Animal: "Wow, I've found this amazing niche where I just need to eat lots of nutrient-poor, hard-to-digest but easy-to-find food, what's the worst that can happen?" Millions of years later: (See also the Koala and the Tree Sloth)

Pretty relatable

whipped up this rough jucika animatic in a couple hours, might animate it later

Movie Idea: 10th Century My Cousin Vinny. 2 men are completing a long pilgrimage and while in free city in East Frankia find themselves facing a death sentence after being accused of Arianism. Their only advocate versed in clerical law is the pilgrim’s cousin, brother DiVincenzo of Constantinople.

@hotgpod.bsky.social This is likely a decade or so away, but have you thought of how you might change the way HOTG is presented once we reach events that happened within your own living memory? Have you considered interweaving your own personal experiences with the history?

The Akane-banashi rakugo manga is getting a TV anime next year starring Anna Nagase, at studio ZEXCS!

The past is truly a foreign country...

RIP Tom Lehrer. I feel like every generation gets at least one person who makes a career out of parodying music, while also just being an absolute legend of a human being

Listening to @hotgpod.bsky.social and the business model employed by the armories of Nürnberg and Augsburg reminded me of a certain 24th century extraterrestrial merchant.

Dirk wait stop! You're going to flood this community with Wehraboos far too soon!

I just finished E199 of @hotgpod.bsky.social . While I am very excited to reach 1618, I absolutely live for the niche tangents this podcast goes on. They truly make me appreciate what a massive, complex and multicultural entity the HRE truly was, and not just a proto-Germany.

Dialects in Europe: "Ah, from your manner of speech I can tell you're from a 50 km2 municipality. And from that last expression you mentioned, I'd say... east side?" Dialects in the Americas: "Ah, from your manner of speech, I can tell you're from within a 2,000,000 km2 region. Though could be off."

Fuck ICE. Trump is trying to start a civil war, or at least some sort of crisis which will allow him to become a dictator. Fascism is here. It's been here. What are YOU gonna do about it? youtu.be/ci6NbuHdg_Q?...

Keep hydrated, stay safe, be smart out there. Hang in there, Californians... youtu.be/l_GPIhNuNFQ?...

@hotgpod.bsky.social lore hot take: Dirk's secretly being funded by the notorious German Vineyard-Industrial Complex!

“It is a settled fact that Germany alone produces more than all the rest of the world put together; her supremacy in science forms the pendant to England’s supremacy in commerce and on the sea;” From academic backwater to intellectual leadership and back: historyofthegermans.com/2025/04/17/1...

Confound it, Dirk! How dare you use HotG to introduce me to bizarre and fascinating yet non-German subjects that broaden my knowledge of central Europe and force me down even more historical hyper fixations! @hotgpod.bsky.social

Super interesting survey and big shout out to @thesiecle.com who gathered the data

A Fiddler on the Garganta. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little Schloss of das Wandenreich, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the Garganta, trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.

I don't think this is going far enough. If Christopher Nolan does not walk into my local polis' movie theatre blindfolded, where we provide copious amounts of diluted wine before gathering around a bonfire inside the movie theatre to hear several hours of Homeric Greek I will riot.