Really enjoyed chatting to @lucyidunn, The Spectator's social media editor, for @journoresources.
Getting into journalism, covering the SNP leadership election, and impromptu office champagne drinking were just a few of the topics we covered.
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@kickyourlegs @SammyColours98 @JoeOM99 @chris Suggests the Vikings had some concept of hybrid gender identity, or at least one more nuanced than simply male/female. Our modern ideas of male and female binaries are a product of the last few hundred years, so we shouldn't necessarily interpret past societies with that lens
@kickyourlegs @SammyColours98 @JoeOM99 @chris However, when they conducted genomic analysis of the bones, the skeleton came out as XX and so biologically female. To have a biologically female skeleton displaying male identity in death especially (graves are how we seek to be remembered, and how others choose to remember us)
@DevoGeorge @AQAShagsTables @LBC In contrast to what I said in that comment I do remember the 2015 election and us all being a little sad in its wake. Commiserations in A25 if I remember correctly...