My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!

This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

In the fine medieval tradition of Christ’s wound/vulva

This is what it looked like:

This is what I mean

This profile is actually good! But why does every pub love to give Nazis sexy-danger makeovers? This is what Yarvin actually looks like:

This is what it looked like

#TypicalHistorians grin too big (and maybe make indecorous squealing sounds) when they see their books in the wild

“We look brave,” said Frog.
“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Whitest behavior imaginable

It’s astonishing how eagerly the NYT has jumped on rebranding fringe, incoherent YT losers as bad boys. This is what Curtis Yarvin looks like:

If you’ve found me here, it’s probably because of this:

I was on Episode 2 of “What’s Next” with Bill Gates on Netflix, talking about the fairy tale of conspiracy theories.