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Bede vs Gregory of Tours.
Medieval Movies & links to history podcasts.
Antiques friendly
Moving permanently to @morangles.bsky.social

[T S P @morangles]

@JemDuducu @mikemovies @midgetmoxie I watched it when it was released. I loved the title and I liked the story. This said to be fair I have forgotten the plot.
Don't get old!

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

In 2024...Trump got MAGA to hate war and high prices

In 2026...Trump got MAGA to love war, high prices and pedophilia.

[T S P @morangles]

@mordownik4u @simongerman600 These Poles did good. What Napoleon did was shameful. The French Revolution had abolished slavery. And this was the right thing to do.

[Codziennik z Mordoru @mordownik4u]

Reprezentacja Haiti na oficjalnych koszulkach w których zagra na Mistrzostwach Świata umieściła POLSKĄ FLAGĘ!

To nie błąd projektanta ani przypadek – to wyjątkowy gest pełen szacunku, który porusza serce każdego Polaka. W 1802 roku Napoleon wysłał kilka tysięcy żołnierzy z Polskich Legionów na San Domingo (obecne Haiti), żeby zdławić tamtejsze powstanie niewolników. Polacy jednak wybrali inną drogę. Zamiast walczyć przeciwko walczącym o wolność, wielu z nich przeszło na stronę powstańców i stanęło do walki ramię w ramię z Haitańczykami przeciwko wojskom francuskim. Po zwycięstwie rewolucji i ogłoszeniu niepodległości w 1804 roku, pierwszy przywódca Haiti – Jean-Jacques Dessalines – oddał Polakom wielki hołd. Przyznał im pełne obywatelstwo, a w konstytucji nazwał ich „Białymi Murzynami Europy”. Były to słowa najwyższego uznania i braterstwa w tamtych czasach. Część polskich żołnierzy (ok. 400–500) została na wyspie na stałe, głównie w regionie Cazale, gdzie ich potomkowie mieszkają do dzisiaj. Dziś, ponad dwieście lat później, pamięć o polskiej odwadze i solidarności wciąż żyje na Haiti. Kiedy ich piłkarze wychodzą na murawę, niosą na piersi symbol naszej wspólnej historii – historii walki o wolność, która nie zna granic ani koloru skóry.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

I think the blind DOGE cuts screwed us over. Farmers and cattle ranchers have to deal with the new screwworm plague now.

[T S P @morangles]

CGI Animated Short Film: "Swing to the Moon" by ESMA | CGMeetup https://t.co/iYOiaXMVDO via @YouTube a lovely poetic twist about trip to the moon

[T S P @morangles]

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe https://t.co/QhxXYzs9L8 via @acast I highly recommend @JemDuducu podcast. History with witty storytelling taking us in all sorts of corners. Heman was also a symbol of this need to a lightheartedness. Kids of the early 80s did not appreciate it but for the older me, it was not having to worry about Vietnam war and Tehran hostages were free. Soon we would be "Seeking desperately Madonna". With great power, we knew great responsibility would follow. Which is why we felt it was not outrageous to try to give our younger siblings crash courses about the right thing to do after each episodes of Maters of the Universe.
Now moving to Blackadder. How did I manage to miss this episode? Will you ever forgive me?

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game.

You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

Ah, yes, North America's famous ... Arabian Peninsula.

[Norse Mythology @NorseMythNews]

You can read my statement, with hyperlinks to sources and more information, at https://t.co/NZLCySj9bK

It's also in the collection of statements from multiple Pagan organizations at https://t.co/SlJ1By00fl

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[T S P @morangles]

Hoping Hegseth is booted out of his intolerant disrespectful position. Monotheist, polytheists, atheist faiths must be respected. When I read about Pete latest antics, I felt angry and humiliated. As it goes, I believe in ... an afterlife. In higher Being? Beings? This being said nobody has the right to tell me if I am right or wrong and I have no right to do same. I wish you peace and the joy to worship what you freely believe in.

[Norse Mythology @NorseMythNews]

As goði (clergy) of Thor's Oak Kindred, and as someone who helped with the struggle for recognition of Heathens in the U.S. Armed Forces, I've written a statement on Pete Hegseth removing Ásatrú and Heathenry from the Pentagon's official list of recognized religions.

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[T S P @morangles]

Churchill’s slaughter of 1,300 French sailors was justified – and a lesson for leaders today https://t.co/5J0tQbRZBb via @Telegraph @YahooNews @EdwardAbelSmith
As a French person, one whose paternal uncle paid the ultimate price, I agree with the author. Some abscesses have to be lanced as we say in Medicine. It was cruel, painful but unavoidable. We know who Vichy was, we know Petain. Britain made sure De Gaulle would fight on. Legitimacy through sacrifice. Like cutting off a limb to ensure the rest of the body lived on. And it did. Britain lived another day. France did same. Baby steps toward one day Liberation. In school, in my very French school, we were told about Mers El Kebir how Nazis&Kollabos tried to paint the event. 'They had no choice'. Those sailors died for a Greater Good. No blame against Britain. No suspicion of cowardice against the Dead. Darlan was ambiguous. Did he in fact subliminally suggest to Churchill the course of action which ensued? To preach the impossible to achieve (France denying its Navy to Hitler as impossible) in order to get Churchill know the truth? A twist on preaching the false in order to reveal the truth? Who knows. Darlan was complicated. Much later he would join Freed Algiers to be assassinated shortly after. Double crossing, triple crossing, there is always a crossing too many. Churchill was right. End of.

[T S P @morangles]

cc to @JasonColavito @KUHoopes @FlintDibble @DUAncientAliens
Gentle reminder to #ancientaliens crowd. The alignments have lived along Armoricans then Bretons then French people since Brittany is a part of France, since 5thC CE Romano-Britons settled in exile in Armorique. No idea how people were calling it before the word Armorica was coined. Importantly it means over millennia the people who lived in the Carnac area before Carnac existed as words exist dealt with them. And we know how it looks in 2026 is not now it looks in 156, 56 AD 56 BC 1526 BCE 2026 BCE and truth be told nobody knows how it was looking at the time it was completed. All the rest is what we call in French 'literature'. Just blowing wind, just noise.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:

[T S P @morangles]

@Lucius_Gellius @DimitriTilloi @GarciaDInrap une piece au musee de St Germain en Laye dediee aux arts du spectacle a Rome et en Gaule avec un orgue hydraulique? Siouplait?😇😈

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

The evocative sounds of a reconstructed ancient hydraulis (water organ) played by Justus Willberg of the European Music Archaeology Project. 🎹🎶

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

The evocative sounds of a reconstructed ancient hydraulis (water organ) played by Justus Willberg of the European Music Archaeology Project. 🎹🎶

[SILVER @Read_Meee]

Fucking NHS. I woke up this morning with some trouble in my eye. Called the optician. Had tests. Sent straight to hospital with a torn retina.

They insisted on giving me laser surgery there and then to fix it. Didn't want any money for the job. Now I'm home again.

How inconsiderate. Joking aside. Remember there are people out there who want to dismantle the NHS.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

There's always a tweet