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Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · Aug 17

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires

Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump points at UAE official during photo op and says, "A lot of cash. Unlimited cash."

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 4h

Cheers, Rebecca, don't you know that I'm a leading authority on stating the bleedin' obvious? 🤣

Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 4h

Splendid, @drrjwarren.bsky.social !

Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 5h

#ArtDD2025
Curlew

Quick splosh of ink after a long-ish day.

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Ink and watercolour of curlew walking away from viewer. Tall wading bird on two long legs, brown back and tail, head turned to the right, showing its long, down-turned beak.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 4h

In Which the @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social May Again Accept the Plaudits of Americans for Graduating Such Distinguished Legal/Constitutional Authorities (also including Junior D*ckhead) 😑

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 4h

As per the Drumpf-C*hn modus operandi 😑

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

The thing that Republicans worked themselves into a lather claiming, without proof, the Biden family did

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

NEW POST: In Bloody Crowns, @michaellivingston.com argues that the "Hundred Years War" is really a two hundred years, and was started by the French, fought in what today we call France, and won by people who got to define what France would be.

- from me and @profgabriele.com

Book Review: "Bloody Crown" by Michael Livingston

A New History of the Hundred (or maybe Two Hundred) Years War

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h

Yesterday, 12 Oct, was Edward VI's birthday in 1537. I forgot to post Guillim Scrots's 1546 portrait.

Here as seen with the naked eye and also as it would have looked through the original viewing device.

(NPG)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6h

13 Oct 1581: Adverse publicity causes the government to cancel the 5th disputation of Edmund Campion with Protestant divines #otd in the Tower #London

Word was that Campion, despite being allowed no books nor notes, was winning.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Updated this piece to reflect that this guy now says he has $5 million from venture capital funds to start the “The Anti-Fraud Company” which will allow Shieh to scale up his model of AI-aided harassment and apply it to the federal government.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

How to become a right-wing star? Harass people

A Brown student used crummy AI to label university staff as worthless; now he has a Times profile and is testifying to Congress

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 6h

So says Sexual Predator, Serial Fraudster @newyorkstateag.bsky.social and Convicted Felon @manhattanda.bsky.social Drumpf scion of family of work-shy scheming chancers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 6h

(booked 😁)

Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social · 6h

Looking forward to speaking on Thursday 16 October at King’s Maritime History Seminars. I will be speaking on 'Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy'. All welcome. Information below:

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...

King’s Maritime History Seminars: Religion, Radicalism, and the Late Interregnum Navy | King's College London

Join Dr Benjamin Redding for an exploration of the Cromwellian Western Design expedition of 1654, a campaign marked by unrest and disaster. Focusing on the radical religious and political views of the...

www.kcl.ac.uk

Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 6h

thus, one wonders how many of these interviewees are eligible to vote in NYC 🙄

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 7h

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 8h

I am happy to announce that our dear colleague and associated researcher in the Prize Papers project Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com has just published a new book: A Microhistory of Early Modern Transatlantic Migration
The Frigate Agata (1747). Congratulations!
#earlymodern #history

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Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social · 7h

For #BlackHistoryMonth, here are some thoughts about a source I've read - 'Letters from a Moor at London to his Friend at Tunis' (1736). This is a kind of guide to England, supposedly (uh-oh! 😅) written by a Black traveler from Tunisia, North Africa. 🇹🇳🧑🏽‍✈️
archive.org/details/b330...

Letters from a Moor at London to his friend at Tunis. Containing an account of his journey through England. With his observations on the laws, customs, religion, and manners of the English nation. Lik...

1 unnumbered leaf, 274 pages ; (12mo)

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 9h

Two years ago I was selling a copy of the Plannck II Columbus letter. I wish everyone could be aware that Columbus was a crank who incredibly lucked his way into infamy and history, and not particular well thought of in his own time. Here is sometime I made:
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 7h

presented without comment

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Nigel Farage tells crypto conference ‘I am your champion’

[FREE TO READ] Reform UK leader touts plans to create a state-owned bitcoin reserve

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 8h

Or, perhaps:

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

Every single desi techbro in Silicon Valley however does not have a humanities education—I can almost guarantee this.
Furthermore they were raised to believe that their ‘beautiful STEM minds’ will fix the world.
Also, you can absolutely get a Great White Men humanities education and learn nothing.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 9h

Also www.nacbs.org/post/indigen...

Indigenous Diplomacy, Erasure, and the British Connection

Emma Bilski poses a question about Indigenous representation and erasure sparked by a medallion on the facade of the Lord Baltimore Hotel.

www.nacbs.org

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 8h

Quite so! 😁

Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 9h

Fair; unless one 'employs AI' to do it? 😑

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 9h

I'm afraid I must have missed what 'real work' Mr Altm*n does

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9h

OK, and also, if ChatGPT could ACTUALLY do your job, I might agree. The things is, it can't, and the only people who think it can, are people who don't understand what you do and wouldn't be able to do it themselves if you put a gun to their heads and also think they know everything.

So, Altman.

Futurism @futurism.com · 13h

So that's where we're at.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 9h

I learned a bit about this polity:

cover of _The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750_ by David Veevers

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