Exactly. At least in Denmark I've seen too many commentators confidently state that it's got to be an accident because Russia wouldn't dare do such a thing on purpose. Of course they would! Putin is losing a war and that makes people very tolerant of running risks.

Yevgeniy Golovchenko@golovchenko.bsky.social · 6d ago

Regardless of whether the missile strike on Poland is intentional hybrid warfare or an accident, the effect is likely the same. Russia gets to sow fear and “salami slice” NATO further by observing where our boundaries go below the threshold of a formal war

Co za zaskoczenie w doborze adwokata.

Admittedly competing with Augustine may be quite intimidating, especially since he is able to release new publications nearly 1600 years after his death.

Their plan: Spend $300 million to buy Susan Collins a sixth term. My plan: Defeat them, then ban billionaires from buying elections.

Tax wealth not work

Yes, it is rather disgusting.

Janis Kluge@jakluge.de · 2mo ago

Reminder to all Western guests at the St Petersburg Economic Forum: This is what you are normalizing with your trip to Russia.

Today! And competing with the champions league final 😁

Julia Hillner@writinghelena.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On 30 May French-German culture channel ARTE TV will show a documentary on Constantine to which I contributed in Rome & Trier. A first for me & a steep learning curve! I haven't seen it yet, but it will be available here 😬 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12... Pic: me & my man after shooting at Lateran.

BCDSS PI Julia Hillner and former Guest Researcher Jamie Wood are among the co-authors of a new open-access article on namelessness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, published in Medieval People (2026). 🔗 buff.ly/wdB3cD9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:)

#Reprywatyzacja 2.0 lada chwila się rozhula ("pozdrawiam" dawnego kolegę z liceum, Pana Sobańskiego), a ja już mam gotowe linie obrony prawnej dla #lokatorów, którzy zdecydują się walczyć.

They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.

We congratulate BCDSS researcher Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner as features as an on-screen historian in the ARTE documentary Konstantin der Große, broadcasting Saturday, 30 May at 20:15. Trailer: buff.ly/CFqT4kE @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

1. Unrecedented expansion of serfdom 2. Near obliteration of the Crimean Tatars 3. Pale of Settlement 4. Brutal reprisals after peasant uprisings 5. The destruction of the only state which had a chance of becoming a successful multicultural republic Random German historian: "Girlboss behaviour?"

𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️@freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats on proudly internalizing Eastern European thought! It drives me mad how positively posterity has treated one of the worst slaver-imperialists in history. Western historiography is particularly guilty here--two centuries of "Was she the greatest of the Enlightenment despots?" drivel.

Turów miał być symbolem „obrony polskiej suwerenności”. Dziś temat praktycznie zniknął z debaty publicznej, choć problemy nie zniknęły. O tym, jak politycy porzucają niewygodne sprawy po zakończeniu wojny propagandowej. wolnelewo.pl/czy-ktos-pam...

Czy ktoś pamięta jeszcze o Turowie? - Wolnelewo

Premier Donald Tusk dostał niezbyt przyjemny list w sprawie kopalni i elektrowni Turów oraz przyszłości całego regionu. Była […]

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📢 The BCDSS invites applications for 3 Doctoral Positions/PhD (65%, TV-L E-13, for 4 years) from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 ℹ️ For all details regarding the application documents and process, please see here: buff.ly/t0fVXcb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Leaked Kremlin propaganda plan for a bad end to war

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat

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"Z jednej strony pan Cejrowski odkrywa, że Trump łże, a z drugiej pan Trzaskowski odkrywa, że prawa człowieka to nie jest tylko jakieś tam hasełko wyborcze i że unijne prawa osób LGBT jednak trzeba wdrażać w praktyce. I klops". wolnelewo.pl/tydzien-szok...

Tydzień szokujących odkryć: Trump jest Trumpem, KO to konserwa - Wolnelewo

To jest tydzień pełen zaskoczeń. Z jednej strony pan Cejrowski odkrywa, że Trump łże, a z drugiej pan […]

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Long in the making, but so pleased this is finally out & open access, thanks to @unibonn.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who made it happen, especially those mentioned in the acknowledgements and captions. A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor* academic.oup.com/bics/article...

A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor*

ABSTRACT. This article investigates the Emperor Julian's relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousi

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A Companion to Rome, c. 400 - c. 1050 will be presented at the Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on 14 May, 12 noon. Huge thanks to the Centre and to Andrea Augenti and Rita Lizzi. If you're in Rome do come along, or join online.

Ponoć seniorzy mieli przehulać trzynaste emerytury, tak jak rodzice przepić 800 plus. Tymczasem blisko połowa respondentów (48 proc.) przeznacza te środki na leki i leczenie, a ponad jedna trzecia (34 proc.) na bieżące rachunki za czynsz, prąd czy ogrzewanie.

Czy emeryci przebalowali trzynaste emerytury? - Wolnelewo

Ponoć seniorzy mieli przehulać trzynaste emerytury, tak jak rodzice przepić 800 plus. Z tymi bzdurami postanowiła rozprawić się […]

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"Tzw. „przedsiębiorców” w Polsce jest maksymalnie 3 miliony i to wliczając w to fikcyjne JDG (czyli de facto pracowników). Osób LGBT jest więcej, bo niemal cztery miliony, według raportu IPSOS z 2024 roku. Ale można te osoby olać, bo konserwa z KO musi pilnować swojego ideologicznego sztandaru".

Konserwa z KO uznała, że miliony osób LGBT można olać - Wolnelewo

– Mówimy o stosunkowo niewielkiej grupie wyborców. To nie jest temat, który rozstrzyga wybory. Zresztą, same osoby LGBT […]

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I feel like we need a term "yanksplaining" for this kind of situations.

Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 4mo ago

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

JD Vance: "I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. We never made that promise, we never indicated that was gonna be the case."

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Whenever I have friends working on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval history visit Warsaw I always try to take them to the Faras Gallery at the National Museum. It's such a unique exhibition. The recent reconstruction of clothing from its iconography is so neat ;) www.cambridge.org/core/service...

One of the greats, and among her many other accomplishments, author of what imho remain two of the greatest introductory books available to anyone wanting to learn about the late Roman world (namely, "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity" and "The Later Roman Empire").

Pauline Stafford@pstafford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The great historian of Late Antiquity Averil Cameron, who has died, reminding us that class matters alongside gender in British society wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

I mean -- Ukraine has spent years moving mountains in real time and standing against a far superior enemy, and yet idiots keep parroting nonsense about a “failed state” that no one is willing to fight for.

Perhaps denying Trump the assistance he asks for was a mistake? I am sure one of the European leaders must have a talentless son-in-law and a real estate developer friend of questionable intelligence, who may negotiate a peace deal with Iran in exchange for Florida and US demilitarisation?

And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de The Nameless in History ...and in English www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-... @woodjamie.bsky.social