This excellent thread got me through a very long night with very little sleep. Highly recommend.

A lovely family member gifted me this Colosseum build set for my birthday in October and tonight I finally got around to building it. It's small and cute and I love the little trees. 🏺

Labour strikes aren’t new! The first recorded strike in history took place in Egypt some 3,200 years ago! The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of King Ramesses III downed tools over pay and conditions circa 1157 BC! Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me #Archaeology

Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online. Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?

BIG NEWS: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco returns to Cambodia 13 antiquities linked to the late indicted antiquities trafficker Douglas Latchford by an investigation of Homeland Security Investigations and Cambodian authorities. about.asianart.org/press/asian-...

Da ist doch heute was zum #litgangwichteln angekommen 😊 Ich werde zwar erst an Weihnachten auspacken, aber trotzdem schon mal ganz viel Dank an @poettgen.cc! Ich bin schon sehr gespannt.

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

My favourite holiday meme

Nachdem ich erst echt Probleme hatte, mir ein Buch zu überlegen, hat ein Gang in die lokale Lieblingsbuchhandlung direkt geholfen. Jetzt muss das gute Stück nur noch verpackt und abgeschickt werden 🎄 #litgangwichteln

Can someone with access to Reallexikon Für Antike und Christentum, 28: Poseidon Bis Reue send me the lemma "Reinheit, kultische" please?

Die Buchauswahl fürs #litgangwichteln ist wirklich nicht einfach. Ich muss mal mein Bücherregal nach Inspiration durchstöbern 🤔

Touché! Dieser Kommentar zum Denkmal von Walter Lübcke vor der CDU-Zentrale trifft es genau. taz.de/Walter-Luebc...

Grüße gehen raus an die stabile Crowd in #Gießen, die sich seit heute Morgen zu gottlos früher Stunde gegen die afd versammelt. Ihr seid die besten! I love u.

Herzlich willkommen zum #litgangwichteln! In diesem Thread erfährst Du alles für das diesjährige #litgangwichteln. In aller Kürze: Wir überraschen und erfreuen uns gegenseitig mit einem Buchgeschenk per Post – und die zu beschenkenden Menschen werden dafür zugelost. 1/21

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts). I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

Let me impart some wisdom: If you can see only one more concert in your life, go see Skindred. Is raggae metal from Wales a weird idea to you? Wrong! It's a great idea and they are absolutely phenomenal live. Had the time of my life last night, cannot recommend highly enough. Photo: my SIL

Whenever people claim archaeology isn't inherently political, some questions to ask them: Who "owns" heritage? What gets protected and why? What stories are being told/preserved? Whom do those stories serve? Who gets to tell those stories? Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?

*Sigh* It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.

One and a half year old me on Crete. No lore, I just knew I had to be an archaeologist from a very very young age. 🏺

I guess the irony of the phrase is that learning how these crafts were done, and being able to replicate a centuries old art has a lot of inherent cultural value. Disparaging liberal arts is missing out on the sheer joy of connecting with history; producing beautiful & functional items.

Reminder: It's the time of year to get your flu and COVID shots if you can! Protect yourself and others.

New Christie's auction just dropped and most of the objects' provenances are predictably shoddy. What stood out to me though is Lot 1, a British gold bracelet. @tessmachling.bsky.social has recently posted a lot about metal detected finds going onto the market and this seems to be such a case. 🏺

As I told the CNN, without details and data it is not possible to assess the claims. More importantly, the scientific value of this media campaign, balanced against the possible stigmatization of individuals with these real conditions today, is highly questionable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...

I guess my most woke opinion is that the concept of "earning your living" is outdated to the point of being inhumane. The way technological progress is going, we will either accept that we should provide decent living for everyone for the good of all society, or continually descend into nightmare.

Visited my local biannual fabric market today and was absolutely shocked about the amount of obviously AI generated prints. This stuff truly is everywhere.

In a nutshell: Der Berliner SPD-Abgeordnete Mathias Schulz stimmte Mittwoch gemeinsam mit seiner Fraktion, CDU & AfD gegen die Einleitung eines AfD-Verbotsverfahrens. Derweil klebte auf seinem Notebook gut sichtbar ein Sticker mit dem Aufdruck »AfD-Verbot jetzt«. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195...

„Das gilt etwa für das Training von KI-Systemen mit personenbezogenen Daten. Dies soll künftig auf Basis des berechtigten Interesses von Tech-Konzernen möglich sein. Die noch immer heftig geführte Debatte um möglicherweise notwendige Einwilligungen der Betroffenen hätte sich damit erledigt.“

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

man, articles like this are written for ignorant american “leftists” (usually cis) who have no idea what the fuck is what, meanwhile every queer european leftist i know is like “chuckles, we’re in danger” because of the increasingly far right bent in EU politics. please get fucking real

Es gibt einen Grund, warum diverse autoritäre Akteure das Märchen vom angeblichen durch Migration verursachten Ausnahmezustand auf Deutschlands Straßen derart dankbar verbreiten. Solche Geschichten sind zum einen nützlich, um die Brutalität bei der Durchsetzung der eigenen Agenda zu rechtfertigen.

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

A thing that bothers me a lot about the reactions to these videos from the Trump Halloween party is that a lot of people don't focus on the decadence of Trump but on the "morality" of having burlesque dancers there. Burlesque is an art form, we shouldn't shame performers, stop with the purity bs.

Happy Halloween everyone! Had to cancel my plans because of a wicked cold but that just means that husband and I will burrow ourselves into blankets on the couch, eat pumpkin soup and watch Addams Family.

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Apropos of nothing: trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary folks are neither and/or both and/or a secret third thing (that’s how my enby teen ids), and TERFs can fuck right off.

I usually don't cat post but today I have to. My sister's diabetic orange boy was found safe and sound after being missing for 3 weeks. I'm very relieved that the little cuddle bug is home. Cat tax below.

There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge 1/

Wir sind PRÜF. Wir haben nur eine einzige Forderung: „Alle Parteien, die vom Verfassungsschutz als rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall oder gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft werden, sollen durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht überprüft werden.“

A gold bikini and a gold body chain! Saw her for the first time this September and she really made an impression.

Das hier ist PRÜF! Wir fangen gerade erst an ... Auftaktdemo am 08.11. um 14 Uhr in Hamburg. 
Folgt uns hier: @pruef-de.bsky.social @pruef-hh.bsky.social 
Mitmachen! 
www.pruef-demos.de 
Zum Video: 
youtu.be/eSgFEpI9ZDQ

Hey Homerists, What’s the convention with the suitors in the Odyssey? Are we capitalizing them? “The Suitors did X” or “The suitors did x”? I’ve now typed the word so many times it no longer looks like English. Help?

Whether it's Musk, whether it's OpenAI, it is concerning to see big tech pushing its way into the heritage fields. Esp. the right-wingers, for which there is a lot out there about why they're interested in these fields, etc. It's DEEPLY disappointing seeing archaeologists opening the door for them.🏺

Warum sind eigentlich die tausenden Menschen, die gegen die rassistische Aussagen von Merz protestieren jetzt keine "besorgten Bürger", die man ernst nehmen muss?

Wenn Friedrich Merz sich auch nur ansatzweise interessieren würde dafür, was gut für meine Töchter ist, nähme er die Klimakrise ernst, würde den Verbrennungsmotor in Rente schicken, Überreiche fair besteuern und nie mehr AfD-Parolen nachbellen.

I complain about the German train system a lot but today I took trains from Northern Germany to Paris and it was faster and easier than going by car. Wouldn't want to miss public transportation.

The Aboutaam Brothers, Phoenix Ancient Art, and the Hidden Routes of Italy’s Lost Antiquities. art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

Least surprising news (not knocking the study) - “Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely”