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Dr Florence H R Scott

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Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Author of Γ†lfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social

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Thank you for inspiring this exchange

17.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Misspelled swived

17.02.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

it's finally our year

17.02.2026 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics

Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.

17.02.2026 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 757    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 101

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.

17.02.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 430    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4
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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...

17.02.2026 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once shriven, twice shy

16.02.2026 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s normal to be Desperate to Shrive

16.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Asked my ex what my flaws are and he started talking about my β€˜clearly repressed religious spirituality’ and I’m like what do you mean

16.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What degree of Lenten sacrifice is excessive for someone who is not a baptised or practicing Christian? asking for me

16.02.2026 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

All those millennia of language development for me to post this

16.02.2026 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Daniel Kennedy has been hacked by Colonel Sanders

16.02.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

implies the existence of battery jesus

16.02.2026 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

By M R James

16.02.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shrove Tuesday isn’t about pancakes, it’s commemorating the day that Jesus was impregnated with the chocolate egg that he will lay on Easter Day

16.02.2026 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

the second Mrs De Rob Palk Writer

14.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Confronted by a middle aged man at the next table in the Indian restaurant because we ordered the zeera chicken which apparently sounded like β€˜zero chicken’ and he was incensed we might be vegans

14.02.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

13.02.2026 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1844    πŸ” 779    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

13.02.2026 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 849    πŸ” 338    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 72

And also this dispute is clearly about how often he’s away from home and not The Pile

13.02.2026 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 I’d have to draw the line

13.02.2026 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

True gender equality is women being as shit as men

13.02.2026 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This belongs in the β€˜am I the ex’ subreddit

13.02.2026 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Worried that Darren from the gym is hiding under the pile

13.02.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Counter point they have been socialised that women have an inherent right to be messy and that’s a win for feminism

13.02.2026 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mario Kondo did not do All That so people can just be having clothes piles

13.02.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As kids we called it the β€˜old weather pitchβ€˜ which made less sense but suited it more somehow

12.02.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At my primary school we had a concrete structure called the β€˜all weather pitch’ that we had to use when it was raining for some reason and that was absolutely hard play

12.02.2026 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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

11.02.2026 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0