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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Went on an ad blocking spree on Instagram last week and I am proud to say that I have defeated the algorithm. This thing can’t lay a GLOVE on me

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To paraphrase the author, they’re like a couple which keeps getting together, hating each other, breaking up and getting back together again

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God bless Toxic Old Man Yaoi 🫡

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m not surprised that this year I’ve read two books about quirky immortal androids in a will-they-won’t-they-ship chasing each other up and down history. I AM surprised that the one I preferred, in almost every way, was the Warhammer 40k tie in novel

The Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, it really is that good.

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ok cmon this is just silly

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In case I haven’t mentioned

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Dear Newcastle City Council, There are too many Tyne bridges nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“There was a little rowing”

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨 The Bayeux Tapestry is coming to the British Museum and so is Weird Medieval Guys! As part of the celebration of the tapestry’s loan, Olivia and I will be running a special, 1066-themed edition of our pub quiz at the British Museum late on 9 October www.britishmuseum.org/events/bayeu...

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Rounding out my Mount Rushmore is Mexico Home, because cmon it’s Aztecs!!!

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m a contrarian in that I don’t usually like a white kit but mein gott Germany Home is so nice. It gives me an uncontrollable urge to blast 99 Luftballoons out my window

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Even more gorgeous is Ghana Away - fucking hell look at that tasteful patterning

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Figured I should make a thread for the most important part of the World Cup: Unsolicited Football Kit opinions. Starting with the obvious: the Scotland away kit fucks, easily the best we’ve had in a decade, I will buy one when they’re on sale

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is how summer 2026 has felt so far

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reluctantly reorienting my World Cup affiliation

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Exactly three years ago, the @weirdmedieval.bsky.social podcast launched. Over 60 episodes later, I’m so proud that something so homespun has found its audience and thrived. It’s a joy to make the show and a joy to meet all the wonderful people who enjoy it

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We still talk about you…

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Salivating at the thought of Group G sleepwalking into Oops All Draws

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Euro 2020 Glasgow Fanzone, you will always be special to me

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

EXCUSE you that is MRS MALLARD from beloved children’s classic Make Way for Ducklings

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Hard to explain but this happens to the statues in your city it is a sign of great respect

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Walked into a Maltese cafe in the middle of festa and got stunlocked by the Germany scoreline

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Gutted to hear that John Blanche passed away. His art made Warhammer this grimy, outrageous and dreamlike feeling that has been catnip to me since I was a teenager. One of the greats ❤️

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Instagram ads have started asking me some incredible questions

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I think i understand what i was getting at because this is one of the hardest lines in the history of western literature

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Confronted by this in my notes app on Saturday morning

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Project Hail Mary (2025)

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is my holy text. I would go into battle for Ella Risbridger 🫡

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tried to pick a few that are foundational for me but nobody ever references

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I mean my god. The direct comparison is brutal

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not February 2027 yet" but I'm simply too seated

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thank you Meta VR for giving the world my favourite paragraph in journalistic history

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Headlines from 1250 AD:

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Y’all mind if I catch the

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Paraphrasing ManCarryingThing here but it’s telling that boosters of AI in art almost never present the books (or “paintings” or whatever) AI writes as the end in itself. It’s always a means to make money, either selling the books or seminars

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hey Cameron Winter, can you explain the basic relationship between Christianisation and state building in early medieval Northern Europe?

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Something something Heated Rivalry

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Always thinking about Bernard Shaw’s description of Joan of Arc

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

God bless the true Mayor of Norwich. A Fine City indeed 🫡

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

SWEYN FORKBEARD CNUT THE GREAT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN MADS MIKKELSEN YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Finally finished @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s wonderful Children of Time last night. 18 hours later I’m still walking around muttering “they turned that woman into ants!” to myself. Absolutely masterful stuff to the very last page.

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Also Joe Marler going full Poirot was just glorious

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The Celebrity Traitors isn’t just the best thing on tv right now, it’s the best thing that’s *been* on tv in at least three years. Multiple moments in the last episode had me exactly like this

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I desperately want to pick the brains the 5% of East Midlanders who, when asked to name the single most distinctive thing about their region, spontaneously and confidently replied “we have an airport”

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Hey meta just fyi prompting me to use AI to write a message to my family group chat is offensive and borderline demonic

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