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pedanticnarwhal
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50% rebageling cat pictures / 50% grumpy cussing about the state of everything today. She/her please.
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For rye sourdough recipes I’m a big fan of theryebaker.com

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Just any rye sourdough? Sourdough in general has been shown to raise blood sugar less than any other bread

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Not sure if it counts as a joke but… an unreasonable suspicion of friendly NPCs actually being manipulative psionics, or even of player characters. Play a horrible swap deception trick on your players ONE TIME and suddenly they’re looking for psionic enemies under every rock.

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There must be an NPC in every game named Poophead because once, two decades ago, a new DM panicked when asked the name of an NPC. I think they were a guard?

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I tell my students (high school social studies, government & econ) that I don’t allow debate in my classes only discussion. The difference is that I want them to focus on learning from each other not on winning.

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Theater kids at least want to entertain and have fun. Debate kids want to win.

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If the people who make up the Democrats end up being an overwhelming majority, they will—I promise you this—fight each other so hard that there will be two parties. Democrats are already nineteen parties in a trench coat.

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For more on this, once again, I've written about 45,000 words on this topic in this blog series: acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c... It comes complete with bibliography and ancient citations. Because as a historian, I rate ancient evidence more highly than modern bullshit ideology. /end

Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends

Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…

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Far from being an example of how 'cultural difference' weakens societies, Rome is perhaps the greatest 'diversity is our strength' example society in human history...until the United States. The diversity of Rome - and its contribution to Roman success - is not seriously disputed among scholars.33/

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Egyptians, by the way, were one of the groups of people Haverfield thought were racially incompatible with Roman civilization. in practice, Roman cultural penetration in Egypt went far deeper than it did in Haverfield's own Britain. Racism is a bad guide to the past. 22/

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pedanticnarwhal
@pedanticnarwhal.bsky.social
50% rebageling cat pictures / 50% grumpy cussing about the state of everything today. She/her please.
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