I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

Meet Tigernos, one of Britain’s earliest named sailors! ⚓️ A Briton and Roman fleet veteran, his story is recorded on the bronze Lanchester Diploma issued by Antoninus Pius in AD 150. It grants him honourable discharge from the Classis Germanica and Roman citizenship. #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵 Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:

avi 🌧️@barghest-land.bsky.social · 2y ago

i think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :) more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️ #paleoart #sciart

Both a dog and a cat have spotted you from inside Samuel van Hoogstraten's amazing View Down a Corridor, 1662. Not to mention the parrot in its cage! But the people are oblivious.

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Wrote about Nolan's Odyssey and what it tells about both the Bronze Age Collapse and our own age of wreckers and destroyers. Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds: www.patreon.com/PastLivesMed...

Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds | Past Lives

For Past Lives subscribers, an audio version of this episode will appear on the bonus feed this coming Thursday. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Last day to comment on this and make your voice heard, please defend Chaco canyon which is sacred to Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi peoples and stands at risk of over 300,000 acres losing protections so it can be pillaged for gas and oil.

Stigmata 🤟🐰@jonathanvair.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLM is revoking protections on Chaco Canyon. If you don't like national parks giving sacred lands to oil+gas companies, you have until July 29th to submit public comments. act.foodandwaterwatch.org/page/96315/a...

WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...

Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.

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Garffeld Pt 7

Good grief, this hits home.

At a recent archaeology conference I was shocked to see AI-generated reconstructions of Māori sites—these are racist tools trained on old northern -hemisphere assumptions. Maybe work with an artist, or learn to draw? theconversation.com/historical-i...

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research

Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

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What an immense joy and satisfaction to see the fragments of the ceiling fresco from Region IX excavations reassembled. The vibrant colours and the intricate details of the highest quality are mesmerising. Currently on display in the Large Palaestra, #Pompeii

Imagine being angry because you're seeing people of Zambian or Kenyan ancestry, being present in a fictional tale taking place on the Mediterranean. But not Massachusetts or Brooklyn native actors of Anglo-Celtic ancestry. In the MEDITERRANEAN.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2w ago

I won't even entertain any of the supposed "controversy" surrounding Nolan's Odyssey casting, they're lying racists who hate black people and there's nothing else to it.

This whole thread by Bruno summarizes my thoughts and feelings on the “historical accuracy” arguments around the new Odyssey movie better than I could

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w ago

the Odyssey is a fictional story concerned with mythological things, but there absolutely is such a thing as "historical accuracy" in that an adaptation could hew to the real material culture, language, customs, etc, of the era the story is depicting.

It is a funny situation to be in when you’re like “I wish world leaders could hit the same level of integrity as the mayor of New York City”

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Goats on the Via Appia 🐐🌿🏛️

I’m not a US citizen so can’t comment, but this sucks! If you are a citizen please comment!

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

this is an incredibly important archaeological site for so much. please leave a comment opposing this.

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm an Architectural Illustrator and 3D Artist from Edinburgh, Scotland. I work with historians and archaeologists to reconstruct our nation's built heritage assets using archaeological and measured survey data and by developing detailed 3D models. Website: bobmarshall.co.uk

Drew a bunch of guys

Academia is classic game and metagame. The ‘game’ is acquiring skills and knowle by dge so you can produce a paper , the metagame is ‘producing a paper’ and that’s all you’re marked on, hence cheating and shortcutting that means you win the metagame while opting out of the game.

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 4w ago

The thing is, 95% bullshitting a paper is actually doing most of the important skills development work of writing a paper . "The point of writing a paper is to have a good final product" is something believed by people who paid others to write their papers but somehow they run universities now

Darth Vader: No. I... Am your father. Australian luke skywalker: Naur.....

Another four unpublished illustrations by Peter Klúcik (b. 1953) for J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.”

Garffeld Pt 4

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

Today's relative ethnic homogeneity in European countries was built by a century of educational & linguistic suppression of minority identities & languages, as well as vast ethnic cleansing

That’s right