Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiMarcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 30/09/2026When we look back, I think we will find that the post-9/11 wars combined with a very particular type of media coverage fried a lot of people's brains on this topic. Special forces! Beards! Muscular men, kicking in doors! Death, lethality, the punisher! 7857
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Am I amused at Mearsheimer being as much of a useless idiot when it comes to day-to-day matters as he is in the foreign affairs? Perhaps I am. www.badbaltic.com/acclaimed-ru... 010
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026'Oracular Tablets from Dodona' by Karolina Frank just came out and it seems like a pretty interesting read if you want to learn more about the oracular practices at this site as well as the lives of visitors from neighbouring regions and beyond. brill.com/display/titl...brill.comOracular Tablets from Dodona"Oracular Tablets from Dodona" published on 22 Sep 2026 by Brill. 110
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision. 1281182714
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/09/2026Will Putin launch a large offensive to finish the war? Russia is increasingly stuck, and war leaders under pressure often try to escalate their way out of problems. But as military analyst Alexander With argues on Logic of War, offensives launched from weakness usually fail.logicofwar.comOne last offensive to end the war?By Alexander With History shows that states often launch a major offensive when they expect a turning point in the war. The purpose is seldom total victory, but to enhance their diplomatic and milita... 1019347
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiRobert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Job offer. 3-years postdoctoral position on the on the project "Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity" led by Marta Szada at Nicolaus Copernicu University in Toruń. More here: bitly.is/4cmwGyW 176
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Krytycznie o reformie i szerzej polityce podatkowej proponowanej przez rząd piszę dla Krytyki Politycznej: krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/wiecej-...krytykapolityczna.plWięcej w portfelu. Tylko w czyim?Dzięki reformie podatkowej więcej pieniędzy zostanie w portfelach (najlepiej zarabiających pracowników). Nie chwalmy rządu tylko dlatego, że mogło być gorzej. 093
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 26/08/2026Fully agree. This smells like infoops. The idea that Putin would use nukes at a point when there isn't even officially a war going on but just a "special operation", is just silly. 2329753
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 24/08/2026There would not be any air strikes against Kyiv while Kushner and Witkoff were there. 1520136
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiVlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Putin digs up 700-year-old prince to help him win war youtu.be/t7WzHdfRXvM?...youtu.bePutin digs up 700-year-old prince to save his warYouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat 3414
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I might have given my wife a 40 minutes lecture on royal succession laws in Gondor spanning Isildur's accession to the high kingship, the fall of Arnor, and Eärnur's ill fated trip to Minas Morgul... but how is everyone's Friday evening going? 010
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One of my fond memories of working on the CLA project is coming across clarissima et spectabilis femina Aemilia Andronicene. Especially in Late Antique narrative sources women are often left nameless and identified solely by their relationship to men, as mothers, daughters, wives etc. 140
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Proofs! (including of the dust jacket :) 1427
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiAnders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 31/07/2026Exactly. At least in Denmark I've seen too many commentators confidently state that it's got to be an accident because Russia wouldn't dare do such a thing on purpose. Of course they would! Putin is losing a war and that makes people very tolerant of running risks. 1731452
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiMarcin Górski @tengorski.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Co za zaskoczenie w doborze adwokata. 4203
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Admittedly competing with Augustine may be quite intimidating, especially since he is able to release new publications nearly 1600 years after his death. 062
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiGraham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Their plan: Spend $300 million to buy Susan Collins a sixth term. My plan: Defeat them, then ban billionaires from buying elections. 22341102
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiGary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Tax wealth not work 527381
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Today! And competing with the champions league final 😁 1132
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 27/05/2026BCDSS PI Julia Hillner and former Guest Researcher Jamie Wood are among the co-authors of a new open-access article on namelessness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, published in Medieval People (2026). 🔗 buff.ly/wdB3cD9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 062
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiRobert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:) 0118
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiZenia(ona/jej)🏳️⚧️🌈🦋🔢🌱 @zenobiazaczek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026#Reprywatyzacja 2.0 lada chwila się rozhula ("pozdrawiam" dawnego kolegę z liceum, Pana Sobańskiego), a ja już mam gotowe linie obrony prawnej dla #lokatorów, którzy zdecydują się walczyć. 1113
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiGraham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 21/05/2026They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it. 1824662
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 19/05/2026We congratulate BCDSS researcher Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner as features as an on-screen historian in the ARTE documentary Konstantin der Große, broadcasting Saturday, 30 May at 20:15. Trailer: buff.ly/CFqT4kE @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 0113
Reposted by Aleksander Paradziński𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 18/05/20261. Unrecedented expansion of serfdom 2. Near obliteration of the Crimean Tatars 3. Pale of Settlement 4. Brutal reprisals after peasant uprisings 5. The destruction of the only state which had a chance of becoming a successful multicultural republic Random German historian: "Girlboss behaviour?" 315040
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Turów miał być symbolem „obrony polskiej suwerenności”. Dziś temat praktycznie zniknął z debaty publicznej, choć problemy nie zniknęły. O tym, jak politycy porzucają niewygodne sprawy po zakończeniu wojny propagandowej. wolnelewo.pl/czy-ktos-pam...wolnelewo.plCzy ktoś pamięta jeszcze o Turowie? - WolnelewoPremier Donald Tusk dostał niezbyt przyjemny list w sprawie kopalni i elektrowni Turów oraz przyszłości całego regionu. Była […] 081
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/05/2026📢 The BCDSS invites applications for 3 Doctoral Positions/PhD (65%, TV-L E-13, for 4 years) from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 ℹ️ For all details regarding the application documents and process, please see here: buff.ly/t0fVXcb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 068
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiVlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026youtu.be/zhsvRtCgWPQ?...youtu.beLeaked Kremlin propaganda plan for a bad end to warYouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat 0356
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026"Z jednej strony pan Cejrowski odkrywa, że Trump łże, a z drugiej pan Trzaskowski odkrywa, że prawa człowieka to nie jest tylko jakieś tam hasełko wyborcze i że unijne prawa osób LGBT jednak trzeba wdrażać w praktyce. I klops". wolnelewo.pl/tydzien-szok...wolnelewo.plTydzień szokujących odkryć: Trump jest Trumpem, KO to konserwa - WolnelewoTo jest tydzień pełen zaskoczeń. Z jednej strony pan Cejrowski odkrywa, że Trump łże, a z drugiej pan […] 1226
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Long in the making, but so pleased this is finally out & open access, thanks to @unibonn.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who made it happen, especially those mentioned in the acknowledgements and captions. A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor* academic.oup.com/bics/article...academic.oup.comA ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor*ABSTRACT. This article investigates the Emperor Julian's relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousi 33110
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 28/04/2026A Companion to Rome, c. 400 - c. 1050 will be presented at the Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on 14 May, 12 noon. Huge thanks to the Centre and to Andrea Augenti and Rita Lizzi. If you're in Rome do come along, or join online. 062
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Ponoć seniorzy mieli przehulać trzynaste emerytury, tak jak rodzice przepić 800 plus. Tymczasem blisko połowa respondentów (48 proc.) przeznacza te środki na leki i leczenie, a ponad jedna trzecia (34 proc.) na bieżące rachunki za czynsz, prąd czy ogrzewanie.wolnelewo.plCzy emeryci przebalowali trzynaste emerytury? - WolnelewoPonoć seniorzy mieli przehulać trzynaste emerytury, tak jak rodzice przepić 800 plus. Z tymi bzdurami postanowiła rozprawić się […] 2246
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026"Tzw. „przedsiębiorców” w Polsce jest maksymalnie 3 miliony i to wliczając w to fikcyjne JDG (czyli de facto pracowników). Osób LGBT jest więcej, bo niemal cztery miliony, według raportu IPSOS z 2024 roku. Ale można te osoby olać, bo konserwa z KO musi pilnować swojego ideologicznego sztandaru".wolnelewo.plKonserwa z KO uznała, że miliony osób LGBT można olać - Wolnelewo– Mówimy o stosunkowo niewielkiej grupie wyborców. To nie jest temat, który rozstrzyga wybory. Zresztą, same osoby LGBT […] 4468
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I feel like we need a term "yanksplaining" for this kind of situations. 020
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon 11332341165
Reposted by Aleksander Paradzińskielia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to 1040321840
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Whenever I have friends working on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval history visit Warsaw I always try to take them to the Faras Gallery at the National Museum. It's such a unique exhibition. The recent reconstruction of clothing from its iconography is so neat ;) www.cambridge.org/core/service... 097
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJames Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026One of the greats, and among her many other accomplishments, author of what imho remain two of the greatest introductory books available to anyone wanting to learn about the late Roman world (namely, "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity" and "The Later Roman Empire"). 3284
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences. 1884797949
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiIllia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I mean -- Ukraine has spent years moving mountains in real time and standing against a far superior enemy, and yet idiots keep parroting nonsense about a “failed state” that no one is willing to fight for. 1797699
Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Perhaps denying Trump the assistance he asks for was a mistake? I am sure one of the European leaders must have a talentless son-in-law and a real estate developer friend of questionable intelligence, who may negotiate a peace deal with Iran in exchange for Florida and US demilitarisation? 010
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiJulia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 17/03/2026And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de The Nameless in History ...and in English www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-... @woodjamie.bsky.socialuni-bonn.deWhat’s in a Name? — The Unknown Faces of History 0168
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots. 16359922300
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiWolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"Trump niedawno: – Europa! Żałosna jesteś i dwulicowa. Nara. Trump dzisiaj: – Hej, chcesz mi pomóc z Ormuzem? Mam chorą wojnę i ceny paliw". Zapraszam do lektury: wolnelewo.pl/trump-zada-o...wolnelewo.plTrump żąda od Europy włączenia się do wojny z Iranem - WolnelewoTrump niedawno: – Europa! Żałosna jesteś i dwulicowa. Nara.Trump dzisiaj: – Hej, chcesz mi pomóc z Ormuzem? Mam […] 03610
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026We need to acknowledge role played by Biden, Sullivan, Scholz and the gang for letting me hang on long enough for Donald to rescue me. History will be kind to them. 1544792
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out! tinyurl.com/dujjeuth 1121953
Reposted by Aleksander Paradziński(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Since Starlink has been deactivated for Russian forces in Ukraine the internet traffic has dropped by 75%. Imagine that 3 out of 4 terminals were in Russian hands. Source: Kentik 18851230
Reposted by Aleksander ParadzińskiDane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now 216256716911