Lucy Pick
@lucykpick.bsky.social
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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The Queen's Companion
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Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
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⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
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⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
The Queen's Companion
Amazon.com: The Queen's Companion: 9781944453268: Pick, Lucy: Books
www.amazon.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages!
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
📚💙
⏳📚 #historicalfiction
www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m not crying but if Hegseth and the other handwringers want to know what real masculinity looks like, it looks like this comic. If they want to know what makes a man attractiv to women, it’s this.
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okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
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Fine, I read the thing and the thing I *do* want to know more about is if it's true that Nuzzi ran catch-and-kill operations on RFK Jr.'s behalf because if that part is true it is *extremely* damning.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Fine, I read the thing and the thing I *do* want to know more about is if it's true that Nuzzi ran catch-and-kill operations on RFK Jr.'s behalf because if that part is true it is *extremely* damning.
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Lizza also talks about Nuzzi going even deeper into ethics violations by doing catch-and-kill on stories about RFK and writing campaign strategy memos
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lizza also talks about Nuzzi going even deeper into ethics violations by doing catch-and-kill on stories about RFK and writing campaign strategy memos
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
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Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky
Timeline of the "Recovery" of Trota of Salerno
On November 18, 19, and 20, 2025, what turned out to be a lively thread on the social media platform, Bluesky, raised some questions about when and how the historicity of the 12th-century female medic...
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky
Medical expertise of a medieval woman: Trotula Identified!
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 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Medical expertise of a medieval woman: Trotula Identified!
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Just want to say that I agree with Tulsi Gabbard on this one.
Release the MBS call transcripts.
Release the MBS call transcripts.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just want to say that I agree with Tulsi Gabbard on this one.
Release the MBS call transcripts.
Release the MBS call transcripts.
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Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
Sulzberger. Bingo.
👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sulzberger. Bingo.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
This changes everything.
Extremely niche news for medievalists: Big Bird’s given name is Abelard?!
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This changes everything.