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Boy howdy the modern relationship to women and sex sure is something! (Yes he states in his next tweet this is aimed at women.) This is of course nonsense but

This stupid take is really interesting for a few reasons, but I love how medieval it is! The idea that a lack of sex influences women's behavior come sout in

This is why this disinformation is dangerous. It puts people at risk of contracting a deadly disease and also puts people at risk of massive fines. Magna Carta will not

Gordon is mad that medieval people had soap. Like IDK what to tell you Gordon, but this is a fact. A) NiceB) Just be forewarned, I moderate all comments at

Some thoughts this morning from now that academics are threating the job prospects of grad students who asked for a PDF: The annoying thing about protecting profitability by policing twitter

Imagine being this wrong and loud in my mentions, and then self-describing as a Renaissance man. I mean to be fair, much like men in the Renaissance he *is* trying

This is so incredibly bleak that I am still thinking about it a few hours later, but I think it is also helpful as in one image we have a

To be fair, the first group, which does not exist, is much like the second group - in that they, too, did not exist. Girl I think education should be

Enjoying my traditional morning overthink about bad takes on twitter and struck by this, and how false cultural memory works. In particular, I am interested in why anyone currently alive

It is Sunday so you know your girl is wound up about this terrible take which a) is historically inaccurate, but b) does inadvertently show one of the main reasons

Just thinking about how as historians one of our tasks is going to be changing historical conversations from being about how individuals were "great" or someone to admire to conversations

Racist history always does stuff like this - A) it casts acknowledgement of non-White people's humanity as undignified. B) It casts the aggrieved white people as a part of the