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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖

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Tudor History Nerd. I love good music, books, and history. Owner of Adventures of a Tudor Nerd. www.adventuresofatudornerd.com

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · Oct 23

If you would like to follow my history adventures, you can follow me at
My blog: adventuresofatudornerd.com
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 4h

the Jays beating the Yankees is an important reminder that as dark as things may seem, bad things can still happen to bad people

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 7h

“I ain’t dead yet!” The dearly beloved Dolly Parton creates a “proof of life” video, assuring those who adore her that, even though she is dealing with some things, she is fine and still going strong 💛

Long live Dolly Parton ✨📚

📹: Via Dolly Parton

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 4h

Canada keeps winning this year. Congratulations to the Blue Jays for beating the Yankees

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Richard Romkee @rromkee.bsky.social · 4h

DAAAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

MLB Scores @mlbscores.bsky.social · 4h

Final:
BlueJays 5
Yankees 2

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 4h

One of my favorite days of the year is the day the the Yankees are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.

Happy Yankee Elimination Day to all who celebrate

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Hans was a clean boy.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5h

You should be making merry with Jan Massys of Antwerp and his elegant friends, who are celebrating his day.

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 8h

I’m thrilled to have been featured on the new episode of the Wicked Women podcast, talking about my new book, Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy.

open.spotify.com/show/2U2SOrN...

#womenwhoruledtheworld

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

doomscroll break

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing a lot of "read banned books" posts and I just want to remind everyone my upcoming book with @erikkaars.bsky.social is gonna be banned so you know what to do. 🤣

a woman in a red dress says " read honey "

ALT: a woman in a red dress says " read honey "

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 8h

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 8h

You have got to be kidding me.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 9h

Never enough

Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 9h

Not enough today 🥲 #booksky

Person: wow you read so much! Me, softly weeping over my piles of unread books as they fall over. Not enough!

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 9h

My next book explores the Burgundian Empire through the lives of several women. The Formidable Women who Shaped Medieval Europe: Power and Patronage at the Burgundian Court by Susan Abernethy. I would like to thank Pen and Sword Books and Net Galley for sending me a copy of this book.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13h

Let's just pop over to 663AD and have a look at how life is at the farmstead, oh, kittens!!
youtu.be/gpt4EZhlNOk?...

Taming Feral Kittens to Tackle the Mice on my Early Medieval Farmstead - Anglo-Saxon Cats

YouTube video by Gesiþas Gewissa | Anglo-Saxon Heritage

youtu.be

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 20h

Book Review: “Bring Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel adventuresofatudornerd.com/2025/10/08/b...

Book Review: “Bring Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel

The year is 1535, and Henry VIII is growing bored with his current wife, Anne Boleyn. His eyes are wandering yet again, and this time his sights are set on Jane Seymour. Anne Boleyn had failed to g…

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

this rules so much

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s 61st home run with a fan

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

I had a very productive day.
- I drew a hamster for a client
- I drew the moon for myself
- I drew a map of Scandinavia and its billion miles of coastline

That’s a lot of drawing. Time to relax and…errr…curses. I usually draw to relax. But that’s a very different kind of drawing, so it’s ok.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

I like this idea of dinosaurs as chunky boys.
Jurassic park would have been a lot more fun if these darlings were wobbling towards people and nobody ran but just turned and hugged the dorky cuddle beasts.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 1d

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 1d

trick or treat?

vampurr’s waiting at your door (but not for long!)

this is a limited edition plushie, get yours now at: www.makeship.com/products/vam...

a gray cat plushie dressed as a vampire, with a tiny red and black cape and small fangs. vampurr is sitting on a smoky surface with a little white ghost shaped bucket beside it, against a dark background

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

POV: The Democratic coaliton in Pennsylvania

Bad Bunny, a Latino man in a tuxedo with a backwards baseball cap flashing the peace sign, next to Taylor Swift, a white blonde woman wearing a purple dress and earrings, hugging Bad Bunny.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

@benjaminsolak.bsky.social

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