if i’d been the winter caretaker of the overlook hotel it wouldn’t have gone down like that

Its hauntology time

In memoriam...

Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power

Why does the BritCard have a burning eye logo with the word "panopticon" written underneath it? That's just the company that makes them. That's absolutely fine. Don't worry about that.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

No words.

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

That the European Archaeology Association overturned their decision to exclude Israeli institutions from participating in their annual conference, meaning organisations intertwined with Israel's genocide of Palestinians will still be represented at EAA 2025, is appalling. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 1/2

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TAG 2025 have extended their call for papers for all sessions until August 18th. This includes our session on Queer Archaeology! We are looking for any papers which engage with the legacy of Queer Archaeology 25 years after it was first proposed! More details below!

Matched. Consider doing the same. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Bluesky deleted op campaign again and so we will continue to amplify as this is an urgent matter and no time to waste trying to regain access while family is starving in Gaza! chuffed.org/project/help...

who thought laying out a policy that effectively says “we will only realize a palestinian state if they keep getting slaughtered by israel” was a good idea?

this is a perfect example of how so much activity is artificial online today. fake accounts intentionally posting content they scrapped from the internet to fill in social media to get a crumb of ad revenue from

There’s still time to submit to our TAG session if you have any ideas about hauntology, the past in the past, or spectres haunting archaeology! Don’t let your paper be a lost future…

Psst…👉there’s still time to submit for our @tag2025york.bsky.social session: ✨In theory, it was a great idea💡!✨ Me and my dear friend @tmcasimiro.bsky.social hope you’ll join the convo around the untold challenges of public-facing, community-engaging and real life archaeology projects! Cya there😎

Malak, her sister Maali, and their family have been forced from their home in Gaza and are living in a tent without even basic necessities. They really need help, esp. Maali who requires constant medical care. I’ve been donating what I can so please donate if you are able to or share their posts

Really looking forward to this session with Sam in December. Think you can answer these questions archaeologically? Send us an abstract before Friday 1st August!

These pictures will be remembered for centuries. Future generations will ask: "Who did what, and when? Who made this abomination possible? Who spoke out - and who remained silent?" Make sure you have good answers.

Reminder: Labour started their rollback of trans rights pretty much on day 1 of gaining power, that was MONTHS before the US election. Starmer isn't doing this for trade deals, he's doing this because he wants to.

this takes me back to that frankly hideous speech that hilary benn made over syria, the labour right more than any political faction are completely obsessed with the optics of statesmanship. they love when war and conflict happen because they can put on their sad, grave voice. they'll never stop it.

Every day, Israel deliberately massacres unarmed civilians it has deliberately starved. How is this possible? Because instead of framing Israel’s atrocities as obscene outrages demanding urgent action, the Western media has normalised Israel’s atrocities.

There's no coming back from this. The majority of voters in the western countries that are arming Israel do not support this. So that means it's political leaders ignoring the will of their voters to fund a mass extermination. This is their legacy forever unless they stop it

If you ever worry about feeling like an intellectual fraud or impostor in academia, never fear - you will never be as much of an impostor as Sartre was when he met with Herbert Marcuse.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: liberals and liberalism have turned transphobia into a mainstream, everyday, top tier, omnipresent social crisis. It was a niche problem driven by conservatives. Liberals blew it into the screaming global moral panic it now is.

I feel like everyone who follows me is going to get this but if I can preach to the choir... Rowling creating her defence fund and then the government implementing guidance to ban trans existence from schools is not a coincidence. Harry Potter money is what backs organised transphobia in the UK.

it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us

We live in the Long Neolithic. Its shadow falls across our landscape, falls across our inner space. When portal tombs topple, we restore to balance, not only as an act of reverence to the long dead, but because even after 5,000 years the stones speak to our now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Spiked having a normal one. Can't quite believe Durham Miners Association are positive about migrants. Neglecting generations of working class solidarity with marginalised groups. Newsflash: People are generally pretty compassionate when they're not fed Daily Mail spleen.

*scoffing* You naive, foolish lefties. He's not killing them. He's merely handing the people killing them the tools to do so. That makes it fine.

There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.

Give me Indiana Jones working in developer funded archaeology and having to go down a five metre drop shaft in central London and being berated by construction workers

Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps

Amyl and the Sniffers have entered the chat

It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. And also the fascism. And the heat.

100% fascism

ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism

An update on Maali from her sister, Malak: Maali’a condition is taking a turn for the worst and her URGENT needs are listed in Malak’s post, I’m boosting in hopes we can help them ASAP meet these immediate needs! chuffed.org/project/help...

These are trying times.

hard to watch the ghorman massacre and not thinking of the israeli military slaughtering gazans then spinning it as justified to the western world

It's very very funny when American news outlets panic over stuff like baby boxes which are very normal in other western countries (Like Scotland) as if its a brand new communist terror threat unheard of throughout the globe. 'FREE STUFF FOR BABIES???? LIKE STALIN????'

We Are Cooked

angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here