Daniel Bellingradt

We all agreed on 8 eventually. But maybe there are 10?

Wait. Nine?

Two small dragons as part of a column decoration: both mouths are facing each other, and are opened.

Stress release for small dragons in the 11th century: either tongue kissing or yelling at each other. Or both.

Another inital that looks like a human head sticking the tongue out.

*blowing a raspberry*

#caturday

The crazy cat woman from the Simpsons.

the cat man from the pamphlet.

I am just saying, there is often a connection from postreformation Europe to The Simpsons.

Meet me for epoch-stretching historical advise on a Saturday morning. #skystorians

And MTV was a video channel before it became a retro app recently.

For the younger ones: both images are from the past.

Well.

Vanity all over

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the hourglass!

#skystorians

You are welcome

I checked again, and I clearly see F (and no E).

Bonus point for the hidden sundial.

This image is from the German "ARtzenei Spiegel" (VD16 E 662), a medical book of #earlymodern Europe. #histmed

A human skull positioned on a sundial with the inscription "INEVITABILE FATUM" (inevitable fate) staring into the void, avoiding eye contact to you, the reader, since 1557.

Staring with his mouth agape since 1557.

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.

Didn’t realize till just now how much my life has been missing early-Modern citrus fruits

Tiny elephant or really big farmer?

Annual Historyposting Award Categories:

-Best history thread
-Best use of historical images
-Best history hashtag/feed
-Best history journal account
-Best heritage account (other than the MERL it’s just not fair otherwise)
-Best history conference account
-Best history puns
-Worst history puns 😏
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A merwoman holding a comb and a mirror, riding a big fish. This is the colophon from this book: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/8532285

Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin Frieß... #bookhistory

You all know what I mean…

In 2026, Human-Printer interaction is still more important than Human-AI interaction.

Your everyday Human-Machine Interaction:

They’re trying to get us to be enthousiastic about AI - BUT WE DONT EVEN HAVE WORKING PRINTERS YET. I WANT A PRINTER THAT PRINTS WHEN I HIT THE PRINT BUTTON, I don’t want AI to predict when I will need new shoelaces, based on my search history for medieval paintings. ALL I WANT A WORKING PRINTER.

A group of women, Amazons, are fighting a group of armed men. This image was printed in 1550, in sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis, vol. 6.

Fear the well-dressed Amazons!

That’s a good question!

Something happened between 1440 and 1550…