Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

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Eddington was a stupid fucking movie

this was the point of the "cancel culture" panic - to eliminate shaming

question: has there been any research to see if there any overlap between the attendees at the "unite the right" 2017 riot, and J6?

David and I have, in fact, written about it www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/o...

this is also @vox-magica.bsky.social

once again begging you to pay attention to the "nones" -- 68% of which believe in Jesus

this is precisely like other issues, for example teachers and education. people mostly LOVE their teacher and their school but they think "education" generally is crap and teachers generally are lazy good-for-nothings

@lollardfish.bsky.social Reading the Bright Ages, and it's a shame you didn't mention Justinian's reign also involved war with a whale.

just wrote "Somehow, empire returned" in a piece I'm writing on the 9th century. please clap.

Trump can ignore the constitution because he’s a special boy

Yeah, honestly we should invite more conservative activists to campus if only to make them realize there’s actually no money for them in this grift.

holy shit this is so antisemitic it's staggering

1000% predicting that some player is going to get brutalized by ICE when they're here

please please please do this with my books if youve liked them 🙏🏻

listen, pay me 5 figures to give a talk at Heritage, and then we'll talk

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th. We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums. Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us. See you in DC!

Even if you don’t watch the show English Teacher, hope you'll read this. This is about more than 1 show, 1 guy. FX just renewed a show from a man facing allegations of assault. I have a LOT of questions about the implications not just for FX but for the whole industry www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...

has Ezra ever been to Arkansas? pundits leave NYC/ DC 2025 for 5 minutes challenge

Just in a coffee shop and heard an older guy say to a younger woman “The Lord of the Rings was really more about geography than fantasy” and oh buddy

amplifying this. me and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote 2 books and if you could just leave a really brief rating/ review for it, we'd be very grateful

hey! you can hear me blather on about the medieval world, and now for 50% off!!!! click link below for the discount code and link to the course... #medievalsky

there are more of us than there are of them

I just think it’d be nice to understand things you want to change in politics and society, as a little treat

I have somehow been added to an email list with, it seems, most journalists in the western hemisphere. About 3x/ day I get MAGA emails that are very racist. Anyway, FYI Dan Delagrave is very happy that Comey was indicted.

This is not correct. Historically American social life, outside a certain small segment of society, has not been organized around religious groups - rotary, community centers, bowling leagues, etc In addition there’s little evidence the US is secularizing. Atheists/ agnostics as a % have risen but…

Larry is right! And me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about just this - the use and misuse of historical analogies - for WaPo

Rip it out root and branch

Well now I’m going to go throw up

this is fun from LitHub and mentions "The Bright Ages!" #booksky lithub.com/no-ones-read...

do my clever and knowledgeable followers have examples of historians writing (eg journal article or book chapter) about their own *failures* in interesting ways? eg research goes wrong, wrong questions etc 🗃️

As a historian, I do wish that people would actually engage with historical works rather than making up people online to get mad at in one's head.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As my PhD student @mikesenters.bsky.social says, everything is gamergate (and these men from gamergate have been activated by the right). This is the tail of Bannon and Milo’s work beginning 2015…

We wrote about just this! buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

Yarvin was paid to give a talk at Harvard Most actual scholars haven’t been paid to give a talk at Harvard

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Nobody on here is talking about the Carolingian Civil War, nor that pitted brothers against brothers, unraveled the biggest empire since Rome, saw women killed for sex witchcraft, and reshaped Europe for centuries

Always kind of fun when an interview I do is reposted in another language www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/...

Why has no one told me that the Milwaukee Brewers have won 96 games?

friends, it's an incredible honor to be part of the elizabeth a. clark lecture series at UMW. thanks so much to @jennisifire.bsky.social for the invite! i hope to see some of you VA folks next week.

What does a demon named “Wiggo” look like?

Oh hey, new rabbit hole to dive down next time I am bored...

Nobody on here is talking about the Carolingian Civil War, nor that pitted brothers against brothers, unraveled the biggest empire since Rome, saw women killed for sex witchcraft, and reshaped Europe for centuries

First Things in the venerable tradition of 1930s clerics throughout Europe

These people are dipshits

As Radley notes this shit happening at Middlebury is literally what gave centrists the vapors for a decade

It would be cool to probe what Virginia Boards of Visitors are doing because I’m sure it’s similar!