Anders

Feral archive goblin, sometimes makes stuff. History, games, art. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Anders @nygard]

@travis_view Really? A "nordic" ritual? If he'd dressed up in a Halloween native American costume and danced around a bit, would they have called it a Cherokee war dance? Why won't they stop handing our cultural history to dime store wannabe vikings?

[Jimmy Turner, MD @TPP_MD]

The Doctrine of Charity asks us to assume virtuous intent. To assume the best of others.

When someone says something, what is the best they could have meant (instead of assuming the worst)?

When someone is failing to deliver is there something else going on?

4/

[Rogue Scholar MDC 💀 #Rifts @RogueScholarMDC]

Has there been any public response from WotC yet?

[B @BenediktePH]

Samisk barnehage i Oslo mister nå flere barn. Dette er en direkte konsekvens av at byrådet ikke lytter til oss eller tar oss på alvor.

(Tråd)

[Anders @nygard]

@SkrivaFel Så leit! A positive spin might not be what you need now, but. It helped me to be told, if you're going to have heart trouble, that's the best way to start - having lots of time to figure out what's going on and choose a treatment, rather than being hauled into emergency surgery.

[Anders @nygard]

"Wake, wake, in the stone
Be thirsty and drink
Be hungry and eat
I will ward you well"

#FolkloreThursday

[Adrian Bott @Cavalorn]

Elizabeth I was persuaded that England should colonize the New World and start a 'British Empire' by her court wizard

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Yesterday the IPCC 6th Assessment published its Synthesis Report (SYR) which included this graphic (SYR.1c) which has been a popular way to discuss future warming in the context of different generations.
What were the inspirations for this graphic?
A thread... 🧵

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

Punk AF

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Everybody: AI art is going to confuse a lot of people with more fake history.
We should take this seriously.

Me; SHOW ME MEDIEVAL PEOPLE WITH POTATOES!!

[Dr. Holly Walters @Manigarm]

Dangit. Where's that laugh-cry emoji combo when I need it?

[Krister Vasshus @KristerVasshus]

New runestones discovered!
The oldest datable runestone has been discovered in Svingerud in Ringerike (Norway). 1/9

https://t.co/jobDdPhgWS

[Kristel Zilmer @Kristel_Zilmer]

1. This thread is about a unique #runic find from Norway – the oldest datable rune-stone in the world. It can change our knowledge about early runic writing tradition and the custom of making rune-stones. #runology #archaeology Photo: George Alexis Pantos, @Kulturhistorisk

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Last week, @Gizmodo's @lincodega caught a killer scoop - a leake Hasbro's plan to revoke the decades-old #OpenGamingLicense, which subsidiary @Wizards promulgated as an allegedly #open sandbox for people seeking to extend #DungeonsAndDragons:

https://t.co/XnhM5Ou66x 1/

[Anders @nygard]

Tips to history readers, no. 32, if there is a sudden and inexplicable natural disaster in the work you're reading, check other works for the identity of colonial power that straight up did it.

[Anders @nygard]

@DrJMainPidd Unfamiliar with this story - but the way it is described in the Wikipedia summary makes it sound like the rune curse in the story is very close to real Scandinavian folklore about runes? Made me wonder what their sources were. Anywhere I could find out?

[clarkesworld @clarkesworld]

In an absolutely devastating announcement (right before the holidays) Amazon has informed us that they are ending their Kindle Subscription program in 2023 and trying to get magazines to switch to Kindle Unlimited. Asking for more details, but this is bad.

[Anders @nygard]

@Bob_Janke We can't let just anyone have gender affirming surgery and/or prosthetics. A narrow selection of cis people only, pls.

[Tim Clare @TimClarePoet]

Ok I think ChatGPT has peaked for me