@damonlordwriter
Pronouns: he/him. Cis, π³οΈβπ, π³οΈββ§οΈ ally PhD student English & Creative Writing Associate Lecturer (English lang) W.Bro/Comp, linguist, Welsh π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ, Esperanto-speaker Worcs Poet Laureate 2023/24 www.damonlord.com Newsletter: damonlordwriter.substack.com
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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when it rains all weekend, you are required to order more books than you could possibly read in your lifetime
Intro:
π Name: Damon Lord
π Location: Worcester, UK
π Nationality: π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
πΌ Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang
π Study: PhD English & Creative Writing
π‘ Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity
Now, as a result, ideas from the unrelated articles will feed much more strongly into my methodology, and make my own PhD stronger!
Read around!
Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD.
Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.
Looking forward to performing tonight at 7 p.m., Script Haven, High Street, Worcester, for National Poetry Day!
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My latest article:
Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm
Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion
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Cloud cover diagram for the afternoon of Wednesday 22 October 1986, in a location undefined by the text in the image.
Perhaps overdoing the research for my writing? I'm researching the weather and cloud cover for a particular location on a particular date to work out if the Sun is likely to have been shining through the window at the time for a scene in my novel.
Working on my novel; I can't type or spell this morning. Typing "orange plastic chair" and somehow it corrected to "orgasm patrol chair". I give up. π
Graffiti on a wooden wall, inside a roughly drawn heart. The text reads: Keven love you stupid ass bitch. The first two words are crossed out. Stupid ass bitch is written in slightly different coloured ink, revealing it to be a later inscription.
A two-part story, from love to tragedy, told in only six words. An unknown graffiti artist upstages Hemingway's six-word story. #narrative #graffiti
Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025
Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.
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With a keen interest in vexillology and a firm faith in LGBTQ+ equity, I decided then to look up flags, and though I knew some, it turns out I have more to learn to embrace diversity!
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Recently I saw some horizontal stripe flag pin badges on a colleague's bag. Curious, I asked what the flags were. They were the asexual flag and non-binary flags. I thanked my colleague for educating me.
So there you have it. A random stranger has decreed that persons with disabilities should not be out before 8:20 a.m. I'm so glad I met him. I would never have known about this curfew otherwise.
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He: People like you just shouldn't be out this early in the morning! [8:20 a.m.]. I'll let you off just this time. Now be on your way. [He walked off]
Me: What? Now you're bring rude! What's your problem?
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He; well that's no excuse, I'm walking so you should get out of my way. You're f***ing rude.
Me: Look, I've apologised, I'm half-blind. I didn't see you.
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Walking to work yesterday morning, I almost (but didn't) bumped into a man, due to my poor eyesight. I have huge gaps in my vision.
He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude.
Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind.
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Olympia Dukakis in "Tales of the City" - BOTD
"Is he blind?" - What happens when an airport security officer ignores you and directs all questions about you to a family member instead.
damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind
Screenshot of Duolingo, advising I've lost a 1105 streak.
This morning, I opened the Duolingo app. I don't care.
A glass table in a garden, upon which stands a beer can, and four books. From bottom to top: Queridas de Rizal β Ambeth R. Ocampo; The Berlin Novels β Christopher Isherwood; The L-Shaped Room β Lynne Reid Banks; The Woman In Me β Britney Spears, and a Kindle on the top.
Long weekend ahead. Settling down in the garden with a few books (I usually read several at once) and a beer.
Any suggestions for a similar, free or cheap language learning app would be most welcome (one I previously liked, Lingodeer, has now put everything behind a paywall).
Theyve also taken the decision to fire people and replace content creators and linguists with AI.
I'll no longer be using or recommending Duolingo.
They've also raved joyously about how they support minority languages, but seem to have swept their earlier commitment under the carpet and have closed down and removed people from working on any updates or doing work on courses such as Welsh and Esperantofor example.
Goodbye, Duolingo. I've decided to stop using Duolingo.
Why?
They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
A very interesting and engaging thread on what the late Pope Francis did to modernise the Catholic Church.
www.threads.net/@authorcathe...