Marcus Falk (She/They)
PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy.
Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)The greatest joy in my life as an academic is being asked this type of question
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Absolute Units returns tomorrow! We continue reflecting on our origin story while looking specifically at our links to British colonial agriculture. Plus, how do we want to be remembered in another 75 years' time? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)It's not disagreement about what's happening, it's disagreement over whether what's happening is bad.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)One might ask for some input from our Irish friends about developers walking away from half-built developments, because fuck you, that's why...
- BBC News - Mystery of abandoned village that could be from post-apocalyptic horror movie www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Antipope or gtfo.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Analys av högerns hållning i arbetstidsdebatten: 12 timmars arbetsdag: bra att vi avskaffade, det gick bra. 10 timmars arbetsdag: bra att vi avskaffade, det gick bra. 8 timmars arbetsdag: naturlag som man inte kan bryta mot, kommer bli katastrof! (Att andra länder lyckats är nog fake news.)
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)THIS MACHINE KILLS GOBLINS
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life." Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Förlåt @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social men vad är detta för sjuk rubrik? Spaniens regering ger 600k papperslösa rätt att SÖKA asyl och ni väljer att beskriva det med den högerextrema minoritetspartiets kritik. Menar ni att DET är nyheten? Hur vox beskriver beslutet? Är det er nyhetsvärdering? >
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Latinists! Silly question (brain not working this AM). If a scribe writes 'in formo folio', do they mean on the paper they are using or a separate sheet where something else is written?
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Hier nog eens die houtsnede van Karel van Gelre zelf. Dit is overigens een facsimile uit 1936, als prent uitgebracht.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Question for the Restorationists: Does anyone know anything about a particular ‘stocking incident’ that happened c. 1671 that was so indecent that it couldn’t be described in a letter or printed in an 19th century volume of correspondence 👀
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- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)We have a PhD position open (four years, full funding): www.umu.se/en/work-with...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)reading your timeline like
- @cjzero.bsky.social if you’re stalking the Grammy broadcast, imma need a gif of Chappell Roan squinting at the teleprompter as a reaction gif ASAP 😂
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender Analysis by Chiara Scissa: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Man kan inte sätta in lagar retroaktivt huller om buller. Hur förväntar man sig bete i Sverige när man i framtiden kan dömas för saker som man inte vet kan bli olagliga? www.svd.se/a/M71LnJ/mig...
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)All of the versions feature Rogers' ten children as spectators, watching the execution. This was a staple of shared visual culture in New England, familiar to every eight-year-old child. They're all nightmare fuel in their own ways, but shoutout to this king of American folk horror:
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)i think we bray and hoot a little more on average but yeah, on the whole they got us
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)My politics
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Northumbrian rebels slew their new earl, the Fleming Robert de Comines, and hundreds of his men in Dunholm (Durham) #OTD in 1069. ‘Every street was covered with blood’ in one account. The rebels then made for York and killed the castle’s defender, Robert FitzRichard. 📸Matt Buck #medievalsky
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)How are how are how are you? you? you? 📷
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Regeringen skickar pengar till en terrorstämplad organisation och allt svenska folket får är den här ASGRYMMA bilden
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Sunken Tower @Musée Félicien Rops today, underneath the famous citadel of Namur!
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Irish physicist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale was born #OTD in 1903. She pioneered the use of X-ray diffraction to study the structure of crystals. One of her earliest results showed that Benzene's ring structure is flat. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ ⌬ Image: University of Kent
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- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)vaccines cause safety
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Great quick resource for learning & activating your friends+community to defend against ICE: how to make whistle packs to share (multi-language "Form a Crowd, Stay Loud" minizines, cheap whistle or use their 3D print file, flyers for zine folding parties—also a way to build bravery+hope+commitment)+
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)🚨🚨🚨 Good morning people...are you in need of a coffee? well here we go, let's find out all about it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... #podcast #history #coffee
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)ICE has killed 9 folks in the first 26 days of ‘26: • Alex Pretti • Renee Good • Keith Porter • Heber Sanchaz Domínguez • Victor Manuel Diaz • Parady La • Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz • Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres • Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve justice. And for us to remember their names.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. His cameo portrait appeared on the left side of this German-language bank note from a Pennsylvania institution that catered to the local German population. It also has a lumberjack petting a good dog. Lumbermen's Bank at Warren, PA, $10, 18--.🗃️
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Of all the Dutch children in this 1943 photo only the girl in the white dress, Felice Polak, survived the war. All the others were murdered in concentration camps. Felice spend many years visiting schools to tell her and their story, she died in 2019.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Happy 3 year anniversary to this post
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Left: writing the damn paper in the shadows of an archive nearby. Right: presenting the said paper as a keynote at a fancy conference. #academicchatter
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)if you are interested in learning about right wing media in a way that doesn't amount to deliberately cooking your own brain, here are five podcasts i actively listen to and really like on the topic. i will plug my own as number six. in no particular order:
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)I’m just gonna pull out the John Ganz tweet because honestly, you always have to keep this in mind when listening to them, something these Obama admin libs with their NYT PR article clearly forgot:
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)I listen to maybe half a dozen podcasts run by excellent people that provide detailed coverage of the far-right. Their summaries of their neo-Nazi beliefs, interpersonal beefs, scandals of drug-induced psychosis, and detailed history of niche far-right terrorist groups is important. This ain’t it.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)And they say Bluesky doesn’t have the juice!
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Heads up, Iowa.
- Reposted by Marcus Falk (She/They)Relax the muscles around your chin, they don’t need to be anywhere near that tight.
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