good reminder in case anyone forgot what kind of group phase connect are (racists and grifters)

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

TIL (unsurprisingly) that the Chinese term for colonisation (殖民) borrows from Japanese, but also (more surprisingly) that one of the main theorists of Japanese colonialism, Nitobe Inazō, was genuinely thinking about colonial agriculture when he advocated writing 'shokumin' as 植民 over 殖民 in Japanese.

Apologies, previous skeet should read "more visitors in a week than the Smithsonian Museum of American History *does in a year*". This fact also blows our minds, apparently.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

All. Of. This.

The British government and press earnestly believe that refugees and trans people are going to destroy us all while semi retired men from the home counties are going full Unabomber because they were asked to pay a higher congestion charge

One of the things I agree with Orwell/Wodehouse on is that the British character in all it's variations is deeply suspicious and desirory of people who dress up to look powerful

Friday #AMA time! Dr. Foster Chamberlin, author of "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War", is here to answer any & all questions #Skystorians have about political violence, policing or military culture in Spain and more! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

In my endless quest to work out just *why* everyone is so angry about The Burn in Discovery S3, I think I'm coming to the realisation that there's a large number of very vocal Trek fans who think that the Federation is the protagonist of Star Trek.

The Dice Tower's silence on Sam Healy's fascist apologia is bad — hot take, I know — but it's also in line with this hobby's paradoxical insistence that games are simultaneously art and apolitical.

So back in June Alex Padilla was tackled and detained by ICE for trying to ask a question at a press conference. The story from the administration was he attacked her. Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄

Having recently discovered mapster.teuteuf.fr I can only feel grievously insulted at the disparity in scores between myself and @fraserraeburn.bsky.social today:

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

I've been revisiting a fascinating (and very long) book from 1866, and it's interesting how its author seems to be unable to decide quite how Britain was terrible. Was it an indiscriminate meddler in others' affairs, or a calculated hypocrite that only went after unfortunate 'natives'?

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A bit of an idle musing, but it struck me recently that basically all of the notable films about British involvement in the Pacific War involve prisoners (Empire of the Sun, River Kwai, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence), whereas a whopping two films exist about the Burma campaign.

depressing but this increasingly just the lesson for every single servant and every aspect of american life

This is also why I find it so maddening when reactionary centrists spend their time debating what trans people "did" to draw the ire of the right. It's completely backwards from reality. The right latched onto the issue because it's a gateway drug to every other form of bigotry!

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Summation of my thoughts on the current discourse in wargaming

This is somewhat tangential to the sexism discussion, but I remember being floored when, in a now-privated Q&A some eight months ago, Alessio Cavatore confirmed that Rhodesia would be part of Armies of the Commonwealth, while China continues to be absent from even the Minor Nations.

Listen I'm not sure anyone has ever described wargaming as a "woke" hobby ever but Stallard is just talking out of his arse here

Two years and over at @goonhammer.com we‘re still saying everyone is welcome in historical wargaming, with the exception of Nazis and misogynist fucks. www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-h...

Honestly expel him from the party. If the Dems get a majority he isn’t gonna work with them even if he doesn’t flip. It signals that going outside bounds has consequences.

On this day 114 years ago - 29 December 1911 -, the Bogd Khaan declared the independence of Mongolia in Urga (now Ulaanbaatar). 3 days before the proclamation of the Republic of China, it was the first new state to emerge from the collapsing Daicing 大清 Empire. /

Don't forget Buddhism, Daoism, and Catholicism! Islam can stay, though. (Some day I will figure out what exactly the Taiping relationship with Muslims under their rule was.)

This year, remember the true Reason for the Season: driving out & utterly destroying the demonic Manchu usurpers & eradicating the false gods of Confucianism!!

We need to rebuild HK Twitter and, even more importantly, anime twitter on here

I'm reminded of some discussions in the Foreign Office surrounding the 1902/3 Canton Plot, where a group of ethnic Chinese men in Hong Kong were arrested during a raid on an anti-Qing revolutionary cell.

Sometimes people wonder why I'm still an optimist in these times and the simple answer is that if read how *liberal* people in the UK and US talked about black people you realise we have had such a total shift in world thinking in the last century even reactionaries can't think that far back

I still haven't really processed that we've watched a social democratic party that was maybe a decade away from dominating every working age voter group in this country throw it all away in the space of 17 months

Just like how Rittenhouse got off for murdering two people and turned into a MAGA celebrity, I'll be equally pissed off if Mangione walks and turns into some online leftist celebrity. Angry morons that decide their lives only mean something if they go out and kill other people deserve nothing good.

Churchill’s Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke had English as a second language.

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

What I've always found very interesting is how much Peter Perdue nevertheless leans on the Shengwuiji of Wei Yuan, a book that in a lot of ways was attempting to be a grand military history of the Qing in order to make sense of that defeat.

An idle thought, but in recent months I've wondered whether the 14th Army has been emphasised so much in war memory that the campaign in Burma may, paradoxically, be less forgotten than that in Italy. (In the UK, that is.) Is there anything to back this up or am I just in an odd bubble?

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand. When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.

That's a sentence you don't read every day.

I’m not exactly anti-borders, as I recognise there is a theoretical point where immigration numbers present a logistical challenge, but I straight up do not understand the mindset that doesn’t take pride in people choosing to live in your country

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

I mean, no one should be doing this in general, but doing this in the current environment in the US once again shows Beijing truly does not give a shit about its own nationals or diaspora

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

As the person who wrote the original takedown of Tartaria some five years ago (www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...), what has always amused me is just how *flexible* the Tartaria conspiracy is, bringing together tendentious readings of Early Modern texts + maps with early 20thC photography.

This is 1) basically how a lot of people think socialism works 2) something that is impossible to argue with said people about

The demise of Wade-Giles has been an unmitigated disaster for Mandarin phonology in Anglophone speech.