Patrick Wyman
@patrickwyman.bsky.social
Pod: Past Lives. Tides of History. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming 5/5/2026: “Lost Worlds,” on prehistory. pwymanusc at gmail. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
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Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
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Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
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Wanna take a quick sec to shout out one of my new favorite history pods. Tides of History is an all timer, Past Lives is new and shaping up to be very good. In a world of so many shitty podcasts, I thought it would probably be good to post at least once about good ones when they pop up.
New Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick eventually became the apostle of the Irish and a legend, but long before that, he was a teenager named Patricius who was enslaved amid the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Wanna take a quick sec to shout out one of my new favorite history pods. Tides of History is an all timer, Past Lives is new and shaping up to be very good. In a world of so many shitty podcasts, I thought it would probably be good to post at least once about good ones when they pop up.
One of the core things about these guys is that they're proudly ignorant and can't grasp the idea that knowledge might make them better able to do their godawful stuff. They couldn't explain the concept of "social trust" if they had to, much less understand why it matters in this context.
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 10:06 PM
One of the core things about these guys is that they're proudly ignorant and can't grasp the idea that knowledge might make them better able to do their godawful stuff. They couldn't explain the concept of "social trust" if they had to, much less understand why it matters in this context.
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New Past Lives bonus episode: I chatted with my fantastic grad school colleague, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, about abortion in pre-Roe v. Wade California and the impossible choices women and providers were forced to make. www.patreon.com/posts/aborti...
Abortion Before Roe v. Wade: Interview with Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine | Past Lives
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January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
New Past Lives bonus episode: I chatted with my fantastic grad school colleague, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, about abortion in pre-Roe v. Wade California and the impossible choices women and providers were forced to make. www.patreon.com/posts/aborti...
I really like being on Bluesky and I enjoy almost all the conversations I have here (and I block/mute/ignore freely) but I’ve never had more interactions that consist of “I’m going to argue with you about a thing I’m mad about that you didn’t say” than I have here
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I really like being on Bluesky and I enjoy almost all the conversations I have here (and I block/mute/ignore freely) but I’ve never had more interactions that consist of “I’m going to argue with you about a thing I’m mad about that you didn’t say” than I have here
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It was a treat to talk about turf toe, dying empires, why Republicans have such shitty workout form, and Jarrett Stidham with the great @patrickwyman.bsky.social. Another one in our new (?) half Evil Stuff/half sports style. defector.com/ideologicall...
Ideologically Opposed To Proper Workout Form, With Patrick Wyman | Defector
It’s not great, if I’m being honest. From amending my answer to the question “how ya doing Roth” at the very beginning of this week’s episode of The Distraction, it is clear that things are not going ...
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January 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
It was a treat to talk about turf toe, dying empires, why Republicans have such shitty workout form, and Jarrett Stidham with the great @patrickwyman.bsky.social. Another one in our new (?) half Evil Stuff/half sports style. defector.com/ideologicall...
New Past Lives bonus episode: I chatted with my fantastic grad school colleague, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, about abortion in pre-Roe v. Wade California and the impossible choices women and providers were forced to make. www.patreon.com/posts/aborti...
Abortion Before Roe v. Wade: Interview with Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine | Past Lives
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January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
New Past Lives bonus episode: I chatted with my fantastic grad school colleague, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, about abortion in pre-Roe v. Wade California and the impossible choices women and providers were forced to make. www.patreon.com/posts/aborti...
Pretty sure the Grim Reaper is just off camera waiting for him
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Pretty sure the Grim Reaper is just off camera waiting for him
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I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people
At the end of the day, this is why you can't take anything Stancil does seriously. He's not a serious person with serious political ideas. He's an idiot with a concept of america formed by 7th grade civics class. He is exactly the kind of idiot that got us into this mess.
Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people
I had the immense pleasure of talking about why Pete Hegseth is so bad at working out and what it means to live through the end of an empire with two of my favorite people, @davidjroth.bsky.social and @drewmagary.bsky.social!!!
Hey now, it's a new Distraction episode, featuring world's strongest historian @patrickwyman.bsky.social! art19.com/shows/the-di...
Born Aloft on a Cloud of Dad Energy with Patrick Wyman
Drew and Roth are joined by Patrick Wyman, author of the upcoming book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World and creator and host of the new podcast Past Lives! They as...
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January 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I had the immense pleasure of talking about why Pete Hegseth is so bad at working out and what it means to live through the end of an empire with two of my favorite people, @davidjroth.bsky.social and @drewmagary.bsky.social!!!
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And preorder Wyman's new book, due in May! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
www.harpercollins.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
And preorder Wyman's new book, due in May! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
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Hey now, it's a new Distraction episode, featuring world's strongest historian @patrickwyman.bsky.social! art19.com/shows/the-di...
Born Aloft on a Cloud of Dad Energy with Patrick Wyman
Drew and Roth are joined by Patrick Wyman, author of the upcoming book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World and creator and host of the new podcast Past Lives! They as...
art19.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Hey now, it's a new Distraction episode, featuring world's strongest historian @patrickwyman.bsky.social! art19.com/shows/the-di...
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New Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick eventually became the apostle of the Irish and a legend, but long before that, he was a teenager named Patricius who was enslaved amid the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
New Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick eventually became the apostle of the Irish and a legend, but long before that, he was a teenager named Patricius who was enslaved amid the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
New Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick eventually became the apostle of the Irish and a legend, but long before that, he was a teenager named Patricius who was enslaved amid the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
New Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick eventually became the apostle of the Irish and a legend, but long before that, he was a teenager named Patricius who was enslaved amid the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
It's Mailbag Time on Past Lives! Subscribers get their questions answered, so drop them in the comments on this post; if you have questions you want answered, subscribe to the Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/its-ma...
It's Mailbag Time! | Past Lives
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January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
It's Mailbag Time on Past Lives! Subscribers get their questions answered, so drop them in the comments on this post; if you have questions you want answered, subscribe to the Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/its-ma...
This speech feels like a long-overdue reckoning with the end of an old world and the start of something new
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This speech feels like a long-overdue reckoning with the end of an old world and the start of something new
My dog has reached the age where she needs a pep talk before a walk and while our conversations are objectively funny it’s still a little heartbreaking
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
My dog has reached the age where she needs a pep talk before a walk and while our conversations are objectively funny it’s still a little heartbreaking
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Cignetti looks like a guy with strong takes on Erwin Rommel (derogatory)
January 20, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Cignetti looks like a guy with strong takes on Erwin Rommel (derogatory)
One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
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![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
Bookpage named "Lost Worlds" one of its most anticipated nonfiction titles for 2026! www.bookpage.com/most-anticip...
16 can't-miss nonfiction titles for 2026
Patrick Radden Keefe is back. So are Han Kang, Lindy West, Jayne Anne Phillips and more authors telling true tales that promise to send readers soaring.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Bookpage named "Lost Worlds" one of its most anticipated nonfiction titles for 2026! www.bookpage.com/most-anticip...
90 pounds on the sled for Mother’s Big Strong Boy Pete
i think the Hegseth/Koizumi Jr photo is going to live in my head rent free
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
90 pounds on the sled for Mother’s Big Strong Boy Pete
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neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
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New Past Lives: Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, 2nd Century AD). On May 24, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy named Abbas was sold for 200 denarii at the port of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas end up there, and where did he go from there? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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January 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
New Past Lives: Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, 2nd Century AD). On May 24, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy named Abbas was sold for 200 denarii at the port of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas end up there, and where did he go from there? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...