Matilda Fitzmaurice

@matildaf

Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 25/26 Equality Chair UCU Commons. Lives for pop music. My views. She/her Website: ORCID 0009-0005-5220-0914

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Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· 3d

A juvenile kittiwake, giving 'rebellious teenager going through her Goth phase' vibes

A juvenile kittiwake, with striking black markings, standing on a grate with an adult and another juvenile in the background

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· 25d

glaring at people since (at least) 1993

Baby me (about 2 years old) wearing a dark blue jumper with a pink pattern on it, and a pink headband. I've got a bob with a blocky fringe and I'm glaring at the camera.

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jul 12

the three genders: Marx, Lenin and Hardie

A red Durham Miners' Association banner from the Chopwell Lodge. At the centre are portraits of Marx (left) Lenin (right) and Keir Hardie (centre)

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jul 12

Love a good pit pony

A blue and red banner from Quarrington Hill Lodge, County Durham, displayed at the Durham Miners' Gala. The image is of a miner underground with a brown pit pony. Underneath the image it says 'whoa Bobby, whoa Bobby, eight hours a day'

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jul 7

this blonde though

young Agnetha Fältskog with long blonde hair in a centre part, wearing a jacket over a blue roll neck jumper and a gold pendant necklace. Those eyes and those little gap teeth, damn it

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jun 27

Cottagecore PYO fun🍓

a blue cardboard basket with a metal handle with two plastic punnets inside it: one full of strawberries, the other full of raspberries

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jun 20

Tynebiza

A sandy beach (King Edward's Bay, Tynemouth) with people swimming and ships on the horizon

View of King Edward's Bay, North Tyneside

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jun 11

I found one of this group's flyers in my local supermarket (it's in the bin now). I hadn't heard of them before but a friend sent me this piece (which is too sympathetic in my view). Be warned. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

A photo of an extremely text-heavy flyer for the far-right astroturf 'Pink Ladies' movement which calls for 'British Women First'

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jun 2

Hove, you're lush. What a tonic after last week.

I'm wearing a denim jacket, a Girls Aloud tshirt and a massive goofy smile because I'm on the beach.

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jun 1

She was chill like this for a few minutes at a time before getting up and pacing and standing in the way of the telly again. She's 17, I don't know how she has the energy.

A very elderly terrier cross dog who is a fox-red type colour with a white face, curled up on a colourful pink cushion.

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· May 23

Birthing my little feathered son

Me on a tattooing chair in a tattoo studio wearing a blue flowery tank top, leopard print shorts and sandals, grimacing and gritting my teeth because I'm getting tattooed on my wrist

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· May 23

here he is, my little guy

A simple magpie tattoo on the inside of my wrist, with a flash of blue for the iridescent plumage

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· May 4

🎶I really really really really really really like you 🎶🐕

One elderly pug-shih tzu cross (tongue out) and one even more elderly terrier cross staring at the camera

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Apr 25

Oh hi there! 🦔

A hedgehog on some grass that I saw on the way back from the cinema

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Apr 25

good day to remind everyone how good Harold Wilson looked in shorts

former UK Labour prime minister Harold Wilson showing off excellent tanned legs in a pair of shorts, a blue shirt and brown closed sandals, against a seaside backdrop with islands. Also holding a pipe

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Mar 22

Tyne kittiwakes are back ❤️

A white and grey kittiwake, with black feet and a yellow beak, perched on the ledge of a brick warehouse-type building

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Mar 15

Happy Mother's Day

The American singer Kesha in the promotional image for her 2026 Tits Out Tour

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Mar 13

Happy Friday, all.

A view of the River Tyne, looking west towards the city centre and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Feb 8

Ballot finally arrived and posted! Voted for UCU Commons members and friends @markpendleton.bsky.social @drgillhistory.bsky.social @matthewbarnard.phd @profalexp.bsky.social, plus @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP FE plus independents! #ucu

Smiling me in glasses and a blue coat, about to post a white envelop into a red postbox. There are bare trees, grass, a bench and mid-century, red-brick residential buildings in the background.

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jan 21

which mug are you especially attached to at the moment? Mine is a cactus-green le creuset one I bought to cheer myself up a few years ago. I think it's partly the reassuring weight.

a chunky dark green Le Creuset mug full of black coffee, standing on a wooden table surface

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jan 18

I love a chayote squash. And I love them even more given they look like Audrey Two.

A green chayote squash that looks like Audrey Two (the human-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors)

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jan 17

this is my favourite thing atm (via @hagenilda.bsky.social)

a headline from Science Focus with a photo of the ancient baths at Pompeii, which says 'the ancient baths of Pompeii were outrageously filthy, study finds'

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jan 7

Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf· Jan 7

I'm trying to learn to like wintery weather, so a bit of a NY resolution is to get outside during daylight hours, every day, whatever the weather. From today: wintery borders and playpark scenes!