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The Alternate Historian

@althistorian.bsky.social

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I use alternate history and fake maps to talk about real history. Hosted by Matt Mitrovich (he/him). Proud Chicagoan. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thealternatehistorian Email: ahwupdate at gmail dot com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 22d

NEW VIDEO: The Coming War With Japan...That Never Came youtu.be/jX7TH5JfdfE

The Coming War With Japan...That Never Came

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Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 21m

So going back to the US, and focusing there. I've mentioned a MLK presidency (who takes Nixon's spot), but John Glenn and Harvey Milk are also significant. Glenn replaces Reagan, and Milk replaces W Bush for our timeline more or less. 1/20 @althistorian.bsky.social @ynot1989.bsky.social

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 1d

Okay some more details, after research, and considering the outcome. Kenedy and Zhukov (Brezhnev in OTL) switch assassination spots. My two candidates are Pyror Masherov or Dinmunkhamed Kunaev/Dinmunkhammed Qonaev as the successor. @althistorian.bsky.social and @ynot1989.bsky.social thoughts? 1/5

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, going off of my possibly too encouraged responses in the replies here, leaning into my own "food pills and unisex jumpsuits"/"classic sci-fi" alternate present concept.
@althistorian.bsky.social @ynot1989.bsky.social to see what y'all think.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 50m

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 52m

How long shall they kick us before we are all Wide Awakes?

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 21h

If there is good news it seems to be that exposing the interior to the immigration despotism of the borderlands through ICE’s manhunting seems to be having the exact same radicalizing effect that exposing the North to the slaver despotism of the South did through the Fugitive Slave Act’s manhunters

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Pope Leo leading a meeting of the US bishops while gripping his Sox commemorative baseball bat: "What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball!"

The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I think someone from Ohio is about to get excommunicated...

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

You know what you did!

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TANKHEAD @tankhead-mecha.bsky.social · 22h

Most shipheads stand upright in a human-like posture, but when designing an aircraft carrier shiphead this can be a challenge. The Graf Zeppelin used a stooped configuration first developed for the Panzerblitzechse II to increase its launch deck length.

The Graf Zeppelin, A Jethead carrying Shiphead from Tankhead artbook by Emerson Tung and Tim popelier

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I think someone from Ohio is about to get excommunicated...

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson furiously backpedaling on the back pay thing is a pretty good indication that nobody in the GOP has the slightest clue how to deal with the shutdown.

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I'll take some good news.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Alice Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, was alive to witness both.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

www.arcdigital.media

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t feel bad about eating lamb because it’s basically only slightly more ethically fraught than eating a potato, sentience-wise.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 17h

My farm-working friend is sure that if a sheep can find a way to kill itself, it will. He places them at the low end of the agricultural intelligence scale, just below barley.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h

The good timeline.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h

Double parking is now terrorism.

The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans used to sell t-shirts that joked about running over protesters with their cars.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Deputy AG Todd Blanche: "We have organized efforts by domestic terrorists -- and that's what they are -- to do things like box in law enforcement's cars ... they are armed with heavy machinery."

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the deal farmers: maybe I'll give a damn about you losing your farm if you speak out against sending troops to American cities. Deal?

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13h

Chuck Yeager, the first guy to fly supersonic, was a poaster on Twitter in the 2010s. I recall him tweeting about talking to Orville Wright 🤯

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Final Mozart fact of the night: Margaret Thatcher attended a performance of Amadeus the play, starring Ian McKellen and Tim Curry. She did not enjoy the show.

Imagine seeing McKellen and Curry on stage as Salieri and Mozart respectively and not enjoying the show?

Did that woman have a soul?

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Another fun Mozart fact is that he wrote music for an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 13h

Our Dumb Century Onion article about the Democrats running FDR’s corpse

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Mozart and Marie Antoinette were only born a couple months apart in Austria. Had things gone differently they could have solved murders together in Vienna.

This is the only other plausible outcome for their lives!

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Mozart being a potential member of the Bavarian Illuminati is also a wild possibility.

Lewis (poisonous fungus) @lewis-fungus.bsky.social · 18h

Mozart doing his thing during the american revolution always gets me

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