This country, the United States of America, was not bad. At its best, it had vision and aspiration. It wasn’t perfect for everyone, and we had a lot of things to work on, but for many, maybe even most people, it was pretty good. I’m sad that’s probably over, and wondering why we threw it away.

I took a class on designing Intarsia Knit Mitts, and picked for my design the floral collar of Irethoreru from the 3D model of his coffin. So analog-> digital-> analog…and then I took a picture and put it online.

High speed monstrum (dynamic water/composition study) (I'm not sorry) #paleoart #tullimonstrum #sketch

Boss, just got a new tranche of things that are no longer relevant. Yeah they fell out of the news cycle. Haven't been mentioned in years. Yeah, it's Russian. And the Middle East. And the digital. Sounds like everything's just been completely sorted out, in that respect. Germany, also wrapped up.

#Caturday post Blue faience ring with a seated cat Ca. 1390 BCE Art Institute of Chicago

I’m furious that AI has gone this way. I was one of its biggest early fans and adopters. But without serious and major regulation, it’s become a theft machine to steal people’s lives, likenesses, identities, and jobs. WE CAN SAY NO.

OMG the National Museum in Warsaw has the papyrus of Bakai on display after years in storage. Bakai was a royal nurse in the 18th dynasty, likely of Amunhotep II. Her papyrus is one of the few belonging to an 18th Dynasty woman. This pic is from their Instagram linked below. More pics there.

I've just had an amazing idea

There is a Wisconsin Cuneiform Fairy.

The Fitzwilliam does some of the coolest work with pigment analysis and artistic practice. Keeping up with their publications is highly recommended And the picture of Ramose and this stern jackal is super cute.

I’ve never seen this before—this glass ring from the 18th dynasty Saqqara feels so new. It’s in the grand Egyptian museum.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

I’m on a tear this morning. If you are a woman professional in STEM and want to be even madder, read this. You already suspected it. I know as a woman in tech, I did.

Trump’s misogyny often gets glossed over—a conspicuous absence in a list of “-isms” even when discussing the Epstein files. I suppose it’s because of the public facing awful women in the admin. But last night, the message was clear in who was mentioned and why.

Preliminary studies suggest that the southern part of Tel Aziz was part of the city’s central core, with the temple remaining in use for centuries, from the 26th Dynasty through the Roman period. #ancientEgypt

This is important. Criticizing and telling the truth about the founding fathers of the United States doesn’t demonize them—it humanizes them. I’ve only learned the history of race in America as an adult and I’m mad Trump and his Goons are trying to take it away from me and the next gen.

This late antique Egyptian sock was created using a technique called Nålbinding—it’s a form of textile knotting done with a single needle. I am not sure what stitches they were using with the Akhmim sock—the height of Coptic sock and sandal fashion.

Omg! King Tut wore socks with his sandals. Of course he did.

This article is going to cheese some people off, but it made a lot of sense— basic science has a similar problem: we know a ton about barnacles but next to nothing about some common marine worms — why would you get paid to study a thing if it didn’t have tangible short term benefits to society?

I printed a swift and yarn winder. It’s so much nicer than hanging the yarn over upside down chair legs and winding by hand! It is not lost on me that this is about the lowest tech thing you can do with a 3d printer, though.

I have so many Trump era souvenirs: Homemade things from when there was a catastrophe so big I felt like making something was the only thing I could do to help myself and people around me—a pink crochet hat, a mask made on a 60 year old sewing machine…a 3D printed whistle.

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

My response to discord’s AI survey: Where to start? I don’t want AI features in any of the apps that have added them. I don’t use them, they get in my way constantly, they are neither wanted nor needed. 1/4 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

These were some of the hardest texts I’ve worked on yet, because one of these pieces is in very rough stone and the other—well, Duke Alexander was buried in it. In a turn that would have thrilled Poe and Lovecraft, his Mausoleum slowly sank into the ground. My inner Goth was thrilled by this project

New publication from Sidestone Press on Egyptologist, F. W. von Bissing: THE BISSING LINK. The Collections and Network of Egyptologist F. W. von Bissing (1873–1956) Edited by Lars Petersen & Ben van den Bercken | 2025 1/

My husband is pretty sure this article was by AI. I’m pissed she disses Tale of Two Cities. I’m even more pissed she dismisses the one book I had to read in US public high school that had a female main character, Scarlet Letter! I know it’s the melodramatic dregs, but it’s the only dregs we got!

This is not a birth certificate and that footprint does not belong to the child discussed on the tablet. They're not even from the same city; the footprint is from Nippur, the text is from Ur. So why did the Penn Museum bring these objects together like this since 2016?

2/2 I soon left for industry where the number of women engineers was even smaller. Summers’ remarks, couched in the language of science, were instead rooted in deep misogyny, As proof, see the recent Epstein letters, where Mr Summers can be found interacting with Epstein as a friend and fellow pig.

1/2 In 2005, I was one of a handful of woman Computer Science majors at Brown University. This was the year when Larry Summers, president of Harvard, pontificated at length that the unequal numbers of women in science were due to natural lack of interest and aptitude. Biological differences.

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the bad news these days. I know I often want to help but don’t know how. For now though, I’ve donated to the Food Banks in Chicago. There are a lot of awful, self righteous, cowardly people out there, but I think there are a lot of people who want to help, too.

#NoKings this Saturday, Oct 18

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞 Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀 From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Whelp, one of the universities I’ve been involved with has done the dog-walk for Trump (and won’t receive another red cent if mine). Let’s see if Berkeley does it too.

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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said that it is “hard to watch” kids with autism and that “we can end the suffering” and that autism “may be entirely preventable.” What a grotesque way to talk about human beings; about children.

I’ve mentioned how I loathe RFK Jr, but have you noticed that Autism is also always mom’s fault? Whether she’s not seen as “warm” enough to her child or doesn’t suffer the maximum amount for 9 months, it’s always the mom’s fault. And on top of that, this is all incredibly insulting to Autistic ppl

Random 12 year old: I fucked your mom Republican: That's it I'm calling ICE, you insensitive bully

I think a better title might have been “RFK Jr Falsely links SSRIs and Mass Shootings,” because <<surprise>> science says he’s full of shit. Of all of Trump’s goons, I loathe RFK Jr. the most. I’m increasingly convinced he’s a eugenicist who wants people he thinks are unfit to die.

Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order. Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

🎶Toad Maaannn🎶 (to the tune of Spoon Man. Like George R R Martin, I’ve gotten into mini painting. It’s relaxing and quick. Unlike Martin, I intend to work on my manuscript, to which I know the ending.

Aw yiss! Look what I just scored!

A letter from Egypt by a woman called Serapias to her son-in-law. More information about it here: papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxf;... and here press.umich.edu/Books/W/Wome...

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

This rubbing of an ancient Egyptian stela was produced in the early 20th century by Chinese antiquarian Duanfang #ManuscriptMonday 🏺 Lost during the 20th century, its rediscovery in the early 2000s sheds light on Egyptology in Late Imperial China. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

When I was an angsty young thing, the character from Dickens I identified with was Sydney Carton. Now it’s Madame Defarge. Here she is making stitches for a snitch. (Illustration by A. A. Dixon)

apple.news/AviS1IKXiSum... Oh wow. Careful investigation by non political pencil pushers saved the government 10 billion. In Medicare fraud. And how much did Elon moving fast and breaking (lifesaving medical intervention for poor malnourished children) save?