Patrick Wyman
@patrickwyman.bsky.social
Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming soon: “Lost Worlds,” on prehistory. pwymanusc at gmail.
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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...
Trying to find the right imagery to describe the caving Dem senators and I’m stuck somewhere between “landed fish flopping on a boat deck” and “guys tidying up the ballroom as the Titanic sinks”
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trying to find the right imagery to describe the caving Dem senators and I’m stuck somewhere between “landed fish flopping on a boat deck” and “guys tidying up the ballroom as the Titanic sinks”
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
I'm pretty sure the whole point of this frustration was that a substantial chunk of your colleagues don't want anything to do with the bigger fight, and fail to see the manifest dangers from repeatedly giving these people what they want with no meaningful strings attached. Jesus Christ.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm pretty sure the whole point of this frustration was that a substantial chunk of your colleagues don't want anything to do with the bigger fight, and fail to see the manifest dangers from repeatedly giving these people what they want with no meaningful strings attached. Jesus Christ.
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
1) Gaunt's Ghosts
2) Eisenhorn
3) Horus Heresy: be selective, but my favorites are "Legion," the White Scars novels, "Betrayer," and "The First Heretic"
4) The new Orks novels
5) Most of the Chaos Space Marines novels - the Black Legion series is particularly good, IMO
2) Eisenhorn
3) Horus Heresy: be selective, but my favorites are "Legion," the White Scars novels, "Betrayer," and "The First Heretic"
4) The new Orks novels
5) Most of the Chaos Space Marines novels - the Black Legion series is particularly good, IMO
Yes, but also we are going to need some book recommendations.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1) Gaunt's Ghosts
2) Eisenhorn
3) Horus Heresy: be selective, but my favorites are "Legion," the White Scars novels, "Betrayer," and "The First Heretic"
4) The new Orks novels
5) Most of the Chaos Space Marines novels - the Black Legion series is particularly good, IMO
2) Eisenhorn
3) Horus Heresy: be selective, but my favorites are "Legion," the White Scars novels, "Betrayer," and "The First Heretic"
4) The new Orks novels
5) Most of the Chaos Space Marines novels - the Black Legion series is particularly good, IMO
I’ve been reading a lot of Warhammer 40k fiction and one of the big appeals is that nobody’s pretending everything is ok. It’s bad! The choices are all bad! That, uh, resonates a bit at the moment.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’ve been reading a lot of Warhammer 40k fiction and one of the big appeals is that nobody’s pretending everything is ok. It’s bad! The choices are all bad! That, uh, resonates a bit at the moment.
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is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished
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Paging @patrickwyman.bsky.social, but I honestly would contend that if you want mass media that accurately depicts pre-modern historical attitudes toward human slavery, it's SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND and STAR WARS
It's one of the better depictions of the historical mindset around Classical to Early Modern slavery you're likely to see
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Paging @patrickwyman.bsky.social, but I honestly would contend that if you want mass media that accurately depicts pre-modern historical attitudes toward human slavery, it's SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND and STAR WARS
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Okay so imagine there was a podcast. And every week we would —
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Okay so imagine there was a podcast. And every week we would —
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
New Tides of History: I chat with the fantastic Professor Eric Cline (@digkabri.bsky.social), author of "1177 BC" and the new book "Love, War, and Diplomacy," on the Amarna Letters and the late Bronze Age. I've learned so much from Prof. Cline over the years! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Love, War, and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Eric Cline
Podcast Episode · Tides of History · 11/06/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
New Tides of History: I chat with the fantastic Professor Eric Cline (@digkabri.bsky.social), author of "1177 BC" and the new book "Love, War, and Diplomacy," on the Amarna Letters and the late Bronze Age. I've learned so much from Prof. Cline over the years! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
If the free market works the way it's supposed to, this coterie of award-winning actors will find plenty of work with another of the many companies capable of producing films and TV and Paramount will get what it deserves.
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If the free market works the way it's supposed to, this coterie of award-winning actors will find plenty of work with another of the many companies capable of producing films and TV and Paramount will get what it deserves.
It'd be great if these people would just skip this bullshit and get the calipers out. They're doing phrenology. That's all it is.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It'd be great if these people would just skip this bullshit and get the calipers out. They're doing phrenology. That's all it is.
I think the technical term for a political faction that produces candidates like Cuomo in 2025 is "structurally fucked"
Conservative NY Dems are just sad. Cuomo is reviled damaged goods and is allowed to bully himself to the front of the pack over a bunch of other qualified inoffensive candidates. Then after he face plants he goes in again with all his baggage. What a bunch of losers.
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I think the technical term for a political faction that produces candidates like Cuomo in 2025 is "structurally fucked"
I’m as Zohran-pilled as possible, and his win is awesome, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that one of the slimiest, most repulsive people in American politics finally got a small piece of the humiliation he so richly deserves
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’m as Zohran-pilled as possible, and his win is awesome, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that one of the slimiest, most repulsive people in American politics finally got a small piece of the humiliation he so richly deserves
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Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas
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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
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Alright you beautiful protein shake swilling hogs, the orange man has continued to be bad and people are going hungry. So it's time to help people. Y'all know I wouldn't tap your gains for a bad cause. I've chipped in and hope y'all are able to too.
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...
I'm supporting Feeding America!
To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Alright you beautiful protein shake swilling hogs, the orange man has continued to be bad and people are going hungry. So it's time to help people. Y'all know I wouldn't tap your gains for a bad cause. I've chipped in and hope y'all are able to too.
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...
I'm sorry but the idea that Bari Weiss of all people needs eight bodyguards and a caravan of SUVs to keep her safe from the Woke Mob is going to be a source of hilarious joy for days, possibly weeks
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm sorry but the idea that Bari Weiss of all people needs eight bodyguards and a caravan of SUVs to keep her safe from the Woke Mob is going to be a source of hilarious joy for days, possibly weeks
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
Absolutely incredible "sussing out the views of the Ancien Regime elites' mistresses" energy right here
Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, warns that additional sleeper cells are preparing to launch attacks across the United States.
How many 26-year-old, aspiring country singers do you know of who are featured media guests on sleeper cell attacks?
#HoneyPot
How many 26-year-old, aspiring country singers do you know of who are featured media guests on sleeper cell attacks?
#HoneyPot
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Absolutely incredible "sussing out the views of the Ancien Regime elites' mistresses" energy right here