Related to this, I have a pending FOIA request with UVA for the retainer agreement and billing records/invoices from McGuireWoods regarding UVA’s interactions with DOJ. It was filed on *July 2* and I still haven’t received a substantive reply. (The deadline is a maximum of 12 working days.)

honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

Who's in charge of the MTV classic metal playlist tonight? Slayer, Pantera, Anthrax, Metallica (live Fade to Black from the And Justice tour) and Sepultura in the last 30 minutes. It's usually all hair metal

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

the look of a man who is constantly annoyed that dying people are interrupting his party

The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It’s Mind-Blowing gizmodo.com/the-roman-em...

Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Retiring at the sprightly age of 85, a rare congressperson who chooses to not die in office. I assume the Bay Area DNC has already begun its quest for a compliant 72 year old tech millionaire to take Pelosi’s place in the district

Who do you think UVA will announce as president before Spanberger gets sworn in?

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Can we get Virginia Dems to pass the cycling safety legislation the Republicans repealed as soon as they took office in 2021?

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

that’s my flag 🫡

lol. lmao.

lmao 20 minutes after the polls closed

It appears Earle-Sears is getting shithoused

I've seen more obvious undergrads at my polling place in Fry's Spring than I ever have (usually 0).

Across New Jersey, bomb threats at multiple polling locations have prompted closures and relocations today

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Who called the police???

UVA alerts now says there is no evidence of an attacker

Charlottesville city police scanner: www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/...

The alarms are going off. Active attacker alert at UVA

So why are the UVA alarms going off?

We've got you 👍

I feel like that should be major news that Donald Trump doesn’t know who he’s pardoning.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Palpatine praises Lando Calrissian's agreement, calls it a "fair deal"

It’s TIMEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

h/t to this post, which led to new records in the #PleiadesGazetteer as detailed here: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

file this one under people who don't know anything about charlottesville saying nonsense about charlottesville

The Department of Classics at the University of Cologne is the newest member of the Nomisma.org consortium, providing the first 100+ of their 12,000 coin collection to Ptolemaic and Seleucid Coins Online. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/10/depa... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM

Just what kids want!

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

oh cool, they’re doing a night of the long knives

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Just came across this picture of Brian Kelly and needed to share.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.