Thank you for inspiring this exchange
@florencehrscott
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine π΅πΈ Author of Γlfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Thank you for inspiring this exchange
Misspelled swived
it's finally our year
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHDβ.
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to Β£6,600 per year this way.
I wrote a book! The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living will be published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on 1st April- and if you preorder from Waterstones between now and Friday it is 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/the-med...
Once shriven, twice shy
Itβs normal to be Desperate to Shrive
Asked my ex what my flaws are and he started talking about my βclearly repressed religious spiritualityβ and Iβm like what do you mean
What degree of Lenten sacrifice is excessive for someone who is not a baptised or practicing Christian? asking for me
All those millennia of language development for me to post this
Daniel Kennedy has been hacked by Colonel Sanders
implies the existence of battery jesus
By M R James
Shrove Tuesday isnβt about pancakes, itβs commemorating the day that Jesus was impregnated with the chocolate egg that he will lay on Easter Day
the second Mrs De Rob Palk Writer
Confronted by a middle aged man at the next table in the Indian restaurant because we ordered the zeera chicken which apparently sounded like βzero chickenβ and he was incensed we might be vegans
Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful β a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
And also this dispute is clearly about how often heβs away from home and not The Pile
my true thoughts on this are that messiness as a failing is sometimes unavoidable and we should all be a bit more forgiving of each other but chaos being the actual intended system is where Iβd have to draw the line
True gender equality is women being as shit as men
This belongs in the βam I the exβ subreddit
Worried that Darren from the gym is hiding under the pile
Counter point they have been socialised that women have an inherent right to be messy and thatβs a win for feminism
Mario Kondo did not do All That so people can just be having clothes piles
As kids we called it the βold weather pitchβ which made less sense but suited it more somehow
At my primary school we had a concrete structure called the βall weather pitchβ that we had to use when it was raining for some reason and that was absolutely hard play
A cartoon image of Bugs Bunny dressed as a king, lounging casually on a red, high-backed throne. He wears a purple robe with white fur trim and a gold crown with rounded points. His posture is relaxed and slightly slouched, with one arm draped over the armrest and a smug, half-lidded expression on his face. The background is softly shaded in muted brown tones, emphasizing the throne and his royal outfit.
Bloody hell I love Bugs so much what a G