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Tweets of the Week: 12 February 2024

Ken Layne is impressed by the British monarch:

The most important news story of the last several years:

A conversation between Otto von Bismarck and U. S. Grant:

T Greer on the Iliad as post-apocalyptic literature:

Tom Hamilton’s wife gave their child some shocking news about herself:

Ready for duty, and they couldn’t be happier about it:

Paul Schofield proves that some people will get mad at you for saying the most anodyne things possible:

deepfates says something obvious but odd about videogames:

harleyskooky tells us about one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of the movies:

The Weekly Retro shares the greatest single work of portraiture produced in North America in the 1970s:

A tremendously sweet story from Dr Dave Thompson:
From Latif Nasser, another story that begins within the family circle, this time ending very far away:
Staroxvia is assembling a periodic table of national flags:

William B. Fuckley on one of the ways in which inclusion policies ensure that the same people get included generation after generation:

Classical Memes For Hellenistic Teens has a motivational poster to share:

No Jesuit Tricks shares the greatest moment in the history of Kingsland, Arkansas:

https://twitter.com/NoJesuitTricks/status/1745642128003260911
Cranky Federalist tells the truth:
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Tweets of the Week: 5 August 2023

Even when you know that Helga Stentzel did this on purpose, it is as striking as if it had occurred naturally:

Bradley Birzer says something about World War Two:

Sir Geechie may be the Afro-Fogey, but he would have you know that he is also a wild man:

I read these four Luwian words aloud and found that, quite without intending to do so, I was singing them. I found it through Shadi Bartsch, and she says she had the same experience:

A. Z. Foreman starts a thread that includes some gems.

Abby Denton has a great idea for a novel:

Ken Layne tells us that the theme song to Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was sung by Cyndi Lauper. I’d always assumed it was Mae Questel, the original voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, who was indeed still working when the song was recorded. Instead, it was an outstanding imitation of and tribute to Questel.

Andrea More gives voice to the real victims:


William Gerrard (alias “Bill Gerrard”) has insight into the motives of historical figures:

Frank Whitehouse lays out some facts about something Elon Musk is doing that doesn’t even have the saving grace of making him a laughingstock:

And a few of my own-

My Warren G. Harding-themed tweets never get the love they deserve, not even this one I put up on the centenary of his death:

I told Twitter something I tell my students:

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