I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterday

Turns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

PDX - the Lloyd Center Mall is closing soon. On Sunday, August 2, come play some fun, silly in-person games with me and @thnewlands.bsky.social to say farewell! 💖🛝🛍️ RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mall-rats-...

Mall Rats Play Day @ Lloyd Center Mall

Come play simple silly group in-person games inside a mall that's about to close.

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Thought experiment: would you rather take the option to log off and touch grass, guaranteeing you have a weekend offline in this one wild life, OR, stay online and take a 50% chance you might see one good post.

🔥😭🔥 (painfully real satire)

Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interview with a Maintainer nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/i...

Was so busy I didn't get to post but our deduction game The Incident at Galley House came out yesterday and people seem to be really enjoying it so far. It's been great fun working on it with @eviltrout.com this year and I'm very proud of how it turned out! store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

Save 10% on The Incident at Galley House on Steam

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.

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Polygon@polygon.com · 3w ago

The Incident at Galley House is a must-play

the colonial urge to possess what belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody

Kate Wong@katewong.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today at 10 AM EDT Sotheby's will start the live bidding on its natural history auction featuring one of the largest, most complete skeletons of T. rex ever found. It could fetch $30M+ and go to a private collector. Here's what science--and the public--stand to lose. My story for @wired.com 🧪

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Giving myself a headache in the archives

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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For me, Pete Seeger is one of the archetypal Americans. His introduction to Oh Mary Don’t You Weep from Rainbow Quest has always stayed with me: “right now, some of these pharaohs may get drowned too”. Power is no protection and justice will always win out.

Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon & Jean Ritchie "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (1965)

YouTube video by Gospel World

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New feature on @github.com! Repo admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators only. This is a highly requested follow-up to the pull request controls we shipped in Feb, and a step toward giving maintainers more control to help reduce low-quality contribs. github.blog/changelog/20...

Restrict issue creation to collaborators only - GitHub Changelog

Repository admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access. This gives you more control over who can open issues and helps reduce unwanted issue creation, while keeping…

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I’ve loved Walden’s previous work but this is unacceptable. It’s plagiarism, veering into fraud. Just because historians tell stories about real things that happened doesn’t mean you get to take those stories with essentially no credit to the person who did the hard work of piecing them together.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

you know the economy’s bad when my 4-year-old’s latest tactic is saying “I want to be laid off from preschool” 😂

Repatriation story time! Aka, how a stolen goddess of dance went from the photo on the left (on display for worship at a Nepali monastery in 1969) to the photo on the right (patiently posing with a dorky admirer in the Nepali consulate in NYC in 2026).

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

if anyone in madison, wisconsin is in the mood for a side quest you should take photos of the area where butter once melted into a river and flowed through the city!!!! and add it to the page captioned "the site of the disaster" or something like that!!!!

This week's urban sketching trip was to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Done on site with watercolor and fountain pen

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)

SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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Matthew runs AMAZING games, seriously wonderful at it ✨

Matthew Bogart@matthewbogart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you've ever thought "I wonder what playing a fantasy TTRPG with the guy who made graphic novels about 90s internet teens would be like" Well, now you can find out? I'm running Shadowdark on StartPlaying, and this link gets you $10 credit. (1/3) startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

New arrival at the VHS bookstore: Charity & Sylvia, by Tillie Walden! It’s a graphic novel based on the lives of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant, an openly Lesbian couple who lived in Waybridge in 19th century Vermont. You can order your copy here:

Charity & Sylvia | Vermont Historical Society Store

An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont–a true story, as told by Tillie WaldenThe month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely...

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I am proposing to my fellow archaeologists and museum curators a new, cross-cultural typology: “friend-shaped”. Can be used concurrently with “little guys” as well.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick@animalarchaeology.com · 4mo ago

🏺 I hope you all can enjoy this friend-shaped Bes jar from Late Period Faiyum, now at the World Museum in Liverpool. 📜 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/bes...

It’s the weekend here’s a big ol pile of buttons for YOU

i ♥️ heck!!

Andy McMillan@andymcmillan.com · 2mo ago

well hey that's cool www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

Greatest article of all time gains further irrefutable evidence defector.com/let-the-reco...

Let The Record Show That Ötzi Fucked | Defector

Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs and led to heavy b...

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Sabrina Imbler@sabs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

no one told me ötzi the iceman wore assless chaps!

People want to work 20 hours a week from home and the economy produced those jobs in abundance and then ripped it away to placate busy body bosses who want to feel special in an office lol

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/...

Beavers once again doing the heavy lifting for society

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.