Andrew Reeves
@andrewsshi.bsky.social
I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Okay, this is hands-down the best power sword effect I've ever done.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Okay, this is hands-down the best power sword effect I've ever done.
(1/n) While I sit here recovering from my Procedure, I think I'll do a thread on my use of Canadian health care versus American and the differences between the two. (I spent six years in Canada.) I'll mainly be talking about sports medicine and colo-rectal docs. (Cont'd.)
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
(1/n) While I sit here recovering from my Procedure, I think I'll do a thread on my use of Canadian health care versus American and the differences between the two. (I spent six years in Canada.) I'll mainly be talking about sports medicine and colo-rectal docs. (Cont'd.)
Painting the Grey Knights that I had only meant to be melee additions to my Agents and realizing that in spite of other bills, I think I know what my third 40k army will be on aesthetics alone.
You're welcome, everyone who takes the light rail in Nottingham...
You're welcome, everyone who takes the light rail in Nottingham...
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Painting the Grey Knights that I had only meant to be melee additions to my Agents and realizing that in spite of other bills, I think I know what my third 40k army will be on aesthetics alone.
You're welcome, everyone who takes the light rail in Nottingham...
You're welcome, everyone who takes the light rail in Nottingham...
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This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
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Huh. Honestly, it's genuinely safe to say that unless you've consulted the Dawes rolls, you should probably assume you're not Cherokee.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Indigenous scholars say Thomas King case 'shockingly similar' to others falsely claiming ancestry | CBC News
After another respected name in Indigenous arts and culture was revealed to not have Indigenous ancestry , some scholars say it’s time to examine the Canadian institutions that have helped these peop...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Huh. Honestly, it's genuinely safe to say that unless you've consulted the Dawes rolls, you should probably assume you're not Cherokee.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I have been mucking about here far too long, but I'm still mildly uncomfortable in the aftermath of what they euphemistically call A Procedure and so can't really focus on reading a book or painting a mini.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I have been mucking about here far too long, but I'm still mildly uncomfortable in the aftermath of what they euphemistically call A Procedure and so can't really focus on reading a book or painting a mini.
The toilet on Lexx alone is worth all CanCon requirements.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The toilet on Lexx alone is worth all CanCon requirements.
Just as long as they don't find any aeons-vanished star-headed roughly cylindrical remains...
The fifth and final drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project has just begun in Antarctica, at the remote field site of Little Dome C, 3,200 metres above sea level.
An international team of 15 will drill the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and take duplicate ice samples.
An international team of 15 will drill the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and take duplicate ice samples.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just as long as they don't find any aeons-vanished star-headed roughly cylindrical remains...
Not getting my hopes up here -- I'm a Democrat -- but man, it'd be really sweet to find out that the TX lege did a dummymander come next November.
Democrat Aftyn Behn is in striking distance of flipping a Republican House seat in Congress in a red district in Tennessee that Trump won by 22 points last year. The special election will be held December 2.
Democrats close to flipping Trump Tennessee District—Poll
Aftyn Behn was just two points behind Matt Van Epps in a district Donald Trump carried by 22 points in the 2024 presidential election.
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Not getting my hopes up here -- I'm a Democrat -- but man, it'd be really sweet to find out that the TX lege did a dummymander come next November.
Seriously, there's something about secular liberals and lefties of above-average intelligence and literacy that makes them particularly vulnerable to being exactly, precisely wrong about Buddhism.
One of my number one pet peeves with respect to western perceptions of Buddhism is that it gets treated as either a minus sign in front of the Bad Bits of Christianity or as Generic California Hippyshit, neither of which take actually-existing Buddhism into account.
Buddhism isn't something you can project your perceptions on. It is a religion with movements and reactionary waves like all the others
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Seriously, there's something about secular liberals and lefties of above-average intelligence and literacy that makes them particularly vulnerable to being exactly, precisely wrong about Buddhism.
One of my number one pet peeves with respect to western perceptions of Buddhism is that it gets treated as either a minus sign in front of the Bad Bits of Christianity or as Generic California Hippyshit, neither of which take actually-existing Buddhism into account.
Buddhism isn't something you can project your perceptions on. It is a religion with movements and reactionary waves like all the others
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
One of my number one pet peeves with respect to western perceptions of Buddhism is that it gets treated as either a minus sign in front of the Bad Bits of Christianity or as Generic California Hippyshit, neither of which take actually-existing Buddhism into account.
We pay probably 25% more than we should for groceries because we act like a magnate of local aristocracy is Little House on the effing Prairie.
You know what's weird? Farming and ranching have largely been big business for over a century, but we instinctively recognize the rancher as a wealthy magnate, but we act like a farmer is some Salt of The Earth Jeffersonian Yeoman.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We pay probably 25% more than we should for groceries because we act like a magnate of local aristocracy is Little House on the effing Prairie.
You know what's weird? Farming and ranching have largely been big business for over a century, but we instinctively recognize the rancher as a wealthy magnate, but we act like a farmer is some Salt of The Earth Jeffersonian Yeoman.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You know what's weird? Farming and ranching have largely been big business for over a century, but we instinctively recognize the rancher as a wealthy magnate, but we act like a farmer is some Salt of The Earth Jeffersonian Yeoman.
I remember walking into a bookstore and flipping through 1945. I was eighteen, a Republican -- I was *so* excited about getting to vote straight-ticket R in 1996 -- and reading Forgotten Realms books. And *I* found it unreadable.
But the champion of returns involves Baen's 1945, an alternate history by William R. Forstchen and a little-known politician named Newt Gingrich. The print run was going to be appropriate for a mid-list book.
Then, as I recall, stores convinced themselves 1945 was a sure best-seller.
(con't)
Then, as I recall, stores convinced themselves 1945 was a sure best-seller.
(con't)
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I remember walking into a bookstore and flipping through 1945. I was eighteen, a Republican -- I was *so* excited about getting to vote straight-ticket R in 1996 -- and reading Forgotten Realms books. And *I* found it unreadable.
What's even cooler is that you have insurances -- isolated, granted, but there -- of peasants pooling their resources to hire a lawyer, suing their lord, and winning.
Well, His Majesty's Government has me thinking about Magna Carta, so it's time to note that a lot of rights of Englishmen happened kind of by accident. So you'll have a provision referring to all free men, and then a lawyer figures out that wait a second, that also applies to free peasants.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What's even cooler is that you have insurances -- isolated, granted, but there -- of peasants pooling their resources to hire a lawyer, suing their lord, and winning.
Well, His Majesty's Government has me thinking about Magna Carta, so it's time to note that a lot of rights of Englishmen happened kind of by accident. So you'll have a provision referring to all free men, and then a lawyer figures out that wait a second, that also applies to free peasants.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Well, His Majesty's Government has me thinking about Magna Carta, so it's time to note that a lot of rights of Englishmen happened kind of by accident. So you'll have a provision referring to all free men, and then a lawyer figures out that wait a second, that also applies to free peasants.
I think a lot about how omnipresent memories of Vietnam were ubiquitous in the eighties, but OIF and OEF just sank like a stone.
what does it say that Vietnam stories were omnipresent in the culture 10-20 years later but the much smaller amount of media about the War on Terror has made no impact
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I think a lot about how omnipresent memories of Vietnam were ubiquitous in the eighties, but OIF and OEF just sank like a stone.
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The Book of Robert A. Fett
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Book of Robert A. Fett
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Everyone, @irhottakes.bsky.social is not dead - but isn’t posting because she needs to finish work for her PhD and lacks the time for Bluesky-associated BS. (Which is eminently understandable).
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Everyone, @irhottakes.bsky.social is not dead - but isn’t posting because she needs to finish work for her PhD and lacks the time for Bluesky-associated BS. (Which is eminently understandable).
Huh. Turns out that I may have to revise the line in my Britain to 1688 lectures where I say that most of Magna Carta is obsolescent, but its provision for trial by jury remains foundational.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Huh. Turns out that I may have to revise the line in my Britain to 1688 lectures where I say that most of Magna Carta is obsolescent, but its provision for trial by jury remains foundational.
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No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
Historians in the 20th century. denying pre-and early modern atrocities is fascinating because it's multivalent: some comes from distrust of atrocity story propaganda, other parts are a rejection of modems who think pre-modern atrocities were actually awesome.
Why did people ever think Herodotus was *wrong* about Scythians using human leather, which they did? What about that wasn't credible. Why would they care what we'd think of it a kajillion years later
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Historians in the 20th century. denying pre-and early modern atrocities is fascinating because it's multivalent: some comes from distrust of atrocity story propaganda, other parts are a rejection of modems who think pre-modern atrocities were actually awesome.