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Dr Ian Cummins

@driancummins.bsky.social

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Interested in the history of mental health policy, penal policy, true crime, association football and Coltrane. One of the Two Doctors. No g in Cummins

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 43m

Or like bands have one slow song and one fast one

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 9d

A brilliant film

🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 10d

“NETWORK” (1976) dir. Sidney Lumet

Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall

🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 16d

Why would the Telegraph overlook the genius of Octavia Butler 🤔

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Sep 1

But don't you have your own reading list now Jo 🤔

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Aug 31

What would RN make of Trump🤔

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25

How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain?

@lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief.

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Lisa Morriss and Siobhan Beckwith
Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251359845
The Sociological Review journal #OnlineFirst

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Aug 21

There is always a Wire quote youtu.be/R4-_ydvIbDQ?...

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Aug 14

But how will your retirement impact on Q3 figures Jo ?

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Aug 10

A year the Windies toured ? 76 ?

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats Jo from a retirement twin

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excellent article

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · Jun 23

Full piece here www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · TV Meets Fruit Machine: Faragist TikTok

In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit of...

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jun 20

I have never owned a car but ...

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jun 20

Trump's ugly tactics 🙄
The protests in LA couldn't be further from the riots last summer- but that doesn't fit CA's view so she doesn't go further

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Pledge Durrenmatt

Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · Jun 19

Birding

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Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Asked what his "unconditional surrender!" post meant for Iran, Trump says: "Very simple -- unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. I've had it. I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there."