I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

#Wyll #GaleDekarios sunset honeymoon? I just got that one Camila Cabello song stuck in my head and came up with this #bladeweave scenario in my head. #myart #bg3 #bladeweave

#OTD 28 Sept 48 BC Pompey the Great arrived in #Egypt after Pharsalus only to be killed by agents of Ptolemy XIII. He was decapitated & his body thrown into the sea. #Caesar was appalled at such treatment of his former ally & now mighty enemy. Pompey’s remains were taken to his wife Cornelia.

It is amazing how much steam Peacemaker loses when Danielle Brooks is not onscreen with John Cena. That relationship gave the first season so much momentum that is NOT sustained with any of these romance politics in s2. A great cast is benched for a chemistry-less het relationship.

Osiris on a Throne https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/17396

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by getting acquainted with the work of Flor Garduño.

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

Odysseus & the Dead 💀🔮👻

So like all of Italy goes on strike for Palestine and yet everyone is just talking about Trump’s brain dead Tylenol take? General strike in the US when? apnews.com/article/ital...

I've re-opened the Gale "First Night in Waterdeep" NSFW YCH piece with four spaces available for October. 🔮 ✨ Please note I will begin working on these on October 1st, as I am finishing off the first batch of them! All ships welcome. Canon/Gale, OC/Gale, etc. ko-fi.com/c/73f85900b7 #BG3 #BG3Fic

Forever taking solace in the fact that I know I’m more yoked than the kids who called me a “fandom fascist”. These arms were built to flex on you, tiny child. 💪

Democracy is something you have to work hard at, not just sit back and enjoy. One thing we discuss here on Free Speech - An Ancient History. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

The Victoria & Albert museum holds many treasures, one of which is this late antique pair of shoes from Roman Egypt (400-600 CE). 10/10 would wear today (photo is my own).

Always make sure your wizard partner is well cared for 🔮 I will be back with color for this one once I emerge from the academia pit but enjoy in the meantime. Thanks to the wizcord for all the encouragement and support 😭 #thunderweave

Kids, families, listen up! Today's new ep of "If Objects Could Talk" brings this feet-shaped lamp to the podcast studio. Hear about how ancient houses were designed and lit up in a time before you could just flick a switch. gty.art/48iYwdX

Just realized that in 6 months I’ll have a masters in archaeology and can update my display name to ocelittle, MSc 🏺🏛️😏

Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature: Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️ P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...

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US media access, literacy, and free expression are in crisis mode, especially for children. #NerdsForLiteracy is turning to nerds everywhere - whose lives have been shaped by novels, comics, etc - to support a huge book donation to schools. I hope you'll join me in donating or spreading the word!

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

It's a beetle mosaic and you should thank us for it. #MosaicMonday

This spectacular coin represents the ancient art of die-cutting at its best. It is an Ancient Greek coin from the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse from around 400 BCE. The front of the coin depicts a racing chariot with four horses at full speed - a traditional Syracusan coin design.

If you’re supporting Audra Winter and Age of Scorpius and want the book to “get better”, I’m sorry, you’re wrong. You’re giving a white author grace where a POC author likely would have none given the same circumstances. And more importantly, you’re supporting someone who repeatedly lied about 1/

Reminder that Trump unleashing federal troops across major cities isn't meant to address any actual concerns about crime. It's a desperate show of force by the tyrant-in-chief. www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...

Forever begging AO3 to let me mute individual works since I can’t mute anonymous authors.

Is Trump correct that museums, universities, and the media have a left-wing “woke” bias? Of course not. It’s the question Trump would like everyone to be asking, but it obscures the more important question. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-decides-what-we-know-and-learn

Dunno how much I will engage with any bg3 content here given… everything, but I do miss the wizards. Little doodle from ch6 of learning curve. #thunderweave

Quitting insta save protest coordination so I guess I’m back here. 🤷

Protests were crucial in prompting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law on this day that year to prohibit discriminatory voting practices. Bobby Simmons marches with other civil rights advocates to Montgomery, AL. Photos like this echo our collective power to spur social change.

Ever got a call that changed your life? In 2015, archaeologists Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker were at a bank in Greece when they received a phone call that their team had struck bronze. The discovery revealed the grave of a 3,500-year-old warrior: gty.art/4fqrqub

The weather forecast today called for exactly five clouds. I thought that seemed weirdly specific but here they are! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.

#OTD in 79 BC #Tullia , #Cicero 's daughter, was born. She was dearly loved by her father who wanted her daughter to be educated, something uncommon for a #Roman woman. She married three times and gave birth to two children.

objectifying wizards again

More of this, please.

If you use Gdocs for nsfw writing, make sure you back it up off of the cloud. Or use an anti-AI, writer-friendly alternative such as Ellipsus. Ellipsus is free, browser-based, you can export to AO3, and you have less risk of doxing yourself when you share documents for collaborating.

👇Read full thread👇 Hey LA! This just in from Public Counsel, a not profit LA law firm. “The 9th circuit just denied the fed gov’t attempt to pause key protections in our case challenging unlawful immigration raids in LA.” #generalstrike #solidarity 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Seeing fandom people I blocked 7-8 years ago on Twitter on this platform now and blocking them once more is the catharsis I needed this morning.

Two can play that game.

🎂 Happy Birthday to Emperor #Pertinax , born #OTD 126 AD in Alba Pompeia. Son of a freed slave, he worked as a teacher before rising through the army to become emperor in 193 AD. His reforms cost him his life after just 86 days. He is remembered as a just and capable ruler.  #RomanHistory

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

Erasing history. Another characteristic of autocrats and dictators.

University of Oxford chemists have solved a decades-old archaeological mystery and identified a honey offering in bronze jars from a 6th century BCE Greek shrine close to Pompeii. Read more about the discovery here ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07... @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week. He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention. We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Democrats can't live by the old rules... We've got to put everything on the table... Governors across the country who have the ability (maybe it's the ones where we've got trifectas) we've got to do everything we can to stand up to what Trump and Abbott are trying to do."