Patrick Wyman
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Pod: Past Lives. Tides of History. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming 5/5/2026: “Lost Worlds,” on prehistory. pwymanusc at gmail. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
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The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
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Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
There are so many threads to pull here but the absolute intellectual bankruptcy of the richest men on the planet is impossible to ignore. It can't just be that they personally got lucky, or leveraged some edge at the right time; they have to be undeniably superior to others at a foundational level.
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
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Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
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February 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
There are so many threads to pull here but the absolute intellectual bankruptcy of the richest men on the planet is impossible to ignore. It can't just be that they personally got lucky, or leveraged some edge at the right time; they have to be undeniably superior to others at a foundational level.
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BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 19
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE w/ PATRICK WYMAN
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Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE w/ PATRICK WYMAN
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Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.
A History of Violence w/ Patrick Wyman | Blood Work
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February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 19
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE w/ PATRICK WYMAN
@patrickwyman.bsky.social
Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE w/ PATRICK WYMAN
@patrickwyman.bsky.social
Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
I had a way easier time explaining that a male friend has a male partner than walking my son through how paper clips are made or how protective different forms of medieval armor actually are
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I had a way easier time explaining that a male friend has a male partner than walking my son through how paper clips are made or how protective different forms of medieval armor actually are
Wu Tang, Triumph
what's the first song you're gonna blast when It Happens
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Wu Tang, Triumph
This has to become a meme. I need this GIF.
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 AM
This has to become a meme. I need this GIF.
We have to get members of Congress inside these facilities to report on what’s happening. It’s essential for human rights reasons - this surely isn’t good - and it’s also good politics, because whatever they find is going to be bad enough to further tank support for immigration enforcement.
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
We have to get members of Congress inside these facilities to report on what’s happening. It’s essential for human rights reasons - this surely isn’t good - and it’s also good politics, because whatever they find is going to be bad enough to further tank support for immigration enforcement.
I’m at a Super Bowl party and the amount of strain it’s taking for every conservative man here to ignore Bad Bunny is breathtaking to behold, especially while all their wives are LOCKED in
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I’m at a Super Bowl party and the amount of strain it’s taking for every conservative man here to ignore Bad Bunny is breathtaking to behold, especially while all their wives are LOCKED in
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Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Going to Rome for the first time in decades later this year and I'm really curious as to whether I'll feel that same vibe there, knowing what I know now but didn't 23 years ago
I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure
February 8, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Going to Rome for the first time in decades later this year and I'm really curious as to whether I'll feel that same vibe there, knowing what I know now but didn't 23 years ago
I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure
February 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure
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"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.
Say what you will about Hunter Biden but as we’ve all learned, there are much worse things you can be than a guy who loves crack and respectfully utilizing the services of sex workers
thinking again about Hunter Biden, man loved his drugs (to serious excess) and sex, but by all accounts he was a gentleman about it
February 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Say what you will about Hunter Biden but as we’ve all learned, there are much worse things you can be than a guy who loves crack and respectfully utilizing the services of sex workers
It's taken longer than I was planning, but it's time for the first edition of the Past Lives Book Club! If you're a patron, come vote in the poll and choose one of three outstanding titles that we'll read together and then discuss! www.patreon.com/posts/choose...
Choose Our First Title for the Book Club! | Past Lives
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February 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It's taken longer than I was planning, but it's time for the first edition of the Past Lives Book Club! If you're a patron, come vote in the poll and choose one of three outstanding titles that we'll read together and then discuss! www.patreon.com/posts/choose...
Two aging golfers/bird-hunting enthusiasts who love menswear: Pleated Rivalry
The two leading interior decorators in a Dallas exurb:
Love-Seated Rivalry.
Love-Seated Rivalry.
The two savviest fuel-gatherers in Scotland desperate to warm each other up:
Peated Rivalry
Peated Rivalry
February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Two aging golfers/bird-hunting enthusiasts who love menswear: Pleated Rivalry
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New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
One of my favorite things in history is when you find a person who was clearly just on the spectrum, like buddy, nobody's that into major infrastructure projects and Etruscan literature without a hyperfixation
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
One of my favorite things in history is when you find a person who was clearly just on the spectrum, like buddy, nobody's that into major infrastructure projects and Etruscan literature without a hyperfixation
I'm writing an episode on the Amerindian slave trade in the colonies in the early 18th century and it never ceases to amaze me that there are, like, newspapers and archives and piles of documents that you can look at to tell you about that world. It's a mindfuck for an ancient historian.
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I'm writing an episode on the Amerindian slave trade in the colonies in the early 18th century and it never ceases to amaze me that there are, like, newspapers and archives and piles of documents that you can look at to tell you about that world. It's a mindfuck for an ancient historian.
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I can't get us down to the strain, but we can ballpark: analysis of preserved cannabis from a 2700 yr old tomb in the Gobi Desert, cultivated high-THC cannabis was available. It's genetic profile would be similar to an indica*.
*indica and sativa-specific effects aren't real things
*indica and sativa-specific effects aren't real things
December 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I can't get us down to the strain, but we can ballpark: analysis of preserved cannabis from a 2700 yr old tomb in the Gobi Desert, cultivated high-THC cannabis was available. It's genetic profile would be similar to an indica*.
*indica and sativa-specific effects aren't real things
*indica and sativa-specific effects aren't real things
We all keep wondering about how Epstein actually made his money but the answer's hiding in plain sight: his network. Precisely what business he was in, what asset or property or field, didn't matter; what mattered were his connections to people who got him access to those assets.
February 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
We all keep wondering about how Epstein actually made his money but the answer's hiding in plain sight: his network. Precisely what business he was in, what asset or property or field, didn't matter; what mattered were his connections to people who got him access to those assets.
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Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?
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New at @startribune.com
Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany?
Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?
New at @startribune.com
New at @startribune.com
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
Most of my lifting is pretty boring but here are a few movements I do regularly that aren’t particularly common:
1) Kneeling jumps. Best thing you can do for hip flexors.
2) Kettlebell windmills. Work your hips and overhead stability.
3) Barbell pullover and press. Great lat and tricep stimulus.
1) Kneeling jumps. Best thing you can do for hip flexors.
2) Kettlebell windmills. Work your hips and overhead stability.
3) Barbell pullover and press. Great lat and tricep stimulus.
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Most of my lifting is pretty boring but here are a few movements I do regularly that aren’t particularly common:
1) Kneeling jumps. Best thing you can do for hip flexors.
2) Kettlebell windmills. Work your hips and overhead stability.
3) Barbell pullover and press. Great lat and tricep stimulus.
1) Kneeling jumps. Best thing you can do for hip flexors.
2) Kettlebell windmills. Work your hips and overhead stability.
3) Barbell pullover and press. Great lat and tricep stimulus.