Easter reading, a short thread 1) A great introduction to the issue of whether Easter was originally a pagan celebration by @florencehrscott.bsky.social florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag... (1/4)

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 ADHD”.

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 £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

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

Confronted by a middle aged man at the next table in the Indian restaurant because we ordered the zeera chicken which apparently sounded like ‘zero chicken’ 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 – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Bloody hell I love Bugs so much what a G

Wednesday.

OCD therapists before today: if I say ‘don't think of a elephant’, the first thing you will think of is an elephant OCD therapists after today: if I say ’ignore the smears’ the first thing you will think of is how Wes Streeting is friends with Mandelson

Enjoyed this but keep laughing at the notion of writing a one star goodreads review with the word ‘copaganda’

Society: btw if you’re a woman you’re responsible for everything especially all domestic labour and how everyone around you feels Autistic women: oh ok, well I’ll make sure to constantly try to manage those things then Society: wow look at this high strung controlling bitch lol

Hey, several batches of baby formula from a couple different brands in the uk and Europe have been recalled for contamination causing illness: if you formula feed, check your supply. Info here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Idk this season of bridgerton is feeling a bit sexual harassment in the workplace

Watching Bridgerton in my room with a glass of red and the string quartet cover of All I Wanted starts up and I'm blubbing. I've been a basic bitch this whole time

This shows how useless Google has become. As I recently and rather vehemently explained to the novelist Will Self.

Crazy thing about social media is that I distinctly remember a time in like 2017 when every second tweet contained the phrase '‘As I recently and rather vehemently explained to the novelist Will Self’ and yet one can find no trace of this phenomenon or its context

Crazy thing about social media is that I distinctly remember a time in like 2017 when every second tweet contained the phrase '‘As I recently and rather vehemently explained to the novelist Will Self’ and yet one can find no trace of this phenomenon or its context

watching Harlots just to see a gang of powerful sex criminals face justice

Ladysmith Black M'Choakumchild

We’re not doing feminism about ghislaine maxwell she’s exempt

Think a lot about how when I was a kid 'I’m seeing double, here! FOUR KRUSTYS!' was the absolute pinnacle of comedy and now I'm an adult* it still is

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me: down with capitalism unilever: releases dove x bridgerton deodorant

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

saved up six audible credits and spent them all this month on the earthsea cycle

just found out I've had a free BFI Player subscription through my uni for the last 13 years

this is something i have been ruminating on for a while. this inability to sort fact from fiction is one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian information environment

Monty Don posted on facebook saying his dog died and people who have never seen this particular dog on telly are commenting calling him a hacker and saying it’s fake news and AI and a scam Love when the average person loses their ability to discern trustworthy information, it’s not at all dystopian

I play a phone game while I listen to audiobooks and my judgy screentime app keeps telling me stuff like ’in the 12 hours you played Drop Merge this week you could have read two novels’ BITCH I DID

'this appears to be a long document, save time by reading a summary by AI' says Acrobat at the top of a PDF of all the Annals of St Bertin written between 830 and 882

"And now for the bride and groom's first dance as a married couple" Victoria Beckham:

I come to bury Caesar, not to invite his mother to twerk.

new fave part of the brooklyn beckham thing is that the guy called Marc Anthony who is somehow involved apparently introduced posh spice to the stage to do her sex dance as 'the most beautiful woman in the room tonight'

very informative thread but doesn't answer my main question which is who made a cute plushie HPV virus and where can I get one

Someone I used to work with (and thought was a massive tit) has announced the (sad, obviously) death of her mother on LinkedIn (I know) with this sentence: "As a leader, an entrepreneur and human, I am having to grapple with a devastating rite of passage".

It’s a shame that Glasgow don’t have any artists.

Trying to write a book but all I can think about is what posh spice might have done during her son’s first dance

The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as: - noise-cancelling headphones - a fidget spinner - intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong

Celebrating my fast impending senility & death with @florencehrscott.bsky.social

A inline skating-obsessed class clown called JK Rowling

A neurotypical hogwarts pupil called Seymour Biglight

good advice but I prefer the Rowling version of this which is to create a name that sounds like a slur for the culture they belong to

. @florencehrscott.bsky.social bought me a cup

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