Matthew
@wolfe580.bsky.social
Welcome! I love studying Roman frontiers, playing too much games and spending time with my wife and 🦜.
Have you ever wondered how #Rome used foreign troops throughout their history? Come learn about how #Roman pragmatism was one of their superpowers that allowed them rise to dominate Europe through the integration of the ‘Other’.
dispatchesfromtheborder.substack.com/p/roman-by-s...
dispatchesfromtheborder.substack.com/p/roman-by-s...
Roman by Spilled Blood: Socii, Auxilia, and foederati
Learn how Roman identity with outsiders developed across time through the use of foreign troops in Roman armies. Roman pragmatism gradually opened the doors for the integration of the 'Other'.
dispatchesfromtheborder.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Have you ever wondered how #Rome used foreign troops throughout their history? Come learn about how #Roman pragmatism was one of their superpowers that allowed them rise to dominate Europe through the integration of the ‘Other’.
dispatchesfromtheborder.substack.com/p/roman-by-s...
dispatchesfromtheborder.substack.com/p/roman-by-s...
New article diving into Cuisine in the Roman world! Find out what people thousands of years ago ate and what this tells us! open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
Cuisine in the Roman world
What can food can tell us about daily life, social stratification, and its role as a vehicle for Roman ideals in different parts of the Roman world?
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New article diving into Cuisine in the Roman world! Find out what people thousands of years ago ate and what this tells us! open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
Wrote a new article tracing how 'Political' Zionism moved from a reaction to European antisemitism to a colonial project whose philosophy is grounded in exclusion, land theft, and ethno-national supremacy. open.substack.com/pub/nopasara...
Political Zionism as a colonial enterprise
Israeli Zionism exploits the memory of Jewish suffering under European antisemitism to justify the subjugation of another people while endangering the global Jewish community by association.
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wrote a new article tracing how 'Political' Zionism moved from a reaction to European antisemitism to a colonial project whose philosophy is grounded in exclusion, land theft, and ethno-national supremacy. open.substack.com/pub/nopasara...
Wrote up my first article on Roman history following graduation, the first of many to come! Dive with me into the Roman postal service and it’s development from a set of fragmentary standalone institutions into a refined vehicle for Imperial power!
open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
‘Cursus Publicus' The Roman postal service
By following the routes of couriers, officials, and cargo, this piece uncovers how the Roman world stayed connected.
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wrote up my first article on Roman history following graduation, the first of many to come! Dive with me into the Roman postal service and it’s development from a set of fragmentary standalone institutions into a refined vehicle for Imperial power!
open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...
New article looking into the ways in which AI (companies) are undertaking a crusade on human creativity and cognitive facilities. Humanities uniqueness and ingenuity deserves a lot more than to be hollowed out for corporate greed. nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/artificial...
Artificial intelligence's crusade on human creativity
A Far cry from the tales of a machine uprising
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New article looking into the ways in which AI (companies) are undertaking a crusade on human creativity and cognitive facilities. Humanities uniqueness and ingenuity deserves a lot more than to be hollowed out for corporate greed. nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/artificial...
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🇵🇸 The reality of life for those living in Gaza is almost beyond belief.
2.1 million people face famine and 1 in 5 face starvation.
Hospitals being struck with bunker busting bombs.
That is why @snp.org are calling for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution.
2.1 million people face famine and 1 in 5 face starvation.
Hospitals being struck with bunker busting bombs.
That is why @snp.org are calling for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution.
May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🇵🇸 The reality of life for those living in Gaza is almost beyond belief.
2.1 million people face famine and 1 in 5 face starvation.
Hospitals being struck with bunker busting bombs.
That is why @snp.org are calling for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution.
2.1 million people face famine and 1 in 5 face starvation.
Hospitals being struck with bunker busting bombs.
That is why @snp.org are calling for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution.
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I don't think I've posted this one here before so here's a very important feature we're making for ABYSS X ZERO
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
May 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I don't think I've posted this one here before so here's a very important feature we're making for ABYSS X ZERO
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
Starmer’s Labour: from condemning scapegoating to cosplaying Farage. This disappointing abandonment of their supports by Labour is a worrying trend. I wrote about how we got here and why it matters:
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/labours-re...
#Nopasarán!
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/labours-re...
#Nopasarán!
Labour’s Reactionary Turn: A Party Adrift and a Country in Peril
How Kier Starmer and Morgan McSweeney have betrayed Labour's core supporters and the electorate of Britain.
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Starmer’s Labour: from condemning scapegoating to cosplaying Farage. This disappointing abandonment of their supports by Labour is a worrying trend. I wrote about how we got here and why it matters:
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/labours-re...
#Nopasarán!
nopasaranglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/labours-re...
#Nopasarán!
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GB News, "If Net Zero is so blessed, why does the UK have the most expensive energy?"
Dr Rupert Read, "GB News won't tell you the truth because you're owned by Paul Marshall who is a fossil fuel magnet"
Dr Rupert Read, "GB News won't tell you the truth because you're owned by Paul Marshall who is a fossil fuel magnet"
May 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
GB News, "If Net Zero is so blessed, why does the UK have the most expensive energy?"
Dr Rupert Read, "GB News won't tell you the truth because you're owned by Paul Marshall who is a fossil fuel magnet"
Dr Rupert Read, "GB News won't tell you the truth because you're owned by Paul Marshall who is a fossil fuel magnet"
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We are not an island of strangers, but I have become a stranger in my own country
If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
May 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We are not an island of strangers, but I have become a stranger in my own country
If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
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"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round"
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
May 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round"
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
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Nothing says the weekend like bear cubs trying to get in a hammock.
May 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Nothing says the weekend like bear cubs trying to get in a hammock.
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Great things.
April 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Great things.
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“ Keir Starmer seems to want to handle Trump’s bullying trade tactics by trying to get him to be nice to Britain...
However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”
However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”
The freedom for oligarchs to lie
Is Starmer preparing to sell out Britain to the tech oligarchs?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“ Keir Starmer seems to want to handle Trump’s bullying trade tactics by trying to get him to be nice to Britain...
However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”
However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”
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In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
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JK Rowling is directly responsible for every horrible anti-trans action you’ve ever heard of in the last decade. Do not give her your money.
*taps mic*
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
April 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
JK Rowling is directly responsible for every horrible anti-trans action you’ve ever heard of in the last decade. Do not give her your money.
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I’m beginning to think that the people who claimed to care deeply about academic liberty & freedom of speech on college campuses may not have been entirely honest.
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m beginning to think that the people who claimed to care deeply about academic liberty & freedom of speech on college campuses may not have been entirely honest.
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Sanders: We’ve got a president of the United States who—
Crowd: Boooo
Sanders: I agree
Crowd: Boooo
Sanders: I agree
April 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Sanders: We’ve got a president of the United States who—
Crowd: Boooo
Sanders: I agree
Crowd: Boooo
Sanders: I agree
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We need to stop mis/disinformation in it’s tracks:
April 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We need to stop mis/disinformation in it’s tracks:
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Not enough Austerity yet, said the *checks notes* Labour Government.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK drops down list of affluent nations after decade of stagnation, NIESR finds
Districts in Birmingham now ranked below poorest areas of France, Malta and Slovenia as institute urges rethink on planned welfare cuts
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not enough Austerity yet, said the *checks notes* Labour Government.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...