Musk's money and Trump's interference could not stem the tide of public fury towards their corrupt far-right regime. Let's hope that tide keeps rolling round the world.
Dr. Helen O’Sullivan
@hosphdmuses.bsky.social
She/Her * 🏴 PhD-er #SustainableFashion #Pedagogy #Practivism https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helen-Osullivan-3 * #DTMatters | Head of D&T | Design Educator | Community | Advisor * Activist https://bsky.app/profile/sustfashwales.
😻Cat cwtches 😼Cat onesie 🐣Chicken & Egg Magazine 🧶Crochet Perfect Sunday post-viva and prep for another busy half term.
In other news, I passed my PhD! 🎉 And while wearing my child participant made #CitizenFashion dress! A living artefact that communicates their voices using multiple & visual forms of critical dialogue on #FastFashion neo-colonialsm. (See alt text for more!) 💚 @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social
A little post I did about the impact of @georgemonbiot.bsky.social epic speech over on LinkedIn and its relevance to my own PhD and educational philosophy... Diolch yn fawr eto George!
Da iawn @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a diolch yn fawr!! 🏴👏🏴👏🏴
“You can tell the economic character of a nation by the way its infrastructure works.” Powerful words from George Monbiot on BBC Question Time explaining how Wales’s economy was built to extract wealth rather than enrich its own people, and why we need the powers to put that right. 🏴 #Annibyniaeth
Da iawn @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a diolch yn fawr!! 🏴👏🏴👏🏴
“You can tell the economic character of a nation by the way its infrastructure works.” Powerful words from George Monbiot on BBC Question Time explaining how Wales’s economy was built to extract wealth rather than enrich its own people, and why we need the powers to put that right. 🏴 #Annibyniaeth
A day in the life of my viva prep... How on earth I managed it this far, with this lot I have no idea!
Yet again I am faced with the challenge of "PhD v's this one's attention"! How on earth am I supposed to prep for my viva when it is now Alfie's current favourite spot?!? #PhDLife
Does anyone else feel like were living in the flashback scenes of a post- apocalyptic or dystopia movie/series? 🤔 Like there are warning signs in the background, on the news etc but we have no idea what's coming? 👀 (Apologies for a not so cheery post!)
PhD Thesis Submitted! ✅ ✍️ 89,393 Words 📖 450 pages 📸 77 images Time to celebrate @ my favourite festival SHAMBALA (before starting my new Head of D&T job on Tues & months of viva prep!) But 1st, breathe & dance… Positive Vibes to all! ✌️🤩✌️ PS – Thank you again @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social & co!
Late night last minute prep for Shambala festival. (And a potential carnival costume change too) The festivals annual Dolly Yoga session is going to be a super emotional one this year 💖💖💖 #Shambala #ShambalaFestival #LastPartyofTheSummer
My first meal using vegggies sourced entirely from the garden 🤤 Gochujang stir fry made with: 🌱Courgettes 🌿Kohlrabi 🥒Cucumbers 🍃Covolo Nero 🥬Curly Kale And other random leaves from kohlrabi, brocoli and chard, plus smoked tofu 👌 Bloody delish! #HomeGrown #KitchenGarden #SelfSufficiency #Vegan
I've been away for 2 weeks and thanks to my polytunnel timed watering system I'm going to need a jungle-style machete to get to the courgettes at the back!! 🥒🍅🥔🌶🥦🥬 I won't be needing to buy veggies for a while! 🙌 #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Polytunnel #SelfSufficiency #VeganHeaven! #Vegan
I've been away for 2 weeks and thanks to my polytunnel timed watering system I'm going to need a jungle-style machete to get to the courgettes at the back!! 🥒🍅🥔🌶🥦🥬 I won't be needing to buy veggies for a while! 🙌 #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Polytunnel #SelfSufficiency #VeganHeaven! #Vegan
Round 2 of final thesis edits: Biggest contribution to knowledge? I now fully know that I will never, ever do a PhD again because it involves more than playing with fabric and encouraging tiny revolutionaries. @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social 🙏
Just found this note in my "don't forget to check" folder 👇 Makes sense to me! 😂
#AcademicSky: Can I finish a contribution to knowledge section of my #PhD thesis conclusion with: "....because it's awesome." 🤔 Because that's about all I can manage right now...😂 No? 😆 (View from my garden because I'm supposed to be in WOMAD festival running workshop right now 😭)
Just had an insight to what much of August will involve. I've spent the last hour removing & adding commas to "et al" & replacing "and" with "&" to all parenthetical citations in my 324 pg working thesis. Good lord. 🫠 Bring back the "cat fairys" & other mythical creatures of justice! 😺 🧚 ✊
Never has a #Research quote been more applicable. This image only shows *key* transcription quotes* from 8 monthly workshops in 1 location (1 year). My original #PhD intention = workshops in 3 different locations over 3 academic years! 👀 But it was mega fun! 😅 🙏 @drhelenkara.bsky.social & co!
Fancy a Friday giggle? Here's me, just me trying to crack on with my data analysis... How the hell I've managed to get this far, with this lot, I have no idea! 🤦♀️ Happy Friday 🙃 #WorkingFromHome #WorkingWithHens #RescueHens #RescueChickens @bhwt.bsky.social
National Grid Electricity Distribution’s Community Matters Fund is offering £250,000 in grant funding to help charities and community groups improve green spaces and support biodiversity in their communities.
#ThrowbackThursday to exactly 2 years ago today when myself and others from the #SCTCymru coalition took over the @senedd.wales Neuadd (main hall) for our huge #SustainableFashion event! The event included: 📢Panel discussion 🪡Workshops 📚Education KS2 - BA 🛍Local businesses 1/🧵
In other news... Wishing Sir David Attenborough a very happy 100th birthday via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social digital card! An absolute inspiration and a national treasure. If you can be anything in the world, be more Attenborough 💚 Sign the card now: act.gp/4uis6YU
Wish Sir David Attenborough a happy 100th birthday
We are putting together a 100th birthday card from all of us who care about people, nature and planet as much as David does, to celebrate this incredible milestone. Will you add your name today?
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Sir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audio
Sir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audio
Sir David Attenborough has released an audio message thanking the public for the flood of goodwill messages sent in the run-up to his 100th birthday. The veteran broadcaster said he had expected to celebrate quietly, but expressed gratitude for the well-wishes he had received. Attenborough, who was born on 8 May 1926, joined the BBC in 1952 and went on to become one of the world's most respected and influential wildlife presenters * Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday Continue reading...
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I have a feeling today will be the last day for a while that I wake up proud to be Welsh. I really hope I'm proved wrong, but it feels like Brexit again... Come on Cymru! 🏴 #SeneddElections 🏴 #WelshElections
Today may be #InternationalDawnChorusDay (which I listened to from the camper) but here it's also buzzing bee day! 🐝🐝🐝 Hundreds of them absolutely loving the wysteria all day! 🐝🐝🐝 #ProtectThePollinators #ProtectTheBees (Sound ON!)
Today I marked #FashionRevolutionWeek AND #EarthDay2026 (both every day/week for me!) by giving a presentation to the Sustainable Fashion Consumption Research (SFCN) network members about my use of #Practivism as an emerging pedagogical approach! #CollectiveAction is the medicine we all need!! ✊️✊️✊️
My perfect friday evening... Beach sunset in the campervan 🌅 Two MASSIVE hedgehogs in the garden 🦔 Hot tub under the stars ✨️ The drama of a missing hen who decided she was going "camping" in the brambles at 9:45pm was not ideal though 😆 #Sunset #Hedgehog #WeekendVibes
We look at the cultural, economic, and systemic barriers young people from low-income backgrounds face in terms of academic achievement, read more in our recent blog from Edge CEO Alice Gardner - www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...
What does the evidence say about policy and white working-class aspiration?
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Bit late for #Caturday but I was going through all my old pics last night and found this. The first and most recent photo of Alfie - 15 years apart. 🥰 He's just too cute, then and now 🥹 #CatsofBluesky #FurBaby