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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1h

Ewwww...don't date your students. Creepy AF

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3h

Ever wondered what a zombie GEN Patton would look like? Well, the Rockford WWII Days Reenactment has you covered.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3h

No, you see, Bruce Willis' character is ALSO actually dead.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3h

Ah, I see our Secretary of Dipshittery is doing PT and making everyone wear a stupid definitely not uniform t-shirt. I am so looking forward to this guy's ultimate downfall.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3h

I never started using it. Because I'm not a lazy rube.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

This hat pisses off fascists. Get yourself one at the link below! shop.rnli.org?srsltid=AU7g...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

If she's flying a helicopter one-handed, we are all going to die. (Also, I want to use this simulator SO badly.)

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

WAiT bUt He'S a MUsLiM eXTrEmIsT comMUniSt!?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10h

History students: Be sure you understand your sources before you make them the centerpiece of your argument.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

It would be absolutely hilarious if the RAF Fairford terrorists turn out to be fly tippers. A real Alice’s Restaurant situation.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10h

I am being made to teach a Political Theory course for the Politics department (b/c reasons) and as I'm preparing my seminar it made me wonder... Are political scientists just historians with delusions of intellectual grandeur?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 11h

No away kit available. All games played...at "home."

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 12h

Are Justin Webb and Nick Robinson really the best we can do? One of them just tried to have a go at Andy Burnham by asking him IF HIS DEAD DAD WOULD HAVE AGREED WITH HIS POLICIES! wtf

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

This hat pisses off fascists. Get yourself one at the link below! shop.rnli.org?srsltid=AU7g...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

Re; the Cornell rapists Universities should not have police departments. Actual police should handle actual crimes. Public safety dudes with flashlights and reflective vest can stick to Aiden sneaking beer into the dorms.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

It would be absolutely hilarious if the RAF Fairford terrorists turn out to be fly tippers. A real Alice’s Restaurant situation.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

The Cornell rapists are a Kitty Genovese for a new generation.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

Look, I don't want to be discriminatory or whatever, but it DOES look weird when the Japanese reenactors are, like, middle-agd white guys. And, I'm questioning if they really needed the round coke-bottle glasses...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

I swear to god, they will never put down that Tiger crack pipe.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

No...for reenactments to be...realistic, there need to be people being horribly maimed and killed. Everything else is sanitized cosplay. And you don't need Nazis for cosplay. The Clean Wehrmacht is the cockroach of historical myths.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

There I was...laying on my Pottery Barn oak bed under my Restoration Hardware New England wool blanket. . .

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Traumatized Soldier

ALT: Traumatized Soldier

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

"Honey, what we really need is a Nazi for the guest bathroom!"

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

Hitler...a murderer? That's shocking! edition.cnn.com/2026/09/25/e...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

I have ALWAYS been deeply skeptical about psychohistory. In particular, the desire by some to diagnose or categorize people in the past (eg. as autistic, OCD, gay/straight, etc). These things require the person to be in front of you. Sometimes history is just incapable of knowing some things.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Abolish the Home Office

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

I'm not sure there's anything "new" in this research, but it's always good to confront the public with this.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

That's...not how acknowledgements work. 🤦‍♂️

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

I don't think the guy who invited a journalist to the top secret group chat should ever talk about "super intelligence."

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

Remember...it's YOUR kids that should go to vocational school, not theirs.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

Counterpoint: The wealthy don't pay enough taxes so let's fix that.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

That's...not how acknowledgements work. 🤦‍♂️

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

Yay! Finally an award for all those “heterodox” racists and eugenicists out there “just asking questions!”

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

I’m with you, man. I’ve never heard of “Choosin Texas.”

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

The new semester opens tomorrow and I've updated my AI guidance. Feel free to steal and share with your students as well. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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AI Guidance

AI Guidance The use of artificial intelligence (in particular generative AI or genAI) is expressly forbidden in this module. This does not include the spellcheck function in Word, for example. Why am...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

<stares in Bachelor's of Science in History degree> lol But, seriously, I hate this framing as if history is some little hobby- fun to do, but not a serious subject you would study in university. And, oh boy, wait until you hear about the history of science! It's a whole thing.

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