Morgan Golf-French
@zenothankyou.bsky.social
History postdoc in Turin, works on race, policy, and education in the German Enlightenment.
Has strong feelings about the periodization of the 18thC. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Has strong feelings about the periodization of the 18thC. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
This is a really disturbing but 100% worthwhile read.
"Freebirthing" is yet another example of distinctly modern, historically-unprecedented practices being repackaged as traditional or natural. The vast majority of humans have always taken the best medical advice they could...
"Freebirthing" is yet another example of distinctly modern, historically-unprecedented practices being repackaged as traditional or natural. The vast majority of humans have always taken the best medical advice they could...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is a really disturbing but 100% worthwhile read.
"Freebirthing" is yet another example of distinctly modern, historically-unprecedented practices being repackaged as traditional or natural. The vast majority of humans have always taken the best medical advice they could...
"Freebirthing" is yet another example of distinctly modern, historically-unprecedented practices being repackaged as traditional or natural. The vast majority of humans have always taken the best medical advice they could...
This Hungarian fake meat brand lives rent free in my head.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This Hungarian fake meat brand lives rent free in my head.
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#ancientbluesky #christianity #bacchanalia #romans #history
This week's Postcards from the Past has the 'promiscuous intercourse of free men and women'
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This week's Postcards from the Past has the 'promiscuous intercourse of free men and women'
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November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#ancientbluesky #christianity #bacchanalia #romans #history
This week's Postcards from the Past has the 'promiscuous intercourse of free men and women'
So you don't want to miss out on any of that, right!?
Please subscribe on Substack - it's free!
shorturl.at/B4cEz
This week's Postcards from the Past has the 'promiscuous intercourse of free men and women'
So you don't want to miss out on any of that, right!?
Please subscribe on Substack - it's free!
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This feels both surreal and entirely predictable. When Trump's in a good mood, he'll fall behind pretty much anyone with a dash of charisma. There are moments in this interview when it's almost sweet
...until you remember that's also why he keeps swinging from Putin to Zelenskyy.
...until you remember that's also why he keeps swinging from Putin to Zelenskyy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This feels both surreal and entirely predictable. When Trump's in a good mood, he'll fall behind pretty much anyone with a dash of charisma. There are moments in this interview when it's almost sweet
...until you remember that's also why he keeps swinging from Putin to Zelenskyy.
...until you remember that's also why he keeps swinging from Putin to Zelenskyy.
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Try doing it with former German port cities - that will lead you on a merry Gdańsk!
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Try doing it with former German port cities - that will lead you on a merry Gdańsk!
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Eine neue Rezension über mein Theresienstadt Buch in der HZ (sehr deutsch, sonst ok)
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto. An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2023
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Eine neue Rezension über mein Theresienstadt Buch in der HZ (sehr deutsch, sonst ok)
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Oh look! Now it has a cover
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Oh look! Now it has a cover
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Thy shalt burn in hell of Aulde English German City Names.
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Thy shalt burn in hell of Aulde English German City Names.
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It’s something to a Speyer to.
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It’s something to a Speyer to.
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You play the melody, we sing the Lörrach|s.
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You play the melody, we sing the Lörrach|s.
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Essen-tially, yes.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Essen-tially, yes.
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I'm Kiel-ing over with laughter as I read these.
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm Kiel-ing over with laughter as I read these.
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You’ve opened a can of Worms here for sure…
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You’ve opened a can of Worms here for sure…
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I'm Berlin my eyes out at this thread.
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm Berlin my eyes out at this thread.
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I find it’s one of life’s great Konstanz myself.
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I find it’s one of life’s great Konstanz myself.
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Everyone loves a Trier
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Everyone loves a Trier
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Writing good jokes about German cities takes a lot of Erfurt.
Gonna be honest, "nobody interviewed their families on TV" doesn't sound like a great defence for crimes against humanity charges
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Gonna be honest, "nobody interviewed their families on TV" doesn't sound like a great defence for crimes against humanity charges
A UX designer friend in Germany is having difficulties at work. Her company is trying to push her out on dubious grounds. Her company is not unionized.
Does anyone have any advice on where she can go to seek help and legal support? Are there any tech unions that might be willing to help?
Does anyone have any advice on where she can go to seek help and legal support? Are there any tech unions that might be willing to help?
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A UX designer friend in Germany is having difficulties at work. Her company is trying to push her out on dubious grounds. Her company is not unionized.
Does anyone have any advice on where she can go to seek help and legal support? Are there any tech unions that might be willing to help?
Does anyone have any advice on where she can go to seek help and legal support? Are there any tech unions that might be willing to help?
Great example of taking back control from those dastardly Eurocrats:
French meat farmers get to tell British consumers that we're not smart enough to spot a big ol' VEGAN scrawled across the packaging. And the default is that we must accept it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
French meat farmers get to tell British consumers that we're not smart enough to spot a big ol' VEGAN scrawled across the packaging. And the default is that we must accept it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great example of taking back control from those dastardly Eurocrats:
French meat farmers get to tell British consumers that we're not smart enough to spot a big ol' VEGAN scrawled across the packaging. And the default is that we must accept it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
French meat farmers get to tell British consumers that we're not smart enough to spot a big ol' VEGAN scrawled across the packaging. And the default is that we must accept it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
My book has a webpage!
In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so).
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so).
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My book has a webpage!
In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so).
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so).
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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I would just like to say that for fun I just raced ChatGPT to find 200 words of edits in a 1900 word piece and I have already done it and it's still going. So that's the last time I ask it for that.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I would just like to say that for fun I just raced ChatGPT to find 200 words of edits in a 1900 word piece and I have already done it and it's still going. So that's the last time I ask it for that.
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Book-Release-Day!
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Book-Release-Day!
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
Not many people know this but Descartes was short for Desmond Cartes
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Not many people know this but Descartes was short for Desmond Cartes
Every single thing I read in UK news is about some new form of cruelty and suffering to be meted out against asylum seekers/immigrants/trans people but everytime I'm actually in the UK I'm reminded of what a warm, welcoming, culturally vibrant place it actually is.
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Every single thing I read in UK news is about some new form of cruelty and suffering to be meted out against asylum seekers/immigrants/trans people but everytime I'm actually in the UK I'm reminded of what a warm, welcoming, culturally vibrant place it actually is.