Dr Rachel McCloy

@fidgitpig.bsky.social

Behavioural Scientist and food obsessive. She/Her. Knits. Quite a lot. Views my own.

If you've never heard it, you owe it to yourself to listen to BLEAK EXPECTATIONS, which has him in my favorite role of his, ever - Mister Gently Benevolent, the Evil Ex-Guardian and All Around Nasty Person - his scenery chewing in that show is legendary - and perfect!

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

'claude can now research like a phd student!' bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning