"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

bretdevereaux.bsky.social

07 September 2026 18:04

So long as we - as a field - regard producing a historical argument that thousands of people can read as somehow 'lesser' than producing a historical argument that only dozens of people will read, we're going to continue to struggle to maintain ourselves.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥

thoc.bsky.social

31 August 2026 17:50

missing a few, but otherwise... solid!

Nettlecake

nettlecake.bsky.social

04 August 2026 21:07

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

History Department at Feather River College

frc-history.bsky.social

21 February 2026 23:55

14,000 lines of code later and a hiatus of at least a year, I'm back trying to finish my web-based version of GMT's "Churchill". A classic case of the last 10% of a project taking 90% of the time.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

bretdevereaux.bsky.social

01 January 2026 18:34

A more accurate characterization was that Hitler was a remarkably charismatic individual who reflected, in extreme form, the prejudices many Germans already felt, whose ideas and policies were both morally horrible and also prudentially bad, bringing ruin to his country and death to his countrymen.