Mateusz Fafinski

calthalas.bsky.social

23 September 2026 13:53

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

BeijingPalmer

beijingpalmer.bsky.social

22 September 2026 21:13

a great exploration of one of the pervasive scams of the Trump era, and also of how online culture turns the quirky into the exploitative and vicious slate.com/news-and-pol...

Brent S. Sirota

brentsirota.bsky.social

22 September 2026 17:04

This extraordinary deep dive into the "medbed" mythos is a good reminder that much of contemporary American conspiracy theory amounts to new age notions of healing and spiritual wellbeing awkwardly grafted onto evangelical Protestant eschatology.

Molly Olmstead

mollyolmstead.bsky.social

22 September 2026 15:25

I also found the man who first put it out on the internet. I expected he would be some seedy scammer or troll or something, but when I met him out in Sedona, I found a very different kind of guy. And, tbh, he seemed sorta like a victim, too. He hates medbed scammers and he hates QAnon, it turns out.

Molly Olmstead

mollyolmstead.bsky.social

22 September 2026 15:25

I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I spent the last year going all-in on medbeds. At first, I found what I expected: Qanon (or the mess of loosely connected conspiracy theories that QAnon has become). But then I traced it back in time, and I found a much stranger subculture behind it.