#Caturday Major Tom is battling a nasty disease - IMHA - that I'd never heard of a week ago. This is him in happier, healthier times

Major Tom on #caturday

I bought the cat a nice fancy sofa for my home office. Cat is currently sleeping on top of my work rucksack in the office

I don't have a tv and the Elections Canada website is "glitching" - anywhere else I can find live results?

Just voted in my first Canadian federal election

I made a little box #ceramics

Major Tom is 10 today!

Gavin Newsom made a Tiktok encouraging Canadians to holiday in California and let's just say the comments did not disappoint #ElbowsUp

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Germany foreign minister voices strong support for Canada's territorial sovereignty #ThankYouGermany #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

More #ceramics

It's worth noting that Canadians spoke up clearly and stopped buying American goods immediately. The Canadian people led a grassroots rapid movement that defined and set the mandate for our government. In Canada we can tell the government what to do not the other way around.

So Doug Ford won the election and went straight to Florida for vacation? Start as you mean to go on, I guess

Stop normalizing 51st State propaganda #CanadaSky #USpol cultmtl.com/2025/02/cana...

Major Tom's first steps in the snow

Happy #caturday from Major Tom

Are you worried about Elon Musk using the X platform to interfere in our election? I need you to contact Elections Canada to keep the pressure on. All the information you need is in my latest piece for Substack. Contact info at the bottom: substack.com/home/post/p-...

My segment on @cbc about the tariff threats. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

For ANE folks: our Neo-Assyrian Bibliography on Zotero has been systematically updated. (That said, do please email me any omissions you notice.) www.zotero.org/groups/27703...

I made this ceramic plaque inspired by the design on a Sumerian cylinder seal in the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Yeah it's ugly but I'm learning

#HappyCaturday from the floofwizard

Today is my one year anniversary of becoming Canadian. #Canada #FuckYouTrump

Happy caturday from shoulder cat

Do I believe covid-19 vaccines worked in 2021 in Ontario Canada after they were first introduced? Absolutely. I am a statistician and I investigated the data on ICU patients by vaccine status. This is the type of analysis RFK Jr and anti-vaxxers don't want to talk about. #VaccinesWork

I rarely recommend blocking, but ⬇️ @trobinsonnewera.bsky.social

My pinned post.

Looking for Canadians who stand against Pierre Poilievre and his dangerous ideas… Where are the sane people? I want to follow you. #NeverTrustAConservative #canada #liberal #ndp

This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.

Today we are reading my favourite cuneiform tablet - a court record that tells how a businessman caught out two brothers trying to pass off a faked tablet, so one of the fraudsters snatched the fake tablet back from him and began to chew it. Ea-naṣir has nothing on these guys!

Loblaws credits record profits to “raising prices on things humans need to live”

With the huge influx of followers, it's worth sharing our "Byliners" starter pack again ~ showcasing a bunch of our authors. If you write for us and aren't on the list, give us a shout! Please share 🙏 go.bsky.app/LSrc9iS

Now that I've lived in Canada for a decade, I feel a visit to the Great Canadian Faucet is long overdue

They're eating the cats

My nurse 😻

No trip to Helsinki is complete without a visit to Zetor tractor bar! It was a favourite when I was doing my first postdoc here, and it hasn't changed a bit

Picked a good night to be flying from Toronto to London

Happy Birthday to Major Tom, 9 years old today! 🎂

In ancient Assyria a solar eclipse boded evil for the king. So they enthroned a substitute for 100 days, then killed him and his queen. During the Substitute King Ritual, the real king was addressed as "the farmer" 🏺#AncientBluesky

If you live in Ontario and haven’t yet seen the @ontariondp Tiktoks starring Banana Cat, well, you need to. Start with Banana Cat Goes to Loblwas

I have a SSHRC grant to study inheritance and inequality in Babylonia. We are mining the family archives for legal contracts that document the intergenerational transmission of wealth 🏺#AncientBluesky

Happy caturday from Major Tom, who likes to sit on me whenever I have a lie down

Here’s some impressive stratigraphy for archaeologists to admire

As of this morning, I am a Canadian citizen (which means I’ll be able to vote for the first time in many years) - yay!🎉 🥳🎉

I met someone a few days ago who told me “I’m so glad that COVID is over!” And then they noticed I was wearing a mask, and kinda backtracked a bit 🤷‍♀️

He is Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.

lol

New Ea-Naṣir tablet just dropped mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com/post/6561666...