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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

VIRGIN ENGLISH: Calling toilets "Johns", a name whose etymologies are uncertain and all boring CHAD ITALIAN: Calling toilets "Vespasiani", the name of a great Roman emperor already associated with pissing

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We cross-referenced the psychometric personality data of ~ 1 million people with their zodiac astrological signs: 1) There is a small but statistically significant effect of zodiac sign on personality controlling for demographic and attitudinal variables

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Iceland already did the same thing in the past. Maybe we should simply start ignoring them

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Two Jazz musicians adopt a new stage persona to join a band travelling to Florida

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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have an unpopular opinion that has never not felt justified. Subtitles for foreign language films are bad. If I wanted to read, I would read. I watch a movie to Observe the Image. Purists claim dubs ruin the intended effect as if it's preferable to spend 2 hours looking at 10% of the screen.

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

LLMs will never be able to match a human reviewer! An LLM will need to read the text I have written, but a human reviewer will skip the passage and generate infinite questions, even already answered by the text!

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Apocalypse Now. A couple cool scenes, but the rest is terrible. The script is a mess, it's incredibly boring and the entire Kurtz part looks like Marlon Brando couldn't care less and did bullshit on screen (because that's the case). There's no deep idea, just an attempt to look artsy.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Proposal: unlimited political donations, but only through founding universities.

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

(John) Healey went from Secretary for State for Defence to Chancellor of the Exchequer. I guess history repeats itself

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As boring as the match was, the half-time show was worse. Let's pretend temporary insanity and never mention it again

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of the most boring match ever, but it ended for the best

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Actually, things were at their best during the last year of my life when I had no responsibilities. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poof PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

5-panel SMBC comic update. A man is stating intensely "things are bad. Probably there was some time when they were good. Yesss, yesssss, the past was so much better because—" A little green haired fairy poofs into existence next to him, and says she is the history fairy. She happily says "I’m here to tell you the past was EVEN WORSE!" The man disagrees, explaining "but work was better and people had freedom and–" The fairy hugs his face, shushing him "shh. Shh honey. Things were never good."

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@emile-chabal.bsky.social chose 'The Left Wing Case for Austerity' by @micdido.bsky.social - a 'forgotten history [which] sets out an alternative future in which ideas such as ‘restraint’ or ‘austerity’ might have progressive outcomes' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe - Volume 35

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Fine, I'll support England! Better than the alternative choices!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

very very funny to see American progressives not only praising the suspension of the Balogan red card but also attacking “Europeans” who aren’t happy about it, Americans just can’t help Americaning when it comes down to it

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

NEW from me: ICYMI over the weekend, I've written a long and **free** article about the UK govt's attempts to plan for the very long-term in the post-war era. Lots of lessons to be learned! All part of a great special issue edited by @ettorrecos.bsky.social. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Nature Does Not Make a Jump’: The British Government's Very Long-term Planning Committee in the 1960s

Most commentary about the influence of scientific and economic ‘experts’ in post-war Britain focuses on policy failures – on the inadequacy of medium-term decisions, and on missed targets and polit...

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Anyway, just to be clear: Gianni Infantino is Swiss. I know his name and the whole nonchalant corruption vibe make it sound like like he’s our fault. But this one is not on us. He’s Swiss.

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I thank Glen for his great contribution to the special issue I edited

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This, I think, is the fundamental historical burden of our time: we have at last achieved power to reshape our world to our liking and also to destroy ourselves and we must now rise above part of our nature in order to provide a future for generations to come, to buy time for evolution to catch up.

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think @nonsenseisland.bsky.social should bring these comics to @jfruh.bsky.social 's attention properly on Bluesky, when people can appreciate them x.com/NonsenseIsla...

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Teaching is essential training for researcher. Whenever I find some irritating habit in my students, I become self-conscious about it and try to expunge it

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Tifare Giappone per generica giapponofilia o tifare i Paesi Bassi in omaggio a Grotius e Spinoza? Sono costretto a queste domande stupide per l’incapacità degli azzurri di qualificarsi

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Could I ask my friends to help me spread the news about five doctoral scholarships in History and Law in sunny Naples? At the frontier of research, fully funded and with plenty of opportunities to travel for research! www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/sti...

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5 Doctoral scholarships “Global History and Governance” (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples)

The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples, in partnership with the Università di Napoli Federico II, invites applications for five fully funded scholarships in the PhD program in Global History...

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Exactly ten years from my PhD defence. These last ten years have been good to me. I have travelled a lot, met interesting people and new friends, explored libraries and archives, studied new literature, analysed old documents, written papers, organised seminars and conferences, taught many students

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5 Doctoral scholarships “Global History and Governance” (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples)

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s the eternal conflict between architects and engineers. Architects and utopians imagine marvels to be built, bureaucrats and engineers must turn them into reality, prevent everyone dying and cut the unrealistic parts. Same reasons venture capital resents HR. Or boys hate mom

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"The Patriarchs of two branches of Christianity, both coming from a key metropolitan centre, are divided by opinions on the nature of Christ AND colour-themed sport rivalry" --> Welcome Back Late Antiquity Roman Empire!

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am organising a research workshop on the topics of growth, degrowth, abundance and environmentalism and how they influenced progressive parties. It will be held on 10-11 June at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples www.ssmeridionale.it/wp-content/u...

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New job: Post-doctoral fellow in Global History and Governance Scuola Superiore Meridionale jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70006

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Declino dell’alfabetizzazione: Impiegata delle poste: “Mi detti il codice del pacco” Io: “Torino, Savona, Xilofono… no, non batta Y, Xilofono è con la X!”

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Count of Montecristo (Dumas) Great Expectations (Dickens) La coscienza di Zeno (Svevo)

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What would be really cool is if like a medieval joiner or cooper after receiving your PhD you were expected to wander the country on foot, picking up odd teaching jobs, before you got tenure oh shit that's the actual system

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a tenure-track position in Modern History at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples. I look forward to developing my career here, building future research collaborations, and contributing to the institution’s growth.

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

When Phantom and Clones came out I didn’t consume Anglo pop culture regularly due to the language barrier. When I started to, I was amazed that the consensus was that those movies were not just mediocre, but abominations. I am sure some Italian purists disliked the Prequels but it was not universal

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

As an Italian, I'm sick and tired of Anglos applying Hollywood stereotypes to my country! But yes, today we had to change room for our seminar because of the Pope's visit

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Io 2022: I sostenitori delle ragioni di Putin sono come Chamberlain Putin-Versteher 2022: Come osi! Rovelli 2026: Il problema di Chamberlain è che non ha sacrificato anche la Polonia!

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Britain is not sending their best

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“You can only pass two laws within the space of two years before electing a new parliament” is real Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth shit!

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is historically accurate. Immigrants from European nations that spent centuries killing each other in Europe came to America, became one big happy white family when they found some new race to be racist towards

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Old Elliot: “Now you can’t even call them ET! It’s not politically correct! My best friend was a ET!”

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Orientamento ai liceali. Ho visto studenti ignorare la lezione mentre guardano TikTok. Ma ho anche visto studenti ignorare la lezione mentre smontano una penna nelle singole componenti. Un mix di tradizione e innovazione

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Mary in the Sunny storyline

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Every methodological section in a book or application is basically just "Yes, I am aware of the limitations of my tools"

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Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Siamo alla vigilia del 2026 e Orietta Berti canta sulla Rai “Finché la barca va” del 1971. Non solo questo paese non ha futuro, non lo vuole!

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