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@sommandmooch.bsky.social

Master of Medieval Studies, geek of wine, roller of dice. Sommelier in Boston.

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Petition to begin calling the Perry x Trudeau relationship Perrydeau.

28.10.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Give the news cycle 5 minutes and we'll be there. The spin machine is hard at work blending fascist ultra nationalist theocracy and kleptocracy into a slurry to force feed us. I am so fucking done with this year, country, and admin.

11.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I am not saying humans didn't contribute, but there are more pressures than just humans. Compounding factors for sure, but we can't discredit the rapidly changing environment and just blame one predator in the environment. Albeit a predator with tool culture.

06.10.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Linguistic diversity in the Americas would indicate some 20,000 or more years of cohabitation. I would say it was much more likely that the end of glaciation and the younger dryas impact caused a rapid shift in the environment that the native equus could not handle.

06.10.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I know, horses wander all over the place, I saw them on Veterans all the time. Bobcats and coyotes too. On a walk one night, I found a herd of horses in hidden valley. I backed off slowly and calmly because there were foals. Two weeks later the HOA carted them off.

06.10.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, that really is some "dark ages" shit. Come on Dan Brown stop going Hollywood medieval on your research!

06.10.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@wickedheartxo.bsky.social

I am against killing horses, but I will say unlike wolf populations and other animals, horses are a species brought over by Europeans during colonization.

Yes they did evolve here originally, but they died out well over 10k years ago. Their niche would have been filled

06.10.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor of Art History, American University of Paris The American University of Paris invites applications for a full-time position in the Department of Art History and Fine Arts at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning 1 August 2026.The Departme…

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03.10.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I honestly thought my knowledge of dorf was so niche. I have never met anyone out of my family unit that knew it.

30.09.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100 a month is outrageous. You find 100 documents and read them only to realize you asked the wrong question and only got 6 decent sources. Do the JStor people even research?

30.09.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Footage of "woke leftist" actors portaying Antifa in a postive way.

29.09.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No taxation without representation. Massachusetts needs a militia

29.09.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot take, the government shouldn't be able to "shut down." If you are part of a shut down, you don't fucking work for me anymore. Fuck these vichy fucks. This congress does not speak for me, my peers, nor my wife.

28.09.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like how people trust AI inherently and I don't trust the automatic sensors in public bathrooms. Just because I shifted a fraction of an inch doesn't mean flush. Frantically waving does mean turn on the sink/ dispense soap/ give me a paper towel.

27.09.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welp, looks like portland needs to get some fucking ICE melt.

27.09.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Puts my alembic away, stows the lead*

*in my best dnd stereotypical cowboy alchemist voice* "What in Transmutation is going on here?"

23.09.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

0 seconds to midnight.

21.09.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vichy democrats at it again.

20.09.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember in college staying up for two days because of the first game. Haven't been that possessed by a game in such a long time... silly life getting in the way.

16.09.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That game is magical.

16.09.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just under a week left to submit a proposal for our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year and to apply for a bursary! #Skystorians #MedievalSky

12.09.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a dangerous message being sold across the UK media that right wing extremism is inevitable and all we can do is offer up its desired victims - migrants, all people of colour, disabled people, trans people - in advance.

But people's actions tell a different story.

14.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

12.09.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 18236    πŸ” 6430    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 139

Everyone in power in every country in which his businesses operate should condemn him. And pull support from him.

14.09.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, β€œNo.”

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth.

Many complied and shut down their programs.

Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.

And now, they just beat Trump in court.

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14.09.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9018    πŸ” 2985    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 116

In case this needs to be said, in light of recent conservative news, unhoused people are perople too. Furthermore, in the USA the majority are former service members... lets hope they are armed when the government comes to kill them.

14.09.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I understand what living in the warhammer 40k age of apostasy was like.

14.09.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a decade ago, mind you. But this feels different. I played hell divers (with an active service man), and I instantly recognized the command. But there is fandom and there is insanity. My favorite scifi fiction is warhammer 40k, it does not make me fascist.

14.09.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having been an edgelord gamer on the full end meme side of it, this is not meme lord bs. This is actual groyper.

14.09.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No one
Nobody
Nothing
Nada
Elite journalist: let me tell you why I liked that guy you hate

13.09.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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