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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Ok I swear I am going to use bluesky more I just need to start interacting with people here lol

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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...

screenshotted text: We’ll need to build out renewables at breakneck speed and electrify everything we can, of course. But some of the most powerful levers we have to decouple economic growth from environmental impact challenge us to do something even harder — to begin outgrowing two central fixtures of American life that are as taken-for-granted as they are supremely inefficient: our extreme dependence on meat and cars.

Changing those realities is so culturally and politically heretical in America that this case is almost never made in climate politics, but it deserves to be made nonetheless. And doing so will require examining the trade-offs that we too often treat as defaults.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This book is really good. Although it's probably not for people who want a basic overview given how incredibly detailed it is

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Bruh I need to use this app more

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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Everything you actually need to understand about the Consumer Reports protein powder report (threading a gift link!) -- plant-based protein powders are fine, and do not, ffs, allow them to push you to get whey protein

screenshotted text: times lower than minimal known unsafe levels) to arrive at 0.5 micrograms of lead per day as its reference level.

This is an unachievable safety target, significantly below the lead you get from average daily food consumption, especially for people who eat more legumes, fruits, and vegetables, all of which grow in the soil and inherently pull in some amount of heavy metals. As one clinical dietician I spoke with told me of the Prop 65 level: “You literally can’t eat food from the Earth if you want to achieve this.”

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Ok I need to get this book too lol

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hmm we actually know a lot more about the CIA's illegal MKULTRA program than I realized. I had assumed most of it was just unknown and unknowable because the documents were destroyed but apparently historians can reconstruct what all the subprojects that compromised MKULTRA did.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I really want to get this when it comes out

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today I just learned that France and Britain nearly went to war over Syria in June 1945 only a month after the surrender of Nazi Germany. Their troops actually exchanged fire 💀

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's kinda crazy how often translators of ancient texts will not translate the word slave as slave but instead translate these words as "servant". You see this in Homer, New Testament, and Quran translations

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Ok sorry this is more accurate for some reason I forgot that ancient Israelite religion is a direct descendant of ancient Cannanite religion (again credit to @basedball_ on Twitter for making this)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ok so this is my current understanding of the historical relationship between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity using a kinda evolutionary tree analogy (credit to @basedball_ on Twitter for making this chart)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

You know Aristotle was obviously very intelligent but he wasn't perfect and sometimes he was probably a little too gullible lol. Scholars think the animal he is talking about here is a European Bison

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Why did ancient people all think the mind was in the heart rather than the brain? The ancient Egyptians, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Quran, and Aristotle all think this. Tbh I don't get it. It seems so intuitive to me that my mind is in my head. Like I can feel it

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We need more philosohers to also be mercenaries like Xenophon was

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ok this book just came out and I am definitely going to read it. It basically makes the case that the references to Jesus in Josephus are almost entirely authentic(!!). It has great scholarly reviews so lol maybe I'll be convinced. It's actually available for free as a pdf

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I love Pliny the Elder. His "Natural History" is interesting and hilarious. Also he had the most gigachad death during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 AD, Pompey and all that). I mean ok he was a Roman aristocratic slave owner, meat eater and all that and that's bad but still

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I swear every time I have read an anecdote from Ibn Battuta in my Islamic history book it's annoying. He was constantly complaining about the people he was visiting. Like dude just relax you aren't the center of the world.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It's quite intriguing that the literary insertions that scholars find in the Quran (verses that were likely added to suras at later times) are justified and explained by the Quran itself in an early Meccan sura (Q 75:19)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

How did I not know that Hannibal had a Greek historian with him on his campaign? I just learned this a few days ago. Before that I had assumed that there were no written eyewitness accounts out there. Now that source doesn't survive but it seems Polybius used it in his account.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It's actually kinda insane how modern Christians shot themselves in the foot by deciding that the original intentions of the authors of the Bible has to be what is true. Christians used to not care about the original intentions of the authors when they interpreted the Bible.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If creationists wanted to be consistent they would all be flat earthers since the old testament clearly has a flat earth cosmology youtu.be/dphVpq-SD7Q?...

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Old Testament Cosmology: How Ancient Israelites Viewed the World

YouTube video by The Inquisitive Bible Reader

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

David Bentley Hart's expressions of utter contempt for large swaths of people is very funny to watch.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Does anyone know who critical scholars think the pierced one is in Zechariah 12:10? I know Christians think he is Jesus. Idk what the traditional Jewish interpretation is...

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Bruh this is crazy. I had no idea.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 15/05/2025

Jay Bhattacharya is so full of shit. He has been *extremely* vocal about this, including explicitly endorsing a movie that claims Fauci covered up a bunch of lab leaks (without evidence), *signing his name* on letters accusing my colleagues and me of fraud for our research on COVID Origins, etc.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Wait wtf Madagascar was only settled by humans in the 9th century AD??

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Tom Holland's worst historical take was the one where he didn't think Muhammad was from Mecca. A non Meccan origins for Muhammad is extremely implausible in my view. He also at one point wasn't sure if the Quran was written by a single author which is also implausible imo.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

People need to stop saying archeologists only say an object is a ritual object if they don't know what it is. They say it's a ritual object if they actually think it's a ritual object they would say if they don't know what it is. Ritual objects are very common!

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Kinda insane how the Safavid empire was basically just a Sufi order that had become militant, adopted Shia Islam, conquered Iran, turned into an empire, and forcibly converted the population of Iran to Twelver Shia Islam (which is why Iran is majority Shia today)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It's so cool that the Florentine Codex (one of our best primary sources on the Aztecs) has an entry on axolotl. They even drew a picture of one in it. Axolotl are from the lake that Tenochtitlan was built on so the Aztecs knew about axolotl (they were often eaten)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

There's no evidence the Pythagoreans never murdered anyone over irrational numbers. This idea is based on some ancient sources which say some people who revealed Pythagorean secrets died in shipwrecks caused by divine wrath (these sources shouldn't be taken on face value anyways)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ok so it seems that Copernicus independently came up with the Heliocentric model. He was not inspired by Aristarchus. Copernicus only became aware that Aristarchus believed the earth was mobile AFTER he had already come up with his heliocentric model.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"[Ottoman Sultan/Caliph] Mustafa III (ruled 1757-74) attributed the [military] successes of the Europeans to their superior astrology and sought to tap European expertise in that field" 💀

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I sometimes wonder if we should call most of the conquistadors Castilians instead of Spanish. I suspect most of them would think of themselves as Castilians since the joint monarchy of Aragon and Castile was so new (unless they were from the kingdom of Aragon of course)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"There exists another history more ridiculous than the history of Rome since the time of Tacitus: It is the history of Byzantinum. This worthless collection contains nothing but declamations and miracles. It is a disgrace to the human mind." - Voltaire His worst history take imo

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Today is the anniversary of the GREATEST, MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY. It happened (mostly) in the town I was born in which obviously means I have zero bias in this assessment. youtu.be/BmdWe2YUVrc?...

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250 Years Ago Today! The Battles of Lexington & Concord

YouTube video by Epic History

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The idea that Julius Caesar wrote his Gallic Wars as propaganda to be read back in Rome as the war was going on doesn't seem to be true. We have no evidence of contemporaries reading his books while the war was happening. They seem to have learned about the war via other means.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In Norse mythology Loki is not Thor's brother nor is he Thor's adoptive brother. His father is not Odin but a Jottunn named Farbauti and his mother is an Æsir named Laufrey. However since Æsir are considered to be higher status than Jottunn Loki associates with his mother's clan

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just read an anecdote about a Mamluk commander saying it's womanly and unmanly to use guns

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

You know everyone says the last viking was Herald Hardrada (d. 1066 AD) but this king of Norway, Eystein Haraldsson (a great great grandson of Harald Hardrada) was going on raids against England and Scotland as late as the 1150s lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eystein...

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Eystein Haraldsson - Wikipedia

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Ok tbf we also have a similar argument from Ptolemy however it doesn't involve looking at a ship! He says that if you approach a mountain from the sea you can see it rise above the horizon as you approach it by sea. This isn't the same. Also Ptolemy was writing 400 years after the idea was proposed.

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Ok here is what Aristotle actually says (this is from the Oxford translation of his book On the Heavens). Notice how he says nothing about ships sinking over the horizon. Also this is the earliest actual empirical argument for the earth being round that we know of (although the idea predates him)

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Ok I watched this video from a science YouTube channel and none of the arguments it says Aristotle makes for the earth being round are the actual arguments he actually made lol. People need to actually read the sources instead of relying on "common knowledge" ugghhhh youtu.be/nQC0xs7YyQ0?...

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Exploring the Ancient Science: How the Greeks Knew That the Earth Is Spherical

YouTube video by Science Simplified

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Henri Mourant @mouranthenri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I think the first guy to make this argument was Copernicus. Or at least he is the reason why this argument is so popular today. He makes it in his famous book De revolutionibus. I don't think we have ancient authors making it (the closest we get is Pliny the Elder but it's not the same)

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