Small got this in her Happy Meal and my brain goes “Oh! The guy from that one Ea-Nasir fic!”

Did some percussive maintenance on our wonky coffee table. Thwacked that wonk right out of it.

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

Enjoying the two guys on this year's Bake Off who look like they could be rival chieftains in Iron Age Gaul

Packet of these with a tin of pineapple rings makes a weirdly satisfying snack

Reminder that “aliens built the pyramids” is a racist myth. Current scholarship indicates that actually only a handful of aliens were employed on the project, mostly in HR and supply chain management roles.

If Reform voters believe aliens built the pyramids, Labour will probably announce a ban on Egyptology. They're so desperate to pander to these credulous bigots.

No words.

In a parallel universe we'd have Redford's Own salad dressing and the Butch Film Festival

The leading, indispensable accomplice to this world historic evil will tomorrow be given all the honours of a state visit to the UK by one of the other key accomplices. I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.

CFP: Performing Archaeology: Excavations as a Display Project networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Late-night chutney making. Apple, carrot and onion with a big chunk of ginger.

Daydreaming about treehouses

So, flags. People who aren’t in England may not have heard, but right wing nationalists are taking advantage of England’s fascinating and complicated relationship with its flag. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 +

#OtD 14 Sep 1960 a US-backed coup took place in Congo against the country's first democratically elected PM, socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba. He was tortured, shot and had his body dissolved in acid. Learn more about colonialism in Congo: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lor...

oh just FUCK off

Term is coming up, time to decorate those office doors

Stuck at airport this thread is sparking so much joy

The talented Louis Ginnett painted this mural for Brighton + Hove Grammar School Sussex in 1937 Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935 Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔 #HillfortsWednesday

What are the relationships between local communities and major heritage sites in Syria, and why do they matter? Adnan Almohamad and I attempt to begin to answer -- out now, open access. www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

it's real support from actual racists

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

This is who the Labour gov is arresting. This is who the Labour government calls terrorists. Hundreds more of them. www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

Solidarity with striking NHS workers obviously, but also, HEY! That’s @uclarchaeology.bsky.social in the video

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

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The multi-talented RJ

What it feels like living in britain

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

"Speaking at a rally on the docks of Genoa, one of Europe's largest ports, a dockworker representing the USB union said that if communication with the flotilla were lost “even for just 20 minutes,” port workers would immediately block all shipments to Israel..." www.politico.eu/article/ital...

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻 Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Portrait of a cat who desires Second Lunch

Finds Liaison Officer KENT COUNTY COUNCIL Salary: £27,852 – £29,716 per annum Closing Date: 15/09/25 Location: County Hall, Maidstone www.bajr.org/job-ad/finds...

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Up next on CBeebies it’s Monster Time with Antonio Gramsci

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Muriel's Wedding (1994) teaches us that before you judge somebody you should walk a mile in their shoes and **** their husband's ****.

Board members of the EAA showed a bit of humanity towards a genocide and was shot down. Please reconsider your membership or attending, please speak up, please spread this: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

La European Association of Archaeologists ha enviado un email a todos los organizadores de sesiones en el próximo congreso amenazando con censurarlas si permiten que se critique el genocidio en Gaza. Es un ataque intolerable a la libertad de expresión. Boicot a @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Ten years since Alan Kurdi, 3, drowned in the Mediterranean. I've given it some thought, and I reckon that if more politicians who wage wars, build walls, and whip up hatred of refugees were euthanised like rabid dogs, then more innocent children could live and grow up in peace and freedom.

The Labour party right now:

When #archaeology of the recent past "challenges the totalising and unidirectional vision of modernisation": great work #Ruination #industrialisation #Chile #deindustrialisation #colonialism #indigenouspeople #dictatorships #mining #contemporaryarchaeology

Went to shopping centre and they'd set up an Ancient Egypt kids' play activity with a pyramid to loot, a sarcophagus to open, and plastic pith helmets to wear while despoiling.

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.