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Lucy Pick

@lucykpick.bsky.social
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Medieval historian by day, historical novelist by night. My historical novel #Pilgrimage is now out from Cuidono Press. Jackal. Princess. She/her. Banner is Muhammed Sami.

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 6h
I don’t talk about it a lot but this sums it up for me.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 13h
Hmm. I see him saying he wants to end the tariff war, not end the tariffs.
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 18h
NYC friends this is happening next Tuesday! Join this discussion about survivors and resilience then and now @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky #RAINN
CUNY graduate center 6-730 October 13 conversation about Justice for Jehanne the tale of a medieval survivor
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 20h
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve heard it attributed to one talk radio station, call letters CHOI, that broadcasts in the QC area.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don’t see realignment. I see people who were angry at Biden about the economy now angry with Trump about the economy.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Same.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I live in shsa and the qs mna has been a complete non-entity. I had to google who it was when the writ dropped. I expect he’ll win but he doesn’t deserve it.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The hands always give it away.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here’s another article on UChicago move towards a whiter, more male student body: chicagomaroon.com/53303/news/u...
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UChicago Enrolled More Male, Fewer Black Undergraduates Last Year
The 2025–26 Common Data Set, which the University released last week, also showed continued growth in transfer-student applications and enrollment.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
UChicago drastically cuts the number of women and Black students admitted to the College over the last several years. The new American “meritocracy.”https://chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpoints/op-ed/creating-a-manosphere-at-the-university-of-chicago/
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Creating a Manosphere at the University of Chicago
Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?
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Catherine🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @buca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ “Gov DeSantis railed against property taxes, which fund local govts & the services they provide- police, fire, EMS, equating them to a form of modern-day feudalism where homeowners must "pony up money to the govt just for the courtesy of using your own property." www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Don’t cry for me, Ljubljana…
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hands down no contest That’s America is the best Kids in the Hall skit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Izj2...
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Kids In The Hall - That's America
YouTube video by FBIVideo1
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Patricia Tessier @patriciatessier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
St-Pierre Plamondon was scheduled to attend the meeting, according to correspondence between former U.S. consul general Robert Sanders and a Quebec public official, which The Gazette obtained. Neither the PQ nor the State Department would divulge the purpose of the meetings.
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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aight so he straight up lied about this then? montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...
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PQ sought meeting with U.S. officials in Washington, State Department says
The encounter was set for early March but was cancelled as the U.S. became embroiled in the Iran war.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And the joke is that Democrats aren’t really going to be able to do anything to make that cheaper.
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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean you wanna talk about a language that created an artificial sense of unity that enabled most of the colonial crimes of the past 300 years? תסתכל במראה, אנגלו
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And you don’t speak punctuation marks when you speak — does this person think people would not pause in speech if their written language didn’t use marks? antisemitism gets more creative every day.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean, Yiddish had punctuation marks.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This part of the horrific story does not seem to be widely reported (And I don’t see it in the link). Isn’t allowing distressed flights to land akin to rescuing distressed ships at sea?
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Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Assistant or Associate Professor for the History of the Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE, University of California Berkeley aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05501
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Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Why Not Both Por Que No Los Dos
Alt: Why Not Both /Por Que No Los Dos
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social !
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Iberianist here, and I agree.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was going to be Schmitt’s big day. He had it all planned, and he fell on his face.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I never liked Swallowdale — it’s the only one I think I only read once (but I should try it again) and Peter Duck was one of my favourites!
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think if CAQ had a total collapse it would mostly benefit the PLQ because any CAQ support that would go PQ already has.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
The Vanderbilt report's operating premise - that a "pre-political" scholarship existed or even could exist - is invalidated by the actual history of scholarship. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/the-vander...
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The Vanderbilt Report Ignores the History of Scholarship
Criticizing the distortion of scholarship by politics, the authors conveniently elide how knowledge and politics have long been intertwined.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump on Canada: "Everything we have, we don't need. And they have to treat our country with respect."
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 28/09/2026
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Sondage Synopsis-La Presse | La CAQ s’effondre, le PQ en zone majoritaire
La Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) s’effondre, ce qui ouvre la voie à un gouvernement majoritaire du Parti québécois (PQ), révèle un sondage Synopsis-La Presse.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My first book? They spelled the title wrong on the dust jacket. The only part they never showed me.
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Steve Rukavina @steverukavina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the end of my block this mornin. #Montreal2026 #WomensCycling #RoadWorlds #WorldChampioships
World cycling championships women’s race Montreal 2026.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why they don’t care about losing Congress. They’re not using Congress. And I don’t know what “illegal” means in this context.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pablo Christiani, is that you?
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂😂😂😂😂
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The case of Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost being debanked by the United States — having her credit cards and online accounts frozen — shows why Canada, Europe, and others need to develop their own financial systems outside of US control.
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ANALYSIS | As Canada deepens ties with Europe, could it leave U.S. banks and dollars behind? | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney last week pointed to international payments as a system that "can be used as leverage against you" before telling the EU that he sees this as an area for "deep co-operation....
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s all stupid and silly until it isn’t.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
US once again trying to fuck with us
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Ingérence étrangère: Ottawa a averti Québec d’une possible tentative américaine d’influencer le vote
La Coalition Avenir Québec a été rencontré par les services secrets canadiens
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hopefully this is Eastern Canada’s ‘oh shit’ moment in a way that this exact news in Alberta apparently wasn’t.
montreal.citynews.ca
Possible foreign interference: Christine Fréchette “very concerned”
Premier Christine Fréchette says she is “very concerned” about possible foreign interference in the Quebec elections. “Serious information regarding possible risks of foreign interference in the Quebe...
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New York Magazine is now owned by James Murdoch, yes that family, and that explains this mess, and the Traister nonsense the other day. They’re selling something.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maybe Bluesky needs to do a poll of “the 38 least influential people on Bluesky.” Barker is a solid contender.
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, it’s called the Corporation of the Seven Wardens. That’s a fantasy novel right there.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Two months after the CEO of defense contractor Navatek used a shell company to send $150,000 to the Susan Collins super PAC, the senator committed to getting Navatek $32 million in naval contracts, according to company emails.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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