You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Did I plug in my laptop with the intention of doing some writing after work? Absolutely! Did I instead play a co-op stardew farm with my husband for like 3 hrs? Also Absolutely.

The mitten project is finished! Here are the 2 pairs I made with the same pattern, 1 trigger mitts, 1 normal! I made them for some dear friends we met in #Nfld who were moving far away for an amazing job. Had to send some Atlantic Canada down south with them ❤️

Heritage buildings folks, how do we feel about describing a mansard roof building? I'm team 'Its the roof so its a half storey', but some folks at work are team 'full storey' 🤷‍♀️

Here it is, available for preorder! 'Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland' is available for preorder, with its final cover! The book is with the printer now & we have a release date of Oct 19th! 🎉 Book preorders is so important, so please consider! 🏺 #graveyard #nfld

Your girl just got her first ever book advance payment! It isn't big, but it's not 0, which is an exciting moment for me as a lil author! 🎉🥹

From the beginnings of the Quaker movement, Quakers refused to be buried in consecrated ground, believing all ground to be God's ground. In this session, we explore how early Quakers met with challenges regarding where and how they wished to inter their dead. See https://ow.ly/ErNk50Z72GX

Reminder that the Call for Papers for the ArchaeoGaming Conference 2026 is open until August 16. Join the Discord Server to learn more, hype up the conference with other members, and inquire about joining the Conference Planning Committee if interested! archaeogameco.weebly.com/submissions

We are watching 'Aang: The Last Air Bender' tonight & it is a masterpiece! It's such a shame that Paramount didn't put it in theatres for a proper release, this deserves a big screen 😍

🧵It's been a tough few days for #Archaeology and #HistoricPreservation in the US. ACHP released proposed regs changes to S106 on FRIDAY EVENING. They have betrayed all committments to an established timeline or collaboration with preservation partners. The proposed changes subordinate NHPA to NEPA;

Happy #AskAnArchaeologist Day! What do you want to know?! I'm Dr. Lacy, & I'm a mortuary archaeologist, #gravestone conservator, & heritage researcher! 🏺

Exciting news! My new book 'Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland' is now available for preorder! It isn't on the publisher's site yet, but some large spots like Amazon has posted already, so check it out!! I'll link to Boulder Books when they get the listing up! 🏺🎉 www.amazon.ca/dp/199822041...

a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

I can't speak to the traditional beliefs about it, but I can say that it's a neat reminder of how our brains use context cues like shadows to ground objects in reality. When we experience a moment that doesn't fit our mental model, we 'glitch out' & well... "the sun rests on the brains" FITS.

The amount of times I've said 'oh nooo he fell over' watching this game 😂

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

This is awful 😢

Katherine@katobell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another fire on the dry grasses at Salisbury Crags here, next to Arthur's Seat. I'm about three miles away and I can smell it through my open window. www.instagram.com/reel/Da_HgRw...

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

For #FossilFriday, abundant Eocene (~50 mya) shorebird tracks from the Green River Formation, WY; seen last week in the Tellus Museum of Science, Cartersville GA. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾🐦

thanks to whoever left this awesome giant sheep outside the museum! we're sure nothing bad is going to happen

This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Finished the pair of trigger mitts I was working on! The Scottish diamonds pattern is so fun! #knitting #nfld

If you’re heading out to Ferryland this summer, you’ll want to pick up a copy of THE FERRYLAND VISITOR, the true story of when artist Gerry Squires and his family lived in the lighthouse, and the ghostly encounter they had there. www.runningthegoat.com

Just saw an OFF bug spray commercial that clearly used AI to make a bunch of bears. Sigh. Anyone have another bug spray they like?

Really proud of bluesky today. Calling them the pervert glasses™ is our bit.

borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 3w ago

bullying creeps works!

Not the property I'm looking at, but I found another tree landmark! This one says 'Beginning at a beach tree at the southern angle...' so helpful for everyone I'm sure 😂 #archives #research 🏺

Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️@graveyardarch.bsky.social · 4w ago

In case you were following the Tree as Landmark adventure this week, here is the actual text! A few colleagues said they'd never encountered such a useless direction in a deed before 😂🫠

I'm celiac, and here is a current list of specific food I miss: -instant ramen -udon noodles -sunchips -cookie dough ice cream Thank you ✨️