Youtube comment of the day: "My wife can't believe I can watch almost 4hr of this documentary. I'm like your lame for not being interested."
Jesse Alexander
@jessealexander.bsky.social
Public historian; host of The Great War and Real Time History channels on Youtube via Real Time History; History lecturer; Host of the Both Sides of the Wire podcast via Battleguide Productions.
Youtube comment of the day: "This is BS. There was no insurgency in Iraq [in 2004]."
#OTD 4 August 1701 New France and the First Nations sign The Great Peace of Montreal. Because many chiefs could not write, the drew the symbols of their tribes.
Russia influence operations and US influencers have been pushing for Alberta separatism disinfowatch.org/wp-content/u...
Et puis c'est vrai qu'on manque tellement de vraies lettres de poilus, inventons plutôt des sources imaginaires, apprendre à distinguer le faux de l'authentique, ça n'est pas du tout l'objectif de l'éducation. Franchement, on défonce des sommets d'absurdité.
ccailleaux.bsky.social@ccailleaux.bsky.social · 2d agoJe constate que des collègues profs d'histoire-géographie ont décidé de demander à des IAgen grand public d'inventer des sources pour les faire étudier à leurs élèves. Dans l'exemple que je viens de voir, il s'agit d'une lettre de poilu... C'est vertigineux
Youtube comment of the day: "This is BS. There was no insurgency in Iraq [in 2004]."
Youtube comment of the day: "nobody won world war one an armistice was signed that's not a surrender."
Message left on an installation about the end of WW1. Visitors were encouraged to leave a message.
Youtube comment of the day: "nobody won world war one an armistice was signed that's not a surrender."
Youtube comment of the day: "The Germans won [WW1]. Pictures of the trenches show respectable clean orderly German trenches with drainage and underground rest bunkers, and then there is the English/French trenches, the most disgusting disease infected mud holes in history."
Youtube comment of the day: "The Germans won [WW1]. Pictures of the trenches show respectable clean orderly German trenches with drainage and underground rest bunkers, and then there is the English/French trenches, the most disgusting disease infected mud holes in history."
Youtube comment of the day: "I am honestly impressed with this reporting. I could see all sides points and it was easy to draw conclusions. The lack of bias was refreshing."
Youtube comment of the day: "Is the presenter in this video a J*w because he’s avoiding the truth like it’s an antisemitic or J*w hatred!?" (* added by me in case it triggers a Blue Sky filtre or smthg)
Youtube comment of the day: "If US was an imperialist nation, as some claim, there would be no Mexico."
Youtube comment of the day: "Extremely pro communist narrative here. The narrator is Canadian so guess it makes sense"
Youtube comment of the day: "I am honestly impressed with this reporting. I could see all sides points and it was easy to draw conclusions. The lack of bias was refreshing."
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
Youtube comment of the day: "Extremely pro communist narrative here. The narrator is Canadian so guess it makes sense"
Youtube comment of the day: "If US was an imperialist nation, as some claim, there would be no Mexico."
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
Youtube comment of the day: "Is the presenter in this video a J*w because he’s avoiding the truth like it’s an antisemitic or J*w hatred!?" (* added by me in case it triggers a Blue Sky filtre or smthg)
Youtube comment of the day: "All the violence and deaths in Iraq could have been avoided had Maj. Gen. John B. Sylvester, commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division, met Paul Bremer when he got off the plane, shook his hand, and put a 45 to his head and blown his head off."
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
Youtube comments of the day (8 minutes apart, same video): "I appreciate that this channel is 100% NO BIASED." "This is one of the most biased reports I’ve watched."
Boy I hope this bit from my Gallipoli chapter, which I’m in the middle of writing, isn’t prescient.
