it is the actual battle of hastings by the way. confirmed real

'But what would, say, the German court have thought, full of snobbish aristocrats from old families as it was, to find an authoritative representative from northern Italy’s biggest city called Shit-pesto?' Chris! I do so wish we had better words to describe how much academic colleagues mean to us.

Gad Saad, the Rogan-anointed inheritor of Peterson’s vacated position as the patron public intellectual of chuds, is terrified of Anne Carson’s “dark and nasty aura.”

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Real freedom independence is choosing what side of the road you drive on. Sign my petition to switch all Alberta highways to left hand drive and we will have a referendum over this unless danielle smith doesnt want to. Don't let Ottawa dictate your right to choose!

Nothing beats stumbling across this passage for the first time. I remember the experience vividly!

Sleepwalking into a New World was the book that made me a medievalist. I didn’t know a historian could write like that, with so much erudition but also verve!

Fuck. Chris Wickham apparently has passed. Pour one out for a real one fellas and fellitas and fellix. Dude was an absolute mench and will be survived by an amazing body of work.

Just saw that Chris Wickham has passed. Incredible historian, an absolute giant of medieval history, one of the most original thinkers of the last few decades, someone whose work will always be in my head and heart. May he continue tracking the distribution of African Red Slip in the great beyond.

For me as for so many others, Chris Wickham has been fundamental for how I think about the early medieval world--I'd even go so far as to say how I think about history writ large. An enormous loss.

Please read this lovely story about Chris Wickham. We all need to be more Chris. Especially now there’s no more Chris.

It's not enough that they're orphans?

The premium on my duelling insurance went through the roof, so I have to avoid getting into fights for a while.

Virgil should be the Fitzgerald translation but I couldn't be bothered to keep scrolling to find it.

My top five of the 2020s: La Chimera (2023) The Delinquents (2023) The Beasts (2022) Afire (2023) The Secret Agent (2025)

Alberta separatists want an independent Alberta that's the only American state loyal to the British monarchy