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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In an obituary of all places, @nytimes.com chose to promote ignorance from white supremacists when they could've said, "Ubisoft has a full-time historian on staff, and creates the games through extensive collaborations with experts in ancient art, architecture, and literature." Which is true.

From a historical perspective, Ubisoft has delivered everything I could have asked for, providing a rich, textured, and unbelievably beautiful Japan to lose yourself within. This being Playing With History, I just had to know more about the work that Ubisoft put into crafting this historical marvel. That’s where Dr. Stéphanie-Anne Ruatta, the World and Historical Director for Assassin’s Creed Shadows came in. Ruatta is a historian with a PhD in ancient languages and literature, and is currently the onboard historian at Ubisoft Quebec, having worked on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR, and now, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. She took the time to sieve through my waffle and blathering to figure out if there was an actual coherent history question in there.

Dr Glaire Anderson, of Edinburgh College of Art’s School of History of Art, worked with game developers Ubisoft on Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the upcoming instalment in the Assassin’s Creed® franchise launching worldwide on October 12, 2023, which follows the early years of protagonist Basim Ibn Is’haq in the capital of the medieval Abbasid caliphate.

Dr Anderson provided expertise on medieval Islamic history, art, architecture, archaeology and civilisation to Ubisoft’s in-house history team, and contributed to a new educational feature, ‘History of Baghdad’, which offers players an interactive way to learn more about the game’s rich setting.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Walked 7.6 miles in London today. Pretty hot for it. Had a nice dinner overlooking the Thames with a view of St. Paul. Waitress came up and told me not to have my phone on the table next to the railing where it could get snatched because, and I quote, “don’t you know London?”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Threatening to kill negotiators is exactly the kind of thing that weak, insecure people think is strong.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Every time Trump threatens to attack Iran he is violating the terms of his surrender. Here's the very first graph of the MOU he signed:

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

When I was a lad I wanted very badly to go to a movie memorabilia/funhouse type place in Hollywood that advertised on TV. My dad took me. After driving, and parking, and paying, and entering, it transpires that it was the WRONG movie museum/funhouse, without the same slide and so forth.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I never get used to how much cultists will degrade themselves by pretending to believe this lunatic’s nonsense.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So this is new. At the hotel’s breakfast buffet today I saw a lady with a tissue stuffed into her nose and hanging down. Like just 80% of the tissue hanging out of her nose. Is this a thing In some cultures?

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Dude it was WILD. Like this is a literal email that someone wrote and sent to me.

You might need to check your Bluesky account. Someone is claiming to be you and attacking Seth Abramson under your name. They are making you look really bad, saying that Seth is a crank and charlatan when everyone knows that Seth is a Trump biographer who knows better than most of us the inner workings of the deranged mind of our current “president.” I would definitely let Bluesky know you are being impersonated. No way a Penn State college professor wouldn’t know better than what was stated on your account ! Just wanted to give you a heads up.

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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Trump Administration Announces Plans To Arrest Foreigners For Making Gas Prices Higher, Movies Not As Good, Kids Less Respectful

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“.. I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Americans have the right never to grow older. Americans have the right for things always being like they remember. Americans have the right for nothing ever to change. Americans have the right never to see anything new.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/06/2026

Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.”

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Cyclist arrested at Reflecting Pool is former Olympian who denies vandalism claims

David Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” Trump accused vandals of sabotaging the refurbishment.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship Warner Bros. news network, to soften its reporting on the president and his administration."

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Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

London a bit muggy. Looks like we're in for a heat wave on this trip.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 20/06/2026

The President, today, flaunted an explicit violation of the constitution by showing off a jet gifted to him by a foreign country and this is how the paper of record is reporting it buried deep on its home page Legacy media should never claim itself as a protector of democracy

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This appears to be the president’s "proof" that vandals are sabotaging the Refelecting Pool.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The person/people running this account may claim that they’re not fascists, but their posts are neck deep in fascist aesthetics. @kenwhite.bsky.social’s Law of Goats applies.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Parts of the Right genuinely believe that the “Binders Full of Women” mockery was so out of bounds, so cruel, that it justified becoming white nationalists.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Democrats refuse to acknowledge terrible injustices just because I completely made them up

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Lars @lpeds.com · 19/06/2026

Wow! Up behind JPL, I just learned. More details here, for anyone interested: altadenaheritage.org/owen-brown/

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Owen Brown | Altadena Heritage

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Went to a Juneteenth event last night — an interfaith thing among local churches my wife helped with. Learned a bunch I didn’t know. Among what I learned — that Owen Brown, John Brown’s son, became a big local figure in Pasadena and his grave up on a mountain is still a popular hike.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

the business is called what a what now sorry

Firm tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool

A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J Cafaro

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don’t mean to be rude and I am not entitled to cast the first stone but why the fuck are a bunch of you giving attention to an obvious flame bait troll account?

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2026

Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships, and using algorithms to help decide who they should meet and sit with, WIRED has learned.

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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026

Brutal community note

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Latest in the Sheri Mecklenburg crime spree

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I mean in the sense that if you gave a test currently to, say, FDR he'd do poorly Though I like the chances of Lincoln's corpse vs Trump

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

At the dentist musing about all the music being 1990s when I realized that's like 50s music now in terms of being oldies

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Matt Traylor @thetraylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have fired clients who use AI to communicate/double check my work. But, my current bane are litigious pro se parties/codefendants using AI to paper you with Motions/filings that make little to no sense, arnt procedurally/substantively correct, but still require my clients to pay to me respond.

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Initial reaction to US v. Hemani from me and Jake Fogleman. A lot to unpack in there.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18/06/2026

NEW: It's impossible to know for sure, but it *looks* like the Trump administration is deliberately trying to slow-walk immigrants' applications to death. Read the always-excellent @daralind.bsky.social in her Bulwark debut. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-tru...

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Is the Trump Administration Slow-Walking DACA to Death?

USCIS doesn’t have to deny applications to derail lives—it can just stop deciding in a timely manner.

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