Isn't this the setup for Casino Royale?

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so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

Stealing the horned sun-disk of Hathor is inadvisable unless one has a large quantity of red-dyed beer.

"Tulip bulbs can be a primary driver of prosperity".

Disney may have an opportunity to do the funniest thing here. . .

All of this.

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead: #academicsky

All of this AND also people who have experienced pregnancy. No you cannot perch on a bar with a belly the size of a house!

I feel like irrespective of what's causing the heat, no one should be dying from excess heat in Europe. That should not be a thing because there are literally things we can do to prevent this.

Following our successful pilot scheme, SHAPE Involve and Engage programme has returned. If you are a UK-based researcher in the humanities and social sciences and would like to apply, you can find out more here: https://bit.ly/47XA41y

We are looking for researchers from across the UK to deliver innovative public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Up to £8,000. Deadline 15 October.

Timeliness cleanse.

If you see this, quote this post with a gif you can hear.

So you know when you're scrolling and you see a course advertised and you're like 'Ooh that looks cool' and then you realise you're teaching it! That!

Program is up for the XIIth European Conference of Egyptologists. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky xi-ece-2025.hyperion.ro/index.php/su...

New IFAO guide to predynastic Egypt, with "a complete overview of the current state of knowledge." Looks amazing!! 🤯 #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.ifao.egnet.net/publications...

You know what I find really offensive about these flags that keep popping up on lampposts? They're always halfway down the sodding post! It's deeply aesthetically unappealing. Like a row of flags at half mast! Sad that the supposedly patriotic flag-shaggers can't be arsed to climb to the top!

We are in Oxford overnight and noted a weird thing, in the pub yesterday evening and at breakfast this morning all the staff were men, then at the pub this lunchtime almost all wait staff were men again. Is this an odd Oxford/student demographic thing?

Soooo. . .have the couches in the oval finished shaking yet?

This Cambridge Element is available to download for free in the Writing in the Ancient World series until 4 September 2025: Writing in Bronze Age Crete: ‘Minoan' Linear A by Ester Salgarella (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/element... I mention this because of the exchanges between Egypt and Crete.

Following Hogarth across the Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi with ArcGIS Story Maps Can we follow a historic excavator across his site, and how good are ArcGIS Story Maps for modelling that? This post finds out.

So near and yet so far.

Got my birthday present. Ssssh nobody tell Ridley Scott!

Well the M20 has been partially closed by Brexit - so quite the opposite.

When is the British Media going to wake up to the absolute scandal of an entire carriageway of the M20 coned-off for miles, forcing a contraflow, for post Brexit freight-holding for UK/EU customs barrier. Is this another of those Brexit dividends we were promised?

I just had to spend time tracking down this piece of AI-generated orientalist garbage for a blog post, and if I had to see it, so do you. Paging @isisnaucratis.bsky.social and the Everyday Orientalism people, brace yoursleves for a new round of poor quality orientalist images.

All of this! Trained professionals are also disassembling the mammoth crane outside my window - but no one in their right kind would suggest 1st year students do so without training and supervision.

You may feel like entering the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest isn't for you because your website isn't good enough. Academics, is this you? #AcademicSky #ScienceSky A thread 🧵

Hey #crafters is this blanket #crochet I need to fix it but I've never learned.

Ah yes! Over here we call that 'the Charles I' - didn't end too well.

I personally think it's quite classist to assume knowledge workers are all middle class!

I look forward to reading this 📜

As part of the event, we're sharing a bonus lecture! EES GIS Co-ordinator @hannahpethen.bsky.social introduces our #DeltaSurvey Online project—a dynamic GIS-based web-map displaying settlement archaeology of the Nile #Delta. Register for access to the recording 👇

Blog by conservation student Kayleigh Heister on the conservation & restoration of a shabti from Harrogate Museum, currently housed @theegyptcentre.bsky.social. Thanks to the wonderful restoration it has been possible to identify the owner as Djedher! egyptcollectionblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

ICYMI: 🏺 How did light shape sacred space in ancient Mesopotamia? We explored this by reconstructing lighting conditions in 4 key temple types. ✨ Sacred architecture, seen in a new light. 🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it... #DigitalArchaeology #Mesopotamia #3DModeling #SacralArchitecture

Excellent holiday reading for me. Given that both Tacfarinas and Arminius had insider knowledge of the Roman army and experienced considerable success. I wonder how Boudicca might have fared with access to similar insider knowledge.

The only people who like 'move fast and break things' are those who don't have to pick up the pieces.

Can confirm that this is a great article and has some gems about why (perhaps) we are resistant to changing #Archaeology #fieldwork practice. Why be normal when you can be interesting?

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If we're going to be really brutal we should also point out they English also has the formulation to convey 'illegitimate child of' in surname form.

"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion, even a paragon, of human flourishing at least since Aristotle"

Finding flow and making links in academic writing can be troublesome Here’s a strategy patthomson.net/2025/05/12/f...

Now *this* is what AI is good for! This is an expert system developed by applying machine learning to a specialist, selected dataset, is designed for a specific, technical purpose, refined by human experts. And does not require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property.

A Third #Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern #Sinai Peninsula #Egyptology #Egypt #archaeology www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/05/a...

Does archaeological research impact peoples’ lives? You bet it does - see this example of Dr Chrysanthi Gallou’s work with communities in Cape Malea, Greece: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/cape-ma... 🏺#archaeology

Finally. It should never have been published.

#Egyptology #AncientEgyptBluesky 🏺 #AncientBluesky