"Tzw. „przedsiębiorców” w Polsce jest maksymalnie 3 miliony i to wliczając w to fikcyjne JDG (czyli de facto pracowników). Osób LGBT jest więcej, bo niemal cztery miliony, według raportu IPSOS z 2024 roku. Ale można te osoby olać, bo konserwa z KO musi pilnować swojego ideologicznego sztandaru".
I feel like we need a term "yanksplaining" for this kind of situations.
The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.
You are being lied to
Whenever I have friends working on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval history visit Warsaw I always try to take them to the Faras Gallery at the National Museum. It's such a unique exhibition. The recent reconstruction of clothing from its iconography is so neat ;) www.cambridge.org/core/service...
One of the greats, and among her many other accomplishments, author of what imho remain two of the greatest introductory books available to anyone wanting to learn about the late Roman world (namely, "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity" and "The Later Roman Empire").
Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.
I mean -- Ukraine has spent years moving mountains in real time and standing against a far superior enemy, and yet idiots keep parroting nonsense about a “failed state” that no one is willing to fight for.
Perhaps denying Trump the assistance he asks for was a mistake? I am sure one of the European leaders must have a talentless son-in-law and a real estate developer friend of questionable intelligence, who may negotiate a peace deal with Iran in exchange for Florida and US demilitarisation?
And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
The Nameless in History
...and in English
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-...
@woodjamie.bsky.social
Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One.
Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers.
In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.
"Trump niedawno: – Europa! Żałosna jesteś i dwulicowa. Nara.
Trump dzisiaj: – Hej, chcesz mi pomóc z Ormuzem? Mam chorą wojnę i ceny paliw".
Zapraszam do lektury:
wolnelewo.pl/trump-zada-o...
We need to acknowledge role played by Biden, Sullivan, Scholz and the gang for letting me hang on long enough for Donald to rescue me.
History will be kind to them.
Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!
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Since Starlink has been deactivated for Russian forces in Ukraine the internet traffic has dropped by 75%.
Imagine that 3 out of 4 terminals were in Russian hands.
Source: Kentik
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Quick reaction to Trump Putin call:
(1) Putin is mostly pleased, slightly nervous. He dislikes the normalisation of taking out state leaders. But he sees Trump as stuck, with US foes benefiting, and US allies seeing Washington as unreliable and even threatening.
2-year postdoc for someone with a PhD in Classics or Ancient History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS114/p... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Usually I find rereading my own writing a rather arduous task, but there is a weird sense of satisfaction to going over a first draft after a long while and finding a very thorough footnote.
Looking forward to it!
Titel and Abstract page of "A ladies' man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor'. Abstract: This article investigates the Emperor Julian’s relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousin Constantius II, Eusebia, and with his own wife, Helena the Younger, also the sister of Constantius II. I argue that the relationships with these women not only shaped Julian’s agency and ultimately his ability to become Roman emperor, but that he also carefully incorporated these relationships into his imperial self-image, even or particularly after their death. By casting a light especially on Julian’s mother and on his wife, widely ignored by modern scholarship on Julian, the article invites us to consider the power that flowed through ancient men’s domestic ties created by women, and on imperial men’s acute awareness of this power.
Proofs!
Soon available in open access at the Bullettin of the Institute of Classical Studies - as soon as I have sorted out image permissions with the Soprintendenza in Rome...
A group of three people in front of a white historic residence
Kicking off our project on The Nameless in History with Pia Wiegmink and @woodjamie.bsky.social in the beautiful surroundings of Schloss Herrenhausen @volkswagenstiftung.de
Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.
So operation "epic fury" is a "major combat operation" but is too limited in scope to be called a war, and a "special military operation" is not an invasion but a retreat during it is a "goodwill gesture".
The post truth age has become the post satire era.
The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.
You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.
More on Máirín MacCarron's and my recent chapter on social network analysis, Roman prosopography, and late Roman and early medieval sources at @ucc.ie's Department of Digital Humanities
www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...
One week before the invasion, Mearsheimer stated that Putin surely was too smart to invade Ukraine. Now he says he would have invaded sooner. The guy is an idiot.
OTD in 2000 Ukraine sent its final strategic bomber to Russia.
Having given up strategic arms and so having no long-range ability to threaten Russia, Ukraine was subsequently rewarded with invasion and supplied with limitless grave concern.
US certainly managed to surpass the late Soviet gerontocracy with the age of their last two presidents.