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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 9h

Not unhinged; purest truth. Ditto on Franzen. Both are abysmal.

Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 17h

Because the hellish parts of grad school were so fun, I want to experience them again in a novel?

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is really bad actually. It’s bad that news media has collapsed. I want my news from people trained in journalism. I’m a history professor. I know what we know and what we don’t. No shade on HCR but she’s incapable of doing what WaPo is supposed to do and used to do.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 2d

Projection? Because there’s no (or not enough) agreement with their own policies and they know how top down they are?

Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry but as a Canadian, I don’t see the problem here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

I apologise too much, and it annoys everyone around me. How can I stop? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Changing such ingrained habits isn’t easy, but when you’re about to apologise try counting to 10 or substituting a different phrase

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I see him doing anything, I’m just so glad he’s no longer Prime Minister.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 4d

I block them.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 4d

Much worse even than Aung San Suu Kyi I’m afraid. “Peace” is messy and I’m not sure this prize is a good thing, at least not on a yearly basis.

Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no reason to believe she didn’t call him and say exactly what he says she said. She wants Trump to create regime change in Venezuela. She knows what she has to say to get it. He is her ally.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5d

This is real. This... {deep breaths} I cannot even find the right word... actually said this about this year's richly deserving Nobel Peace Prize winner.

He did everything he could to denigrate her win.

(Screenshot below altered merely to remove an ad.)

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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 5d

Something fucked up and dirty is playing out. First he menaces Venezuela with a military presence, starts blowing up little boats. Then ( not sure who initiated ) he enters negotiations with Maduro to take a *dominant stake in Venezuelan oil and resources. Suddenly /1

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

Freedom frogs.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 5d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

She’s glad Trump Is blowing up boats. She thinks it will make the government fall.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think it makes him definitionally unfit for office — but it does concern me, I can’t lie. It’s bad enough that the government says he can’t work but being a senator is work. Maybe I’m ignorant or wrong on this but I won’t be the only one.

Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

White populist with a tbi on full disability definitely sets off my Fetterman alarm. Anyway, Mainers will decide.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 6d

Fun interview about my latest novel, with lots of history — Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Secnd Crusade, the Templars etc, including the burning question: did or didn’t she sleep with her uncle?
(Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think)
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Lucy Pick, "The Queen’s Companion" (Cuidono Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

What does this question measure beyond “people on both sides who paid attention to the campaign versus people on both sides who didn’t”?

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 7d

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 5d

brb, declaring myself the Nobel Committee's Opposition Leader and advocating that "legitimate pressure" be brought to bear

From Deutsche Welle:

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

Oof.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 5d

The thing about the peace prize is they gave it to Kissinger. So, *shrugs*

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 6d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 6d

Fun interview about my latest novel, with lots of history — Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Secnd Crusade, the Templars etc, including the burning question: did or didn’t she sleep with her uncle?
(Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think)
📚💙
⌛️📚💙
newbooksnetwork.com/the-queens-c...

Lucy Pick, "The Queen’s Companion" (Cuidono Press, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com