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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20h

(See also editing own sorry/sad/saggy prose)

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20h

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20h

I go with what we taught our kids; don’t comment on anything about anyone’s appearance unless it’s “I like your jumper” or they bring it up first. Simple

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20h

I was particularly interested in the mention of humoral medicine - and how this current way of thinking reprises that

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 22h

The ways that they and I talk about being human are not the same

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 22h

No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm

Mark O'Connell: No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?

People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life

www.irishtimes.com

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty sure he was - I certainly sent some furious but futile letters to him!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Ah thank you for the correction- though sadly the broad point stands I think

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

“Limits of affordability” how much did all of those industrial tribunals cost the university of Leicester then, eh?

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this Jo - I found it informative and helpful. Ime (in relation to others in my care, not me) there is an obsession with the risk MI poses to others and precious little compassion. Trauma is at the root of many things - this is overlooked and minimised unless under the ACE categories

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 2d

Hebrew almanacs from mid 18c Amsterdam @pjsalzman.bsky.social

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 2d

My UK passport expires today; I won’t be renewing it and am profoundly grateful for my Irish citizenship and EU passport. But it pains me all the same to draw this line and the many reasons for that decision.

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf English prepositions are preposterous

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

It somehow never occurred to me that sermon goers might sit on the floor

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

My youngest loved to swim and was learning well at 8; no way could I get a self conscious 11yo back in the water 3 years later. Sad but true

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

Covid messed up learning to swim for anyone who is now a young teenager!

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

I was wondering what had happened to him.

Reposted by Danielle Clarke

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

250 4.3K 11K

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure that it’s a double f as here in a recipe for fritters

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

@jdmccafferty.bsky.social

GardeningWell @gardeningwell.ie · 8d

Hedgehog House Giveaway

Hedgehogs are looking for safe places to hibernate now. A shelter in your garden could save a life this winter.

I’m giving away this hedgehog house.

To enter: like, repost & tag a friend.

More tips 👉 gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/wildlife-gardening/irish-hedgehogs

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

That seems the more likely option to me - I need to spend a bit more time with the manuscript and to look more carefully at her recipe titles

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

Jo is brilliant please hire her!

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 7d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

joanneedge.co.uk

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

I couldn’t agree more! My thanks to everyone who joined in. I’m going to see what the em recipes community can tell me/point me towards. A trip to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social coming up!

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for this link - I might have to write something about this!

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