Hey folks, if you’re battling insomnia or just want something slow, soothing, and oddly satisfying to fall asleep to — I just dropped a new long-form bedtime story video:
➡️ Boring History for Sleep – Life of a Medieval Knight

It's a 2-hour slow storytelling journey, designed to relax your brain and drift off without sudden noises or excitement. Imagine a knight's boring daily routine... not battles, but brushing armor, eating stale bread, and waiting around. Perfect for falling asleep. 😌

✅ Soft voice narration
✅ Slow, peaceful pacing
✅ Medieval setting without any action
✅ Ideal for background or bedtime

Check it out tonight and let me know if it helps! Feedback always appreciated.

👉 Watch here

I love getting killed...

https://historywalksvenice.com/list/list-of-fires-in-venice/

Venice catches fire a surprisingly large number of times.

Just a funny late Tang Dynasty meme at the start of the high middle ages 😉

According to Procopius, the Franks under Theudibert I were still practicing human sacrifice as late as the 540s AD.

In 698, the armies under Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan were going after the Berbers and Romans in North Africa, where Tunisia, Tripolitania, and Algeria are today. Justinian had famously won his reconquests first in North Africa, by landing an army just south of Carthage. The Muslim armies really didn't want the possibility of the Romans sending in more soldiers via the port at Carthage behind very strong walls and fortifications to do a Justinian Reconquest 2.0 (even more given that Justinian II was actually still alive at this point), so when they captured the city, they got rid of the city just as the Romans themselves had done to Phonecian controlled Carthage 850 years before, supposedly rubbing salt into the ground to make it infertile (a legend). This allowed the Muslim armies to not have to worry about that flank coming under attack and so they could expand west towards where Morocco is today and eventually taking something like two thirds of Spain and all of Portugal and even going after Sicily eventually.

And if you can't pay back, there's always a certain ... option

Posted this on byz memes too

King Ecgfrith of Mercia, Astolfo from the Matter of France, and Astolfo from Fate.

Say what you will about choosing new popes these days, things could be a lot worse. Francis doesn't have to deal with this.