Caroline Dodds Pennock
@carolinepennock.bsky.social
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2024 shortlist - English PEN
www.englishpen.org
Genuinely overwhelmed that #OnSavageShores has been shortlisted for the Pen Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Supporting writers facing persecution and censorship, @englishpen.bsky.social’s work is sorely needed right now, & I’m honoured to be in such wonderful company. 🗃️ #history
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“Crazy Hawk said she felt immigration enforcement echoed the violence experienced by Native Americans at the hands of the U.S. government, stretching back several hundred years and including the interment of Dakota people in the stockade at Fort Snelling in the winter of 1862-1863.”
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustices.
Indigenous group speaks out against immigration enforcement with prayer camp
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustic...
www.mprnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
“Crazy Hawk said she felt immigration enforcement echoed the violence experienced by Native Americans at the hands of the U.S. government, stretching back several hundred years and including the interment of Dakota people in the stockade at Fort Snelling in the winter of 1862-1863.”
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Meanwhile, down in the cellar.
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Meanwhile, down in the cellar.
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My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice Bereavement Service in Hackney and he’s running the local Half Marathon to raise a little bit of cash for them. If you can spare something, it’s a very worthy cause: www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...
Mike's fundraiser for St Joseph's Hospice Hackney
Help Mike Witcombe raise money to support St Joseph's Hospice Hackney
www.justgiving.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 AM
My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice Bereavement Service in Hackney and he’s running the local Half Marathon to raise a little bit of cash for them. If you can spare something, it’s a very worthy cause: www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...
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The "Trans/Rad/Fem" audiobook page is now live on Itch! Narrated by @clockwork-sapphire.bsky.social, available to experience in a new form :)
Link: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem-...
Link: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem-...
Trans/Rad/Fem Audiobook by Talia Bhatt, Clockwork Sapphire
Essays on Transfeminism - Audiobook Version
taliabhatt.itch.io
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
The "Trans/Rad/Fem" audiobook page is now live on Itch! Narrated by @clockwork-sapphire.bsky.social, available to experience in a new form :)
Link: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem-...
Link: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem-...
This is a real thing, in the (last?) Year of Our Lord 2026.
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
This is a real thing, in the (last?) Year of Our Lord 2026.
The UK is going to hell in handcart right now, but I’m relieved to say that it’s still inconceivable that our head of state/government would single out individual athletes at the #Olympics for abuse. The USA is in a dark place. A remarkable article.
Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
www.readtpa.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The UK is going to hell in handcart right now, but I’m relieved to say that it’s still inconceivable that our head of state/government would single out individual athletes at the #Olympics for abuse. The USA is in a dark place. A remarkable article.
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I’m not going to fill everyone’s timeline by reposting all of them, but there are some very funny quotes on this post. 😆
NB Why is it always the posts with typos that are popular?! 🙈
NB Why is it always the posts with typos that are popular?! 🙈
This is the funniest headline I seen in a long time. And bravo to whoever underlined the desperation with the juxtaposed link.
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I’m not going to fill everyone’s timeline by reposting all of them, but there are some very funny quotes on this post. 😆
NB Why is it always the posts with typos that are popular?! 🙈
NB Why is it always the posts with typos that are popular?! 🙈
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This is the funniest headline I seen in a long time. And bravo to whoever underlined the desperation with the juxtaposed link.
February 10, 2026 at 7:47 AM
This is the funniest headline I seen in a long time. And bravo to whoever underlined the desperation with the juxtaposed link.
Wild.
Is belief in "revisionist political history" a legally protected philosophical belief? An extraordinary case.
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assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Wild.
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The PAPERBACK of Humans: A Monstrous History from @ucpress.bsky.social, a history *through* monsters from antiquity to the present, is available to preorder! Here's a 🧵 of excerpts from the book.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The PAPERBACK of Humans: A Monstrous History from @ucpress.bsky.social, a history *through* monsters from antiquity to the present, is available to preorder! Here's a 🧵 of excerpts from the book.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
February 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Co-signed.
I can’t find the words to properly articulate how much this annoys me. Columbus was an incompetent leader, rapist, slaver, and purveyor of genocide.
Also, he never stepped foot on what is now the United States.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Also, he never stepped foot on what is now the United States.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s latest White House remake? Adding a Columbus statue to the grounds
The figure will be a restoration of a Columbus statue that was destroyed by protestors in 2020
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Co-signed.
People who blank-quote your post, contributing nothing of their own, truly are the AI bros of the BlueSky world.
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 PM
People who blank-quote your post, contributing nothing of their own, truly are the AI bros of the BlueSky world.
This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.
The love affair with the blanket continues…
February 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
The love affair with the blanket continues…
Suella Braverman: “Brexit was actually a facade for a LibDem, socialist-lite agenda.”
LibDem, socialist-lite voters…
LibDem, socialist-lite voters…
a woman wearing glasses is reading a book and says " nuh uh " at the bottom
ALT: a woman wearing glasses is reading a book and says " nuh uh " at the bottom
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Suella Braverman: “Brexit was actually a facade for a LibDem, socialist-lite agenda.”
LibDem, socialist-lite voters…
LibDem, socialist-lite voters…
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Makes perfect sense Rosie.
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Makes perfect sense Rosie.
Ah, the Mail. Selling fatphobia, sexism and eating disorders to women since they supported the Nazis.
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ah, the Mail. Selling fatphobia, sexism and eating disorders to women since they supported the Nazis.
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Anti-trans group set up by 4 mums "has *dozens* of members nationwide" and gets a big write up in the Telegraph.
@transparentaction.bsky.social a pro-trans parent group set up by 4 mums has over 1350 signatories to it's pledge.
Crickets.
Please sign and share
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
@transparentaction.bsky.social a pro-trans parent group set up by 4 mums has over 1350 signatories to it's pledge.
Crickets.
Please sign and share
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
archive.ph
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Anti-trans group set up by 4 mums "has *dozens* of members nationwide" and gets a big write up in the Telegraph.
@transparentaction.bsky.social a pro-trans parent group set up by 4 mums has over 1350 signatories to it's pledge.
Crickets.
Please sign and share
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
@transparentaction.bsky.social a pro-trans parent group set up by 4 mums has over 1350 signatories to it's pledge.
Crickets.
Please sign and share
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
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The gift that keeps giving, apparently.
February 1, 2026 at 10:21 AM
The gift that keeps giving, apparently.