!! chuffed.org/project/savi...
Progress: £49/800
Deadline: December 29 but earlier is better with bank closures!!! chuffed.org/project/savi...
🚪 By December 29: Help Mai's mother, Maha, also a single mom with two kids, keep her own shelter.
15/800 for rent! chuffed.org/project/savi...
15/800 for rent! chuffed.org/project/savi...
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.
chuffed.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
3 - NO PROGRESS AT ALL for single mom Maha's rent, though... every single gd month she is hours away from eviction because no one ever gives to this family. Change that. Click "monthly."
Progress: £49/800
Deadline: December 29 but earlier is better with bank closures!!! chuffed.org/project/savi...
Progress: £49/800
Deadline: December 29 but earlier is better with bank closures!!! chuffed.org/project/savi...
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2 - We're getting sooo close to covering single mom Mai's rent this month. This is life-sustaining as storms continue to throttle Gaza—her three kids CANNOT be out in a tent.
Progress: 661/948
Deadline: Friday morning chuffed.org/project/help...
Progress: 661/948
Deadline: Friday morning chuffed.org/project/help...
🍼 By December 19: Help single mom Mai with three kids keep her vital shelter as storms tear through Gaza. This is life-saving for her little ones.
128/948 for rent! chuffed.org/project/help... (or the Giving Circle)
128/948 for rent! chuffed.org/project/help... (or the Giving Circle)
Help Mai and her family leave Gaza before it’s too late
I'm helping my friend Mai raise funds to help her family survive. All of my transactions to her are listed here for accountability: tiny.cc/Mai-Funds.
chuffed.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
2 - We're getting sooo close to covering single mom Mai's rent this month. This is life-sustaining as storms continue to throttle Gaza—her three kids CANNOT be out in a tent.
Progress: 661/948
Deadline: Friday morning chuffed.org/project/help...
Progress: 661/948
Deadline: Friday morning chuffed.org/project/help...
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1 - We made it for the flight, now we're onto the final leg of the LAST push for dearest Ahmed.
Progress: 101/360 for his January rent and remaining travel-related expenses so he can restart his life & get back to treating Palestinian children's trauma.
Deadline: January 3 - tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
Progress: 101/360 for his January rent and remaining travel-related expenses so he can restart his life & get back to treating Palestinian children's trauma.
Deadline: January 3 - tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
🎨 By December 14: Help genocide survivor Ahmed, who after a year of limbo is finally getting tf out of Egypt where Palestinians have no rights and starting his Master's. Ahmed studies art therapy for Palestinian children with trauma.
25/450 for his plane ticket! tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
25/450 for his plane ticket! tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
1 - We made it for the flight, now we're onto the final leg of the LAST push for dearest Ahmed.
Progress: 101/360 for his January rent and remaining travel-related expenses so he can restart his life & get back to treating Palestinian children's trauma.
Deadline: January 3 - tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
Progress: 101/360 for his January rent and remaining travel-related expenses so he can restart his life & get back to treating Palestinian children's trauma.
Deadline: January 3 - tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
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People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
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I'm so eager for you to see the hope in our latest good news—little girls Remas & Toleen, who are so vulnerable to the cold, were able to get shelter thanks to you. That's with record low support for the giving circle. So let's keep helping.
Click “weekly” on a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Click “weekly” on a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm so eager for you to see the hope in our latest good news—little girls Remas & Toleen, who are so vulnerable to the cold, were able to get shelter thanks to you. That's with record low support for the giving circle. So let's keep helping.
Click “weekly” on a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Click “weekly” on a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...
It’s perfectly fine to feel conflicted about this because I think most of us can agree that the right to die is ideal, but I don’t have any patience for those who are pretending that the distrust that people (esp. disabled people!) have towards these laws is “nonsense” or “illogical”.
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s perfectly fine to feel conflicted about this because I think most of us can agree that the right to die is ideal, but I don’t have any patience for those who are pretending that the distrust that people (esp. disabled people!) have towards these laws is “nonsense” or “illogical”.
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Theoretically, everyone deserves the right to do what they want to their own bodies.
But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.
But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Theoretically, everyone deserves the right to do what they want to their own bodies.
But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.
But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.
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Ok but your foreword to your recent consultation repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, so
Shabana Mahmood dismisses White House’s ‘civilisational erasure’ claims
Home secretary says UK has managed the challenges of multiculturalism ‘very well’
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ok but your foreword to your recent consultation repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, so
You can donate to help Mohammed and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/z6tr4-help...
December 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You can donate to help Mohammed and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/z6tr4-help...
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All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
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🫡 Made it for his flight, now getting ahead on the next ask: helping cover his remaining living costs (rent & bills) for January before his flight
521/660
521/660
Today I'm sharing birds of Palestine, this one a laughing dove that watched me & Ahmed eat breakfast. This genocide survivor has a chance to restart some of his life—he just needs to get to Europe for his Master's.
14 hours left: 186/450 for his flight. tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
14 hours left: 186/450 for his flight. tiny.cc/HelpAhmed
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🫡 Made it for his flight, now getting ahead on the next ask: helping cover his remaining living costs (rent & bills) for January before his flight
521/660
521/660
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See also: recent news out of Canada I recently shared where someone with a chronic illness is considering using the "right to die" _because_ of barriers to access to a procedure that would save her life.
I support "right to die" only AFTER we first furnish the RIGHT TO LIVE.
I support "right to die" only AFTER we first furnish the RIGHT TO LIVE.
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
See also: recent news out of Canada I recently shared where someone with a chronic illness is considering using the "right to die" _because_ of barriers to access to a procedure that would save her life.
I support "right to die" only AFTER we first furnish the RIGHT TO LIVE.
I support "right to die" only AFTER we first furnish the RIGHT TO LIVE.
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"Right to die" for the terminally ill is unfortunately a slippery slope that, as we've seen in Canada, becomes doctors trying push death on disabled people who want to live but need housing/support.
Read the thread before you reduce this to "shitting on Dems" or make it about your own grandma:
Read the thread before you reduce this to "shitting on Dems" or make it about your own grandma:
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Right to die" for the terminally ill is unfortunately a slippery slope that, as we've seen in Canada, becomes doctors trying push death on disabled people who want to live but need housing/support.
Read the thread before you reduce this to "shitting on Dems" or make it about your own grandma:
Read the thread before you reduce this to "shitting on Dems" or make it about your own grandma:
Hell yeah, haven’t been put on a good List in a while.
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hell yeah, haven’t been put on a good List in a while.
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hey remember when the women & equalities committee and the joint committee on human rights took one took at this woman and went NOPE and labour put her in post anyway
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said "things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights".
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
hey remember when the women & equalities committee and the joint committee on human rights took one took at this woman and went NOPE and labour put her in post anyway
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The British commentariat are to the right of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell. They are an existential threat to the UK—they say ‘jump’; the government says ‘how high?’
December 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The British commentariat are to the right of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell. They are an existential threat to the UK—they say ‘jump’; the government says ‘how high?’
Alright, I’ve set a hard deadline in my diary - 2026 is the year I finally publish from my PhD (from 2021) and if I miss this deadline, I am inviting a select few to come to my house and pelt me with tomatoes.
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Alright, I’ve set a hard deadline in my diary - 2026 is the year I finally publish from my PhD (from 2021) and if I miss this deadline, I am inviting a select few to come to my house and pelt me with tomatoes.