Anna Göldi: The Last Witch Was Never a Witch On January 25, 1782, the canton of Glarus published a wanted notice in what would become the Zurich newspaper.The Reading Room is a reader-supported publication.

I brought the receipts on Anna Göldi, the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. Spoiler: it had nothing to do with witchcraft. Full story.
#womeninhistory #witchtrials #womenshistory
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She Wasn't a Witch They called Anna Göldi a witch. The timeline says otherwise.

They wrote it down.
They signed it.
They called it justice.

Her name was Anna Göldi.

Tuesday.
#annagoldi #womenshistory #womeninhistory
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The Comfort Trap How feeling informed replaces being informed.

The network doesn’t need you angry. It needs you still. Full essay on the comfort trap
#socialmedia #influencer #misinformation
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What Your Brain Doesn’t Ignore Why repetition shapes you more than intention ever will

Your brain doesn’t care if it’s real.
It cares if it’s repeated.
#humanbehavior #soulcode #psychology
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IB Girl (@ibgirlwrites) I asked one question. It didn’t give me answers, it pointed me back to what I already knew. That’s the difference. Try it: ai.joinsoulcode.com

I asked one question.
It didn’t give me answers, it pointed me back to what I already knew.

That’s the difference.

Try it: ai.joinsoulcode.com
#ai #ethicalai #aiethics #soulcode
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Elisabeth Hevelius Was Not the Editor My Dearest Wife: The Astronomer They Buried in the Dedication

History called her the dutiful wife. The primary record calls her something else.
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She Signed Her Name to the Stars The Astronomer History Kept Calling His Wife

She didn’t just publish his work. She expanded it. Her name is on the book. #elisabethahevelius #womeninstem #astronomy open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Ambivalence Is Not Neutral What fails isn't power. It's the people around it.

Everyone was in the room. Not everyone spoke.
#power #decisionmaking #leadership #soulcode
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The First Recorded Chemist Her name is on the tablet. Go ahead and look.

3,200 years of clay. One name. Zero credit. Today on Authentic Glow. Link in bio.
#womeninstem #womeninhistory #womeninscience #chemist
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“One of the first.” Wikipedia would like you to know there were others.

Before modern chemistry had a name, Tapputi was already doing the work.
Tuesday. #womeninstem #womeninscience #chemistry open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The Other Side of Cassandra Why groups reject truth, and why it’s usually not a malfunction

I wrote this for anyone who’s watched a room choose cohesion over reality.
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Æthelflæd: The Chronicle Tried to Shrink Her How the West Saxon Record Curated a Commander into a Footnote

They didn’t erase Æthelflæd by pretending she didn’t exist.
They erased her by controlling the record.
Tuesday Drop is live, receipts in the post.
#britishhistory #womeninhistory #herstory
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She wasn’t a queen. She was the defense plan. England didn’t “start” having women leaders in modern times. It just started admitting it.

If your history brain thinks early England was run exclusively by men, it’s missing a chapter.

Tuesday Drop: what she built, what she conquered, and why she’s still treated like a footnote.
#womeninhistory #womenwholead
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Your Blue-Collar Job Won’t Save You The comfort story doesn’t hold. The system doesn’t need you gone. It needs you competing and too fragmented to see the whole game.

They said the trades were safe. They forgot to mention saturation, consolidation, and the slow death of independence. #economics #labor #trades

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When Pattern Recognition Gets Called Paranoia On the Cassandra effect, social comfort, and what happens when accurate perception becomes a threat

You’re not always anxious because you imagined something.
Sometimes you’re anxious because you noticed something real and everybody around you needed you to shut up about it.
New on Substack: When Pattern Recognition Gets Called Paranoia. #cassandraeffect #soulcode
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Dihya (al-Kāhina) How History Turns Women Strategists Into Witches

Calling her a witch makes her a character.
Calling her a commander makes her a threat.
Full receipts on Substack.
#womenshistory #womeninhistory #womenwholead
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The Prophetess Was the Disrespect: Dihya and the Myth That Erased a Leader They didn’t erase her by pretending she never existed.

Tuesday we’re doing a deep dive on Dihya (al-Kāhina). No myths. Just receipts. Link in bio. #womeninhistory #middleeasthistory #womenwholead
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You Were Never Supposed to Be a Machine Empathy as Regulation, Not Absorption

You can’t optimize your way out of being human.
You can only learn how to stay with yourself without disappearing.

New SoulCode essay: You Were Never Supposed to Be a Machine #ai #empathy #ethics #soulcode
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Filed Under His Name: The Story of Hilde Mangold There is a small cluster of cells in every vertebrate embryo that tells the rest of the body what to become.

A 23-year-old embryologist made one of the most important discoveries in developmental biology.
She died at 25.
Her slides survived.
Filed under his name.

The life and mysterious death of Hilde Mangold #womeninhistory #herstory
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Filed Under His Name The Woman Who Built the Blueprint for Life and Disappeared

She changed biology at 25.
Months later, she was dead.
Two stories. One missing name.
Tuesday: Hilde Mangold.
#womeninstem #truecrime
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The Floor I went to ChatGPT grieving. Months later, I heard echoes of myself in a stranger’s phone.

A late-night conversation with ChatGPT became an unexpected witness to grief, humor, and isolation -until I began hearing something familiar in places it shouldn’t have been, and realized I needed to build something different. #ai #chatgpt #grief #aiethics #soulcode
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A few people asked for the deeper story. I just published the full article about Tan Yunxian on Substack. #womeninmedicine #womeninhistorymonth #herstory

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IB Girl (@ibgirlwrites) 31 clinical cases. Her name. Her patients. Her outcomes. In 15th century China. The receipts don’t lie.

31 clinical cases. Her name. Her patients. Her outcomes. In 15th century China. The receipts don’t lie. #chinesehistory #womeninstem #womeninhistory
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SUNDAY TEASER: 31 cases. One Ming dynasty woman doctor. Most elite women in Ming dynasty China couldn’t be examined freely by male physicians.

A woman doctor in Ming China wrote it down. 31 cases.
See you Tuesday. #womeninstem #womeninhistory
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The Silk Robe Prophet When Dominance Cosplays as Intelligence

I’m less interested in his ideology than in what his popularity reveals about the crowd applauding him. #tech #ai #ethics
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We See Everything The hidden workers behind your “personal” AI and the long history of burying them

If your “seamless” AI experience depends on underpaid humans watching your private life…that’s not innovation. That’s outsourcing the mess. #ai #ethics #surveillance #dataprivacy
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The Waiting Game on Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” and the slow violence of almost

Dr. Seuss clocked it: people don’t lose years through failure, they lose them through delay.The Waiting Place keeps you busy so you don’t notice you’re not moving.

What’s the smallest real-world action you can take today? #procrastination #overthinking #fear

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She Took the Seat and Put the Table on Trial Why Zitkala-Ša Still Makes Power Uncomfortable

They tried to erase her at 8.
So she made power uncomfortable in The Atlantic and in Congress.

Zitkala-Ša = receipts.
#ZitkalaSa #NativeHistory

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THE VANICULA MANIFESTO The Particle That Learned to Breathe

Time isn’t the road you walk on. The road is moving.
#quantumphysics #consciousness #science #time
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A Woman Who Refused to Be "Civilized" She was taken from her family.

Zitkala-Ša published firsthand accounts of Native American boarding school abuse in The Atlantic Monthly.

She didn’t write fiction.
She documented what “civilization” actually meant.

Next week, we’re bringing the receipts. #nativeamerican #womeninhistory #herstory
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