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Apparently the Pizzaville commercial guy is Brian George?! Congratulations to the handful of people who know what any of this means

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My biggest obstacle when I'm trying to write an introduction to the burgess assizes of Jerusalem is...myself from 15 years ago. No problem, I thought, I already wrote all this in my thesis! Unfortunately I forgot my thesis SUCKS!

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They don't usually show Ligue 1 highlights on the sports shows in Canada, but today the Worst Play of the Day was from the Nantes-Lens match (M'Bala Nzola got a red card for throwing the ball at the referee)

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This weekend I was talking to some regular people, who aren't terminally online and aren't doomscrolling all day every day, and who think Pierre Poilievre is a normal guy and his interview with Jordan Peterson is just two normal guys having a reasonable conversation. Basically we're cooked

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Fun fact, he would be the first Patriarch of Jerusalem to become pope since Urban IV in 1261. Urban IV also had a fun real name, Jacques Pantaleon. Jimmy Lionpants

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Calling yourself a king DOES make you a king when you're rushing to outmanoeuver the Patriarch who is trying to establish a theocracy, even though your dead brother whom you are succeeding didn't want to be called king

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Our early voting station is the local Mennonite church...we have a Mennonite church in this neighbourhood?! Neat. I never even knew it was there

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"oooh I hate nationalism sooo much" I keep telling myself, as I'm about to treat the Canada-US game as a matter of life and death

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Today's movie I've never seen is The Revenant, so now I'm afraid of being attacked by a bear, and also accidentally riding a horse off a cliff

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The Conservative candidate's people just came to the door and asked if they could count on my support "Haha. Nope." "Oh...well would you like to learn more about our campaign?" "Nope." "Oh...ok..."

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Today's movie I had never seen before was Leatherheads. I love when George Clooney is in a silly movie

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Love that cronchy -20 degree snow

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Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

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The company I work for has Canadian and American employees, so everyone has a holiday today, but they "offered" extra overtime hours to anyone who volunteered. Canadians would get paid, but Americans would have to work for free. That seems illegal? Who knows these days

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Examining the folds in Pierre Poilievre's brain

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Emperor Frederick II @stupormundi Allowing the reformist pope to elect church officials within the Kingdom of Sicily is an attack on Sicilian national sovereignty 12:44 AM · Dec 21, 1226 · 1M Views

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One of the pub trivia questions this week was about what "recto" and verso" refer to. Everyone else thought it was coins, but me and all the medieval people here will know it's pages in a book

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I try not to be nationalistic, but sometimes lately I wonder if Canada would be worth fighting and dying for, if it ever comes to that. My feelings are "ugggh...I guess so" but mostly I'm just mad I have to think about this at all

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Today's movie I've never seen before is Labyrinth, which feels like it would really benefit from the nostalgia of watching it thousands of times as a kid

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Hey, stop saying "best on best" in there!

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I always think I should go over and shovel my parents' driveway, but they've got a snowblower and 75% bionic knees. They should come shovel MY driveway

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⚫ Immense tristesse à l'annonce de la mort brutale de Martin Aurell. C'était toujours une joie d'échanger, la dernière fois il y a une dizaine de jours quand il recevait le Prix de la Biographie pour son superbe Aliénor d’Aquitaine. 1/2⬇️

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What I think I use Facebook for: keeping in touch with far-away friends and family What I actually use it for: sharing memes and quotes with people I've never met in various Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Star Trek groups

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This is the most sacrilegious thing I've ever seen. Tim Hortons is back on the bad list www.youtube.com/watch?v=-24h...

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My son took a sports marketing class, despite never before showing any interest in either sports or marketing, and somehow got 92% overall?! Outstanding

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I mentioned the Filangieri family a few times in my book and I just noticed I sometimes used that spelling, but sometimes wrote "Filangeri" instead...maybe no one will notice

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We all know what they mean by "pronouns" and we all know it isn't "every literal grammatical pronoun", and feigning ignorance is unhelpful

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When I was younger everyone always said you get more conservative when you get older. If that actually happens something has gone horribly wrong

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Today's movie I had never seen before is The Godfather III. I've seen the other two dozens of times of course, so why not finally watch the third one? I thought it was pretty good! Also as a medieval historian I didn't really catch on that the cousin romance subplot was supposed to be weird

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