Marcus Falk (She/They)

Gravestone in Copenhagen of Dominique Lahille, soldier in the 143th infantry regiment who died on January 24 1919, next to it is a small plaque.

The plaque, with a black and white photo of a young soldier and the text "Dominique Lahille. Soldat, 143énne Régt InFie. Mort pour la France en captivité à Copemhague en 1918"

Ehm, does any WW1 historian know why French prisoners of war would be kept in Denmark?

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

small scale wargaming scenery showing a small city in a hilly landscape, bisected by a river and crisscrossed with roads.

small scale wargaming scenery showing a gas station in a green hilly landscape with scattered trees.

It came up somewhere else, so why not share my 6mm scenery again.

It was a pretty good lunch ^.^

What level of pretentiousness is it to have a cheese platter for lunch while reading research and listening to rock jazz on vinyl? Because whatever the level is I have apparently achieved it.

tumblr: thyrell: just came up with a really good 4 word cooking horror story but idk if you guys are ready for it thyrell: 2 cups vanilla extract mother-entropy: jesus christ.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy.

We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic!

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If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

New working paper published on the material living standards of south Swedish towns between 1570 och 1865, co-written with @bengtssonz.bsky.social and @massius.bsky.social. Despite poor and peripheral, these towns compare pretty favourably with other parts of Europe.

swopec.hhs.se/luekhi/abs/l...

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

A view of King Alfred's Tower from the north side. The bricks are sooooo tiny and yesterday when I stood next to it, it boggled my mind to try to estimate how many there are. Despite my banker-mocking caption, and my near certainty that Henry Hoare was a total fuckpig, I have to confess I am massively glad it exists and do hope it's true that it really does stand on the site where King Alfred won The Battle Of Edington in 878. It was closed yesterday but I climbed to the top in autumn 2018, drunk on my adventures as a new Somerset resident, on a similarly clear day when I was researching my book Ring The Hill and the three county view was spectacular: Dorset to the south, Wiltshire to the east, and Somerset to the north and west.

Aren't rich people amazing? I can imagine one of the labourers who risked their life in the construction of the 49 metre King Alfred's Tower in the 1770s for the banker Henry Hoare asking him "But what is it for?" & Hoare answering "What is it FOR? What it's FOR, my good man, is for me to SHOW OFF."

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time

This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com

Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

Johannes Klenell: "Gustav Fridolin sade till mig att han kunde se flera motioner, förslag och propåer som var direkt skrivna av IES från olika borgerliga politiker. Hur visste du det?, frågade jag. Jag hade ju fått samma PM från paret Bergström, svarade han."

Close-up of a 16th-century printed book page with dense blackletter text. A round burn hole interrupts the page near the top right, revealing a modern photo behind it of a smiling person giving two thumbs up.

Sixteenth-century book with a perfectly placed burn hole. Proof that early modern readers lived dangerously (hello, candles).

📚🔥 #RareBooks #BookHistory #MaterialCulture #LibrarianLife

Naan

Surdeg

All The Things We Should've Said

You should absolutely do yourself a favour and listen to this album by The Lion & The River that was released today. Absolute banger, such a good album.

open.spotify.com/album/6up3IE...

The giant king of all the east might have defeated Charlemange in battle and taken all the barons of France captured, but his pride will be his downfall because he failed to consider the plucky englishman and his magic lance that just makes you win.

- Orlando Innamorato, book I canto vii, 23-57

Two days late in reposting this, but still ^.^

Otrolig artikel om den danska överklassens konsumtion och filosofi som speglad i magasinet Børsen Pleasure—den danska motsvarigheten till Financial Times ”How to spend it”-bilaga

www.weekendavisen.dk/kultur/reser...

Thicc

At Beckett conferences, the keynote never arrives!

Reinterpreting the Caribbean Age of Revolutions – Slave Revolts, their Non-Slave Participants and Proto-Citizenship CFP Call for Papers: Two Parts Part One: Graduate Workshop on Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic Slavery and Emancipation We welcome graduate students working on topics related to early modern Caribbe…

CFP! Check it out! ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/15/r...

The big lad from the Horniman Museum

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Finishing the lecture slides the morning before the lecture is a time-honoured tradition... right?