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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Follow-up, I am not a fan of whatever kind of snake this is

Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

Though also, Gallica's zoom function is waaaay too fiddly, I'm reporting it to Fouché

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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

So I think that makes it 6-3 technically, but effectively 5-4 on the central issue. Ooof

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

Whoops, got that wrong Gorsuch definitely dissented. It was Kavanaugh who did the weird move. Joined the majority, but held that the executive order *did not* violate 14th Amendment but did violate a previous federal statute.

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

My understanding is that Gorsuch actually did join, at least on some parts, though wrote a separate opinion. Either way, not ideal

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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)

YouTube video by ScorpionsVEVO

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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

I can't imagine who else would think these design decisions would be a good idea

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

"But Tyson," you might say, "surely your problems derive from your merely average Powerpoint skills and overall lack of techological élan?" To which I respond: no, I disagree. Cadaver Synod.

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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

Anyways, more of an amanuensis guy, myself

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

YOU THINK I DONT ALREADY HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT QUILLS??

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

Trying to build my brand as “tiresome pedant,” also buying stock in monocle factors and astrolabe distributors

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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

Sports: The Iron Claw (Durkin, 2023) Runner-Up: Bull Durham (Shelton, 1988) HM: Challengers (Guadagnino, 2024) There are some obvious ways that Bull Durham is a "better" movie, but what can I say, The Iron Claw really walloped me War: Destination Tokyo (Daves, 1943)

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

Music: Tender Mercies (Beresford, 1983) Documentary: American Movie (Smith, 1999) Runner-Up: Heartworn Highways (Szalapski, 1976) HM: Directed by John Ford (Bogdanovich, 1971/2006)

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