Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
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Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
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Merci ! Oui, en partie sur celui-là et sur d’autres articles que j’ai écrits sur le sujet.
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What is the problem of the racists with watermelon? They don’t like ‘em when Black people eat them, they don’t like them when Palestinians wear them on their shirt… they are delicious!
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Periodic reminder that on Bsky you have to *repost* things you like to get them seen by those who stay in their 'following' feed. Hellsite-style 'liking' is useless. You *are* the algorithm
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Post you from a different era
(If only to prove you were young once)
sasanianshah.bsky.social
I coloured my hair blue at one point around 21-22. Apparently I went a whole year without taking any pics?
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Joel Mokyr’s the Lever of Riches (along with North and Thomas’ the Rise of the Western World) were the first two books Patrick O’Brien told me to read when I was doing my MSc in Econ History at LSE… and now, Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize in Economics! Congrats!

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
Professors win Nobel economics prize for work on innovation and growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for "having explained innovation-driven economic growth."
eu.usatoday.com
sasanianshah.bsky.social
This was an amazing thread. Thank you so much for writing all these.
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This is brilliant Juan! Thank you for this bit of info. Is this written anywhere? Can I quote you?
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You are very right. Those instances might’ve even been inspirational to the case I am pointing out.
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Considering the Sunni tradition as representing Islamic “orthodoxy” has been only detrimental to the study of early Islamic history. It gets ever more complicated because Western scholars seem to be more insistent on it than Muslim ones themselves!! Who even came up with this “orthodox” language?
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But is it nice to gaze at? Btw, I love Lithuania, all of the Baltic states (present or expired: Old Prussia) too!
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I am not sure I’d call them Left. For me a requirement of being on the Left is to think about things.
sasanianshah.bsky.social
All to own Libs and punish the woke, leftist snowflakes for electing a Black man to presidency twice.
angierasmussen.bsky.social
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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I am sorry. This is offensive. Qataris, as well as Kuwaitis and Saudis and Afghans and Iraqis and others, and yet no one seems to put up similar “memes” with Americans in cowboy hats. What’s the point of this pic?
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The thing is, people who grift this way always idolise likes of Thatcher or T-rump as successful role models, assuming that this scam will surely succeed (because “if an idiot like BoJo can get there, why not me?”). But don’t forget the failures either, from Jean-Marie Le Pen to Bolsonaro!
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Listening to her speeches, reading her “op-eds”, and reviewing her biography makes it abundantly clear that the woman has no convictions, no ideas, no “deeply felt” morality, no genuine thoughts. She is a pure representative of her funders and pursuer of what she thinks gets her to power.
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Listening to her speeches, reading her “op-eds”, and reviewing her biography makes it abundantly clear that the woman has no convictions, no ideas, no “deeply felt” morality, no genuine thoughts. She is a pure representative of her funders and pursuer of what she thinks gets her to power.
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Among all the politicians running our world today, many of whom are master grifters and class-act charlatans, one would be hard-pressed to find someone as masterful and unabashedly deceitful and fraudulent as the leader of the UK Conservative party, Kemi Bedenoch.