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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15h

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 17h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Bix Caleen and Cassian Andor, who is one (two) of the people that made the rebellion in Star Wars possible

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 17h

This week on The Medieval Podcast: Medieval Wolves with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... #wolves #medieval #podcast

Medieval Wolves with Elizabeth Marshall - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Elizabeth Marshall about where we find wolves in medieval sources, how early English writers saw them, and how wolves both add to – and steal –…

www.medievalists.net

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Ruth Marshall @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 3d

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

This journal issue is in memory of György Kara, a brilliant Mongolist who I studied with at IU. He passed away before I defended my dissertation. But he taught me so much about Mongolia and gave wonderful feedback on my research. So at least a fraction of his knowledge lives on.

Баярлалаа багшаа.

György Kara with his (at the time) father in law, B. Rinchen.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

#tengri #mongolsky

Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

This journal issue is in memory of György Kara, a brilliant Mongolist who I studied with at IU. He passed away before I defended my dissertation. But he taught me so much about Mongolia and gave wonderful feedback on my research. So at least a fraction of his knowledge lives on.

Баярлалаа багшаа.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

This paper came in third for the Next Generation American Mongolists Research Paper Prize Competition sponsored by the Mongolian government.

This is a key part of understanding socialist Mongolia, Mongolian animal history, and a major corrective to ahistorical scholarship on Mongolian animals.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

Veterinarians helped livestock health and spread state power. Apparently a controversial opinion, but vaccines that prevented diseases were good, and saved lots livestock lives! And new sheep breed, especially the Orkhon sheep, were a successful melding of modern vet science and Mongolian herding.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

In it, I argue while it did not receive all promised funding, vet science was the most successful aspect of the socialist livestock policies. Unlike what some scholars claim, vet science was not a foreign imposition. It was Mongolian led and made a strong case for socialist modernity.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

It appears it won't be officially online for sometime, but I don't care. I am excited to say that "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the Mongolian People’s Republic," is out (or will be soon) in Mongolian Studies. Please message if you want a copy! #envhist #animalhistory

Smiling Mongolian herder woman with an Orkhon breed sheep, Mongolian People's Republic, 1950s.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 2d

Avec Raphaël Morera (@crh.ehess.fr), nous lançons cette année un nouveau séminaire, à l'@ehess.fr, intitulé "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes", pensé comme un espace de discussion autour de l'environnement avant l'Anthropocène.
Et en voici le programme ! 1/3

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 2d

Merci!

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 5d

Outrageous and evil. Mark is a great colleague, teacher, and person. I am horrified.

This is how the right reacts to scholars they disapprove of threats of violence. They care nothing for free speech. They just want obedience.

Please amplify and spread the word. This can't be ignored.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 5d

Outrageous and evil. Mark is a great colleague, teacher, and person. I am horrified.

This is how the right reacts to scholars they disapprove of threats of violence. They care nothing for free speech. They just want obedience.

Please amplify and spread the word. This can't be ignored.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7d

This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades

Denver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 8d

🕵️‍♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 23d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 7d

Goofy/corny things Nolan better keep in The Odyssey:
- Odysseus' dog, Argos, recognizing him and wagging his tail despite 20 years and being in disguise, proving there were good boys even in 7th century BC Greece
- The "Nobody" joke
- Penelope requesting Odysseus to move the bed to test his identity

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d

The Odyssey is one of the world’s most inspiring and enduring stories of a man voyaging for years powered solely by the indomitable spirit of human will and a deep suspicion that his wife is getting railed by those guys in town

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 7d

@songsforhorses.com

Trevor_V01.fbx @darikis.bsky.social · 7d

Pondering the PORB

"Pondering the orb" meme where the orb is a ball of Possums, otherwise known as a PORB

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