#OtD 9 Feb 1962 bagel bakers in New York City and Nassau County walked out on strike, reducing the bagel-hungry city's supplies by 85%. Around 300 workers at 36 employers remained out for a month, until the employers acquiesced to the workers' demands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

Love the M20 combination of bubble canopy and fixed undercarriage, it feels very Alternative History

European archaeologists:

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Anything that deviates from normal is a conspiracy, including when things are precisely normal. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Just spent five minutes looking up what fandom "windfall shippers" are in before realising that the incomprehensible post i saw it in was from an econ prof talking about an actual industry

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Imagine you're an Egyptian mummy dug up and sold to a British tourist in like 1825 and you think Aha I'm going somewhere where people aren't so goddam dramatic about dead bodies but no, no no no, noooooooooo omg no.

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Oh - looks amazing.

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

I can think of several UK heritage sites that would be greatly improved by a spot of artillery bombardment.

First read this when I was about 12 which honestly explains quite a lot, but reading it today, WOW for a book aimed at kids that is a LOT of graphic images of corpses.

Instead, you should use modern munitions with a flared base like an APFSDS anti-tank round.

Edward Ruscha, The Music from the Balconies, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1079183

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

Nooooo RIP Catherine O’Hara

My love of stone anchors is all down to my mini obsession with Honor Frost, the trowelblazer who pioneered underwater archaeology. If you don’t know her, then check out @gabemoshenska.bsky.social’s fabulous troweltoon @trowelblazers.bsky.social

Now open access: Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... #archaeology #openaccess

Question: if you could choose 1 book to be buried with, what would it be, and why? For me, probably M.R. James' Complete Ghost Stories.

This is a good article about how pseudoarchaeological & pseudohistorical content can soften & spread extremist viewpoints. Extremists know how to weaponize & exploit this point: "Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck."

a few days ago this magazine story calling what Trump is doing “anarchy” was going around, ignoring a very different whole other thing in US political history called “anarchism”—and here is Minneapolis, illustrating what that can be so beautifully

Most academic books have boring descriptive titles but occasionally...

Soon the Urban Prehistorian will be no more and Kenny will assume his Ultimate Form

It's been a YEAR since youth in Gaza opened Spark Space—since serving their community every day, between hosting hundreds of students under siege for their high school exams, to enabling families earn income to eat during (ongoing) famine. KEEP IT OPEN: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Ea-Nasir memes are like good-quality copper ingots: not everybody gets them 😎

Abolish the Home Office

Following up a reference to mysterious 'Prince Cimitilli' who attended a mummy unwrapping in London in 1833. He was Fabio Albertini, briefly ambassador of the short-lived Neapolitan constitutional government, and after its collapse an exile in London. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_A...

This is not an attack on the local organizing committee, this is a boycott against the malicious tactics of the executive board of the EAA. This is to save the EAA. If you have a session or paper, withdraw, if you were planning to attend, hold off, if you are a member vote! #boycottEAA

Despite putting in both the patent number and registered design number I've been unable to to date this Express Dairies Orange Crush plastic carton. So I was wondering, on the off chance, if anyone here might be able to help me date it? Based on it's archaeological context it should be 1970s/80s...

Article o'the day: "The Legend of Ea-Naṣir": How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme, in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive? Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Then #boycottEAA Read our call for voting and boycotting below! If you want a detailed description of the events so far please read: drive.google.com/file/d/1jdGO...

1.3kg of broken biscuits would cure my ailments

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

The book "Palaeontology in Public" is one year old today! 🦣🦖🦕🎂🎉 We've apparently had 7,756 downloads (!!), so many thanks to @uclpress.bsky.social for publishing it and making it open access, and to all the contributors, and to everyone who has read it so far

Don’t miss the chance to CHAT a bit this year… a very needed topic under the current drift of our dear world. Deadline: 31 January!

Gizmo ❤️ bags

CFP: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present (15-16 June, @uninorthampton.bsky.social) 🗃️We are interested in how nostalgia – which has often been associated with conservatism – is utilised by individuals, groups and movements that may be characterised as politically radical.

Love Ursula K. Le Guin, hate patriotism.

Hey Depeche Mode why is metal detecting so popular?

If I tried to read this book I'd probably have a rage-induced stroke.

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

See also 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' by M. R. James.

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