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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve not read Rop: reference? For ‘fled’ read ‘evaded’, then? 🧐

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 4h

‘They’ = the 10,000.

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Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social · 4d

Howard @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social and I have developed a cute little series on the archaeology and history of death and burial in the Viking age. I simply love these sessions and hope more people will discover us :D #vikingsky #medievalsky youtu.be/hi2MQG6ChXM

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 4h

SHOUTING! Not shouting. 🙂

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 4h

The Persians opposing the Greeks on the field of Cunaxa ‘fled at more than a bowshot’s distance’ seems kinda suspicious to me, too. 😉 There was fighting when they returned to the battlefield later in the day, though.

Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 2d

My kingdom for a historical fiction author who writes Cunaxa as Xenophon did or played with the feigned retreat idea.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Wow! A fascinating reconstruction of a lost world.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 13h

This guy made a 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan.

All of it.

Look at it!

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

I think that this used to be known as Class War (inflicted top down, of course).

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 28d

Texas Rep. James Talarico is right—We must ban together to hold the 1% accountable.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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James @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social · 1d

The University system doesn't have a left-wing bias, it has a 'open-mindedness to truth' bias, which it shares with left-wing politics. #Politics #Left #Right #TheSystem

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, remember what your grandfathers fought for. It wasn't to support a wannabe fascist dictator like Chickenshit Bonespurs. It was against people exactly like him.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

My mother was a ballerina; she’d have loved this.

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Madhouse!

Tired and Angry @dndnerd69.bsky.social · 13h

Antifa’s girlfriend….

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Field of Lost Souls?

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Cool!

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Although this lovely miniature gets a lot wrong in its representation of the taking of Constantinople, the use of ladders from ships (at top-mast, not deck-level) and disembarkment of the knights’ horses straight onto the shore, is true to contemporary descriptions (Villehardouin and Clari).

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Where?

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

Basic tenets of pubbery, I’d say. Later drinking = even later fighting in our fractious society, too.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like a Red Card offence to me! (Sorry to miss your Military Orders talk yesterday. )

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 9h

She touched lives.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 23h

The creative industries are so important in both economic and social terms, yet are so under-valued by our dim politicians.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 23h

Tory policies guaranteed to cut the noses off their own faces. 🤨

Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 23h

Long-standing British anti-intellectualism transcends political boundaries, I'm afraid.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 1d

Hezzer puts his finger on it...

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight