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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3m

"I just think they shouldn't have been murdered," James went on to say.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5m

James Butter, 58 ans, from Levenworth, has expressed the opinion that the burning of tens of thousands of innocent women in the 17th century was "not on."

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6m

Local Man Slams Misogyny By Suggesting Women Shouldn't Have Been Burnt Alive For Having Too Much Accurate Knowledge About Midwifery

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6m

"Slams misogyny" is a weird phrase here in general lmao.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 8m

I also love the notion of putting "misogyny" in scare quotes when talking about the witch trials.

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 9h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13m

English, usually.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28m

@freshryeroll.bsky.social you too can watch herkus mantas

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 37m

Apropos of nothing, if anyone is interested in watching classic Lithuanian films you just can't find online, the Lithuanian Film Centre will literally just give them to you if you email them, apparently within 15 minutes from your enquiry. Many are subtitled.

www.lkc.lt/en/film-prom...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 49m

it's fucked up really. stop

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 49m

> email sent

"now to sit back and wait for three to five business days--"

>> ping
>> detailed response confirming they have done everything I have asked of them in exactly the way I requested

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 50m

Any dealing with a Lithuanian public body absolutely terrifies me because they are so violently efficient and quick at completing tasks that it reminds me I must never migrate back or I will lose every job I get for slacking.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

you could maybe make an argument for keeping statues to slavers up if some cataclysm happened and they were literally the only structure from the 19th century we have left, but fortunately most of the fucking country exists

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

We have a lot of things from the eras covered by the Confederacy or the British Empire or whatnot that /aren't overt glorifications of specific criminals from those eras/, they're not precious as historical artefacts simply because they are a dime a dozen

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Apropos of nothing, this is an interesting point that people seem to tend to miss about the value of /age./ A statue of Cecil Rhodes simply /isn't/ as interesting as a statue of Titus for reasons that have nothing to do with Titus being a better person, which he likely wasn't.

AfterTheHavoc @afterthehavoc.blackskycomra.de · 1h

All statues being equally historically relevant is a weird take by the director. We're not going to forget who Lenin was, there's enough text to drown in that tells the story better than some cheap-ass Soviet shit. Fuck 'em.

Something centuries old and obscure? That's at least interesting.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

That just means it wouldn't be particularly different from building new towns in the Scottish Highlands, innit.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Damnatio memoriae involved smashing statues too

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Famously not!

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

The older I get the more I think the iconoclasts were right. They understood something about the power of Images on the human mind, and its potentially profane nature, in a way that some people both then and now are conveniently ignoring for entirely malicious and political reasons.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

I find this stuff (the museum director's take, not op's, obviously) so goddamn annoying. Were Lithuanians supposed to keep Lenin statues up? Were Iranians meant to not topple statues of the Shah?

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 3h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Tbh I didn't know I just assumed that they rightly got the ick off of one of the companies or something

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Build a New Siena on Loch Shin. Nothing less

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

On one thing I am a relentless, bullying paternalist: you won't get people to give up their cars for inner town use (a thing they have to do btw, it's non-negotiable, do you want the planet to die?) if you don't actually make it impossible to use them there.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

Coward nonsense.

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Some features of the bastides are best left in the middle ages. One is both their most modern and distinctive: the grid layout, a model revived from ancient Rome. Hugill argues that although this was fine for a town designed for 1,000 or so people, it doesn’t work well in large, traffic-ridden towns today.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

(It is also racist a solid 4 times out of 5.)

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

I don't necessarily think it /is/ inherently racist but it is very very stupid, a bit like insisting that white Americans didn't have any ancestors in Europe or something equally silly.

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