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David M. Perry

@lollardfish.bsky.social

Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval

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if you make a bad historical analogy though, i get it's irritating when actual experts note your analogy was bad. but when I say some science fact wrong and a scientist points it out, it ain't the scientist at fault, even if sometimes they are kinda surly about it.

03.03.2026 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it does make me irritable to be tagged into threads where I can't reply, but then again, I'm irritable basically all the time these days. despite the hefty dose of wellbutrin. working on it, but it's not a work that ends.

03.03.2026 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

as with so many other things, I just hope that 1) as people's lives get worse here, we successfully manage to persuade them (truthfully) that is the fault of Republicans and 2) if we retake power, we use that power to hold the criminals accountable and fix the systems that empowered them.

03.03.2026 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they have been waging terrorist attacks domestically for a long time. they have been in the military and influential. but now they run the place with zero guardrails. it ain't great.

03.03.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

the thing is ... medieval historians wrote about this when he was nominated, made no difference, was worth saying, but I don't know what else there is to say. there's a tranche of american christians devoted to violence against anyone they deem enemies. they belong to various denominations.

03.03.2026 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect there are only 94,000 medievalists on bluesky but I haven't counted.

03.03.2026 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

depending on how you define crusade there are other answers. always lots of negotiation around who would go where with what blessing.

03.03.2026 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(or at least, at some point during the crusade, people were excommunicated, etc.)

03.03.2026 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the fourth crusade and the sixth crusade took place in direct contravention to papal orders.

03.03.2026 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

he locked replies, which is actually the bluesky move - to invite responses in text but restrict with settings.

03.03.2026 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

landlords are going to show up tomorrow, it is critical that regular folks do too.

03.03.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just sent $20 to Ian to help this family. I'd like you to chip in a few bucks if you can too.

03.03.2026 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh it's because I forgot the @.

03.03.2026 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why won't my venmo find you is the real question ... :)

03.03.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

tonight's fundraising goal let's go.

03.03.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps β€œABOLISH ICE”

Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps β€œABOLISH ICE”

Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months.
Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from β€œAgents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say β€œAbolish ICE.”

03.03.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 985    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 36

Laying in bed with Israel while texting Jesus to come over.

03.03.2026 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Gonna write Dylan and Beatles songs and wonder why I’m not a star

03.03.2026 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The Public Scholar A Practical Handbook

β€œthe teaching voice, rather than the scholarship voice, is the best analogy to public writing. And that’s not about dumbing down or saying things that aren’t true; it’s about having a highly developed sense of audience and context” - @lollardfish.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

03.03.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks so much for saying so :)

03.03.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

!!!!!!!!

03.03.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

he's been exactly that on a team that needed exactly that!

03.03.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We had 15 min at the military graveyard for my father in law

03.03.2026 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Celts didn’t play brown and queta (who has been exceptional at center). Didn’t matter. Not sure I’ve seen a worse team play than tonight’s bucks.

03.03.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

99-69 Celtics over Bucks with a few min left. Kinda rough welcome back for Giannis.

03.03.2026 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same

03.03.2026 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please do this. For our neighbors and for everyone working on rent funds’ sanity

03.03.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congressman Brandon Gill

@RepBrandonGill
How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

02.03.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2033    πŸ” 415    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 29

So very bad.

03.03.2026 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i miss "Drinking with Historians"

03.03.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0