Guthlac

I don't use Twitter anymore - find me on YouTube or email me (email on my YT channel)

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

All this talk of World War III - check out the link in my bio for a lovely video on how Britain might fair in a Nuclear War

(spoiler alert: not well)

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

Part 2 - this is the part that I aimed to actually create when I started this two years ago

I think TwX now algorithmically suppresses external links? but I'm not really invested in this website or its wellbeing anymore, so here's a link anyway

https://t.co/Skd1YKUR49

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

my White Whale (part 1) is completed

https://t.co/j3z14Bguho

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

Back in February 2022, I cracked open a book on nuclear war and what it would look like
Now, in January 2024, I've finally finished it (well, almost)

Next, to upload it for around 50 people to enjoy, and call the topic a day

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

2023 entering stage left like this to fuck my shit up

More videos in 2024, hopefully

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

2022 wasn't a good year for me; especially not in the last few months. It feels good to have a new start.

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

Elon stopping the bots, is it?

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@Boris72947177 probably because you reply to this shit and show the algorithm that you're willing to engage with it. Algorithms want you to spend time engaging, so they're going to show you stuff with which you engage

If you don't like something, best not to engage! just a handy FYI :)

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

I love it when flawed and openly critiqued studies with dubious methodologies are circulated in oversimplistic YouTube narrative form, it's so great to have millions of people convinced they understand all of history after watching an over-arching narrative

[Historia Civilis 🌍 @HistoriaCivilis]

In case any of you missed it...

NEW VIDEO: Work.

https://t.co/A4dZ7pKQ08

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@danielbrottman The problems I found were many, but focussed mainly on the depiction of medieval farmers and the concept of work - this r/badhistory post does a more cohesive job tearing it down than I could:

https://t.co/FYaZZyilhJ

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@Kur0bot it happened with CGP Grey for me after Guns Germs & Steel - it really tars all past and future videos they do as unreliable, for me

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@b0n3rforceTwit The singular identity "British" across America then makes this map a hodge-podge of culture, politics, history, and identity that's entirely meaningless to anyone except the person that made it

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

come on Twitter

see this

remember why I stopped coming on Twitter

[Whatifalthist @whatifalthist]

I found almost all cultures in the world’s formation stem from one of 10 historical groups, in that those groups with a shared identity in a certain era of history allowed them to coalesce their identity which they have kept until today. They also have a sense of solidarity with other nations in the same bloc. Those are the Indian priests, Chinese bureaucracy, Roman Empire, Niger-Congo migrations, Germanic migrations, Slavic, Turkic, Arab Caliphate and then the British and Iberian colonialism.

These are some maps I made of these groups. Cultural maps are by nature very arbitrary so please don’t go full autistic on “why does this tiny part of Canada not belong to Anglo civ.”

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@b0n3rforceTwit in defence of marking Hungary as Slavic, though, the map maker defends the idea with racial arguments - and identities of race and culture are not at all mixed.

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

My favourite comments are the ones that ignore the subject matter and context of a word's usage, and instead use it as an opportunity to emphasise their moral superiority.

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

something which someone in academia really needs to study is the medieval giant - because I've been trying to collate a video script on this topic on and off for 4 years, and I'm always amazed by how the topic is so vast and has so many different strands of investigation

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

This is what happens when someone forgets to lock the shelves and I come along and start moving them without checking

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Oh no! there's a body in the library

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

@Embracehistori1 MY FAMILY MOVED...

[Guthlac @GuthlacYT]

what a cool hat

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

Officials in China’s Qing Dynasty would have worn conical hats like this one in the summer 👒

It kept the head comfortable in the sweltering heat, giving it the name ‘liang mao’, which translates to ‘cool hat’ ☀ https://t.co/5VKbuGORf8