How is it possible that my baby has so many toys but the current favourite is a freezer bag full of dried chickpeas?

Rome had fast food.

Great article with a little sneak peek at my own research into the Cleveland Apollo! 🏺

People should be able to tell the difference between "Good Books" and "Fun Reads". There are many books that are objectively NOT Good Books, but they're Fun Reads, and there are many books that are NOT Fun Reads, but are very Good Books They're not mutually exclusive, but they're different criteria

Am 27.6. gab es eine von den Gewerkschaften initiierte, 3000 Personen🙂‍↕️ Hier sind weitere Termine: Rote Karte dem Kahlschlag: Demo-Termine gegen den Sozialabbau 2026 (Übersicht) share.google/4ND1a7zLGcQ5...

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

The in-laws visited CERN and brought gifts for baby back. Guess my 2 month old will learn about particle physics. (To be clear, the book is full of bright, high contrast illustrations so it's actually super interesting to him)

Ok folks... she made me do it!!!! Thank you @sallypointer - this is 100% all your fault.... I give you: Torcs As Neck Fans, a thread!! #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs First off... The Snettisham Great torc!!

Question to the English speaking lefties around here: What news app do you guys recommend? I used to have CNN but...you know...

Let me give my professional opinion as a trained goldsmith: This is ugly af. The design style is called "bribable dictator chic".

I posted an almost identical sneak peek at this work in progress about a year ago. Since then, a lot happened in my life and thus not much happened with this paper. I'm super excited to get back to work on it because it's going to be a spicy piece of provenance research. 🏺

Anyone about to help out? 🏺

NEU: Die Bundesregierung plant den schwersten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Das IFG soll abgeschafft werden. Das ist nicht nur ein Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags, sondern beschädigt Presse- und Informationsfreiheit massiv. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...

You just can't be in a bad mood when this little cutie is making adorable little sounds and smiling at you. Have I gotten anything done today? Absolutely not. But I cuddled my baby and am so happy.

Oh the EAA is looking for staff? Maybe they should address the massive fight they're having with a lot of European archaeologists first. 🏺

Perennial refrain: Trans women are women; trans men are men; non-binary trans people are non-binary people; gender and sexual diversity a. have existed in myriad ways since time immemorial and b. are moral goods; and transphobia is evil, asinine, and petty.

I didn't feel particularly noble when existing in 38°C heat with an understandably cranky newborn. It was close to 30°C in my usually naturally cool apartment. This is not normal and not something that should have to be endured.

There is no solution to the heat except systemic change. But also, I went outside in a bajillion degree heat wearing a linen Chiton and let me say, the ancient Greeks knew what they were doing. Most bearable clothing at the moment.

Die unten treten, die in der Mitte gegen die ganz unten ausspielen, nur um die oben nicht zu belangen.... Wie verantwortungslos kann Politik sein? Söder: Ja!

Fuck it, if you’re complaining about people being happy that Starmer has resigned or claiming that anyone who disliked him is immature and selfish, you’re a bigot! If you can’t understand or acknowledge how much harm he did to marginalised people in this country, you probably approved of it!

Because it came up a bit over the weekend, I'm going to reiterate something here for all my #ttrpg designing pals, new & old. Using AI can only shrink your audience. No one is excited to see AI, and plenty of folks abhor it. When you use AI, you attract no one new & repulse more than you know. …

My husband took 2 months of paid family leave after our baby was born and it was absolutely instrumental for my physical and mental health after birth. I don't have data on it but I'm convinced that fathers taking more parental leave would lower the rate of postpartum depression significantly.

"The intended purpose of these figurines remains unknown" largely because it is a group of artifacts that was incredibly heavily looted. There are barely any found during excavation in their original contexts. See the work of @davidwjgill.bsky.social and Christopher Chippindale. 🏺

I’m sorry, am I seeing liberals handing it to literal fascist Giorgia Meloni?!? God, we’re not gonna make it, huh.

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Wenn man als Politiker Steuerhinterziehung in Höhe von 100 Milliarden Euro hinnimmt, auf 70 Milliarden Euro Vermögensteuer und 30 Milliarden Euro Erbschaftsteuer verzichtet und dann Bürgergeldbeziehenden die Leistungen kürzen will, ist nicht das Geld das Problem. Es ist der Charakter.

If you’re excited about the social media ban, I’d love to know how you will be ensuring that young people have places to safely hang out and socialise? Especially for queer and disabled young people, who have historically used the Internet to find community and resources.

Since there is a new addition to my collection, I thought I'd make a thread about all of my ancient replicas. The newbie: A beautifully handcrafted clay replica of the "God from the sea" aka the Artemision Bronze. An early classical Greek bronze statue of Poseidon or Zeus. A present from my mom. 🏺

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)

Classicists/Archaeologists: I have a friend looking for the an image of original inscription of some of the Ephesia Grammata, if it exists. Any thoughts on where I can look?

The fact that De Gruyter Brill published this is beyond horrifying. I'd also like to mention that according to his own website, this guy is a full professor at Uni Bonn. Both the publisher and the university need to take a very serious look here and draw consequences.

Hello I'm looking to speak with an architectural historian for a piece I'm working on. Maybe a longshot asking on here but worth a try.

super long shot, but does anybody around here speak Provençal? or anything in the Occitan language family? I have a word question

Content warning: Arachnophobia The little things are often the coolest: A camouflaged spider hiding in a flower caught a drinking bee. You can even still see the bee's drinking tube (what's that called in English?). From my garden.

“the academic world, dominated by woke professors, doesn’t want YOU to learn Latin,” Woke professor here. Please, by all means, learn Latin. Everyone needs to experience abject failure at least once in life. It builds character.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

“We shouldn’t judge people by today’s standards” is funny too. Sure, but we don’t have to judge them only by the standards of their coloniser buddies either, we can judge them by the standards of all of the other people in the past who knew that colonialism was wrong because it was murdering them…

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

It is a special privilege for this to be my afternoon plan. I could spend forever just cuddling this little one.

It’s really frightening.

Archaeology & history-which I write about-are political & weaponized by the right. My next book is about pseudoarchaeology being used by white supremacists to separate Indigenous people from their cultural history. Ancient Aliens isn't harmless fun. We need our own art & entertainment to combat it.

Solidarity with uk (and global) trans folk. Archaeology says gender is and always has been complicated, contested, dynamic and definitely not binary. None of us is free until all of us are. Trans liberation now!

Büchereien werden von Preisen ausgeschlossen, Verwaltungen kuschen vor der AfD, Lesungen in öffentlichen Bibliotheken werden abgesagt. Man muss es in aller Deutlichkeit sagen: Wir befinden uns längst inmitten eines autoritären Umbaus, noch bevor die AfD echte Regierungsmacht in den Händen hält. (1)

I've been very quiet on here recently because 4 weeks ago I gave birth to a little rebel! As witnessed below he already flaunts authority (in this case, his dad). It's been a very beautiful and challenging journey so far and I'm very much in love with this little human.

Wenn ein Kanzler beim DGB ausgepfiffen wird und auf dem Katholikentag Buhrufe erhält, ist das laut Karsten Linnemann ein Symptom „verrohenden Diskurses". Nein! Genau das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Pfiffe sind Demokratie. Schweigen wäre Zustimmung. Demokratie ist keine reine Frage der Höflichkeit.🧵/1

Paul Scheer is Odysseus June Diane Raphael is Penelope Jason is every single other character in the book, monsters included

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years