I am begging you people who claim to be smart to read one (1) history book. - ThreadSky

shodaiswife.bsky.social•11 days ago

it was called the dark ages because there were no lamps. check ur facts

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clusterblock.bsky.social•11 days ago

It was also nighttime

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goingmedieval.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/goingmedieval.bsky.social/post/3ldfxhlcfjc2v

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goingmedieval.bsky.social•11 days ago

A cool thing too is when you point out that someone is making something up and has the Dark Ages off by about, oh, a thousand years, people will immediately pivot and call you a pedant.
Knowledge is so so so important until you point out that they don't have it.

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conandoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

The number of people who confuse 'The Dark Ages' with the Early Modern period is staggering.

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kebrightbill.bsky.social•11 days ago

My ancestor who got beheaded for the heresy of preaching believer's baptism during the early modern period would probably like a word.

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conandoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

But you said yourself that that was the "early modern" period! Things like that didn't happen nearly so often in the Middle Ages, or before, i.e. in the period which I study and publish about!

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kebrightbill.bsky.social•11 days ago

I was agreeing with you

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homeisnothere.bsky.social•11 days ago

Eleanor, how dare you come to the internet with facts? /s

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thekingdommy.bsky.social•11 days ago

Ah shit. I thought it was called the dark ages because Bartholomew Waxkeeper went off to be a troubadour rather than bother inventing candles with his kept wax

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melhistorygeek.bsky.social•11 days ago

i would love to read this book but unfortunately i am in the thrall of wicked historians who keep demanding essays off me and give me reading lists longer than the average loo roll...

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goingmedieval.bsky.social•11 days ago

And I'm not even sorry!!!!

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melhistorygeek.bsky.social•11 days ago

typical non of you buggers are...

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djadani.bsky.social•11 days ago

i think about your rants every time i see this image (and block the person who posted it)

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robertpaulett.bsky.social•11 days ago

I mean “The Jim Crow South” was right there.

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nickdickinson.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is a better description of the late Roman Empire than the “dark ages”

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goingmedieval.bsky.social•11 days ago

Like, uh, the numerous non-Christian kingdoms would like a word.

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nickdickinson.bsky.social•11 days ago

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tempest666.bsky.social•11 days ago

Calling them "dark ages" is like saying my boobs are small. It's just not true.

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katiecannon.bsky.social•11 days ago

I keep hoping the word “liberalism” gets replaced with the phrase “Enlightenment Values”.

Even my MAGA family shuts up when I frame things in terms of our Enlightenment Values

Hadn’t changed their mind. But they at least stop yapping

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mikeyred.bsky.social•11 days ago

Isn't that picture from around the early Renaissance?!

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jakepaulsartre.bsky.social•11 days ago

Good thing wealthy Italian catholics were stripped of their power & influence by the time of the Rennaissance

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jaapscheurleer.bsky.social•11 days ago

maybe this one... the middle ages in america

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tdelphos.bsky.social•11 days ago

Annoying goose: "What was the reason? WHAT WAS THE REASON, NUMBER SIX"

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rorymaclellan.bsky.social•11 days ago

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goingmedieval.bsky.social•11 days ago

Omg I love it.

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imjustluca.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Plz stop making dildo 😭 🙏"

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haredurer.bsky.social•11 days ago

The priests simply will not stop fucking.

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schopenhegel.bsky.social•11 days ago

Someone's been reaching Nicholas Orme's "Going to Church in Medieval England."

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aferaldavid.bsky.social•11 days ago

dear Popes please stop having kids and making them Cardinals signed the Renaissance

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thatjackanapes.bsky.social•11 days ago

This meme just keeps coming around and around on here and a little bit of me dies every time I see it

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kevingates.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes, I keep seeing this meme and I hate it so much

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mixmastermind.bsky.social•11 days ago

At the very least one pair of shorts.

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freydalpishti.bsky.social•11 days ago

This dumb shit goes viral every 5m on here. I have no idea why.....

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staryork.bsky.social•10 days ago

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wearecompost.bsky.social•11 days ago

Woke people can't go two millenia before cancelling something.

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lassebe.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's a very small consolation, but I have seen a lot of folks replying to these with the photo of the shorts (whilst attempting to do the same myself).

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maartenmaesen.bsky.social•11 days ago

But Eleanor? Since it is tech bros bringing us the downfall can we call it the dork ages?

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ilmi.bsky.social•11 days ago

IF they want to draw parallels to the Dark Ages of c. 500-1000, the Trump Administration's shuttering of invaluable government data sources is RIGHT THERE: it's true that the historical record will be sparser for these actions!

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