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Out now from @FrenchHistoryUK, my article "Finance Beyond the Bounds of the Fiscal-Military State: Debt, Speculation and the Renovation of Nineteenth-Century French Financial Capitalism" academic.oup.com/fh/article/doi…

Uh huh yeah, okay, but when we will be able to "download" Philip Seymour Hoffman's jump shot to our "muscle memory?" That's the real test

@TiltingatM3 Napoleonic Wars...fictive kin...or something (Michael Broers biography makes a top flight Dad Present, in my experience)

Civil war kid —> wwii dad —> wwi grandpa —> iliados unc

James Coburn, a guy you’re happy to see show up, even if he’s doing an extremely ill-advised Irish accent

Next 10 why not: Pavement Unwound Radiohead Ryan Bingham Sleater-Kinney The Make-Up Jesus Lizard Dwight Yoakam Andrew W.K. Japandroids

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Fugazi Blonde Redhead Sonic Youth Charley Crockett Steve Earle The Menzingers Bruce Springsteen Cannibal Ox Lucinda Williams Television

@weiss_hadas Linen coat

what should you wear while reading capital

@thamosdeaf In the running for greatest living actor. I feel like everyone likes Stephen Root, and yet he's underappreciated still. Incredible vocal and physical command

If I had to choose a dark horse option for greatest on-screen actor of all-time it’s Stephen Root. So absurdly talented, and chameleonic in a way that would shame Gary Oldman. I still can’t see Jimmy James from NewsRadio and his NCFOM executive as the same person.

Surprised to see the BNF taking such a strong anti-La Mettrie stance, honestly

@DerWeise91 You know what, you're right

@inkybrained Every day is the right time to make mapo tofu

Hottest day of the year is the right time to make mapo tofu, right??

@FaustAndFriends @souljagoyteller In the academic consensus, I think that's so. In the popular narrative, I think less so, though, to be fair, that probably can't be chalked up to Fischer alone. It's not super-new, but I do like this H-Diplo/ISSF Forum on 1914: issforum.org/forums/newligh…

@inkybrained @souljagoyteller To the extent that we will ever have a clear picture of what caused WWI, I thought Fischer’s arguments had been largely minimized in the dominant narrative.

A few come to mind

@souljagoyteller Ha, the Fischer thesis remains a live debate, I suppose

@inkybrained Oh this is a controversial pick lol

@AnandaRobin Cool!

@inkybrained Here's a Motown song inspired by the film The Whole Town's Talking. 😊 youtu.be/yfr1LAp4TiY

The Whole Town’s Talking, directed by John Ford, featuring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, and also a cute cat?? I know it’s not regarded as one of Ford’s best, but dang it, I’m in

Here's how I rank the best 5+ year eras for an NBA franchise that never made the NBA Finals.

@Lieutenant_Jaws @vivalarevolz This is the correct answer

@vivalarevolz Kubrick with Fear and Desire

what director had a bad debut film but kept improving and started making great movies as their career went on😮‍💨

"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious options to create a progressive party, one that dares speak out on the issues of the day, that actually communicates with a progressive electorate? It is hard to see at the moment whether the ambition or capacity exists within it. It is worth noting that Starmer’s Party is only barely the official party of the organised working class. Whereas Labour had affiliated to it nearly every major trade union, today only just over half of union members are in party-affiliated unions. And even then some may leave. This is hardly surprising: as it stands its policies, Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories and Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point." Read @DEHEdgerton's obituary for Starmerism newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

“Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held to be one of the most striking and in some respects edifying.” - Casaubon, Middlemarch. George Eliot really knows when to be merciful and when to be merciless

@PAHoyeck Lying to a murderer at your door, even if they're looking for a victim

Behaviours that should be punishable by law: • Playing media out loud in public • Talking at the movie theatre • Writing in library books • Standing on the left on the escalator What am I missing?