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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Aug 03, 2026

Both genders get to play sacrificial bondees which is progressive for 1980 #monsterdon

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Jun 02, 2026

Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io

@evacide@hachyderm.io our generation remembers when it took a live human staffer to read some poor customer's private Gmail "for testing"

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 17, 2026

Replying to @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org

@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org the case of FamilySearch removing the word Nego and references to race from 18th-century manuscripts it scanned and summarized was striking too https://bsky.app/profile/caitlindeangelis.bsky.social/post/3mlrieau4h227

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run

@davidgerard@circumstances.run taps the sign about the risks of investing serious money in authoritarian regimes run by goofballs https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/08/16/regime-risk-in-investing/

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 08, 2026

Classic post: what did the ancient Persians do for us? "There are a shelf full of books like How the Scots Invented the Modern World or surveys of the Islamic Golden Age in Iran, Baghdad, and al-Andalus. ... There is a whole library trying to show that 'Europe' or 'the west' started a triumphant march to world power at ever-earlier dates. But I don’t know of a similar book which looks at the heritage of the ancient world from Gaza to the Indus." https://www.bookandsword.com/2020/12/05/what-did-the-persians-do-for-us/ #histodons

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 08, 2026

danah boyd writes about how many corporate sites are dominated by parasocial relationships. Rather than doing often violent and tribal things to create a community, most people are following a few paid content creators who broadcast to them. The transition from sociality to parasociality is clearest on YouTube, Patreon, and fansites. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261437487 #socialMedia

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @vrandecic@mas.to

@vrandecic@mas.to @jgordon@appdot.net I may replace my Wordpress site with a static site generator site (I hand-code my current static site). Comments and Fedi integration are the main obstacle.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @bookandswordblog@scholar.social

@vrandecic@mas.to @jgordon@appdot.net 1990s and early 2000s: I learn to make simple websites with HTML, CSS, and a few JPEGs (A series of very bad decisions) 2021: I launch a static website consisting of HTML, CSS, and a few JPEGs

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @vrandecic@mas.to

@vrandecic@mas.to @jgordon@appdot.net my static site is not having problems on a few-Euros-a-month plan, but it has limited images with public URLs and no audio or video

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @Ivovanwilligen@mastodon.social

@Ivovanwilligen thanks for writing this up and sharing it. The style is peculioar (AI-flavoured) and calling LinkedIn "a European professional network" is peculiar.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu

@zvavybir my other server used to be on https://masto.host I think, now its hosted by a small business in Canada

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 01, 2026

Replying to @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social

@CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social @JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social Substack also have a thriving antivaxx department called Health Politics. They are happy to shut down blogs that get too spicy, but really concerned about interfering with Nazi or alternative medicine speech. Can't say I might not be tempted by that sweet VC money if my writing had a chance of reaching a large paying online audience.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · May 01, 2026

Replying to @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social

@CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social @bogpunk@chitter.xyz one of the first people they invited to join Substack Pro and get special cash bonuses and legal aid was Scott "Richard Lynn and HBDchick were right" Alexander

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 30, 2026

Just like Google's AI overview, DDG's AI overviews will happily make up a meaning for a phrase you just invented and give 'sources' for this interpretation, because all they ever do is emit plausible output matching their input. I tried "better a porphyry bathtub than a limestone bassoon meaning" #duckDuckGo

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @electricarchaeo@scholar.social

@electricarchaeo@scholar.social most countries went to big universities because of the obvious economies of scale over tiny American-style universities with a few thousand students. Likewise larger class sizes: if you want small classes, students have to pay a lot or teachers have to be paid very little (also a 19th-century thing).

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @researchfairy@scholar.social

@researchfairy@scholar.social congratulations on finding 30 (!) jobs that use your skills and training to apply to!

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @Lana@beige.party

@Lana likewise, government offices and colleges and machine shops are full of people who could be excellent research academics if they had money and resources. But the first fancy postdoc or Visiting Assistant Professor position gives you the publications and prestige to have a chance at the next and before COVID some people kept jumping from log to log until they got a fancy permanent position. (I looked at the situation and dropped out early).

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @realbloginista@social.cologne

@realbloginista @chrisstoecker ich meine, üblicherweise sind Manifesti für Menschen, die keine Macht haben - Filippo Marinetti war nicht der Chef von Fiat, als er Futurismus gegrundet hat

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @realbloginista@social.cologne

@realbloginista @chrisstoecker der Täter von Utøya war doch kein Millitarär und Chef eines Groß-Unternehmens wie Karp

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 17, 2026

Juvenalia, or blast from the past: Some Thoughts on Wealth in Greece and Mesopotamia (2007) https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showthread.php?tid=8973 #economicHistory #economics #histodons #antiquidons #cuneitoot #ancMedToot

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @chrysn@chaos.social

@chrysn@chaos.social @alexglow@chaos.social @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al I have not dug out the original text but Latin tends to leave out pronouns where they can be understood from context. So I would have to reread the original English in context.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @bookandswordblog@scholar.social

@alexglow@chaos.social does @greyor@goblin.technology have any thoughts?

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @alexglow@chaos.social

@alexglow@chaos.social the moderns might say serva secretum salvumque although salvus is Late Latin

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io

@evacide I liked this recent post on "CEO Says a Thing" as a template for journalists https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 31, 2026

I wish journalists did not have to take a vow of forgetting so they remembered that the vow on the glowing orb in 2017 was an informal alliance of Arab powers + Israel + the USA against Iran https://gwynnedyer.com/2017/trump-and-iran/

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @bookandswordblog@scholar.social

Just a reminder that you can follow a hashtag like #shieldMakingWithTheophilius if you just want to see those posts. I am a trend setter so nobody else has jumped on that one yet.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 30, 2026

Spent 2 1/2 hours this afternoon gessoing some panels, a box, and the great buckler. Most of the time is setup and cleanup. I should have another pot or tray to keep the gesso warm. I hope I have enough dry gesso sottile for the back of the buckler. Now to dry for two days and two nights out of the sun. 🌞 #shieldMakingWithTheophilius #mastoArt

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @patmikemid@sfba.social

@patmikemid@sfba.social Its not just clout chasing. Many people today are open that they have careers in culture because they got on Twitter early and networked there. I think that was and is bad ethics and bad tactics but many of them make more money and get more recognition than I do and the conventional ways of making a living in those fields have dried up too.

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io

@evacide@hachyderm.io It does seem like that marketing opened up legal trouble because it suggests that the advice is from $expertName and people could confuse the slop and the slop peddler's endorsement for the real thing and real endorsement

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog@scholar.social · Mar 09, 2026