Prove your humanity

I am not sure I’d call them Left. For me a requirement of being on the Left is to think about things.

All to own Libs and punish the woke, leftist snowflakes for electing a Black man to presidency twice.

I am sorry. This is offensive. Qataris, as well as Kuwaitis and Saudis and Afghans and Iraqis and others, and yet no one seems to put up similar “memes” with Americans in cowboy hats. What’s the point of this pic?

The thing is, people who grift this way always idolise likes of Thatcher or T-rump as successful role models, assuming that this scam will surely succeed (because “if an idiot like BoJo can get there, why not me?”). But don’t forget the failures either, from Jean-Marie Le Pen to Bolsonaro!

Listening to her speeches, reading her “op-eds”, and reviewing her biography makes it abundantly clear that the woman has no convictions, no ideas, no “deeply felt” morality, no genuine thoughts. She is a pure representative of her funders and pursuer of what she thinks gets her to power.

Among all the politicians running our world today, many of whom are master grifters and class-act charlatans, one would be hard-pressed to find someone as masterful and unabashedly deceitful and fraudulent as the leader of the UK Conservative party, Kemi Bedenoch.

I have replaced doom scrolling with leaving weird and sarcastic comments on clickbait posts on Instagram. It’s very soul cleansing and rewarding; also good for my ego to see 6000 other people were waiting to say the same thing and I outpaced them at being a Smart Alec.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

One has to trace the genealogy of T-rump’s Gaza plan and see how it relates to Peter Thiel & his Pronomos Capital/Future Cities projects. The whole structure of the thing, including the role of Tony “War Criminal” Blair as the Manager, stinks of the Corporate Run “Free Cities” scam.

Could someone read this Tamgha? I think it’s Abdulmejid I. But the date I can see (X33X) does’r work for his reign (1255-1277 Hijri). Anyone? Is it 1335 and somehow Mehmed V?

After years of bouncing bw US & European academia, I’m surprise how ignorant each side is of the other. Books I’ve read yrs ago by Americans are unknown in Europe. Seminal articles by European professors, even in English, are ignored by US scholars.

Surely some computer prog can remedy this?

With the support and egging on of full professors too… and not just isolated events either.

It really is. Three top notch presentations so far.

That is so amazingly bad.

Huh. Ich glaub’ i’ bleib bei chelokabab, ha?

Participating in this very interesting workshop, sadly remotely, and looking forward to some inspiring scholarship.

The Political Economy of Capital
in the Pre-Modern World

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ummm, ich auch nicht. Ich nehme an, die sind kartoffeln mit senf, oder? Noch etwas?

A whole lot of modern historiography of the 6th century Mediterranean is based on impact of the Justinianic Plague. But I am ready to hear other takes, and in my end of the world (the Sasanian empire) it makes sense too (although it is not my concern really & makes no difference to my work).

If I may: as a historian working on that period (but really any period), I’d never say I know anything for certain. Everything that I think I know is open to revision as far as I’m concerned. I am myself working on refuting something that well, all of previous scholarship says we are certain abt!

A couple of decades ago, the US military was going around the world, touting its guns, exporting American Democracy™️ whether folks wanted it or not. Now, they are going around the US destroying the same democracy.

Was it all worth it, Messers. Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Powell?

As I said, I don’t know anything about this subject. I just know the original work on the Justinianic plague.