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Ok cos I'm bored I'm actually going to answer this moron sincerely, and hopefully make a general point about the vacuousness of this whole class of "retvrn" posts

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What inspired human beings to build places like this?

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Culture Critic and people like him don't give a shit about the history they claim to love, except insofar as it's useful for prosecuting their culture war. It all may as well have sprung out of the ground yesterday. And that, THAT, is modernist

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To answer Mr Critic's question head-on, it looks like that because it was a site of social performance. 19thc opera culture was in large part about being seen by your fellow audience members, not watching the show - they didn't even lower the lights during shows until the 1870s!

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The point of the opulence in the room is not just aesthetic pleasure - it is to enhance the social standing of the people in it. This was extra important because under Napoleon III, France was devastatingly unequal AND a lot of people were suddenly getting very rich very quickly.

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So, the visual language of the room caters to a cultural insecurity for these neveau-riche bourgeois people: a place where they can show that they're just as decadent and sophisticated as France's older, traditional elite.

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That's a pic of the main stairway of the Palais Garnier- an opera house designed by Charles Garnier for the Paris Opera at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III of France. It's a classic of Beaux-Arts architecture and really interesting source for talking about late 19thc France

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If you want to understand why the internet as we know it will be functionally unusable in a couple of years, this thread from a fucking sociopath is a great place to start

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We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor. We got 489,509 traffic in October alone. Here's how we did it:

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But magically that doesn't apply to Palais Garnier, basically because it has columns on it. That is an infantile idea of what "traditionalism" or "traditional architecture" means.

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So point 1, if you're keeping track: the Palais Garnier looks the way it does because of a confluence of cultural trends that were specific to a moment in time. When the culture changes, the visual language of architecture changes with it.

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Fundamentally there's nothing "traditional" about the Palais or Haussmann's Paris - it's actually the prequel to the MODERNIST mega-developments that bulldozed cities in the 20th century

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I absolutely love classical and baroque architecture. We'd be much better off if we were building more of it and doing a better job preserving what we have. But that's just an aesthetic preference: it won't make us more enlightened/trad/based/whatever you want

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But more interesting to me is the implication that the Palais Garnier was part of some continuous cultural tradition that died out with the rise of "modernism" or whatever. Literally nothing could be further from the truth.

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Plus, isn't it more interesting to study buildings for what they actually are, instead of flattening everything down into "has columns = based" and "is concrete = depraved"

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Modern Paris looks the way it does because Napoleon III commissioned a city planner, bureaucrat and all-around monomaniac called Georges-Eugène Haussmann to redesign the entire central city from scratch.

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If, tomorrow, Prague or Edinburgh or Florence announced they were bulldozing their historic centres to build luxury housing and a gaudy new opera house, these guys would be rightly appalled

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The people who had lived there for hundreds of years were displaced and overwhelmingly priced out of the new housing stock. They fled to the suburbs - contributing to the dynamic you see in Paris today, with an ultra-wealthy core surrounded by ultra-deprived suburbs

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There were a number of reasons Napoleon III did this, but an especially important one was to defend the power of his state: the then-winding medieval streets of central Paris were great for insurgents to hide out and fight street-to-street. Wide boulevards would allow soldiers to

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I get into fights with people who follow these accounts regularly, and every time I do they tell me I just "don't understand the point" they're making. But the "point" is almost too facile to acknowledge.

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move quickly through the city and crush dissent. Good news if you are (to pick a random example) the head of an upstart dynasty that just set up a new regime through a coup!

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"Oh but it's prettier" yeah. I know it's prettier than brutalist rectangles or stalinkas or whatever. But we're obviously talking about something a bit more substantive here than aesthetic preferences.

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Frog-core and Toad-pilled

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Haussmann's plan involved basically demolishing the entire central city and laying down an entirely new street plan. Five hundred buildings were demolished to make way for the Palais Garnier ALONE.

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@olivia__ms It’s ironic because the cliche of Second Empire Paris was it was the most absurd decadent godless nightmare and they’re not even smart enough to know that

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Americans will see a beautiful natural yard built to increase biodiversity in the neighbourhood and get so scared they call the police

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This is what you get without an HOA. We have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by the HOA and this is what we get as a neighbor.

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Apart from anything else, we’ve been hearing “Just a few more years bro, then science is gonna make racism real” since the 1880s! How do you look at the 140-year failure to validate scientific racism and think “this time baby”

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Matt Goodwin says developments in genetic science will make younger generations more conservative as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups.

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If you publish something like this in a major newspaper the history gods should come down and smite you

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Now I’m going to ask again, are you *absolutely* sure they didn’t have higher education in the Mughal Empire

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It’s a bumper week for people Not Understanding Modern French History I see

CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon)

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11 months

What the hell happened to European civilization? Getting rid of Aristocracy was a fatal mistake. Whether its democracy or communism the landless have no business in the governance of the land. This was France just 200 years ago under the emperor:

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There are fucking cars in the first image! Cmon man!!!!

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What happened to our cities?

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This thundering dipshit is so absolutely terrified of ever seeing any art that challenges him. He fetishes columns and “traditional” art despite not understanding it because it lets him retreat into a cultural state that’s as stimulating as a McDonald’s Playplace

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Little Women is so good I wish Massachusetts was real

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If you were born in the late 2000s, you can’t have “nostalgia” for anything. I’m sorry, that’s not an emotional state you can access til you’re like 22! This is just called “remembering a thing”

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End Wokeness

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Netflix made a new documentary about Alexander The Great. Within the first 8 minutes, they turned him gay.

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If you know anything about this type of movie you’ll understand that this is the best news possible

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What do you think the job of an architect… is?

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Honestly we should sack architects and just let AI design houses.

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English has simple grammar because it’s a nightmare chimera of Latin/old Germanic/modern French but for the exact same reason it also has ponderously diverse vocab and an almost-non phonetic alphabet. Give English learners some credit!

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Sorry you have a bad relationship with your girlfriend but I don’t think that’s the English language’s problem

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@CachiaLuca I will cede to the trads that column = pretty and rectangle = bad

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Love posts like this so much. There is an answer genius! We know! It’s on Google! You’re the “culture critic” - why don’t you explain it to me?

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How on earth did they build this without power tools or modern machinery?

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OLIVIA NOOO WHILE THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF CONTINUITY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES MOST SCHOLARS RECOGNISE THE 16TH CENTURY AS PART OF THE EARLY MODERN ERA

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How will rural Americans face these hordes of #feralhogs without AR-15s

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'Alone?' said Toad. 'Frog has me for a friend. Why does he want to be alone?'

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Reading about Ottoman history is awesome because the book will be like “The Turkish forces were commanded by DRAGUT, THE DRAWN SWORD OF ISLAM, THE PIRATE KING OF THE BARBARY COAST” and im like awesome man keep it coming

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How it feels to walk around with a baguette sticking out of your tote bag

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Girl get off the floor!! That’s the Bakerloo Line!! It ain’t clean down there!!

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That’s not restoration!!? This is a different man!!!

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9 wild examples of why everyone's buzzing about @Magnific_AI 👇 1. Vintage Photo Restoration

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An ongoing list of the amazing things Ryan Gosling has said about his Ken AKA Ken is Literally Me

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In the 17th century this man would be a trusted and loyal advisor in the royal court of Benin

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Caucasian couple proudly rocking Nigerian native attire

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I knew Doctor Who would never lie to me

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nun cat, netherlands, 15th century

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Fun fact this is the coolest any man has ever looked

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New images of Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson in the new ‘DOCTOR WHO’ series.

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Me showing up to the 9am teams meeting

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EXHAUSTED, WEAK, CONFUSED...AND LATE!

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They’re gonna make 100 more of these fuckinh things aren’t they

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‘MEG 2: THE TRENCH’ is expected to earn +$140M during its worldwide box office opening weekend.

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*quietly* nation-states are one of Europe’s most devastating exports to the rest of the world, trying to make Europe’s political borders match ethnic ones unleashed half a century of apocalyptic bloodshed that destroyed the diversity that had been the norm for millennia

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This map shows how Africa would look if its borders respected its main tribes and ethnicities, overlaid with today’s actual borders. The tribal/ethnic borders were drawn by George Peter Murdock around 1959 to represent how he understood the ethnic group boundaries of Africa to

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When I turn on my Bluetooth headphones they say POWER ON and sometimes that’s exactly what I need to hear

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There’s no way human-produced content can keep pace with generative AI that has near-infinite capacity to replicate. Google search is already getting choked by SEO scams, once things like this start to be employed at scale it’s an informational grey-goo scenario

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@olivia__ms So that’s why you were late to Wethursday

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You could awe this man into reverent silence by showing him Warhammer 40k concept art

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Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe?

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WE LOST GDT’s PACIFIC RIM 2 BECAUSE OF AN ADMIN ERROR?????

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Guillermo del Toro says he didn’t direct ‘PACIFIC RIM 2’ because the studio didn’t pay for the soundstages on time & lost them. “They said, ‘Well, we can shoot it in China.’ And I go, ‘What do you mean we? I’ve gotta go do Shape of Water.’” (Source: )

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Proud to say that my “finding out the queen died” story is that I was sitting in a cafe in Istanbul when a French man walked up to me to say: “You are from… UK? Ze queen: she eez dead”

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These are the only ads I get now. This is so cool

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I would fight to my last breath for Cayenne the Harbour Seal artist

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#Spring has sprung! 🌹 Yesterday marked the first day of spring, which makes today #NationalFlowerDay ! Did you know that Cayenne the #HarborSeal knows how to paint? In fact, Cayenne holds a paint brush holder in her mouth. Today, she has traded in her art tool for a flower!

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Me explaining the fall of Constantinople to the bad bitch I just met

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Useful comparison here is Islamic calligraphy, which beautifies the written word to communicate sacral significance or a ruler’s power. Is the Book of Kells meant to do the same thing? I honestly don’t know, but it’s a more compelling theory than “lol they were drunk”

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*Cultural Tutor voice* We used to build our Waterstones like this - what happened?

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Begging - on my knees, imploring- people to consider that since humans evolved in Africa, the first humans to arrive in Europe (or literally anywhere else) would almost certainly have had brown skin

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SVT (state TV in Sweden) just produced a high-budget series called the History Of Sweden. This is their depiction of the first Swedes:

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@ettingermentum Fake news this was incredible

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I want to give this man a wedgie

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America could have looked like this. We were so close...

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Counter argument: part of the FUN of history is that everyone is at least a bit evil

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“Spartans were losers, Romans were fascists, Knights sucked, Vikings were lame, & the Founding Fathers were evil. …wait why doesn’t anybody want to study history anymore?” - Modern historians

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No bullshit this goes harder than anything I’ve ever seen

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Finding out that Andrew Tate has daddy issues

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I was raised by a single mother in England. I wouldn’t call my mother particularly nice or soft. In fact - my mother was mean and hard. I usually saw my dad about once a year when he would visit and I remember one time they had a MASSIVE argument.

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This is just a normal ass frog

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frog, france, 15th century

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This is how I feel whenever I speak Dutch

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I’m more just baffled by the suggestion that abstracting the words means they were less important???? The designers turned the word of god into *ecstatic beauty.* What part of that says to you they didn’t care about the words themselves???

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It’s crazy how every critique of Oppenheimer is not only addressed IN THE MOVIE but is WHAT THE FILM IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT

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@AlisaValdesRod1

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But, no. We want more films about the "complex and troubled" "heroic" white men, who conducted their GENIUS in a "virtually unpopulated" place. These are ALL lies. This is mythology in service to white supremacy and the military industrial complex, masquerading as "nuanced." 8

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The “monks were on drugs” thing is a myth that the incomparable @olivia__ms dealt with in the @WeirdMedieval podcast so I won’t regurgitate that here

Why is medieval art so weird?

Listen to this episode from Weird Medieval Guys on Spotify. In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers...

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Oh your computer with no material, financial, PHYSICAL(!!!) or customer constraints spat out a pretty picture? Would you like a medal? Should we invite Georges Haussmann??

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This just looks like the men’s toilet in every bar in Germany

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Luton Town are currently 3rd in the Championship. This is the main entrance to their stadium. Incredible to think this ground could be in the Premier League next season.

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Wow dude I wonder why the GENDER MUSEUM displays pieces that subvert our assumptions about sex and gender. Understanding context and interpreting art in any way is completely beyond him

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We are so lucky that Shrek 2 came out when yous were all kids because if it was made today all the posts calling Human Shrek 'Daddy' would lead to the birth of the antichrist

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‼️‼️ The @WeirdMedieval Podcast is back with our most confusing and controversial premise to date! Join us as we set sail to feudal Japan to meet restless samurai, magical dogs, and our weirdest subjects to date: Americans

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I'm in Glasgow to meet Lara, a former Belgian emo turned nun who believes that the Chinese are responsible for global warming @louistheroux

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Fuck off!!

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

@TurnerNovak

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Spotify is redesigning its app to create a TikTok-like feed. Here’s why it will go down as one the biggest new product announcements this year:

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Big news: I’m launching a Twitter account called Normal Medieval Guys

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Andrew Tate is fascinating because he’s just so lame??? Everything he does, says, wears reads like he’s trying to impress a really sweaty 13-year old boy. As an adult that’s just mortifying

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I have been locked in my house to perfect the 7 styles of WUDAN. Join me in the fight against the Matrix:

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Current scenes in every house in Glasgow #ENGSCO

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It’s so cool how ever since Elon took over my feed is flooded with these absolutely stultifying fucking posts and because Twitter Blue self-selects for the stupidest people alive all the replies are people agreeing with them

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Wait a minute

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Girls' locker room: Omg I hate PE, can't believe they make us do this every week Boys locker room: #Eurovision

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Honestly this is not where I expected Daenerys' arc to go, props to the writers #Eurovision

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@fakehistoryhunt Obsessed with “how did people build forts without satellites and diggers?” - a question you could ask about literally any castle older than the 19th century

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To recap, this absolute bozo wants you to pay him SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS for his insights

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Personally I think you should buy this very cool funny book from my incredibly knowledgeable, witty friend

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

@WeirdMedieval

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hello everyone! i have some absolutely HUGE news!! there is a weird medieval guys BOOK coming out this year on november 2 via @SquarePegBooks @vintagebooks !!!!! 🇬🇧 + 🇪🇺 preorders are open now, secure your copy asap :)) (🇺🇸 preorder info soon!!)

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I feel like I’m going insane they literally chose a still from the Romeo and Juliet movie set in FLORIDA to complain about historical inaccuracy

iamyesyouareno

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Romeo & Juliet movie then vs. now. They are rewriting history in front of our very eyes.

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Twitter slowly morphing into Facebook… sad to see

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This Will Be Interesting 🤣

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#NewProfilePic

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The worst people in the replies to OP are the ones going “don’t be mean, this person is clearly suffering and needs help!” Excuse me? Fuck you!!!

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“A bunch of nationalist academics got together in the 19th century and consolidated peasant dialects for political purposes” describes how almost every single modern European language was invented. you thundering fucking dipshit

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@VanDiemen_

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Ukrainian language and culture was intentionally fabricated by academics in the early 1800s for explicitly anti-Russian political reasons. They took the vernacular accent of the peasants in the area and called it "Ukrainian" in order to produce a Ukrainian national consciousness.

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@aranptappers

1 year

Also, because it’s such a nonsense fusion there aren’t any related languages that are easy to pick up if you know it. The closest are Dutch and French and (from experience!) neither are mutually intelligible or intuitive to learn

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@aranptappers

10 months

How I feel post Barbenheimer

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@aranptappers

11 months

I’m a statistician, defer to this: that’s fucking stupid

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