Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

This is a great reminder and something that ChatGPT cannot do but academic editors can! And are really good at it!

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Now that everyone is talking about Hungary, may I point out that the *really* interesting phase of Hungarian history - the ‘great power in the region’ phase - came before the early modern period? Here’s the book on the subject that I edited 25 years ago; still readily accessible and fairly priced. 😉

#Skystorians it is not too late to book for this in person summer school course, in London 8-12 June, where we cover the basics of working with medieval manuscripts. Ideal for graduate students, #librarians, or anyone with an interest in medieval books.

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 at The Priory Rooms in Birmingham. palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Gentleman, this is patriarchy manifest.

GENTLEMEN, THIS IS ESCAPE-RrrrOOM MANIFEST!

I would integrate it into the syntax of the sentence it precedes

You know, Agincourt is an interesting battle. The archaeology says it can't have happened where the sources very clearly say it did, and I haven't seen anyone who can reconcile the two. Either the selected site doesn't fit our best eyewitness source, or the archaeology refutes it.

The Hungarian youth are thirsting for change

"There is every likelihood that Edmund Spenser knew Batman." "Batman consulted medieval manuscripts of scripture and religious texts." you knew what you were doing referring to him by surname cmon

Before some dumbass brings up "hurr durr marriage and child bearing age used to be lower!" No it didn't. Those laws only ever applied to a sliver of the population in a handful of regions. Bioarchaeology shows the median age of marriage was 21 to 22 and the childbearing death peak was around 26.

Some research on deplatforming. I have to delete the original head of the thread so saving this here.

This is by request. Available NOW, a Peony/Death Omen tote bag! Yep. Cute birb Peony having tea on one side, DEATH OMEN ON THE OTHER!! Plus, a cute inside pocket. www.gossipbirdbooks.com/product/peon...

I've been rereading a few sources (primary and secondary) on Agincourt, and it seems surprising to me that I can't find anything in modern scholar on the claim in 'M.I. Collect. Miscell.,' (from the College of Heralds) that there were 812 men-at-arms and 3073 archers at Agincourt. /1

Does Greasing Shaft's Help Them Through Shield? 🛡️

I just received a random message on Telegram that was obviously a scam - anyone who can afford to pay 500k to a stranger to get pregnant can afford IVF - and it makes me simultaneously incredulous and sad that this scheme must work on some people.

I was playing with this earlier in the week, and I rather like it. A combination of the 13th C. Psalter map of the world, and a more modern (as in, I drew it this week) map of the Mediterranean basin.

DUDES! HERE'S AN EASY WAY TO BE AN ALLY: TELL US WHAT YOU MAKE (anonymously, for a survey, she's legit)

Amazing. From an Air Force history of the MH-53 Pave Low, the backstory of how the Air Force helped Tom Clancy get Pave Low details right in the book Clear and Present Danger, and jealous Army SOF officers allegedly then connived to have MH-60s replace the Pave Low in the movie

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Just a bunch of re-enactors (but trained fighters) having a little fun fight in the snow and making a youtube video... and it looks better and more historically accurate than many big budget films & tv shows! Also Landsknechts looking splendid as always: youtu.be/VinzfRbdtbg?...

The eBook of Castle is only 99p right now. Repost this for a chance to win a signed copy of the original hardback edition. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

We hit 50% funded 🦦✨ On our way to 11k with just 14 days left to make this book a reality! Check out our fun talking animal post-apocalyptic adventure on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/meg...

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

If you're very naughty in Germany you can get arrested by the SEK chaps wearing mail. I bet I'd have to bring up medieval armour as they handcuff me.

GO NOMINATE

That moment who you obliquely mention Matilda [of Canossa] and the WW2 tank fan jokes about the Matilda tanks 😂

Scottish tour of the Louvre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 youtube.com/shorts/z0SnX...

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread! Indie Authors, Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc) 🌈📚🪐💙🏳️‍⚧️🧠

catholics: oh hey u guys are back early me: pope's woke catholics: what? me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke

Give 'em hell 54th!

LLMs can’t tell the difference between 5 cats in a trench coat and any professional who wears a trench coat

#medievalsky #medievalwarfare 

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 5th century BC.

404 BCE: Squads in Athens are tearing residents from their homes. Some are thrown out of the city. Others are murdered in cold blood. What happens next? Listen to the full episode with Roel Konijnendijk to find out... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/the-thirty...

A recent study compares Native American objects dating as far back as the Folsom tradition (10,800-10,200 BC) in the Late Pleistocene with known indigenous dice traditions and concludes that they represent the oldest-known material evidence for games of chance. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more. store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...

Hello, again. My interest in this question has increased.

A trans man with a badly broken arm that prevents him from working needs help. gofund.me/dab8d8a00. Please give what you can and share this link widely. Thanks!

I, for one, welcome JD Vance as the new Anti-Pope. Short may he reign!

Fun fact, maintaining the naval blockade through the armistice until the final peace treaty was signed was also what the Allies did to Germany after WWI, so there's real precedent for.

You know, there are some gorgeous and detailed maps for specific locations in 17th and early 18th century France that would probably answer a lot of questions about what certain locations looked like before canals, loss of a lot of woods, etc, if only the existed for the locations I'm interested in!

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

In case you missed it, we had an eventful Easter! 16 million of our records, including our massive collection of wills, are now available to search and view on Ancestry.com (and can be accessed for free onsite at the Borthwick). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Has anyone got reading recommendations for white British working-class people comparing themselves to Black slaves in the late 19th and early-mid 20th centuries? #Skystorians

it sucks that HP printers have become shit i had an HP LaserJet 4 that I was still using in 2010. that thing was immortal. who makes a quality laser printer these days?