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בוקר טוב לכולם!Let’s talk about antisemitism during the Viking Age as shown in the work of Snorri Sturluson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson), who compiled and in part authored the Prose Edda, from which

Good morning/afternoon/evening! We could all use some diversion today, I think, so let’s talk about a complicated real-life redemption story. To wit: Billy Jenkins, the Jewish Nazi cowboy. 1/30 “Billy

Okay, starting a thread now on family values on the American homefront during WW2. It goes some unhappy places, sorry, and got away from me a bit at the end,

Last week I mentioned my thesis on cyberpunk. Yesterday it arrived in the e-mail. Today I’m going to tweet some information from it. This is about old-school cyberpunk (CP hereafter),

A little more than a month to go until Trump is ejected from the White House. A perfect time for a Secret Origins of James Bond thread, right? Nothing says

Anyone interested in a thread about where modern fandom came from, and who created it? [only 18 tweets long this time! I may be learning brevity. The accepted wisdom is

So who wants to hear about the first queer woman sheriff of the pulps? (Or has everyone bugged out of Twitter to start the gorging process?) Thread Ho!After 1924 the

Who wants to hear about trolls?No, not that kind. The traditional Norse kind, the monsters from the sagas and poems. They aren’t this. Or this. The real poem/saga trolls were

Incoming thread on Norse trolls! Mute me if you're not interested. Otherwise, here we go.... Who wants to hear about trolls?No, not that kind. The traditional Norse kind, the monsters

How are ya, now? Today I thought I’d write a little about the pulps of Canada—not a subject Americans know about, which is a shame, since in several ways the

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