NEW SEASON of Tides of History starting soon, so stoked! Oct 9: The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus Oct 16: Living and Working in Imperial Babylon Oct 23: Interview with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on his new book Oct 30: The Ancient Egyptian Economy Nov 6: Interview with Eric Cline

i’ve actually seen a leaked internal memo that said ‘so we sticking with this design are we mark. Happy with the aesthetic, the whole look of it’ & the reply ‘yes why what’s wrong with it’

linktr.ee/mastersofpod A six year old’s guide to Roman Britain, ft. The usual gang @patrickwyman.bsky.social @miloedwards.bsky.social @phoeberoi.bsky.social

Got genuinely emotional yesterday talking with @phoeberoi.bsky.social and @miloedwards.bsky.social on Masters of Our Domain about the true depth and beauty of male friendship in “Master and Commander,” not beating any dad-related charges here

linktr.ee/mastersofpod This week, we watched and puzzled over 2004’s King Arthur, a movie considerably less than the sum of its cast @miloedwards.bsky.social @patrickwyman.bsky.social @phoeberoi.bsky.social

May 5th, 2026: HarperCollins will release my new book, "Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age." I'm so, so excited - it's taken more than five years to get this book researched and written, and I can't wait for it to be out in the world!

A new regular section of the show, @miloedwards.bsky.social & @phoeberoi.bsky.social ask @patrickwyman.bsky.social questions about a historical topic and goddammit he answers linktr.ee/mastersofpod

new episode - after this no more blood and really not a lot of sand @phoeberoi.bsky.social @miloedwards.bsky.social @patrickwyman.bsky.social linktr.ee/mastersofpod

My great friend @raxkingisdead.bsky.social wrote a funny and smart and heartbreaking and heartwarming book! It’s out TODAY, I hope my all-time favorite blurb convinces you to buy it! Do that here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751421...

my new book is out today. it's about separatism and utopia and bodily autonomy and cults and capital and love and revolution and nature and sex and all the things we owe to each other. I'm so proud and excited and nervous for you to read it. i hope you do. simplicitybook.xyz

Ian Wright's reaction to Arsenal forward Michelle Agyemang's late equaliser ❤️ #AFC

we must imagine sisyphus trying to baby proof a small terraced house

i have noticed lately is that in terms of Posters’ Consensus & offline, the chat GPT battle has been fought & lost without firing a single shot. In the main, the online people i know take it as read that it’s bad & don’t think a case against needs to be made, but it does. interesting & bleak

EPISODE 115: SOBRIETY in which amber and i chat about sobriety (mine), new book (mine), resentments (both of ours), gripes (distinct from resentments), and an adorable little secret guest waking up from naptime (hers) lowcultureboil.libsyn.com/episode-115-...

not the point really but this is literally word for word a plot point from an Adrian Mole book set nearly 50 years ago. no new grifts, only new griftorians

say what you like about Easton Ellis & my god i say plenty but at least he has some intellectual scaffolding for the schlock. this is just a fash flirtation dweeb fest (with possible promotional consideration & disruption from Big Moleskine)

ask us questions! we will tolerate a mid-level of abnormal

it is quite funny really that of all the places that publish short fiction, whether or not they pay authors rarely (if ever) shows up on their Commitment to Inclusion statement. bit of a giggle

it rules that you just have to think the word ‘wedding’, a siren goes off, you get handed a flute of fizzy paint stripper & then you get told that it is going to cost 175 pounds to put your hair in a Large Ponytail

Outnumbered by Americans for Spartacus Blood & Sand, ft. our buddies from We’re Not So Different. We’re taking it ok though linktr.ee/mastersofpod @patrickwyman.bsky.social @phoeberoi.bsky.social @miloedwards.bsky.social @goingmedieval.bsky.social @lukeisamazing.bsky.social @wnsdpod.bsky.social

ready for another day alienating the other mummies at the soft play who are, for whatever reason, not interested in Curtis Sliwa being awarded Newsboy of the Year

it may be a week’s worth of honey to *you.* a bear’s quantification would be quite different

beautiful imo

Spartacus? Blood AND sand you say? No surely not, the two are incompatible textures. @phoeberoi.bsky.social & @miloedwards.bsky.social riding unrestrained without father Pat to temper them linktr.ee/mastersofpod

It’s difficult to really capture how much of the tone of a sizeable portion of the UK commentariat re: the invasion of iraq was ‘well we’ve said we would, and now we have to, otherwise that’s embarrassing?? come on’ with a side of ‘what do you mean you don’t want war, are you gay’

WNSD and @amprestigepod.bsky.social present: Welcome to the Crusades: The First Crusade. instead of our standard fare, you get the first two episodes of our limited First Crusade series! you can purchase the final 8 episodes now for just $8 at americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/welcome-to-t...

not really top priority in terms of world events, but needed to post that i’ve had the Blind Date theme tune stuck in my head for the last two days, which suggests my diligent Cilla Black necromancy work over the last few years is rumbling towards its final terrifying conclusion

New episode out, more Spartacus linktr.ee/mastersofpod

this was at least in my part my issue with Careless People, by the way - Facebook’s role in facilitating the Myanmar genocide is framed as an unfortunate byproduct of the executive being really interpersonally unpleasant bosses & rather than central to any whistleblowing thesis (also: bloody hell)

breaking: local woman refuses to connect the deep sweet melancholy anchoring her heart & fogging her head with her totally voluntary decision to listen to the 10th ann. edition of Carrie & Lowell

the real Katy Perry is still in space

Have bought the baby his first pair of shoes and have regrettably become afflicted with a medieval malady known as Parente’s Cryinge Pox

wedding in the morning, part of a mob burning a Lollard to death in the afternoon

one scheduled Linda Yaccarino post saying ‘just me or does anyone else seriously love raspberry ripple???’

what a great time to drink some expensive hot chocolate, turn on your black light & every lava lamp you can find & listen to the extensive back catalogue of @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social :)

not only is this great but it’s a real world application of my favourite kind of joke (someone is on speaker phone, camera pans to reveal unintended audience, YES, hnnngghhh, i love it so much)

if i was a kennedy that had made it to 71 i would probably think i’d maybe cheated Death too

This week we spoke to @nymag.com writer Bridget Read about her newest book, "Little Bosses Everywhere". We talk about the proliferation of Multi Level Marketing, how it took over America (and the world) and what the business 'model' tells us about the way politics – and power – truly works.

This month on the Patron I have a 2600 word reflection on Showgirls - the best movie ever made - and what it has meant in my life. You can check it out, as well as a huge back catalogue of stuff for only £1 a month, or read it as a one off for £4. A bargain! www.patreon.com/posts/my-lif...

More Spartacus blood & sand for the lads linktr.ee/mastersofpod

After the 20th rejection for my satirical novella ‘Opus DEI’ i have little choice but to move to the woods and install a large squirrel as Wood Pope

In my day Dr Peterson would have been obliged to return a hundred footballs to those 20 children over a high fence. the doctrinal debate would have lost its verve after that.

to make this platform worth it for me they’d have to intro either locked accounts or a green circle, not because i have anything salacious to say but because i want to post ‘my eye hurts’ to a select audience without anyone thinking ‘i don’t see how this is either a Joke or Commentary’

Hey all – trying to remember to use this more! On this week's episode, we were delighted to have @junlper.beer on to talk about their life in posting, what happens when your home town becomes the subject of misinfo, & why you should meet your online friends IRL: www.patreon.com/posts/my-lif...

hi i’m king whatsapp the inventor of whatsapp, would you like a totally fucking useless AI assistant making suggestions or would you like a useable search function, oh too late you already picked AI assistant, see me dance to my joyful tune

horrible news: we watched 300, tell some chicks and dudes rocking stories & give some coin-based flirting advice linktr.ee/mastersofpod

will be calling it Rome & Away until someone laughs or until morale improves

Years of grinding austerity (and the cruel, dehumanizing rhetoric required to sell it to the public) has left us with a mental healthcare system that treats patients as prisoners - and often, very literally imprisons them too. New work from me: national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...

Hate to "You gotta hand it to him" but there is something remarkable in him combining so much that should kill someone with being a Kennedy, and staying alive. Like multiplying two negatives.

anyone seen the dame who wrote Goodnight Moon