The Buns of Navaronne A fridge too far The Dullest Day Ice Cold in Alaska Where Beagles Dare
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 12h agoSplatoon.
Dr Hannah Pethen
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I am an archaeologist working with GIS, satellite imagery and digital humanities. www.hannahpethen.com
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 12h ago
The academic paper is excellent. What cool work!
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 7d ago📰 Fractured skulls of ancient Egyptian servants may confirm the century-old theory that retainers were sacrificed to be buried with their ruler when they died. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Now I have a pussycat and I get to have her sit on my lap and stroke her head, I understand why pussycat skulls I have excavated look like 'that'!
Normalising ruining rapist lives. They should be ruined!
@somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 2w agoHEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.
I've been compiling a list for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social of small-grant sources - orgs with funds for UK-based students/researchers/teachers in #Classics & related fields to use for e.g. research trips, conferences, other professional development activities #ClassicsBluesky 🏺1/4
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Do people put bombs in bags anymore? I recall sometime in the mid-2000s huffing about carrying my wrapper home from the tube only see a bin on every platform! It was an absolute trip for an 80s kid.
Paul killick@paulkillick.bsky.social · 2w agoThat said over the last decade or so it is noticeable that not as many people are suspicious of a left bag or are happy to walk if from a bag in public not realising that others may think it’s a bomb
So the discourse has moved on to indoor cats now I see.
You can absolutely be English if you are not white! But can you be English if you are Welsh? That is the question that is of personal importance to me.
Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 2w agoGood read. “Even if the ethnonationalist right wants to project a future based on a kind of racial nostalgia, English history itself offers very little support for it. It is a politics with nowhere to go.”
What? The iced coffee discourse is all over the place right now and I have no clue what this nonsense is all about!!
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoIs asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS
So when I said arrest him for piracy I didn't think they'd actually go and do it. . . .
Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3w agoHampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995
He attacked a boat on the sea with the intention of sinking it. . . . He should be arrested for piracy actually!
Dr Tess Machling@tessmachling.bsky.social · 3w agoRiot police in Gosport because that idiot Daniel Thomas is in channel tailing 2 x RNLI boats with refugees, after slashing the boat they were transferred from *while* a member of the RNLI was on board the empty dinghy. He's told all his followers to go to Gosport. He should be f*cking arrested.
I swear I have read this in some ponderos German 'personnenamen' format.
@rlgottwald.bsky.social · 3w agoGenerals Without an Army: Rank and Title Inflation among Pre-Alliance Rebel Cell Leadership
"I burn my decency for someone else's future!": Colonialist collecting as subversive meta-praxis.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat’s your fake starwars academic paper
I sailed past the Richard Montgomery a week ago and saw the masts still visible above the tide. I also live in Southend so if it ever goes up things will get 'interesting'.
Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 3w agoJust QPing this for anybody interested in the Richard Montgomery, if only so you see this amazing image of the wreck.
Do not whatever you do even think about putting AI in a printer - those things are evil enough already.
jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 3w ago"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
His plan is sodding hard to georeference too. Some new survey would be wonderful.
The Abydos South Project (ASP)@abydossouthproject.bsky.social · 4w ago🧵 Ever woefully frustrated by the lack of information in Currelly’s excavations of the Ahmose Terrace Temple? Or is this a unique experience? 😅 His plan is gorgeous (attached), but there’s so much more to learn.
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Saving books from the fash is something that unites bibliophiles across creed, culture and nation. Coincidentally I have a bookcase this 'false wall' approach would work well with.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4w agoFriend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
Yikes. The Oxyrhynchus papyri would also like a word.
I just realized that I use my Kindle's note taking and highlighting functions to do this. I am in dialogue with the author and whoever can be bothered to read my marginalia...
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt's been a hot minute since we promised a close reading micro-course on keeping a reading journal, but we've finally pulled it together! So if you've ever considered keeping a reading journal, uh, read on!
This is a good time to remind ourselves that a major driver of modern Christian Nationalism and/or new theological niches … is the narcissism of those involved. Self-love and a desire for importance pushes people into weird places. “I alone understand the truth. I will make others bow to it.”
JJ 🏳️🌈👻@jjr222.bsky.social · 4w agoI would just like to remind the world that Bari Weiss commissioned a bust of herself for the unaccredited university she helped found.
We're used to reading this about 19th and early 20th century visitors to the Middle East but seeing this happening in the 60s and 70s is jaw dropping.
Erin L. Thompson@artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's finally out! www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
Bond films spoilt me in imagining well-heeled super-villains with a high art aesthetic. The reality is more Louis XIV from Temu.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w agoWhen they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.