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Sid Jo
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Historian of warfare in Early Modern and Modern India, University of Warwick.

Owner of Easy History: https://easy-history.com
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Well, #X has gone down the shitter and #Threads is a corpo hell hole...

Looks like bsky still resembles old twitter.

If anyone sees this, I'm a historian of India and I'd love to meet other history "peeps"!
Just saw someone trying to explain trench warfare in World War 1 by using Minecraft. At what point do we collectively agree that the Internet is a greater harm than a good
January 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I've been back home in #India these past few months and, armed with a decent phone camera, I decided to indulge in some #photography with the aim of capturing what life is like in one India's wealthiest, and thereby among the most unequal, cities #life #streetphotography
January 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Like him or hate him, you gotta admit, Dr. House does an impressive amount of gaming. He has a GBA, a DS, AND a PSP.
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I find myself to have been very fortunate to be able to #travel so much. Here are some of my favourite #photos I've taken between 2023-24. Greece and Wales. Trying to get better at #photography, since I just took it back up last year!
January 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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‘Libertinism, by parading its heterodoxy, its independence of the rules, risks being just a parade: a firework display that fizzles into nothing.’

Clare Bucknell on the Earl of Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure:
Clare Bucknell · The Readyest Way to Hell: The Exhausting Earl of Rochester
Rochester could ruin anything. ‘Even his most elegant verse often resounds with the crash of breaking glass,’...
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January 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Well, #X has gone down the shitter and #Threads is a corpo hell hole...

Looks like bsky still resembles old twitter.

If anyone sees this, I'm a historian of India and I'd love to meet other history "peeps"!
January 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM