Flitcraft
@flitcraft.bsky.social
Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
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If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4
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November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4
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A reminder: there is nothing feminist about enforcing a static biological definition of sex and insisting on gender policing based on how “manly” or “womanly” a person appears. These are logics of fascism. Just saying.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A reminder: there is nothing feminist about enforcing a static biological definition of sex and insisting on gender policing based on how “manly” or “womanly” a person appears. These are logics of fascism. Just saying.
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And *most importantly*, you can read the public history column. It explores history and heritage - with a social history slant - and new publications in Scottish history including journal articles. The National is the only Scottish newspaper with a regular history feature. 🏴
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
And *most importantly*, you can read the public history column. It explores history and heritage - with a social history slant - and new publications in Scottish history including journal articles. The National is the only Scottish newspaper with a regular history feature. 🏴
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From Paris, Catherine de'Medici writes to James VI; she's distressed at the 'nouveau trouble' in Scotland and is sending an envoy to help reinstate James in the position in which he ought to be, and establish peace there. This is a) very late and b), since it's gone quite quiet now, stirring. 3/
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
From Paris, Catherine de'Medici writes to James VI; she's distressed at the 'nouveau trouble' in Scotland and is sending an envoy to help reinstate James in the position in which he ought to be, and establish peace there. This is a) very late and b), since it's gone quite quiet now, stirring. 3/
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New chapters of the South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework (SESARF) are now live on the ScARF website and ready for your input!
Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO
Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New chapters of the South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework (SESARF) are now live on the ScARF website and ready for your input!
Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO
Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO
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It’s wild that in this day and age, some companies still say the only way to reach them is… the phone
For autistic people, that’s not a small ask
A “simple” phone call can mean anxiety spikes, rehearsing sentences, overwhelming dread, adrenaline crashes, and many hours’ worth of energy gone 😢
For autistic people, that’s not a small ask
A “simple” phone call can mean anxiety spikes, rehearsing sentences, overwhelming dread, adrenaline crashes, and many hours’ worth of energy gone 😢
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It’s wild that in this day and age, some companies still say the only way to reach them is… the phone
For autistic people, that’s not a small ask
A “simple” phone call can mean anxiety spikes, rehearsing sentences, overwhelming dread, adrenaline crashes, and many hours’ worth of energy gone 😢
For autistic people, that’s not a small ask
A “simple” phone call can mean anxiety spikes, rehearsing sentences, overwhelming dread, adrenaline crashes, and many hours’ worth of energy gone 😢
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A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn.
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...
llc.ed.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn.
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
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I've not been enjoying the new iteration of moral panic around ultra-processed food today. There's loads to say but the main one for me is that as an autistic person sometimes I can't cook from scratch because I can't tolerate the smells. Or sometimes particular textures are unbearable
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I've not been enjoying the new iteration of moral panic around ultra-processed food today. There's loads to say but the main one for me is that as an autistic person sometimes I can't cook from scratch because I can't tolerate the smells. Or sometimes particular textures are unbearable
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We're in the papers! Find out a wee bit more about the Library...
@lhminerslibrary.bsky.social
@scotnational.bsky.social
#LibraryWithAltitude
@lhminerslibrary.bsky.social
@scotnational.bsky.social
#LibraryWithAltitude
Great article in The National today about the Library, featuring an interview with our own Cameron Halfpenny, Chair of Trustees, and of the Leadhills Reading Society.
@scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...
@scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...
Exploring the story of the oldest library of its kind in Britain
'It was hard drinking, hard living, tough going here, back in the 18th century,' says Cameron Halfpenny, chair of the Leadhills Reading Society
www.thenational.scot
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We're in the papers! Find out a wee bit more about the Library...
@lhminerslibrary.bsky.social
@scotnational.bsky.social
#LibraryWithAltitude
@lhminerslibrary.bsky.social
@scotnational.bsky.social
#LibraryWithAltitude
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THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
Including the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland- AI fakers get everywhere
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Including the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland- AI fakers get everywhere
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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
17 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@glasgowburns.bsky.social’s conference exploring the life, work, & legacy of Robert Burns. This year’s theme is the Burns Supper, a global phenomenon marking its 225th anniversary in 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
17 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@glasgowburns.bsky.social’s conference exploring the life, work, & legacy of Robert Burns. This year’s theme is the Burns Supper, a global phenomenon marking its 225th anniversary in 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
17 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@glasgowburns.bsky.social’s conference exploring the life, work, & legacy of Robert Burns. This year’s theme is the Burns Supper, a global phenomenon marking its 225th anniversary in 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
17 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@glasgowburns.bsky.social’s conference exploring the life, work, & legacy of Robert Burns. This year’s theme is the Burns Supper, a global phenomenon marking its 225th anniversary in 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
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I didn't truly understand this until I had to help an octogenarian friend who'd been unable to access her email and thus half her friendships for six months, simply because the interface had changed and she was trying to find her way round it using a screen magnifier on an eight-year-old laptop.
I am going to be banging this drum forever, but holy shit moving menus is evil from an accessibility standpoint. It sucks for those of us who can see and aren’t in any stage of senility, but if you can’t see it’s the fucking worst.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I didn't truly understand this until I had to help an octogenarian friend who'd been unable to access her email and thus half her friendships for six months, simply because the interface had changed and she was trying to find her way round it using a screen magnifier on an eight-year-old laptop.
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I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
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Now's (almost) the hour! Come along TOMORROW to hear author Henry Bell discuss his historical work on Scottish socialist John Maclean.
Henry will also be reading from his co-edited anthology of poetry celebrating Maclean.
Wed 19th Nov
3-4pm JISC HUB Level 3 Library
4-5pm Level 2 Library
Henry will also be reading from his co-edited anthology of poetry celebrating Maclean.
Wed 19th Nov
3-4pm JISC HUB Level 3 Library
4-5pm Level 2 Library
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Now's (almost) the hour! Come along TOMORROW to hear author Henry Bell discuss his historical work on Scottish socialist John Maclean.
Henry will also be reading from his co-edited anthology of poetry celebrating Maclean.
Wed 19th Nov
3-4pm JISC HUB Level 3 Library
4-5pm Level 2 Library
Henry will also be reading from his co-edited anthology of poetry celebrating Maclean.
Wed 19th Nov
3-4pm JISC HUB Level 3 Library
4-5pm Level 2 Library
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These rare whales had never been seen alive.
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
These rare whales had never been seen alive.
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Today in the public history column: Leadhills Library, in South Lanarkshire, founded in 1741, is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles, and brought Enlightenment learning to a remote mining village in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...
Exploring the story of the oldest library of its kind in Britain
'It was hard drinking, hard living, tough going here, back in the 18th century,' says Cameron Halfpenny, chair of the Leadhills Reading Society
www.thenational.scot
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today in the public history column: Leadhills Library, in South Lanarkshire, founded in 1741, is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles, and brought Enlightenment learning to a remote mining village in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...
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Knitting stitches. Which means that if you learned to knit from your Cumbrian grandmas and mum, you can be sat in a knitting circle in Liberty's department store in London and suddenly realise It's All Gone Quiet and you've got some explaining to do because "yan tan tethera" sounds like a spell. 😁
August 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Knitting stitches. Which means that if you learned to knit from your Cumbrian grandmas and mum, you can be sat in a knitting circle in Liberty's department store in London and suddenly realise It's All Gone Quiet and you've got some explaining to do because "yan tan tethera" sounds like a spell. 😁
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August 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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And cis women who have a lot of permissive power? They can be every bit as violent as a man.
The issue is with allowing violence from people who have been granted society's favor.
We should simply not do that.
The issue is with allowing violence from people who have been granted society's favor.
We should simply not do that.
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
And cis women who have a lot of permissive power? They can be every bit as violent as a man.
The issue is with allowing violence from people who have been granted society's favor.
We should simply not do that.
The issue is with allowing violence from people who have been granted society's favor.
We should simply not do that.
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Trans women are at the very bottom of the permissive power structure pyramid.
Anyone rational should feel much, much safer around trans women, who are themselves targeted for violence at horrific rates, than we would around cis men wearing suits and Rolexes.
Anyone rational should feel much, much safer around trans women, who are themselves targeted for violence at horrific rates, than we would around cis men wearing suits and Rolexes.
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trans women are at the very bottom of the permissive power structure pyramid.
Anyone rational should feel much, much safer around trans women, who are themselves targeted for violence at horrific rates, than we would around cis men wearing suits and Rolexes.
Anyone rational should feel much, much safer around trans women, who are themselves targeted for violence at horrific rates, than we would around cis men wearing suits and Rolexes.
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Men are not inherently violent; some men have learned they can get away with anything because of permissive power structures, and they proceed to do so.
The issue is with permissive power structures.
The issue is with permissive power structures.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Men are not inherently violent; some men have learned they can get away with anything because of permissive power structures, and they proceed to do so.
The issue is with permissive power structures.
The issue is with permissive power structures.
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This thread. I think it's incredibly important to remember that the TERF fragility/rabidity started to take off right around the height of me too, and the main message they had was "men are inherently violent."
They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.
They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.
MeToo was intentionally co-opted by the type of 'feminist' that berates and abuses people for not conforming to gender, while insisting that a uterus makes a woman...
1/2
1/2
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This thread. I think it's incredibly important to remember that the TERF fragility/rabidity started to take off right around the height of me too, and the main message they had was "men are inherently violent."
They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.
They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.