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EH Lupton<p>This week, on <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/AskAMedievalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskAMedievalist</span></a>: Meme review!</p><p>We talk about Edward, Duke of York's list of 1100 dog names and the regulation of spelling. (It's way funnier than this makes it sound.)</p><p><a href="http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/04/episode-90-ask-a-memevalist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">askamedievalist.com/2025/04/04</span><span class="invisible">/episode-90-ask-a-memevalist/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/medievaldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medievaldon</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a></p>
Helen Pugh<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> stole my books: Cuentos incatásticos and Pachamama, diosa extraordinaria. Meta used the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LibGen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibGen</span></a> dataset, full of pirated works, to train their AI.</p><p>META must <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DoTheWriteThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoTheWriteThing</span></a></p><p>Please continue to support authors by purchasing our work and using your local library <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/makeitfair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makeitfair</span></a> </p><p>My books are available at <a href="https://linktr.ee/helenpugh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linktr.ee/helenpugh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 🇵🇹 **Portugal is not a small country**</p><p>“_A journey through the propaganda of Portugal's Estado Novo, as well as some of the most iconic maps of its propaganda production._”</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/portugal-is-not-a-small-country" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cartographerstale.com/p/portug</span><span class="invisible">al-is-not-a-small-country</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maps</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **The Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://anetoday.org/hittite-prince-empire/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anetoday.org/hittite-prince-em</span><span class="invisible">pire/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancient</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Megan<p>This aside blew my mind🤯 :</p><p>"The cops were founded in 1829 in London essentially as a counterinsurgency force and that has been the model for cops ever since."</p><p>From the Colonial Outcasts podcast episode "US-Israel: Breaking down the political ties"</p><p>In the 🧵 thread below...</p><p>1. What's counterinsurgency?<br>2. What was happening in London leading up to 1829?<br>3. Who do police protect?<br>4. What other police forces fit this model?</p><p>(1/5)<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CounterInsurgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterInsurgency</span></a></p>
Stéphane Pouyllau<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> “Letter to Armstrong: We recognize in the recent actions of the Trump administration a desire to assert political control” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandUpForScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandUpForScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/03/25/letter-to-armstrong-we-recognize-in-the-recent-actions-of-the-trump-administration-a-desire-to-assert-political-control/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">columbiaspectator.com/opinion/</span><span class="invisible">2025/03/25/letter-to-armstrong-we-recognize-in-the-recent-actions-of-the-trump-administration-a-desire-to-assert-political-control/</span></a></p>
Flash Mob Of One<p>Learned another piece of history that, it seems, was deliberately withheld from me by the public school system, even though it figured prominently in Paul Revere's story. </p><p>That would be the use of a deceased slave's tarred body as a landmark.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Codman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cod</span><span class="invisible">man</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historicboston.org/this-was-when-there-were-slaves-in-boston-hbi-founder-john-codmans-acknowledgement-of-his-ancestors-enslavement-of-black-bostonians/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">historicboston.org/this-was-wh</span><span class="invisible">en-there-were-slaves-in-boston-hbi-founder-john-codmans-acknowledgement-of-his-ancestors-enslavement-of-black-bostonians/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a></p>
Helen Pugh<p>👉 You can now pre-order the ebook of:</p><p>On This Day in Somerset (A Calendar of Women)</p><p><a href="https://books2read.com/somerset" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">books2read.com/somerset</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>😃📚😃</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/onthisdayinSomerset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onthisdayinSomerset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/womenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/womenInSomerset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSomerset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 :youtube: **That Time the Mongol Empire Reunited: The Great Mongol Peace of 1304**</p><p>The Jackmeister: Mongol History</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> length: twenty minutes and forty-eight seconds. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NptfhbiQxA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=3NptfhbiQx</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/MongolEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MongolEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GenghisKhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenghisKhan</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/KublaiKhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KublaiKhan</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Catherine Rideau-Kikuchi<p>Dans le dernier numéro de Genèses, une passionnante discussion de Marie Fontaine-Gastan autour d'un livre qui avait remué les médiévistes (et peut-être aussi les sociologues) il y a deux ans : <br>Champ ecclésial et pouvoir symbolique au cœur de la sociologie du Moyen Âge<br>À propos de : Alexis Fontbonne, Introduction à la sociologie médiévale, CNRS Éd., 2023.<br><a href="https://shs.cairn.info/revue-geneses-2024-4-page-166" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shs.cairn.info/revue-geneses-2</span><span class="invisible">024-4-page-166</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/medievistodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medievistodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
Dr Grr<p><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/femmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>femmes</span></a> 🇺🇸 📚 "Des femmes en Amérique" de Virginie Adane</p><p><a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/a-livre-ouvert/des-femmes-en-amerique-de-virginie-adane_7132125.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/a</span><span class="invisible">-livre-ouvert/des-femmes-en-amerique-de-virginie-adane_7132125.html</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a>, According to Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Historian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p><p>in History | January 20th, 2017</p><p>"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bloodlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bloodlands</span></a>: Europe between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a>' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazism</span></a> wasn’t only a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalist</span></a> movement but had global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialist</span></a> origins—in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, and in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a>, and ideologically-justified <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandGrabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandGrabs</span></a>.</p><p>"The hyper-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance." </p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2017/01/20-les</span><span class="invisible">sons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Making of Modern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>: A Free Online Course from Yale Professor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p><p>in History | September 6th, 2022 </p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-making-of-modern-ukraine-a-free-online-course-from-yale-professor-timothy-snyder.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2022/09/the-ma</span><span class="invisible">king-of-modern-ukraine-a-free-online-course-from-yale-professor-timothy-snyder.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PutinIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PutinIsAWarCriminal</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DietrichBonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DietrichBonhoeffer</span></a>, a German Pastor, Theorized How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a> Enabled the Rise of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> (1942)</p><p>in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025</p><p>"Two days after Adolf <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity.</p><p>"'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. 'One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'</p><p>"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'</p><p>"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2025/03/when-d</span><span class="invisible">ietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BalladOfTheLittleMan</span></a></p>
Ministerratsprotokolle<p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> Am 28. März 1865, beschloss der <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Ministerrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ministerrat</span></a> </p><p>"aus Anlaß der in <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Petersburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petersburg</span></a> herrschenden epidemischen <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Krankheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krankheit</span></a> (Flecktyphus), welche mit bedeutender Ansteckungsgefahr verbunden sein und schon viele Opfer hingerafft haben soll, österreichische Ärzte so rasch als möglich dahin abzusenden".</p><p><a href="https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-1-5-09-0-18650328-P-0556.xml#top_5_9_556_1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html</span><span class="invisible">?document=MRP-1-5-09-0-18650328-P-0556.xml#top_5_9_556_1</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/histodonsDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodonsDE</span></a><br><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Geschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geschichte</span></a><br><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Habsburgermonarchie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Habsburgermonarchie</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Ministerrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ministerrat</span></a><br><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Sozialgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sozialgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Seuchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seuchen</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Epidemie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epidemie</span></a></p>
Annie<p>Nur Holzmedaille... trotzdem spannend.</p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Geschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geschichte</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Spielenswert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spielenswert</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/pastpuzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pastpuzzle</span></a> 295<br>🟩🟥🟨🟥 (-15)<br>🟩🟩🟥🟥 (+6)<br>🟩🟩🟥🟩 (+40)<br>🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0)</p><p>4/4 🟩<br><a href="https://www.pastpuzzle.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">pastpuzzle.de</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p>Sometimes you get sad to let exhibits disappear back into the museum's storeroom. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a>: <a href="https://www.maison-rurale.fr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">maison-rurale.fr/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>This is a patented 'wave pool' from the first third of the 20th century. You filled the luxury tub with bath water like any other, sat in it and started to rock. The rocking caused waves to form. Used in sanatoriums and for spa treatment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bath</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bathTub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bathTub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HistoryOfMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfMedicine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/luxury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luxury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a></p>
Tania Lévy<p>Conférence de Laura Pennane'ch le 3 avril à Brest : « Pour une histoire de la médecine par l'image : l'exemple de la peinture néerlandaise au 17e siècle ».</p><p>"Quelle histoire de la médecine permettent de faire les images peintes ? Cette communication s'appuiera sur un corpus de tableaux peints dans la seconde moitié du 17e siècle à Leyde, dans la province de Hollande, [connue] pour son université (...)."</p><p>Il est possible de la suivre à distance : <a href="https://cfv.univ-nantes.fr/seminaires-et-manifestations-scientifiques" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cfv.univ-nantes.fr/seminaires-</span><span class="invisible">et-manifestations-scientifiques</span></a></p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/HistoireDelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoireDelArt</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Histoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histoire</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Medecine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medecine</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Peinture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peinture</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Leyde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leyde</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/recherche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recherche</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/universite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universite</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Brest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brest</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/17e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>17e</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/17thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>17thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**</p><p>“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DOI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Read</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ebook</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Romans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romans</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/UniversityPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityPress</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
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