History. Vikings. Iceland. Running. Wine. Seahawks. Christmas tree farming. Smart people. Love. That's it.https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mlgkpcamvs24Join me! It’ll be interesting, I promise 🙂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgkpcamvs24https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3ml4vl7eptk2hYessss! Listen to her talk about it just last week on my podcast 😁 https://vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4vl7eptk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3ml4viayu3s2h100%. Have seen this at both institutions I teach/have taught at. Political/ideological activism is parasitic. Couple that with higher ed being run by corporate hacks and the entire system has been corrupted. And this is far from new. A 19th c intellectual I study was saying this 100+ years ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4viayu3s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkxcb4ojts2wSunrise on my farm is lovely today03 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxcb4ojts2whttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkuyn2ch322c😂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuyn2ch322chttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkpswwusqc2qUse code shieldmaiden for 10% off! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpswwusqc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkobpq3nvs22Awesome chat! Can’t wait to meet up in Oslo this summer. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkobpq3nvs22https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkndujy2os2gDo not miss it! @alexharvv.bsky.social is a rare mix of charisma, entertaining, and wicked smart. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkndujy2os2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkj7towqz22lAnother good read on this is Matthias Nordvig’s book on volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology. a.co/d/06Tq7A7n [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkj7towqz22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkioqa7p3k2nRead Peter Turchin’s 2023 book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration. There is good historical data that elites cannot hide from the disintegration that they and those who aspire to be like them inevitably create. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkioqa7p3k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mkdth6sckk2725 Apr 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdth6sckk27https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mk6xhubyx225On this 410th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth/death, I’m happy to say I got to hang at his house last month for the first time. Nice digs. It’s also the anniversary of my defense of my graduate thesis in Early Modern English history, so appropriately good date all around.23 Apr 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6xhubyx225https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mk6psgpy4k25Glad this got cleared up! I can stop wondering now. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6psgpy4k25https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mjv5g36ddk23That’s me! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 23:50 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjv5g36ddk23https://bsky.app/profile/shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social/post/3mjui7cj7bs23https://terribarnes.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-education-in-oregon19 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4fuk3etsrezm7ihcggb7impi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjui7cj7bs23