@andpockets

PhD research: Thanks! It has pockets! Twitter commentary on the pocket. Lecturer fashion + media critical studies insta: @spoonstudiostuff @pockets_by_spoon

 North West, England
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Joined August 2010
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🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.
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Still gives me chills. What an icon.
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‘They were for men’
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@guardian15 May 2023
Do women’s trousers have to be ugly or ill-fitting? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Do women’s trousers have to be ugly or ill-fitting?

I’ve been trying to buy a pair made from good material, comfortable, with pockets. But the search has led me to a place I never thought I’d reach

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😱 screenshotting my whole PhD dataset to try and make it ok
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The key to empowerment could be in your pocket | Fashion | The Guardian theguardian.com/fashion/2023…

The key to empowerment could be in your pocket | Letters

Letters: Pockets offer freedom, safety and security – yet are still hard to come by in women’s clothing, writes Ruth Eaton, while Gillian Williamson suggests a return to detachable pockets on a waist...

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I asked a group of kids "What have you learnt this year?" Wise beyond their years A THREAD
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I put Mr Blobby into Paranormal Activity. I'm so sorry...
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Watch this moving video of @LFC manager #JürgenKlopp on his thoughts on being awarded the Freedom of #Liverpool by @lpoolcouncil.
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OK, hear me out, this was actually a visionary and inspired action.
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Good evening Liverpool 👋🇬🇧🇺🇦
An image of Liverpool city skyline with Eurovision and Moroccanoil logos.

ALT An image of Liverpool city skyline with Eurovision and Moroccanoil logos.

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The Peter Principle is the satirical theory that employees are generally promoted to their level of incompetence. In 1974, the author of the Peter a principle, Dr. Laurence J. Peter, explained how he first got the idea and what can be done about it

1974: The Peter Principle

"Should we go through our life being conditioned to keep on accepting that next reward, to keep on running like a squirrel in a cage, to keep on striving for that carrot on a stick?"

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Hands in pockets attitude all over paris #pfw
Vanessa Friedman@VVFriedman28 Sep 2022
The twisty serenity of #TheRow #PFW
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Alan@alansheppard26 Sep 2022
D:Ream were way off
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Fracking is dangerous, expensive, and unsafe. Jacob Rees-Mogg is ripping up the Conservatives' manifesto promises and imposing a Charter for Earthquakes on the British people. Labour will fight this all the way. We need clean power for Britain - not dirty fracking.
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Now all but confirmed: @trussliz & @Jacob_Rees_Mogg are willing to ride roughshod over planning laws, the climate, their own Tory manifesto, and simple common sense by powering ahead on #fracking without a jot of consideration for local communities. This. Must. Be. Stopped.
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Queen Elizabeth II longtime dresser Angela Kelly shares how the Queen told her she had an urge to pose for a photo with her hands in her pockets, a pose which she hadn't been photographed in before.
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The Queue - The Musical
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Ruth Eaton retweeted
Patagonia
@patagonia14 Sep 2022
Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…

Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company (Published 2022)

Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.

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Kim Bhasin@KimBhasin14 Sep 2022
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving away the company. He and his family have transferred all the company’s voting stock into a trust, with the rest of the shares going to a nonprofit. Here's the letter from Yvon:
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