Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Unpopular opinion: the 6 Democrats did the politically right thing by voting to end the shut down.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Unpopular opinion: the 6 Democrats did the politically right thing by voting to end the shut down.
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One of the simplest but most powerful aspects of @nebula.tv is that it consistently serves our videos to the people that want to watch them.
That sounds basic.
But it feels (as both a creator and viewer) that YouTube struggles to do that these days.
Even Patreon's trying to build a "home feed".
That sounds basic.
But it feels (as both a creator and viewer) that YouTube struggles to do that these days.
Even Patreon's trying to build a "home feed".
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
One of the simplest but most powerful aspects of @nebula.tv is that it consistently serves our videos to the people that want to watch them.
That sounds basic.
But it feels (as both a creator and viewer) that YouTube struggles to do that these days.
Even Patreon's trying to build a "home feed".
That sounds basic.
But it feels (as both a creator and viewer) that YouTube struggles to do that these days.
Even Patreon's trying to build a "home feed".
Why is Sarah Kendzior suspended from @bsky.app?!
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Why is Sarah Kendzior suspended from @bsky.app?!
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You notice this is a man who in 2019-2020 was running out of lawyers willing to represent him. He was scraping the bottom of the pot and sending Rudi Giuliani to talk on his behalf next to a dildo shop.
Now lawyers are flocking to tap into the pot. Proof that Law and advocacy is just a scam.
Now lawyers are flocking to tap into the pot. Proof that Law and advocacy is just a scam.
Trump is literally shaking down the British public.
"Trump's legal team has written to the BBC, giving them until Friday to apologise and "appropriately compensate" him"
"Trump's legal team has written to the BBC, giving them until Friday to apologise and "appropriately compensate" him"
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
You notice this is a man who in 2019-2020 was running out of lawyers willing to represent him. He was scraping the bottom of the pot and sending Rudi Giuliani to talk on his behalf next to a dildo shop.
Now lawyers are flocking to tap into the pot. Proof that Law and advocacy is just a scam.
Now lawyers are flocking to tap into the pot. Proof that Law and advocacy is just a scam.
From 17 Nov., I will be an “invited international professor” (grand title for a guest lecturer) for a short course at University of Lille, sponsored by Faculté des Humanités & invited by @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social.
I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
From 17 Nov., I will be an “invited international professor” (grand title for a guest lecturer) for a short course at University of Lille, sponsored by Faculté des Humanités & invited by @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social.
I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
This is super funny. After four decades of dismissing pre-Islamic history & clinging to Islamic period symbolism, the IRI now is using things like this, a full size statue based on the famous Shapur I relief, to drum up support & get popular support. Ii doubt it will work as ppl are too jaded.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is super funny. After four decades of dismissing pre-Islamic history & clinging to Islamic period symbolism, the IRI now is using things like this, a full size statue based on the famous Shapur I relief, to drum up support & get popular support. Ii doubt it will work as ppl are too jaded.
Wanna hear my new take on Marxism?
Marx, and even more than him Engels, were nostalgic for the feudal age & were lamenting the disappearance of the traditional, aristocratic elite!
They resented the burgess replacing the nobility & clearly using the labour of the working class for personal gain.
Marx, and even more than him Engels, were nostalgic for the feudal age & were lamenting the disappearance of the traditional, aristocratic elite!
They resented the burgess replacing the nobility & clearly using the labour of the working class for personal gain.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Wanna hear my new take on Marxism?
Marx, and even more than him Engels, were nostalgic for the feudal age & were lamenting the disappearance of the traditional, aristocratic elite!
They resented the burgess replacing the nobility & clearly using the labour of the working class for personal gain.
Marx, and even more than him Engels, were nostalgic for the feudal age & were lamenting the disappearance of the traditional, aristocratic elite!
They resented the burgess replacing the nobility & clearly using the labour of the working class for personal gain.
Partying and going out on Saturday night is a Capitalist conspiracy!
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Partying and going out on Saturday night is a Capitalist conspiracy!
One of the biggest cultural shocks one gets when living in European apartments & houses is the insistence on building washrooms with no windows & putting toilets in rooms without a washing basin. It’s like they are telling people not to wash their hands?
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
One of the biggest cultural shocks one gets when living in European apartments & houses is the insistence on building washrooms with no windows & putting toilets in rooms without a washing basin. It’s like they are telling people not to wash their hands?
Ummmm, Dracula was real, and he is buried in Comana monastery south of Bucharest in Romania?
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ummmm, Dracula was real, and he is buried in Comana monastery south of Bucharest in Romania?
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Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!
Austrian kings are handy…
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Austrian kings are handy…
I wonder if during my Dutch citizenship exam, I can just speak German with a Düsseldorf accent & tell them that I’m from Limburg? No one understands them anyway…
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wonder if during my Dutch citizenship exam, I can just speak German with a Düsseldorf accent & tell them that I’m from Limburg? No one understands them anyway…
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I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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And let's not forget Hyderabad-born Ghazala Hashmi this morning, new Democratic lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia.
She's the first Indian-American and first Muslim woman there to be elected to a statewide office.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
She's the first Indian-American and first Muslim woman there to be elected to a statewide office.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
Ghazala Hashmi will win Virginia lieutenant governor’s race, CNN projects, becoming nation’s first Muslim woman elected statewide | CNN Politics
Democrat Ghazala Hashmi will win the Virginia lieutenant governor’s race and become the nation’s first Muslim woman elected to statewide office, CNN projects.
edition.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
And let's not forget Hyderabad-born Ghazala Hashmi this morning, new Democratic lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia.
She's the first Indian-American and first Muslim woman there to be elected to a statewide office.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
She's the first Indian-American and first Muslim woman there to be elected to a statewide office.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Mamdani!
Had the weirdest and most amazing sounding random music selection courtesy of my phone’s music app: Archspire’s Drone Corps Aviator followed by Chris de Burgh’s Crusader… try it, you will thank me (or thank my phone!)…
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Had the weirdest and most amazing sounding random music selection courtesy of my phone’s music app: Archspire’s Drone Corps Aviator followed by Chris de Burgh’s Crusader… try it, you will thank me (or thank my phone!)…
Say it to yourself in a whisper. But how do you actually pronounce the l in simultaneously?
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Say it to yourself in a whisper. But how do you actually pronounce the l in simultaneously?
The interlibrary-loan system of the Austrian Academy is a single person you have to email directly to ask for a book. They then request a book manually via email and arrange for it to be sent. Then it takes three weeks to arrive, two days before it is due to be returned!
How I miss the Firestone…
How I miss the Firestone…
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The interlibrary-loan system of the Austrian Academy is a single person you have to email directly to ask for a book. They then request a book manually via email and arrange for it to be sent. Then it takes three weeks to arrive, two days before it is due to be returned!
How I miss the Firestone…
How I miss the Firestone…
No horse ever runs as fast as the money that you bet…
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
No horse ever runs as fast as the money that you bet…
US gives its soldiers Socialism (housing, paid education, healthcare) to go abroad and fight for Capitalism.
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
US gives its soldiers Socialism (housing, paid education, healthcare) to go abroad and fight for Capitalism.
Finally experiencing a Deutsche Bahn long distance trip that is only minimally (9 minutes) delayed. This is unbelievable. Still not at the destination, but this looks promising.
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Finally experiencing a Deutsche Bahn long distance trip that is only minimally (9 minutes) delayed. This is unbelievable. Still not at the destination, but this looks promising.
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Énième exemple de converti devenu un "agent de conversion" faisant pression sur ses proches, et en premier lieu son épouse.
Traditionnellement, le "privilège paulin" autorisait le conjoint baptisé à se séparer du conjoint non-chrétien pour se marier avec un.e chrétien.ne.
Traditionnellement, le "privilège paulin" autorisait le conjoint baptisé à se séparer du conjoint non-chrétien pour se marier avec un.e chrétien.ne.
JD Vance: "Alors Usha soit tu te convertis (et me laisse aussi épouser la veuve Kirk) soit l'ICE t'expulse avec tes parents, deal?"
www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-paci...
www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-paci...
Le vice-président américain dit espérer que sa femme se convertisse au christianisme et provoque un tollé en Inde
La déclaration de J.D. Vance sur la foi de son épouse, Usha Vance, a immédiatement trouvé un large écho dans la presse indienne. Devant un auditoire aux États-Unis, le vice-président a exprimé le souh...
www.rfi.fr
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Énième exemple de converti devenu un "agent de conversion" faisant pression sur ses proches, et en premier lieu son épouse.
Traditionnellement, le "privilège paulin" autorisait le conjoint baptisé à se séparer du conjoint non-chrétien pour se marier avec un.e chrétien.ne.
Traditionnellement, le "privilège paulin" autorisait le conjoint baptisé à se séparer du conjoint non-chrétien pour se marier avec un.e chrétien.ne.