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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure I'd call that the most appealing chapter title I've ever heard, honestly (Buzurg ibn Shahriyar, The Book of the Wonders of India, 10th c)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obsessed with this c. 800 sketch of Charlemagne I found for lecture today

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Irish “sans-culottes” and transnational revolutionary aesthetics during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Whatmore, 2019)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Second week of class and had a student come in to chat about things they were interested in from lecture. You completely unironically love to see it

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Taught on Marcel Mauss, Annette Weiner, and the notion of "inalienable wealth" and wound up going on a tangent on the Wu-Tang Clan and Martin Shkreli. I'd like to think it was germane en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Up...

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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin - Wikipedia

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Somehow I forgot that Iron Angels 3 features jetpacks. What an enjoyably ridiculous series. Moon Lee at that level of martial arts star where, if she's in the movie, I'll probably watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k9x...

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Iron Angels 1-3 (1980) [Vinegar Syndrome Archive Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

YouTube video by Vinegar Syndrome

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Drunk on the awesome powers of Interlibrary Loan

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Outlook is down! The sovereign is absent, law and order have been suspended, grab as many big-ticket items as you can

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Folks, what does it say about us as a society that there’s been no screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s The Hot Kid yet? Nothing good, I fear

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Daniel Dessert? More like Daniel Four Course Meal! * spins chair around and sits on it backwards * Folks, Daniel Dessert’s 1984 prosopographical study of French finance during the reign of Louis XIV is no joke. First, it is very long, and moreover (1/217)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Liberté, égalité, fraternité Bonne fête et allez les bleus! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbN...

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Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes et Cætera

YouTube video by Jeff Broccia

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I mean, I'll take 6-3 to uphold birthright citizenship, but it's still dispiriting that it was that close at all. Still, a win's a win

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Book revisions or anyone holding French tontines c. 1770?? You decide

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Met some Scots in town for the World Cup picking up some beer. Told them welcome and hope you have a good time. Trying to do my part

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Getting some quality writing done here

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Surprised to see the BNF taking such a strong anti-La Mettrie stance, honestly

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held to be one of the most striking and in some respects edifying.” - Casaubon, Middlemarch. George Eliot really knows when to be merciful and when to be merciless

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

William Doyle's Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France is currently going for $380, which feels like it would be a datapoint in William Doyle's Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France, Second Edition

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Before the rise of Saint-Domingue, Taiwan was the world’s foremost sugar producer (Ghachem, 2025)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

James Coburn, now there’s a guy you’re happy to see when he shows up

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

George Eliot wields long-winded prose like a rapier. Never really read anything like it

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Taught about modernity and tradition in Wales today, so I had to slip in a reference to Joe Calzaghe, naturally www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VSj...

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Calzaghe v Lacy -World title unification (Full fight). Both undefeated

YouTube video by Ade Eager

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's happening all over the post-92 bit of the sector. Moves are afoot in places not making headlines yet and the cover excuse is the TPS pension. The question now is will organised labour react and will this get the urgency it demands from academics in USS?

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Rickrolling my students by playing The Scorpions' Wind of Change video instead of the Harold Macmillan speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Rj...

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Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Next reading project. Good so far!

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I make it a point to always give constructive feedback

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Typing up a lecture on the Blitz and fighting desperately not to use the phrase "A screaming comes across the sky."

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Few things more dispiriting than some dude asking a dive bar to put the golf on

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In geopolitical terms, it's probably not the *most* critical thing going on right now, but I still think we should consider a Cadaver Synod for whoever keeps updating Powerpoint to be less functional

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thinking about becoming the kind of guy who spells it “débâcle”

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“Remove justice and what are states but gangs of bandits on a large scale?” Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book IV, Chapter 4)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

2025 Movie Roundup: Best New Watch: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975) Runner-Up: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974) Honorable Mentions: Matewan (Sayles, 1987), Becket (Glenville, 1974), Carrington (Hampton, 1995) ...

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Boy, this King Hu guy. Pure dang cinema

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Haitian God Save the King, as recorded by Juste Chanlatte, c. 1817-19

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Just started a movie set in Sonora that daringly uses the grey "Eastern European" filter instead of the standard yellow "Mexico" filter. The world turned upside down, Bakhtinian carnivalesque, cats and dogs etc etc

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Italian unification as international model (Clark, 2012)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Dipping warm tortillas into a big bowl of beans, folks, you gotta love it

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Sometimes you just have to listen to three Tom Waits albums in a row, I do not make the rules

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Good to know that Quesnay's Tableau économique has been giving people fits since the beginning (Charles and Théré, 2019)

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Build the entire plane out of Yamamoto.

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween with Fugazi 🎃 Fugazi on the road in Leeds, England, Halloween 2002 Photo by Matt Dale via Dischord Records #punk #punks #punkrock #halloween #fugazi #punkrockhistory #hardcorepunk

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

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