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executive editor, barbell quarterly @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2 mo
Typical 1653 PhD: after surviving childhood, fourthborn son of an Earl, he was packed off to Oxford at age 15. After three years of approximately constant drunkenness and five duels with Nonconformists, he was granted his doctorate in Theology. He died of plague in 1666, £18,972 in debt (gambling)
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Ben Dees @bendeebendee.bsky.social · 2 mo
every PhD holder since then has wanted to replicate this career, with limited success
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executive editor, barbell quarterly @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2 mo
It's a lot easier if you can arrange for a couple of your brothers to get chopped into tiny pieces by Roundheads
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 2 mo
step one: hope at least two of nine survive to adulthood