1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Found this exquisitely auto-translated advert for a bunch of old engraving tools.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings! Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!

For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':

Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting. It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's remembrance remembrance day

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

Dignity and poise

Rounding error

deal

After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays: middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m... Pathetic fallacy? Digital doom? The pained wails of curators everywhere? Yep. 🏺

Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP “The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past” olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/

Good square-naming

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/48Ll8nU Closing Date: 9th November 2025 #WeAreSTS #education #lecturer

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

I hope people remember just how many decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have been about the continued failure of the British legal system to confront Britain's atrocities in Ireland.

Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

Earlier this month, we published an interview with 2024 Voltaire Prize Winner and Researcher Mr Gerawork Gizaw concerning his fieldwork in the Kakuma Camp Refugee site in Turkana County, Kenya. museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...

Mindlessly hung my towel on the back of the door last night. Woke up at 2am, saw this in the dark and almost shat meself.

Previewing Lupin season 4

Elephant shrew having ramen

Is your Ea-Nasir a John Rhys Davies or a Kronk or a third undefined type? My husband says Nanni is Paul Schaferish, kinda weedy and nasal.

For many, many reasons - ecological, archaeological, geopolitical, humanitarian and Homeric - we should drain the Mediterranean Sea.

Tree outside my window looking proper autumnal

If you’re ever wondering why the needs of this fundraiser are so great, please see the accountability spreadsheet linked in the follow-up post - costs are still astronomical, multiplied across multiple families. But each donation will be stretched to help as many in this circle as possible ⬇️

British.

Who is making hairy ceramic sculptures and could they stop forever?

Went to a lovely little exhibition about buttons, so now I'm thinking about buttons. www.musee-ariana.ch/expositions/...

34 trenches, 2 kilometres long filled with bodies. As these were dug up and potentially tens of thousands of corpses reburied, the Assad regime was being interviewed in Western media outlets, his English skills mattering more than anything he was doing.

It’s turning cold so I made cottage pie.

All nonfiction books would be better off as a feature length magazine article

Giving a lecture on settlement archaeology this week so you KNOW I had to include my favorite archaeological book cover of all time 😂🏺

“My brakes smell like fire, I should touch the disks with my fingers to investigate this further.” 🚲🔥👌🚑

Well, he did say 'Jehovah'

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

[a great variety of morbid symptoms appear] Me: this can't be good

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

We are very sad to hear the news of Mike Corbishley's passing. Mike was a long-time supporter of the CBA and co-founder of YAC. We’ll be celebrating Mike’s life and contributions in an upcoming issue of British Archaeology. Here he is in 1986, celebrating the conclusion of a Wroxeter excavation

Brilliant Colleague's New Book Alert! Buy Chris Fletcher's latest, hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

Celia Imrie has Resting Traitor Face and it will be her undoing

Great thread. Next time somebody asks how I'm doing, the answer is *howl**bark bark bark**llama noises* *honk honk honk* *Greek expletives* *SHOTGUN BLAST*