Flitcraft
@flitcraft.bsky.social
Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
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Every Wednesday I go to yoga with a retired gay man and then we go back to his house and eat the dinner his husband cooked for us while we were out, and when I told them some of the stuff the UK government are doing to trans people they literally said "it's happening again!"
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Every Wednesday I go to yoga with a retired gay man and then we go back to his house and eat the dinner his husband cooked for us while we were out, and when I told them some of the stuff the UK government are doing to trans people they literally said "it's happening again!"
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In my experience one particularly insidious way that health ideology functions under capitalism regards the ways bosses/management can actively make their workers ill, e.g. through selectively imposed stress, and then marginalise and punish the workers for exhibiting the symptoms of that illness.
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
In my experience one particularly insidious way that health ideology functions under capitalism regards the ways bosses/management can actively make their workers ill, e.g. through selectively imposed stress, and then marginalise and punish the workers for exhibiting the symptoms of that illness.
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Sheena and I will be on Radio Orkney this evening talking about the Fields of Time project
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
Fields of Time
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
February 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Sheena and I will be on Radio Orkney this evening talking about the Fields of Time project
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
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What the postman brought today: the latest volume of Proceedings of the @ria.ie, with an image from the fascinating 'Minchin Manuscript' on the cover! You can read about this very cool manuscript in an #OpenAccess article by me and @davidstifter.bsky.social here:
muse.jhu.edu/article/9742...
muse.jhu.edu/article/9742...
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
What the postman brought today: the latest volume of Proceedings of the @ria.ie, with an image from the fascinating 'Minchin Manuscript' on the cover! You can read about this very cool manuscript in an #OpenAccess article by me and @davidstifter.bsky.social here:
muse.jhu.edu/article/9742...
muse.jhu.edu/article/9742...
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So losing an apparently competent doctor from that A&E, the one I and my growing family depends on for emergencies, is not a relief. Not for me, not for any of the women in my family.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
So losing an apparently competent doctor from that A&E, the one I and my growing family depends on for emergencies, is not a relief. Not for me, not for any of the women in my family.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
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I'm very angry about this. In a country with shortages of every healthcare profession, in an A&E I have had to visit twice and my relatives have had to visit multiple times, in which no experiences were good enough except when a jnr dctr was involved, we've lost one of those staff thanks to bigotry.
So losing an apparently competent doctor from that A&E, the one I and my growing family depends on for emergencies, is not a relief. Not for me, not for any of the women in my family.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
It's just another erosion of the competence of the NHS.
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I'm very angry about this. In a country with shortages of every healthcare profession, in an A&E I have had to visit twice and my relatives have had to visit multiple times, in which no experiences were good enough except when a jnr dctr was involved, we've lost one of those staff thanks to bigotry.
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Hugely important story in tomorrow’s Guardian. Domestic violence suicides growing at a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. But official stats may track as few as 10% of the true number. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hugely important story in tomorrow’s Guardian. Domestic violence suicides growing at a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. But official stats may track as few as 10% of the true number. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
February 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
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Dr Beth Upton having to leave the NHS is a shame on the country.
February 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Dr Beth Upton having to leave the NHS is a shame on the country.
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Friends fear he's had to look up something on this diagram again.
February 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Friends fear he's had to look up something on this diagram again.
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Something personal here, a repaying of a debt to an Edinburgh photographer of the pre-1939 era whose work helped me attempt my own projects and acclimatise to Edinburgh when I was first here. The (melancholy in places) story of Francis Maxwell Chrystal: lixmount.substack.com/p/francis-ma...
Francis Maxwell Chrystal 1882-1944
Edinburgh Photography's Last Edwardian
lixmount.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Something personal here, a repaying of a debt to an Edinburgh photographer of the pre-1939 era whose work helped me attempt my own projects and acclimatise to Edinburgh when I was first here. The (melancholy in places) story of Francis Maxwell Chrystal: lixmount.substack.com/p/francis-ma...
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Life in the Vale of Leven - After Sam Crosbie’s death, Agnes Owens moved to Alexandria and later married Patrick Owens. She raised seven children, worked multiple jobs, and wrote when she could—her fiction rooted in labour, home, and strained communities.
February 15, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Life in the Vale of Leven - After Sam Crosbie’s death, Agnes Owens moved to Alexandria and later married Patrick Owens. She raised seven children, worked multiple jobs, and wrote when she could—her fiction rooted in labour, home, and strained communities.
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I'm not sure that enough people know about the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Remarkable Open Access resource
www.saet.ac.uk
www.saet.ac.uk
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
www.saet.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I'm not sure that enough people know about the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Remarkable Open Access resource
www.saet.ac.uk
www.saet.ac.uk
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The Ketton mosaic was not inspired by Homer's Iliad but instead by a lesser-known tragedy by Aeschylus. This suggests that Roman Britain was more interconnected with the broader ancient world than previously thought! 🧪
dx.doi.org/10.1017/S006...
dx.doi.org/10.1017/S006...
February 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The Ketton mosaic was not inspired by Homer's Iliad but instead by a lesser-known tragedy by Aeschylus. This suggests that Roman Britain was more interconnected with the broader ancient world than previously thought! 🧪
dx.doi.org/10.1017/S006...
dx.doi.org/10.1017/S006...
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I think the most consistent pattern in legal cases in the past year is a complete refusal by judges to take trans people's human rights seriously. The consequences of being named publicly as a trans person in a high profile case were dismissed for both Dr Upton and Rose Henderson.
February 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I think the most consistent pattern in legal cases in the past year is a complete refusal by judges to take trans people's human rights seriously. The consequences of being named publicly as a trans person in a high profile case were dismissed for both Dr Upton and Rose Henderson.
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Nothing but sympathy for Beth Upton. Never did a thing wrong but had her life completely upended, her character assassinated and her bins publicly raked through to the point she's had to leave the country for the crime of simply existing. And still the bigots won't leave her alone.
February 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Nothing but sympathy for Beth Upton. Never did a thing wrong but had her life completely upended, her character assassinated and her bins publicly raked through to the point she's had to leave the country for the crime of simply existing. And still the bigots won't leave her alone.
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Blue sea slugs found in the coastal waters of Japan!
These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*
These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*
February 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Blue sea slugs found in the coastal waters of Japan!
These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*
These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*
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I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 AM
I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear
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16 July 1643, the kirk session of Culross hired a painter named Valentine to whitewash the kirk walls.
Other session business that day included fining John Aidie 12s for fishing on the Sabbath and an ordinance for residents of both "town and land" to "attend the watching of the witches".
Other session business that day included fining John Aidie 12s for fishing on the Sabbath and an ordinance for residents of both "town and land" to "attend the watching of the witches".
February 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
16 July 1643, the kirk session of Culross hired a painter named Valentine to whitewash the kirk walls.
Other session business that day included fining John Aidie 12s for fishing on the Sabbath and an ordinance for residents of both "town and land" to "attend the watching of the witches".
Other session business that day included fining John Aidie 12s for fishing on the Sabbath and an ordinance for residents of both "town and land" to "attend the watching of the witches".
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You know, I never really talked about this, but while we're doing this ~discourse~ I've got a little story to tell...
“We should be able to denigrate and abuse “big accounts” because people follow them,” is …an unhinged proposition
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 PM
You know, I never really talked about this, but while we're doing this ~discourse~ I've got a little story to tell...
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1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
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Attended, yesterday, the commemoration ceremony for the Glencoe Massacre which took place on 13th February 1692. Short walk from the bridge over the River Coe up to the monument at Carnock. In bright sunshine and blue sky, with snow on the mountain tops.
February 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Attended, yesterday, the commemoration ceremony for the Glencoe Massacre which took place on 13th February 1692. Short walk from the bridge over the River Coe up to the monument at Carnock. In bright sunshine and blue sky, with snow on the mountain tops.
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Good stuff in this thread and convo that follows. People who are deeper into the tech know a million other reasons why this is stupid. Basically the more you know the stupider it is. But even as a dumb person you have to know that shipping all parts and raw materials to moon is a big issue.
1/2 The end goal of lots of AI satellites is absurd as well. Modern GPUs use Silicon based process technologies with very small feature sizes. That equates to high radiation sensitivity. Normal radiation levels in space are high and can reach catastrophic levels during big solar flares. There are
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Good stuff in this thread and convo that follows. People who are deeper into the tech know a million other reasons why this is stupid. Basically the more you know the stupider it is. But even as a dumb person you have to know that shipping all parts and raw materials to moon is a big issue.