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Nicola Pitchford

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Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · Mar 19

Honoured to be part of the beautiful, fragile collective work #BirdsOfFirle, created & curated by Tanya. An ongoing project of 100 writers responding with objects & online to a single physical manuscript, circulated by post over the course of a decade. On grief & hope as the things with feathers...

Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · Mar 19

‘She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which she fled. Flew. From marriage and family. From us.’

Stunning piece by @npitchford.bsky.social for the decade-long collective #BirdsOfFirle project…

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Birds of Firle: She Was Always in Flight by Nicola Pitchford

Aerodynamics was her chosen field of engineering. She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which eventually she fled. Flew. From ma…

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 2h

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 2h

Nobody ever asks me to take them to Paris, goddammit.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, I've never seen a black one.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 3h

Oooh I love hearing the coyotes. So wild & eerie, it makes me feel all cozy & safe.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 4h

I'm getting chills just thinking of that song. And Steve Biko.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

Yep, that gets a whole fresh "FUCK."

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

I keep finding out I have way more fucks to give than I ever imagined.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

Please tell me this is the ongoing, known "Fuck." Not some new, additional "Fuck."

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

a cartoon of jerry in a tuxedo says " thank you "

Alt: GIF of Jerry the cartoon mouse in a tuxedo, bowing, with the words “thank you, thank you.”

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

That storied evening when Hannibal Lecter finally met a meal his appetite could not master.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

So good.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 5h

"I don't understand how any[one] can believe in a higher power and not find that in other people."

James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 6h

A Jesuit priest told me he experiences God through migrants, he sees God in them and they bring out the part of God that is in him. I don't think I've gone a day since then without thinking about that. It changed how I understand faith. You can hear the interview here www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

What Can You Do? Mutual Aid Along the Migrant Journey - It Could Happen Here | iHeart

James' final episode looks at the people helping migrants once they leave the Darién Gap, and how you can help. Donation links for groups featured in this series: Border Kindness: <a...

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 6h

Wow, how very atmospheric!

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 6h

Big celebration coming, I trust 👍🏼 🏳️‍⚧️

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 6h

When we overnighted in London with our dad on our way out of the country to immigrate, he took us to the poshest dinner we’d ever had — in the revolving restaurant at the top of the P.O. Tower. Thus began a time when not a thing that I saw or experienced made any familiar sense to me.

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11h

Writing this card at the Post Office Tower. We have just been up the top looking at a lovely view, you could see Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge & lots of other famous places. On Monday we went to the cinema and had dinner at a Wimpy Bar.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 12h

In a timely & helpful way, I have just volunteered to take home the past-its-sell-by-date-but-apparently-fine cream cheese from the office fridge.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 12h

Beautiful critters

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 13h

This is beyond vile.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 13h

Gisèle Pelicot FTW 🏆

She is a reminder that quiet, dogged, sometimes incredibly painful heroism is going on around us at all times.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 13h

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a table with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face .

Alt: GIF of a man in a white shirt and tie sitting at a desk with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face. The camera zooms in and the words “you’re brilliant” appear.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 17h

Quite.

Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 17h

I also enjoyed the brief, eloquent moment when you just dragged your hand down your face & laughed.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 17h

Coyotes, cheese, eating (as my gran would say) your bit of dirt — I’m in.

AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 17h

Join Affirmation Coyote in celebrating Moldy Cheese Day!

Most of the cheese that Affirmation Coyote gets their jaws on is moldy and tbh they are fine with that.

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a marble surface with the words get into it written in yellow

ALT: a marble surface with the words get into it written in yellow

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 17h

Of all the things I don’t mind being woken by… 🦉🥰