Almost said Shiny Happy People for the bit, but has to go with Man on the Moon youtu.be/dLxpNiF0YKs?...
PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy. Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
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Almost said Shiny Happy People for the bit, but has to go with Man on the Moon youtu.be/dLxpNiF0YKs?...
My mindfulness clinic business is failing because the walls keep dripping blood.
This sounds like it should be one of Reform's key demographics
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
I think he mentions sister at the end, but still true
Yeah, because none of the rooms are connected in any way. There's no theme, no aesthetic, nothing apart from a combination of "yeah, I could do this", too much money, and no impulse control.
it’s extremely American™ to manage to build a Whimsical Funhouse that still looks like a show house McMansion
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Early modern Quakers want a word. Where are all the baby Humbles, Temperances, Thankfulls and Disciplines? Haven’t even seen a Charity ir a Patience for a while.
The fact, though, that the entire continent, despite 2 very fertile large regions, only has like 3-4 cities, and not even that many towns apart from those, remains a weird piece of world building. Not as big a crime as the history of the setting, though, but still weird.
Sunspear is described as pretty substantial, isn't it? Highgarden I can't actually remember how it's described apart from large gardens, so there you are probably correct. I would personally say that White Harbour is large enough to count, but that's really up to your definition, I suppose.
Just one of the many capital c Choices they made for the series
Five, even. These + White Harbour bsky.app/profile/attu...
Right, I knew I was forgetting a northern harbour town. Wasn't actually aware they just skipped that one completely in the series
Kings's landing, Highgarden, Sunspear, and Oldtown, which if the fifth one?]
In Westeros both the Riverlands and The Reach are explicitly described as fertile breadbaskets, though, and should without trouble have been able to support King's Landing. Also, the whole continent only has like three proper cities, doesn't it?
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
This is the worst thing I've seen in my life. I love it. azathothwakesup.itch.io/labu-borg
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We really need to get payment processors regulated into the ground, make those bastards have no right to decide what you buy, you just get to process the payment and shut the fuck up Paypal.
Ouch…
LOL they've literally used Lefebvre's data from 1932, & said "Yep, that happened." There are a couple of interesting points there, and the analysis is not drivel. But it does take some things seriously which are drivel, like this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Based on science, not speculation, I have also determined that many of these people were, in fact, French
Using hard data quantitative metric based analysis hitherto untouched by historians, I have determined that many people during the French Revolution were angry and paranoid. The data also suggests that many of them were quite possibly potentially more than a little Pissed Off
Un mouvement de protestation étudiante a débuté il y a 10 jours en Indonésie, pour réclamer une hausse des salaires, la sécurité de l'emploi et les malversations du gouvernement. Rejoint par les syndicats, des révoltes sont en cours dans plusieurs provinces du pays, et la police a tué un jeune hier,
Update Indonesia: During the ongoing uprising, police ran down and killed someone. The whole thing erupted. During this, a queen stands up and fights the riot line on her own. There is an active ongoing uprising, Anarchists are part of it. Give it your attention and solidarity.
This is so embarrassing
« ChatGPT, please, turn this book written in 1932 into data. »
If, and I understand that's a big *if*, they fed individual paragraphs into ChatGPT and then double-checked all of them manually, is that even that much more efficient than just doing that by hand? It's not even that many variables.
Quick summary of this week’s Executive Disorder, and how a “school shooter fandom,” not 09A, is related to the recent school shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This only becomes an issue if you try to legislate away parts of the whole, rather than the whole. A lot of states have strong firearm legislation, the problem is that the US want to both have and not have them at the same time, which means you are reduced to legislating details.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
a little reminder in case you missed it: we're hiring for a creator to come and lead on our TikTok and Instagram!
making plans for the weekend? how about [peers mysteriously] visiting our free museum lol merl.reading.ac.uk/visit-us/
"mystery"
Historians may have words to say about this.
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n
No! Absolutely not, no! I understand why, but I refuse to interact with a graph that looks like this.
Webpages as art projects feels like one of those things that must be more common than you'd expect. intentionallyleftblank.com
This really is peak literature, it only went down from here.
"Men som bemte Sundblad i förtid lärer changerat Glooso-boken och Grammatican så att han ennu intt lärdt förstå, hwad det ordet male narratum ellr wrång och falsk berättelse på Swänska har att betyda" Den här Nils Giring späder verkligen inte på orden, måste man erkänna.
Higher wages to compensate higher rents does nothing except funnel money directly from employers to landlords without any discernable impact on standards of living or consumption.
Why not, I have a lot of stupid ttrpg opinions to share that no one asked for. One like = one unhinged TTRPG opinion that I may or may not believe.
Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
A bit of archival beauty for the evening. Three keys for ciphering & deciphering coded documents from the 18th century, kept in their original cases.
The year is 1766. Bonnie Prince Charlie is the new Stuart claimant to the British throne. Mozart is wowing audiences across Europe and there are serious murmurings of discontent from North America. Here in York we have this map and we're going to go exploring! Do join us...
How your email finds me.
Seeing a lot of critical responses from medievalists about this BBC 1066 thing. As an early modernist, just to say that I'm happy to confirm that medieval people were indeed covered in dirt all the time and did all sound like they were in the Wurzels.
a....camera?
Always a good thing to do if you can. I will just have to rely on it being close enough to Swedish that I can sort of understand enough to recognide which parts I need to translate, the few times I tackle german texts
Exactly! Like, I'm sure this one obscure german paper I will have to google translate will have all the answers I need, I just need to check
Forskning är ett oändligt hål av obskyra franska eller tyska (eller i mitt fall nederländska) texter som man för det mesta måste hitta sätt att översätta
Yeah, but what if that next text is what finally unlocks it?
No new pics, where are you mentally?
Now reminded of my favourite war: the 335 Years War. In 1651, the Netherlands declared war on the Isles of Scilly, a gorgeous teeny archipelago off the Cornish coast. It is the longest recorded war in European history, primarily because everyone forgot about it. www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
25 August: a date James Bartley wouldn’t want to remember, even if he hadn’t died in 1909, because it’s the 134th anniversary of him being swallowed whole by a whale. Mind you, he was cut out of it later – alive. Allegedly...🧵
(sobbing) I thought if I built it they would come
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
I skjulet bredvid fikabordet på dagens jobb
SVT needs to make this, and just make it into one long political farce
Would so quickly become so stupid, and I really want to see the episode where the Caps party embrace their moniker by all showing up in nightcaps, and the one where they make a stamp with the king's name to replace needing his signature because he threw a fit
I once “made” my class play the game Credo, which I highly recommend for fellow nerds. Apparently @chaosium.bsky.social republished it this year, which means you don’t have to buy it off eBay like I did. www.chaosium.com/blogtoday-on...
They lived in Leiden for about a dozen years before deciding that Holland wasn't Calvinist enough. #reformationinthelowcountries
Did not have Tucker Carlson Pelagianism arc on my bingo card
Parker was shot in the head with a flashbang in LA. Her skull was fractured and she had bleeding on her brain. She’s now back out there protesting and documenting. Because she says we have to. That’s bravery.
A *VERY RARE* PERMANENT JOB IN MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! 🥳
Newly discovered marsupial absolutely looks like a prank thats a teddy bear come on now 😂
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time. it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Steak and sparrow pudding anyone? Here's what people were turning to for food in Britain 1917/18 as food shortages began really to bite: sparrow, cormorant, seal steak, and cakes made from ground up bracken root. Continuing my project on food journalism in times of crisis.
The Butchers' Company and the Poulters' Company (look it up) sponsored wrestling contests at the fair, presenting the victors with prizes of mutton, chickens, and rabbits.
211 years ago, on the 24th of August 1814, British troops captured Washington D.C. in the only occurrence of a foreign power occupying the U.S.A. capital. During the 26-hour occupation the British set fire to the White House, the Capitol building and others. #otd #history (1/4)
This is *not* good. My access to the BBC's written archives was vital for my Sesame Street book. Without access based on my individual request, I would not have understood the beginnings of international marketing of children's television.
No, it is and has always been nouveau riche, the ostentatious display of wealth before all.
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Mostly Harmless (Couldn't fit the acknowledgment with the quote)
Does remind me off: "Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
I was initially intrigued but not sold by the game asking you to record voice messages at the start which are played during the outro after the game, but it really became so atmospheric! Like a perfect full circle thing to tie and contrast the end with the the starting position
This. Is. AMAZING! Almost makes me wish I lived in New York
Let this sink in for a moment: Because it's so much more than just a map. It's years of research of various colleagues & disciplines. The lines in this map have been modified, re-drawn, and adapted with continuous research - to present, in this single image, an essential process in human history.
Finally tried Alice is Missing, and I must say, for a #ttrpg which is played solely through chats this became intense. Amazing experience, would absolutely play it again.
You thought they wanted to roll back the USA to the 1950s. They're actually rolling it back to the 1920s...
I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.
Rebirth. #CemeterySaturday Ridge View Cemetery, Chicago, IL ◾️ I just listed this original drawing in my shop if anyone is interested. www.etsy.com/listing/4353...
Z is for Zinc is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, with brilliant illustrations by @landisblair.bsky.social "White Bronze" or zinc alloy tombstones were cheap, easily customized, and very durable. Stonecutters lobbied to have them banned from local cemeteries.
🔥 Caernarfon Castle in Wales has some lovely 1/1 scale sprues in if anyone is interested 😂 #dnd #ttrpg #nerdlings #minipainting #rpg #warhammer #minis #WarhammerCommunity #miniatures #tabletopgames
So the most recent iteration of academic phishing emails are fake awards for random articles? Hilarious!
Right-wing arguments are always word games. This is because reactionaries are fundamentally magical thinkers, who believe they can change reality by changing how it is spoken about. We say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza because it is. You can't make that go away by redefining genocide.
Recette du limoncello: -40g de zestes de citron bio (et lavé) pour 100gr d’alcool pur (dc à 95 degrés) (que j’ai acheté sur le site bottleofitaly.com). On laisse macérer 24h dans un bocal recouvert de papier alu. -au bout de 24h, on filtre les zestes, pour récupérer l’alcool.
Mr. & Mrs. Hudson, Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1974
Roses are red They charm and delight us
Yeah, this is definitely coordinated
Kanske en tumblr transplant? I alla fall roligare förklaring än att hon inte kom på ett bättre sätt att göra en punktlista.
There are a few options of what it could be, in that case. Unfortunately not sure about it being specifically medieval, but games like Civ City Rome or ant of the Sierra city builders (like the ones in the picture) would fit the general gameplay
Can I tell you a story about slavery and the rural fens?
Also, around which year are we talking? ^.^ Not sure I can help you find it, but we might be able to narrow down the possibilities
There are so many of those kinds of games that's I'm afraid it's impossible to narrow down unless you have some more info, like what era was it placed in, was it a city builder or strategy, was it aimed at kids or adults, was it purely grid builder or did you also have people wandering around?
Just found out that Rose Betts will be the supporting act for Tide Lines on tour late October, and since I have been dying to see them both live I guess I need to get to the UK.
Probably, depends wholly on which game you tried first
Our next podcast drops tomorrow! This time, we're joined by award-winning photographer & sheep farmer Amy Bateman (@amybateman.bsky.social). We discuss Amy's life as a farmer and her gorgeous book Forty Farms (photos below), chronicling the lives of forty farms across Cumbria and the Lake District.
