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Meri C Dickson

@earbyfae.bsky.social

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PhD thesis: Uncovering the Secret Commonwealth: the socio-cultural significance and influence of Fairies @lancasteruni.bsky.social Living liminally between Yorkshire and Lancashire. Trans and LGBTQ ally. Christian. Fairyologist. Socialist. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 16d

Passed with corrections! #Phd

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 11h

The family dynamics are so complicated with them. Susan’s prison spell was history repeating.

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 11h

Eight o’clock has officially become my bed time. I’m 59 not 89! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

a poster for eddie murphy coming to america

Alt: a poster for eddie murphy coming to america

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

It would certainly liven up the cold winter evenings!! #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

Agree wholeheartedly!! He’s learned nothing and neither has his family. The ring was the lowest! #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

George isn’t a good guy gone wrong, he’s been a wrong’un from the start aided and abetted by his morally dubious mother and grandfather. He’s only sorry he got dobbed in. And if anything his family is worse carrying on the ‘poor George’ line. He needs to meet Mick on a dark night! #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

We’ll see!

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

No he hasn’t. He was sentenced to 2 years. He’s done half. He and his family haven’t learnt anything, he needs to come up against the enormity of what he did to Alice especially. And how he almost got away with it, except for his maternal grandparents. He needs to make amends at least. #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

It’s going to backfire big time!

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

Stop saying ‘you’ve done your time’. Tell that to the victims!! #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 12h

Really need someone to be nasty to George. All this sycophancy is doing my head in! #thearchers

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 14h

Didn't the Reform councils promise to lower the council tax?

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 16h

Watching one of my top ten favourite films. #Highlander

Christopher Lambert star of highlander wearing furs and highland dress with lightning around him.

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! 🙏

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

I used to drive to work past Pavarotti’s house on the outskirts of Modena in the 1990s. #Pavarotti #BBC2

a close up of a man with a beard making a funny face .

Alt: a close up of Pavarotti hitting a high c

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

I’m unutterably sad. RIP.

Kal... ⨾ 🕊️ @khalsir.bsky.social · 1d

nypost.com/2025/10/11/e...

Diane Keaton dead at 79

Keaton died in California, her family confirmed.

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for me when I got home!! Can’t wait to get stuck in!! #folklore

Cover of the book folklore by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook.

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

Probably Waitrose!!🤪

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

One of my corrections is to have a more explicit methodology. So I’ve so far written a page about my methodology which sounds really organised but the reality really wasn’t!! #phd #phdcorrections #phdlife

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 1d

I do this every year. Not many shops left to shop in by December 1st!!!

Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with her

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 3d

No self awareness, no remorse, no change. George surrounded by his sycophants, will carry on as before. #thearchers

Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 3d

Shitehawk!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 3d

My take on why everyone should come to #Bradford2025 to see #TurnerPrize - even frequent TP visitors are finding something fresh & new in #Bradford - but it’s attracting artistically unseasoned eyes, too.
Brilliant art, brilliant setting, all in brilliant Bradford!

Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 4d

✍️ The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices

By John Atkinson

@bd-angry.bsky.social

Turner Prize Bradford 2025

The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices

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