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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 15h

Medieval Executions 🧵 Hi there. One of my areas of expertise is medieval crime and punishment. If you’re interested, here are some comments on medieval executions. Note that, just as today, practices and perceptions varied widely across medieval Europe... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026

This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This jagoff is so obsessed with image and so incompetent from a military point of view that he would install a pullup bar above a trench and insist his warriors use it.

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Medievalism/Vikingism in the blood bank: a Viking in the red and white Danish national colours attempts to recruit more volunteer plasma donors. Note the military terminology: “oprustning” means “(re)armament” Added argument on this postcard: Right now, we have to buy US plasma. Fascinating times.

A stereotypical Viking garbed in red and white imitates Kitchener by pointing at the viewer and encouraging them to donate plasma.

A postcard warning that Denmark has to buy plasma from the US

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026

I'm not sure I've heard AES speak at length before but I liked this. youtube.com/shorts/akhBp...

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Pro-life student asks Abdul El-Sayed why he should vote for him

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 23/09/2026

Jacob figured it out? Jacob? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best bit of the Bayeux tapestry is the 1944 addendum

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

According to this tribute, Charlie Kirk ended up in same place in the afterlife as Stalin, Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026

Trump pays tribute to Medal of Honor recipients: "The thing I really want is I want is, myself, a congressional Medal of Honor. And I've studied it. I'd give it to myself, I'd have no problem, but I'm not allowed to."

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There are a lot of Ohio Republicans in the news right now and it can get confusing. I'm here to help.

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Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction

ALT: Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Here’s a rush transcript of Trump’s abysmal WHCD speech last night. Best part is when he tells a mildly funny joke and it falls flat and he tries to explain it and complains about the rest of his crappy speech. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...

Joking aside, I do think we need term limits in Congress. I think term limits are very important because I see what's happening.
I see what's happening. The other day, a senator I knew got a text, a great guy,
from his wife. And she said, when you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.
And he said, I can't do both.
You know what the, you know. In other words, can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?
Well, I thought that was actually pretty good.
That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole frickin' stupid speech that they wrote. That was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter. I think, you know, in other words, you can't go up the stairs and make love to a woman.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Had great fun talking about the Dunlendings in The War of the Rohirrim yesterday at the #Tolkien in modern media round table at @imc-leeds.bsky.social

A man presents a paper. On the screen, it says “No rabble of Wildmen - The Dunlendings in The War of the Rohirrim”

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

THERE'S NOT A SOUL OUT THERE! I'M SENDING THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026

Trump: "This is a big, strong guy. But the women. You know the women rule? All the guys know. This guy is a big, powerful guy, and he was petrified of his wife. But he said, 'My wife now respects me again.'"

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Casey L @caseylmusic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Me reading the first sentence: that’s a weird ass sentence. Second sentence: hold my beer.

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There must have been a time, long ago, when those words would have utterly broken my brain. Now, it's just a shrug on a Wednesday.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

some my favorite Gordon Wood quotes: “History does not teach lots of little lessons. Insofar as it it teaches any lessons, it teaches only one big one: that nothing ever works out quite the way its managers intended or expected.” /

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 02/06/2026

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That is...quite a spread. @rorymaclellan.bsky.social, it sadly looks like we have more stuff to study.

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If Eisenhower delivered the Gettysburg address (published in 1957 by Oliver Jensen). Hysterical stuff. They need to do this for every president. Attn @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

For a split second, I read the name as Burzum.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/05/2026

Hey listen to me talk with @vox.com about Pete Hegseth, Iran, and his fabricated crusade nostalgia. His idea of good vs evil, leaves trails of bloodshed in their wake. #medievalsky www.vox.com/videos/48756...

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The Department of Holy War

What Pete Hegseth’s fascination with the Crusades can tell us about the war in Iran.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Now deleted Twitter post from Debra Lea @thedebralea. It reads Shooter at WH Correspondence dinner. Shooter is dead. Thank you secret service.

Under it is a selfie of her making a kissy-face at the camera while everyone mills around with the energy of a minor fire alarm

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Accented Cinema @accentedcinema.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Time to build that thread on #MetalTeaching! Step one: Always have your students recite some metal lyrics at the beginning of class to get everyone going and mark that something new begins.

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Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I just took a look at the final words of my 15 years old master's thesis. Absolutely bonkers what has happened afterwards with Breivik's manifesto becoming mainstream politics and the next US Secretary of Defense having a Deus Vult tattoo.

A screenshot of a text saying "the memory of the Crusades and thus the Templars will stay relevant, for better or for worse. It is difficult to tell what the coming years will bring, but I am quite sure that the Templar Flame in whatever form it takes will not be extinguished in the foreseeable future."

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