Chad Denton
@reluctantlychad.bsky.social
Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: https://linktr.ee/drownedinink
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Episode 83: The Breakup
Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her des…
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Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her despised husband?
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
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i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
I'll play. Thankfully I'm much more of a reply guy, because there are so, so few things I have been wrong about.
stealing an idea I saw floating around here. 1 like = 1 thing I was wrong about, and for once I'll abide by the like number
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'll play. Thankfully I'm much more of a reply guy, because there are so, so few things I have been wrong about.
I can't help but wish I was an expert in 19th century economic and/or social history because I'm pretty sure there has to be a quote from some Victorian about how clothing is cheap thanks to factories so it's okay rent and food are expensive that will exactly parallel what W*ll St*ncil is saying.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I can't help but wish I was an expert in 19th century economic and/or social history because I'm pretty sure there has to be a quote from some Victorian about how clothing is cheap thanks to factories so it's okay rent and food are expensive that will exactly parallel what W*ll St*ncil is saying.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
"The peasants are too stupid to know they have it good compared to the 1820s or whatever and poor people like them always existed anyway" is such an amazing argument to make, especially now that we live in a world where there's been a historic mayoral race won *because* of the affordability crisis.
There is no “affordability crisis.”
There is the real problem of many Americans not being able to afford good things that some others can afford. Except that’s always been true, and is less true now regarding basic needs and regular wants than before, in particular compared to the 20th century.
There is the real problem of many Americans not being able to afford good things that some others can afford. Except that’s always been true, and is less true now regarding basic needs and regular wants than before, in particular compared to the 20th century.
Affordability is, in fact, not a real thing. It's a buzzword designed to respond to an invented crisis. It's the Dem equivalent of the GOP saying it'll secure our border - the public got really upset about something that mostly didn't exist, and now you'll solve it. It's anti-Glonzo sloganeering.
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"The peasants are too stupid to know they have it good compared to the 1820s or whatever and poor people like them always existed anyway" is such an amazing argument to make, especially now that we live in a world where there's been a historic mayoral race won *because* of the affordability crisis.
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One clear lesson from the outrage at the Eight Enablers in the Senate: normie Democrats online want Democrats to fight too, not just the left. The fight/not-fight dichotomy isn't so much an ideological one as a difference in views of what it means to be a party, including a legislative one.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One clear lesson from the outrage at the Eight Enablers in the Senate: normie Democrats online want Democrats to fight too, not just the left. The fight/not-fight dichotomy isn't so much an ideological one as a difference in views of what it means to be a party, including a legislative one.
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I actually do feel for House Democrats as much as they suck because they universally held the line aside from one guy who I get the sense they no longer talk to and as a result you now have bland centrist frontliners releasing absolutely furious statements calling to burn down the Senate
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I actually do feel for House Democrats as much as they suck because they universally held the line aside from one guy who I get the sense they no longer talk to and as a result you now have bland centrist frontliners releasing absolutely furious statements calling to burn down the Senate
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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
People are (rightfully) talking about politics a lot tonight so here's a timeline cleanse.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
People are (rightfully) talking about politics a lot tonight so here's a timeline cleanse.
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Van Hollen a No, and suggesting they might drag this out and make it painful
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Van Hollen a No, and suggesting they might drag this out and make it painful
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I cannot tell you how annoying it is to know that basically everyone I know is smarter than the most powerful people on earth
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I cannot tell you how annoying it is to know that basically everyone I know is smarter than the most powerful people on earth
Maybe instead of politics people want more historian shitposting from me here. "IMAGINED COMMUNITIES? More like imagine a book that's actually written by a historian who has at least a freshman college student with a C average's knowledge of history before 1820."
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Maybe instead of politics people want more historian shitposting from me here. "IMAGINED COMMUNITIES? More like imagine a book that's actually written by a historian who has at least a freshman college student with a C average's knowledge of history before 1820."
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These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
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I have absolute raging hatred for these people, like nothing else in my 50+ years. If we get out of this, I don't just want justice, I want vengeance and a reckoning like the world has never seen.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have absolute raging hatred for these people, like nothing else in my 50+ years. If we get out of this, I don't just want justice, I want vengeance and a reckoning like the world has never seen.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.
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It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
Fellow history lovers, a German history YouTuber has been doing (in English) an excellent series on the partitions of Poland, which to me is one of the most fascinating yet overlooked (at least in the English-language world) episodes in early modern history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbY...
Prelude to the Partitions: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th Century
YouTube video by Sir Manatee
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fellow history lovers, a German history YouTuber has been doing (in English) an excellent series on the partitions of Poland, which to me is one of the most fascinating yet overlooked (at least in the English-language world) episodes in early modern history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbY...
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
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Mr. Bonestripper is the compromise
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Mr. Bonestripper is the compromise