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if anyone wants to read my brand new master's thesis*, pls send a message with your address and I'll send a pdf * french revolution included, robespierre and jacobins sold separately. may contain traces of ranting about 17th century catholicism

#it's in english so don't worry about receiving 100 pages of swedish #don't want to say too much here #because it's obviously very easy to connect the thesis to my irl identity #and i don't want to be doxed #but #it's pretty wild ngl

xiranjayzhao

Unboxing an $8000 actual document from the French Revolution 😳

#fuck #I'm jealous #also why is that beautiful precious thing in plastic #also number 2 I need to buy her novel #one must always be prepared to stan a queen with good takes on the frev

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avergehistoryenjoyer

If I may put my two cents in:

kunosoura

there's no efficiency like postponing lunch to write and then having to delete everything because the tirade against historians with bad takes reads differently when you're less hangry

pictures-of-dogs

pov you are a fish or perhaps a berry

saint-jussy

found here

i love Frev memes by confused normies

saintjustitude

I am so confused.

frevandrest

I think (?) it’s about how Robespierre chose to kill people* intead of being a good person. But they put Danton’s pic because they couldn’t be assed to locate the right dude’s image (?)

* Idk who the peasants are. Is it colloquially like “ugh, those peasants!” Literally? A reference on Marie Antoinette milking cows?

I doubt it’s that deep but no idea.

valdsbejakande

from the comments:

Damn Girondins. They're all enemies of the revolution!

are the Girondins the peasants?

I went to the website of the Old Catholic Church, and my religiously insensitive browser offered to redirect me to the Roman Catholic Church

#Google Chrome #more like Google Chromegregatation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Someone understood the reference and is excited about it

#very relatable honestly

incredibly fake-sounding bishops

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fitbit gave me a congratulatory green arrow in my weekly report for getting my heartrate down to 0

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.