As for me and my house, we will be putting our cats in little wheely covered wagons like Scythians on the ancient steppes.
Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
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As for me and my house, we will be putting our cats in little wheely covered wagons like Scythians on the ancient steppes.
Case in point. bsky.app/profile/stev...
also check out Michael’s thread while other business is conducted!
I'm trying to figure out her angle and I'm...a little lost, without meaning disrespect.
May his cheeseburgers be fatty.
Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago. “Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.” crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory 🧵⬇️
Agree. DC is in a relatively bad position because it's a federal district, but Illinois has more tools to resist being occupied by a different state's military. Chicago people, learn what you can from the experience of DC! #FreeDC
Organized and romoted by UVA alum Richard Spencer.
I'm trying to understand how this is anything but 😬.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Good thanks!! It sounded like those old SNL subway skits from here.
UVA people, what is being said on the announcements? I can hear that something is going on over the loud speakers from Zehmer Hall but it's jus garbled. No email or text.
I've amended my previous responses. To put it simply, this approach does not work for adjuncts who are not paid as law profs.
I swear to you, this is a perfect example of why Dems are losing to Democratic socialists. Absolutely freaking tone deaf. *More concerned with bragging* than showing any labor solidarity. Read the room.
Reminder on LABOR DAY that GenX adjunct professors usually don't receive health insurance or guarantees of future employment, which means they don't qualify for research grants. Many are paid so little they have multiple jobs in addition to teaching, including during the summers when others write.
Did not receive that.
Job at the British Museum: Head of Research, Archives, and Libraries www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON512/h...
Can't shake the feeling I saw the faintest hint of red live but it's not visible via the photos.
How many days has it been since DT sat in that limo with Vlad unobserved? Two weeks?
Nooo!! Oh no!! I'm so, so sorry!
I can't believe we were ever lucky enough to have this show. RIP Mr. Greene
I thought he was in Northern Exposure! Ooph.
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Currently we're at KP-6 according to Spaceweather. Keep checking! www.spaceweather.com
Don't forget that the Northern Lights might be visible tonight at lower latitudes! The storm has already started!
Profs, please don't forget to TELL YOUR STUDENTS THAT AI "ART" IS ART THEFT. They really, truly don't understand it, and think you'll be impressed with their AI generated illustrationsfor presentations and papers. Talk to them about it asap!
✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.
Breaking news... my Ancient Sea Reptiles (published by NHM London) is not gone forever after all: a 3rd (softback) edition with multiple updates is now out, sooner than expected! I'm giving talks and doing signings, contact me if interested :)
I really miss the old days.
At the Boulder Fairgrounds osprey nest this is the final screenshot from the webcam of the two chicks. They were looking at something to the south, cheeping, and then off they flew, together. It's been two days and it is likely they are on their way to parts unknown. 1/3 #birds
One of the sad "highlights"--I hesitate to call it that--of my recent visit to Pittsburgh was seeing a real Passenger Pigeon at the Carnegie Nat'l History Museum. (Not that we don't probably have them at the Smithsonian at home but I'm not sure where they are. Lower levels of Nat'l History?)
111 years ago today, Martha, the last passenger pigeon died alone in Cincinnati Zoo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passeng...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Please circulate, Classics friends and colleagues! I am on the grad student mentoring committee and we are eager to have more grad reviewers.
#Archaeology (🏺) peeps (skeeps?): My Redbubble shop is now open! Get your archaeology/CRM tshirts, stickers, and more. This is the first drop with more to follow. When these designs are gone, they’re gone! www.redbubble.com/people/Archa...
Washington D.C. awash in protests. Rather than accept aspiring dictator and convicted felon Donald Trump's military occupation of their hometown, Washington, D.C., protestors are demanding independence and statehood. boingboing.net/2025/08/31/w...
My mom (an art history major) had a complete illustrated copy of this from her college texts when I was small, and I used to be completely fascinated by the blues and the upper portions showing the zodiac and stars. The castles influenced all my drawings. If you can find one at the library do it!
I don't want to see its DNA, I want to see a dendrochronology core.
I love it so much!! But you can't watch it casually; it's a tear-jerker (but in a beautiful way).
Just finished watching Flow. That was an intense, beautiful, powerful, riveting two hours. Don’t look up anything else about it. Just watch it.
And may I add: we can also mitigate climate change, and halt and reverse nature loss. That we cannot live without endless destruction is another narrative pushed by the right and financed by Big Oil enshittifying the living experience of every living thing on Earth, and parroted by governments.
I'm sorry, what??
Why don't dogs give themselves little baths like cats? #DogSitting
Can we please just split?
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Hmmmm...I wonder what happened around 1980? 🤔
He has a very high maintenance belly!!
RIGHT HERE. THIS is what I've been thinking the whole time.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #FreeDC #WeNeedAGyro
At pub trivia competing as team “We Need a Gyro”
Dog owners, is this...normal?? Or is it just Olav? #Dogsitting #ButIAmACatLady
Stop what you're doing! Who's the best doggo in Charlottesville?! It's OLAV!
For those who think the Trump administration is speedrunning the German 1930s by following Hitler’s playbook, today is the anniversary of Operation Himmler, a series of false flag events which gave Hitler the justification for war.
I saw them literally just wandering around the otherwise-empty green space around the Lincoln Memorial. They are completely wasting their tme, resources, and training. It's humiliating.
Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!
I've seen two today!
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Thanks!
Thanks! I was worried they might be baby lanternflies.
“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”
Does anyone know what these are on the milkweed?
Four of the new Ukrainian hybrid African violets (saintpaulia) that arrived today
Now if Maryland will just join...this map is starting to look promising for many reasons.
@govwesmoore.bsky.social Please help Maryland join!
Walk out, typo!
He also referred to the interesting "anthropological" aspect of it but seems to view it entirely through a business lens. No provenance discussion, as you say. I'm uneasy.
Don't forget that baristas can't just walknout if someone is behaving in a way that makes them uncomfortable. They're stuck.
Yeah, me neither. So...am I wrong to be concerned about the message this article sends vis a vis antiquities? Or is it unproblematic because it seems like it's mostly American?
@ewg118.bsky.social Do you know anything about this?? news.virginia.edu/content/meet...
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
Yeah, I remember thinking at the time that the switch over from late 80s alt rock to Grunge seemed really abrupt and total, as if a marketing executive had decided on it at a meeting and then boom.
Update: when the occupation of DC is over Italy thinks everyone should celebrate with lap snuggles and an ear rub. At least, I think that's what he's saying. It could just be time for Second Sleep, which means I'm stuck here.
Please excuse Italy's not-as-dirty-as they-had-been- ten-minutes-earlier-but-still-dirty- mittens. He may have done some inappropriate digging for Reasons in a plant pot.
True, good point.
By the 90s?? Eighties yes, nineties no.
Italy modeling the appropriate response to the occupation of DC. #FreeDC
It doesn't make sense unless you acknowledge that Russia and its allies want to kill as many people as possible, destroy the economy, create chaos, and destroy infrastructure but can't use its army, so it's supporting other groups to do it for them.
“Dearest Agnes: We wander the wilderness by dark. People are playing chess and walking their dogs, and every night I worry I shall not return to you. But I must spare my phone battery now for there are no outlets here. Yours &c,”
This is a five-frame video of one of the giant eruptions on Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon. Taken in 2007 by the New Horizons probe on its way to Pluto, the images span about eight minutes. The motion of erupted ash and debris is from a volcano called Tvashtar, and rises 330 km into space.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
“Dearest Elizabeth, Looking out over the deserted platform, I think I see your face in a passing train. Wait actually is that you? I’m with the DC unit and your apartment is around the corner. Gonna hit you up on Facebook messenger when I get off at 10. Yours lovingly,”
I should've noted there's a great sale currently in effect for Scientific American's 180th anniversary (ends Sept 2, 2025). $18/year digital subscription. Or 50% off for the unlimited sub (print edition + ad-free digital access to full archive + tote combo) www.scientificamerican.com/getsciam/ 🧪
Feds walking around inside Gallery Place metro station right now. @dcmigrantmutualaid.org @popville.bsky.social
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
If you thought this nepo baby crony capitalist asshole’s wedding was the most revolting thing about him wait till you hear about his private zoo.
Oooh we talked about this wedding in my Economic Anthropology class last fall (because it's such a bold display of wealth inequality and conspicuous consumption, among other reasons). How I wish we'd known about this!
Less than 20 days ago, someone fired 180 shots at the CDC building. No National Guard.
When the doctors walk, you know the disease is in the government.
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Reminder that it's OK and probably healthy to put your phone down or step away from your computer and stop doom scrolling, because the news is mostly bad. It helps to be in the sun, around trees and non-human creatures. Go rub your cat's belly and listen to him purr until you feel a little better.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
ICE agents in DC today appear to be focusing on the North Capitol Street corridor. One is wearing a Texas-themed hat and a “thin blue line” patch that says SEND ME. Again: Keep an eye out for an unmarked black Ford truck with the Texas plate NTV9211.
Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬
