Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
Professor, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & OATHBREAKERS (2024). Host podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
· Dec 9
today is the day! OATHBREAKERS by me & @lollardfish.bsky.social is available as a paperback. Fits in stockings AND under the tree AND works well wrapped for any birthday or gift-giving occasion!
hit up friends at @bookshop.org or any bookstore anywhere
--> bookshop.org/p/books/oath...
hit up friends at @bookshop.org or any bookstore anywhere
--> bookshop.org/p/books/oath...
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Stop fucking posting rage bait by assholes farmed from X
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Stop fucking posting rage bait by assholes farmed from X
Daily Caller alum wrote this
"Declaring the cowboy hat the national dress wouldn’t be about forcing the headwear onto the American people but, instead, giving them license to confidently embrace it," Timothy Nerozzi writes.
Opinion | This hat should be America’s national dress
Everyone is dressing as Americans. This calls for action.
wapo.st
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Daily Caller alum wrote this
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a small thing in dark times, but I really love the way the textures of the paperback edition of The Bright Ages illustrate the shine of those mosaics, @profgabriele.com & @lollardfish.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 1:49 AM
a small thing in dark times, but I really love the way the textures of the paperback edition of The Bright Ages illustrate the shine of those mosaics, @profgabriele.com & @lollardfish.bsky.social
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To a lot of people the statemrnt "Grok creates CSAM" will read as a "tech headline" they bypass.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
January 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
To a lot of people the statemrnt "Grok creates CSAM" will read as a "tech headline" they bypass.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
A fair number of complaints about academia by academics are complaints about their own specific institution
(There are of course plenty of structural problems but sometimes we need to disambiguate)
(There are of course plenty of structural problems but sometimes we need to disambiguate)
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A fair number of complaints about academia by academics are complaints about their own specific institution
(There are of course plenty of structural problems but sometimes we need to disambiguate)
(There are of course plenty of structural problems but sometimes we need to disambiguate)
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just a note that the Harper Collins booth had a couple copies left of Oathbreakers and The Bright Ages from me and @profgabriele.com and you should go get them.
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
just a note that the Harper Collins booth had a couple copies left of Oathbreakers and The Bright Ages from me and @profgabriele.com and you should go get them.
Stop fucking posting rage bait by assholes farmed from X
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Stop fucking posting rage bait by assholes farmed from X
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Report this GFM as a direct violation of SEVERAL points under section 8 of the site's terms of service. www.gofundme.com/c/terms
January 11, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Report this GFM as a direct violation of SEVERAL points under section 8 of the site's terms of service. www.gofundme.com/c/terms
I don’t know why the economist does a thing and historians get blamed
Andrew Gelman on Emily Oster's latest NYT Op-ed “Kennedy Is Telling Americans How to Eat. It’s Not Crazy Advice.”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/t...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/t...
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I don’t know why the economist does a thing and historians get blamed
This is a great book!!!
The paperback copy of _Strike_ is out and I have an extra 10 copies. If you are a grad student, please message me with your address if you want a free one! 📖
January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This is a great book!!!
January 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“If I’m not abused the abusers win” is some crazy shit
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 1:11 PM
“If I’m not abused the abusers win” is some crazy shit
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Just fucking help people. If you can do something to fix a problem, and it costs you nothing (and in cases like this, *actually helps you too*), just do it, for god's sake.
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
January 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Just fucking help people. If you can do something to fix a problem, and it costs you nothing (and in cases like this, *actually helps you too*), just do it, for god's sake.
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
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i love noble blood; american medieval (shoutout to @profgabriele.com); and stuff the british stole
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
i love noble blood; american medieval (shoutout to @profgabriele.com); and stuff the british stole
this was absolutely going on at Virginia Tech as well
Exclusive: Texts messages offer an unfiltered account of University of Virginia board members speaking about ending “chemical and surgical mutilation” for transgender youth at its hospitals and undoing “regimes of racial classification” in its classrooms.
‘This is war’: In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
Private messages between University of Virginia board members and other officials show how they deliberated on key issues and Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s involvement in university operations.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
this was absolutely going on at Virginia Tech as well
this is good whaling content
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
this is good whaling content
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January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.”
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.”
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
It always always comes back to Breivik
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
It always always comes back to Breivik
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Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Academics stop sucking shit for 5 minutes 2026 challenge
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Academics stop sucking shit for 5 minutes 2026 challenge
50-50 he's got a crusades tattoo
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
50-50 he's got a crusades tattoo