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Marcus Falk (She/They)

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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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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · Oct 28

Sure, this is a self-plug thread now:

First in the bundle is Paint Stockholm Red, a setting guide to Paint the Town Red (on backerkit, go back it!) which lets you take your disaster vampires to Stockholm in three different points in time: 1532, 1783, & 1912.

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Paint Stockholm Red by Attusfalk

Travel to the capital of Sweden in three different points in time, in this setting guide to Paint the Town Red.

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 12h

Tyvärr, ja. Inbjuder inte riktigt förtroende för den faktiska produkten

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 14h

Det är för viktigt för att inte vara petig om det, egentligen

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 14h

Du jag är extremt nyfiken på vad för typ av "lektioner" de erbjuder, men vägrar av princip att ladda ner den appen vid det här laget

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 14h

Du skulle bara veta exakt hur petig jag kan vara när det kommer till historia ^.^

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 15h

Varför är det noll relation mellan kartan och punkterna?

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17h

in the meantime, here's our last episode with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social - titled raves, riots, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. partly because it's alliterative. partly because we did talk about all those things. sometimes it really do be like that

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Absolute Units - The Museum of English Rural Life podcast

Come for the big animals. Stay for fascinating and surprising stories about England's rural past, as told by our collections.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 1d

Tom Scot in the fastest car in the world.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 7d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 17

You all probably know that the halos of saints viewed from behind do look like slices of lemon, right? This is how "Paradise" looks according to the book of hours from Duke of Berry, by the way. #bookhistory

Detail of "Paradise" taken from "Très Riches heures du Duc de Berry", c. 1412-1416, Folio 126r ( https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry#/media/File%3AFolio_126r_-_Paradise.jpg ). You see a group of saints from behind: their halos look like slices of lemon.

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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · 20h

I made a Ralph Ingersoll and Martha Gellhorn appreciation meme.

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

SAD OLIGARCH S2 Ep 1: The Siberian Heart Attack 🪟🫀

@hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

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SAD OLIGARCH S2 Ep 1: The Siberian Heart Attack 🪟🫀

@hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sad-oligarch-116754842/episode/the-siberian-heart-attack-299213045

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Storytelling with an #earlymodern book:

➡️ printed on paper in 1640
➡️ bound in a recycled medieval parchment page (likely in the 17th century)
➡️ had contact with water while being stored (stains!)
➡️ party been eaten by book worms (my guess: 18th century)
➡️ digitized in the 3rd millennium

tunnels and small holes in a paper page and the parchment binding. These tunnels are caused by insect larvae - "book worms".

the printed title page of the book from 1640: VD17 384:717724N (copy from UB Augsburg: 02/XIII.8.4.702angeb.14).

the parchment binding of the book: a medieval page

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 2d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2d

Someone found the exact point when the bunny numbers jumped ahead by 100 a year ago…

I don’t think I’ll correct the order at this point (messes up my bookkeeping) but that means that THIS autumnal bunny is actually number 3000!

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone says they want a traditional marriage until they get a traditional marriage.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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june $2118/$3900 @juneever.green · 2d

gavin newsom hates trans people

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 2d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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The Content Apologist @contentapologist.bsky.social · 2d

@oddthisday.bsky.social

Roses are Red,
Porridge has me in stitches,

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2d

John Cage is here to say fuck you

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Organ Playing 639-Year-Long Experimental Piece by John Cage Changes Chord

The last chord change for Cage's experimental composition 'As Slow As Possible' took place two years ago.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

As a European I strong feel I shouldn't even know why Gavin Newsom is

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier in September, we were able to welcome the Catalan TV for a news report on Catalan documents found in our collection at the National Archives, UK. Quentin Daste, an associated researcher of the Prize Papers and expert for the Catalan sources from the ship San Magin...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 3d

I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage.

The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both.

But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday my eleven-year-old daughter claimed that Taylor Swift had embraced a range of genres which included punk. The retribution was swift and included considerable mockery and a lesson on punk which probably took longer than she would have liked.

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