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Freelance journalist • Words in The Guardian, The Metro, Clunk, Bristol247 • She/her • https://linktr.ee/Issy_Packer

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Tombstone was my first introduction to Val Kilmer and it’s what made me not only fall in love with him but it also made me fall in love with the Western genre.

Rest in Peace Val Kilmer ❤️

02.04.2025 06:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can already envision the carnage it’s gonna be … a lot of unhappy people

28.03.2025 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glasto are definitely gonna regret this!

27.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can already sense a huge overcrowding issue .. just like Avril Lavigne last year

27.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Putting Kneecap on the West Holts stage at Glastonbury 2025 feels like a massive mistake to me …

27.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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'Alien: Romulus' is Peak Pregnancy Horror Jenn Adams looks at 'Alien: Romulus' and explains how the film tackles issues of forced pregnancy, sexual assault, and bodily autonomy.

But there’s so many layers to Alien: Romulus and Prometheus regarding female autonomy that make it so relevant in todays society

This article explains it so well - www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/5...

22.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I’m honest, I’m getting kinda tired of brutal birth scenes and horror pregnancy stories depicted across films, TV and literature (House of the Dragon, AHS: Delicate, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix)

22.03.2025 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And the gory depiction of pregnancy (scenes of child birth and Caesarians) in the Alien films are horrifying

22.03.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve consumed a lot of sci-fi this past week - The Martian, Mickey 17, Alien: Romulus and Prometheus

22.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AppleTV has some of the best shows I’ve ever watched but they’re seriously underrated bcos not enough people watch them !!!!

20.03.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is what happens when you don’t market your shows !!!!!

20.03.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My twin sister and I live together, and she recently started outearning me. It's caused a change in our power dynamic. My twin sister started making $20,000 more than I make, and our dynamic shifted. I used to fully support myself and help her out, too.

I wrote about the change in mine and my twin sisters dynamic since she’s started out earning me for @businessinsider.com

Up on the website now!

www.businessinsider.com/twin-outearn...

17.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delete Ya

He’s won 2025

open.spotify.com/track/03y6Ms...

12.03.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m always looking for interesting, unusual and exciting musicians and artists to feature across different platforms.

Feel free to reach out via DM with any press releases or suggestions of people you think I should know about!

11.03.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d be happy to send over some more information on my skills and experience if needed as well!

09.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have worked across several major projects, including Hinkley Point C and Bristol247’s Festival Guide. I was editor of the Bristol Harbour Festival and Bristol Balloon Fiesta programmes in 2022 and 2023.

If anyone needs any assistance with their daily administrative tasks then please get in touch!

09.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve got some free space in my calendar over the next few months so reaching out to see if anyone needs any support.

I have experience in all things social media, Meta Business Suite, Canva, Google Analytics, Adobe InDesign, MailChimp, Microsoft Suite, Outlook, CMS and CRM, Cision and Buffer.

09.03.2025 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#InternationalWomensDay

09.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This album did not get the credit it deserved !!!!!

The more you listen to it, the more each song reveals. The layers and depths to the album is never ending and that’s what makes it such an interesting body of work.

09.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve never been angrier at myself more than I am right now that it has taken me 5 years to watch Industry

23.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New Sam Fender and Fontaines DC in one day … guitar music is SO back !!!!!!

21.02.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m also curious as to why the word ‘cult’ isn’t being thrown around more as a way to describe this group.

Charles Manson and the Manson cult also spread the ideology of a race war, using it as their motivation to murder seven people with the very intention of starting said ‘race war’.

21.02.2025 08:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With the ongoing onslaught of racist and fascist propaganda across social media, I don’t doubt that if this group had a majority of non-white members then we’d be hearing about it in the House of Commons and reading about it from a South African billionaire

21.02.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I could say I was surprised that Rohit Kachroo’s incredible expose into a far right group masquerading as a fitness fraternity hasn’t received more attention but I’m not.

www.itv.com/news/2025-02...

21.02.2025 08:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Obsessed !!!!!! What can’t this man do !!!!!

21.02.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I FEEL LIKE A PROUD MUM !!!!!!

16.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The way it jumps from scene to scene with the only thread tying it together being a poorly executed musical piece is jarring

12.02.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Emilia Perez feels like a parody of a musical. The opening scene feels reminiscent of a Disney film but with bad accents, bad acting, bad singing and bad lyricism

12.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did it all go so wrong for the Oscar-nominated film and its star? Less than two weeks ago, the movie was flying high, with 13 Academy Award nods. Then came a social media scandal and a serious backlash

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

12.02.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

American Primeval is so dark and violent and visceral, the character studies so complex and intricate, it makes for great television … but its downfall is just how dark and violent it is, the bleakness of it is unyielding and that makes for disappointing television

07.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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