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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 12h

Merci ! Oui, en partie sur celui-là et sur d’autres articles que j’ai écrits sur le sujet.

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 13h

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!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

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.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 18h

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 20h

‘Tude!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 21h

Persian name, cool!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 22h

Post you from a different era
(If only to prove you were young once)

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 22h

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Been laughing at this for an hour straight.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

My interview with The Ancients podcast on the Sasanians and the Rise of Islam.

open.spotify.com/episode/42Mc...

Rise of Islam

open.spotify.com

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

This was an amazing thread. Thank you so much for writing all these.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is brilliant Juan! Thank you for this bit of info. Is this written anywhere? Can I quote you?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

Could you please give me some references?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

You are very right. Those instances might’ve even been inspirational to the case I am pointing out.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

Lithuanian food. The mind boggles.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

Prove your humanity

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

I am not sure I’d call them Left. For me a requirement of being on the Left is to think about things.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

All to own Libs and punish the woke, leftist snowflakes for electing a Black man to presidency twice.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

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?

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

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!

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

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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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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