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Lucas McMahon
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PhD Princeton. The logic and logistics of empire. Foreign affairs, information security, and digital spatial history. Byzantium, sometimes the Komnenoi. British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Exeter. 🇨🇦
I'm curious about where the bigotry and anger on the internet starts and where it ends. As a Canadian in the UK, every time I walk into a grocery store I am consistently shocked by the rack of newspapers where half of them have "evil foreigners!" as the cover story, every. single. day.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I don't want to get your hopes up, but the rest of it is just as good.

www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...
A Physician on the Nile
Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thi...
www.libraryofarabicliterature.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Not a thing, I'm afraid, but I don't really have anything to do with manuscripts.
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just some reckless adventurism in the hemisphere... would sleep a lot better if we had a couple of SSBNs out there.
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Anything with annona in the title definitely piques my interest.
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Who ever said that nothing is made in America anymore? The wackadoodle industry is going strong, cranking out new models ever other day, it seems.
October 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
An excellent thing to read while I procrastinate actually reading the Byzantine land surveying manuals that I promised I would read.
September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's on safe ground when the basic line is "evil gonna' evil".
September 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
That those conspiracy theories might be right.
September 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
You see, this is why I despise humanity.
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Plus the enshittification curve, so in two years the price will double, the AI's quality will drop, and you'll have to watch an ad for cat food every second essay.
September 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I can never just not associate the car in Ottawa with the stupid movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsg...
Rat Race (8/9) Movie CLIP - Hitler's Car (2001) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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September 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM