Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
· May 22
Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
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This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
2 barbarians, 2 wizards, 2 clerics, 1 ranger, 1 fighter, 1 druid, and 1 paladin.
Think they'll fight a series of twenty man bandit companies on the road out of Meadowfen? Triple the level of the Vulpin Captain, more Mapach Brutes, a couple Cervan Bandit Knights?
Think they'll fight a series of twenty man bandit companies on the road out of Meadowfen? Triple the level of the Vulpin Captain, more Mapach Brutes, a couple Cervan Bandit Knights?
D&D for my kids and nieces and nephew today, starting Humblewood again, and I meant for them all to be knocked out as an easy way to be like, "Hey, the destruction of Ashburrow was terrifying! So lucky to be alive!" And instead they somehow survived all the waves I had prepped w/ 3 characters alive.
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
2 barbarians, 2 wizards, 2 clerics, 1 ranger, 1 fighter, 1 druid, and 1 paladin.
Think they'll fight a series of twenty man bandit companies on the road out of Meadowfen? Triple the level of the Vulpin Captain, more Mapach Brutes, a couple Cervan Bandit Knights?
Think they'll fight a series of twenty man bandit companies on the road out of Meadowfen? Triple the level of the Vulpin Captain, more Mapach Brutes, a couple Cervan Bandit Knights?
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
If I won the billion dollar lottery I'd want to teach a 2-2 at a small liberal arts school in the northeast and run D&D campaigns and act in a local community theater, and travel with my kids in the summer. Maybe the ultra wealthy should try having normal chill dreams, too?
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If I won the billion dollar lottery I'd want to teach a 2-2 at a small liberal arts school in the northeast and run D&D campaigns and act in a local community theater, and travel with my kids in the summer. Maybe the ultra wealthy should try having normal chill dreams, too?
D&D for my kids and nieces and nephew today, starting Humblewood again, and I meant for them all to be knocked out as an easy way to be like, "Hey, the destruction of Ashburrow was terrifying! So lucky to be alive!" And instead they somehow survived all the waves I had prepped w/ 3 characters alive.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
D&D for my kids and nieces and nephew today, starting Humblewood again, and I meant for them all to be knocked out as an easy way to be like, "Hey, the destruction of Ashburrow was terrifying! So lucky to be alive!" And instead they somehow survived all the waves I had prepped w/ 3 characters alive.
This is the most amazing skeet ever.
you’re missing the whole point
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is the most amazing skeet ever.
Happy Thankagiving y'all!
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happy Thankagiving y'all!
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
No skeet can be everything for everyone, and ones for public shitposting are (I thought obviously) not intended to be academic commentary.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No skeet can be everything for everyone, and ones for public shitposting are (I thought obviously) not intended to be academic commentary.
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Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
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My hot take on politics and history and religion this year is that a religion which is actively about a child sacrifice should consider shutting the fuck up about a narrative of stopping child sacrifices.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My hot take on politics and history and religion this year is that a religion which is actively about a child sacrifice should consider shutting the fuck up about a narrative of stopping child sacrifices.
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So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
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Curious about what a Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School might look like? Check out this wonderful video made by one of this year's summer school students! #medievalsky #skystorians
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Curious about what a Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School might look like? Check out this wonderful video made by one of this year's summer school students! #medievalsky #skystorians
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Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
Watching The Blues Brothers. We're on a mission from God.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Watching The Blues Brothers. We're on a mission from God.
The most interesting part of the Nuzzady story is how we're still talking about it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The most interesting part of the Nuzzady story is how we're still talking about it.