Never leaving Twitter, but nice to be able to help ruin a totally new platform

It's insane. A ton of accounts have gotten nuked, everyone else is locking down

I'm Historycourses1776 there

I'm on threads, giving it a fair shake. My feed is all insta trash though - I barely ever see anything from the people I follow. It's very polished, but until that's fixed I don't think I'm going to spend much time there

I think if the new "only checkmark ppl can initiate DMs" thing goes through on the other site I will completely shift my focus to here.

Blaine Amendments

I can't believe there are real people on here cheering for Taylor lmao

Doing God's work

Adversarial posting definitely drives interest and engagement. Still, I'm enjoying the relative peace and quiet on here

Bluesky app, but it just shows the loading image with no posts

I procrastinate and file an extension every year

I don't think there is any universe where the mideast doesn't descend into chaos in the aftermath of the ottoman empire's collapse. The British and French just forestalled it for a few decades

It's a very good question and I don't really think that there was. They obviously could have gone about certain things better, but all in all it was one of the more benign theaters of British imperialism, pretty much every aspect of Mandatory Palestine excepted

Every time I see your name I am reminded of triptolemus from percy jackson. it was my first association with your name on twitter lol

We're all migrating over and finding our friends.

Welp, Passover is done. I can't describe how much I'm craving some pizza and beer rn lol

Every time I see another old friend on here it's so exciting

Tomatoes, right?

may the best roon win

gm mage

3 - The Carthaginians almost certainly practiced child sacrifice, a practice that they imported from their native Phoenicia. Some historians deny that the child sacrifice happened, and impute such reports to Roman propaganda, but for reasons beyond the scope of this thread, I don't buy it.

Definitely curious to see how a thread of a thousand posts will iterate on this site

2 - At the time that the Great Pyramids were built, there was still a population of wooly mammoths left alive on Wrangel Island.

1 - According to the traditional account, King Edward II of England was killed by having a red-hot poker inserted up his anus.

Gonna start this today. Rather than pinning it to likes, I will simply post three facts per day, until I run out. Then I'll probably go down to one or two.

Let a thousand Blackbeards bloom

Gonna start posting from this account on April 19, with Lexington and Concord.

One issue about posting here is that I can't schedule tweets, which means that on Two-day Jewish holidays I won't be able to post at all here.

(I already recreated my gimmick alt here - @todayinamrev.bsky.social, covering the day-to-day events of the American Revolution)

Guy who uses his first invite code to create an alt