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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you to the people who were explaining to me that he meant to say something else

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone is invited to the Black Public History Symposium next Wednesday, October 14 at Lincoln University. Entitled, "Black in the Beginning: A Free Black Town on the Underground," it is run by the Ubuntu Center for Public History. www.lincoln.edu/events/2026/...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 3h

He was also the one who sent the 'there's "free pussy" upstairs' text. So tell me again about how better consent "training" will fix this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...

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Man Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Was Designated as a Party Monitor

The fraternity filed paperwork identifying Jonathan Newell as a “trained event monitor” at a party where a woman said she was assaulted. He was accused of taking part.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 2h

I will be presenting and attempting to tie two threads together. 1. My current research on small, rural Black communities, landscapes (of charcoal!) and the Underground RR in SE PA. 2. Recent work with indigenous communities of PA re those same landscapes. Nope, I'm not nervous at all.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 5h

🏺 🦣 🧪 Been waiting YEARS for more deets on astonishing wooden objects used by #Neanderthals at Abric Romaní (a site which, as anyone who's read #Kindred knows, I rave about). Can't wait to dive in: bark(!) trays, wood tools inc poss spears, and structural objects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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Signe Sangill Termansen @signest.bsky.social · 6h

Did the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Southern Scandinavia use poisoned arrows for hunting? It looks like it! In this new paper with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @sofiefh.bsky.social @welmoedo.bsky.social et al. we look at the evidence. Out now (OA). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 8h

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 5h

I've written to the govt about a concern causing real frustration across North Herefordshire: the practice of "farmwashing," where supermarkets use misleading marketing to suggest produce comes from British family farms - when it has actually come from overseas.

Dear Angela,

I am writing about a growing concern in North Herefordshire that is causing real frustration among farmers and consumers alike: the practice widely referred to as “farmwashing”, whereby supermarkets utilise misleading marketing tactics to suggest produce has been sourced from British family farms - when it has actually come from overseas.

This issue has particular resonance in my constituency. North Herefordshire is home to many family farms, and local residents care strongly about supporting British food and farming. Yet there is increasing concern that this public support for British farmers is being manipulated and misused by major supermarkets who engage in “farmwashing” tactics, profiting from imagery and marketing that creates a false impression of where food comes from. These practices not only undermine the ability of consumers to make informed choices and support British producers, but also place yet more strain on small family farmers at a time when many are already struggling to cope with the devastating impacts of climate breakdown-induced extreme weather events, and with rising fuel and fertiliser costs due to the illegal war on Iran.

I would therefore be grateful if you would work with retailers and standards bodies to ensure that food labelling is accurate, clear, and not misleading to consumers - including in relation to country of origin and packaging design. I also ask that you consider whether further guidance or stronger rules are needed to prevent branding practices which create a false impression of British or local origin, and that you meet with me and farmers in North Herefordshire who have been directly affected by farmwashing practices to discuss any further support needed from government to combat this issue.

I would additionally welcome the opportunity to discuss not only food labelling, but the wider pressures on family farms, including the impacts of climate breakdown and the need for greater government support to m…

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 8h

Recreation of Richborough Roman coastal fort #Kent c AD 250 The fort enclosed an earlier triumphal arch Anyone who's read Rosemary Sutcliff's 1959 novel *The Lantern Bearers* will know the arch probably became a signal tower © Ivan Lapper 2001 (for the English Heritage guide) #RomanFortThursday

Aerial reconstruction painting of a rectangular Roman fort with a large white marble arch at the centre and buildings, some being demolished, surrounding the triple ditches and sea to the left

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 5h

Wooden tools crafted by Neanderthals at hunting sites have been found before. For the first time, there's now evidence from a domestic context too. “We know what was happening in the kitchen, in the sleeping areas,” says @iphes-cerca.bsky.social's M. Gema Chacón. “It’s like a snapshot.” @science.org

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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20h

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 21h

It sounds like the men who raped her knew who she was and did it because she’s a Democrat running for office, in case you don’t want to read a graphic account of a sexual assault.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Psycho. He’s an absolute psycho.

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 22h

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 23h

Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18h

Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the website of Ulrika Carlsson, an editor of truly extraordinary quality who takes your scholarly writing to the next level. Proud to endorse and recommend her. Imagine having your writing edited by someone who published on unrequited love, tragedy, and resentment in journal Mind (iykyk)

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have 33 days to keep Senate from reacinding laws that protect our main streets, our air, our water, our endangered species.

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NAACP Bucks County @naacpbucks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📣 Day of Advocacy: Letter-Writing Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage! Join us on October 13th from 11:00 AM–12:30 PM for a letter-writing campaign calling for a higher minimum wage and stronger economic opportunity for working people. 🏬340 E. Maple Ave., #305, Langhorne PA 19047

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm thinking a lot today about Chronicle Heritage and what Private Equity did to fire 600 of our talented colleagues. Private Equity is *evil*. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down

Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company

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Joseph Wilson @josephwilsonca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy to chat with @betakit.com here about my new book. TLDR: AI is people, you guys, all the way down. Q&A: An anthropologist pulls back the curtain on the humans behind AI betakit.com/qa-an-anthro... #AI #STS #Anthropology @uoftpress.bsky.social

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Joseph Wilson spoke with ghost workers, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and even joined a Toronto chip company.

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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ignorance was shown the door!

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Women across Maine begged Susan Collins not to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court because they knew Roe was at stake. She did it anyway. To this day, she says "I do not regret that vote." Well, we sure do.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!

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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/10/2026

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026

The billionaires (and trillionaire) and their platforms Gotta Go. Don’t even care how they Go now, but they gotta Go.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks. Unfortunately those have long wait lists at my local library, so I just picked on that was available - Maskerade. We'll see how it goes.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've never read him... Suggestions on where to start?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyday objects are the real archaeological treasures! Birch bark is perfect for making containers and wrapping. This 7,500-year-old wrapping was X-rayed, but unfortunately, it didn't show anything. It probably held something perishable. From the Mesolithic settlement of Motala/Sweden. 🧵1/2 📷me

A compact, irregular item of folded birch bark with a rough, wrinkled surface in shades of reddish and brown, shown against a dark background.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The tragic story of how a gruesome K9 bite exposed a teen's crime spree and the murder of an unhoused Black man. The full story: lataco.com/gianni-washi... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

An illustration of a Swisher Sweets pack with bullet holes.

Headline reads “He Was Murdered Over a Pack of Swisher Sweets”

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beronda L. Montgomery, Jori Lewis, and Ashia Ajani in the same room on November 12th at the University of Maryland, College Park!!

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This month I’m celebrating the 10th year anniversary of my first book, The Borders of Domincanidad published by @dukepress.bsky.social I’m sad that it’s still so relevant but grateful that many readers still find it helpful. Gracias for a decade of dialogue. Cover by Pepe Coronado.

Book cover. Has maps of island of Ayiti and USA. Book is yellow

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Five alarm fire y’all

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🪦 Tracing the roots of zombie mythology from Haitian Vodou through its depictions in modern pop culture, Maya Annik Bedward's BLACK ZOMBIE is a dense and passionate documentary that is as entertaining as it is enlightening. Tix: facets.org/programs/bla...

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The eternally moonlit world of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

Four paintings depicting nocturnal scenes in Victorian England on full moon nights.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fascinating! As always, thanks for sharing.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am excited to be awarded fifth place in the Photographer of the Year category of this year’s Natural Landscape Photo Awards with this portfolio of images. It is a great honor to be recognized among such amazing and inspiring landscape photographers! @natural-landscapes.bsky.social

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 05/10/2026

Experimental #archaeology of Bronze Age tin smelting. South-west Britain was a major source of tin for bronze production, with British tin reaching as far as the major Bronze Age civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean 🏺 🔗 from 2025 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Archaeologist recreating tin smelting using tin ore in a crucible, surrounded by charcoal powered by a simple skin bellows plus insets of tin ore used and a sectioned crucible showing the tin metal produced.

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Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was the subject of my undergraduate dissertation (comfortably back in the last century). We built a wee hearth in my pal's back garden and used a set of bellows from an antique shop. The thermocouple failed half way through, but the end of the copper tuyère melted so it was at least 1085°!

Idiot in his youth putting a crucible willed with cassiterite and charcoal into a smelting hearth made from some bricks on top of a roofing slate and a lot of charcoal. There is a pair of bellows in the background. Also some camping chairs and half a bottle of beer. Idiot is helped by a pal, who is leaning in with a pair of tongs. Two other pals and a case of beer are out of shot - it was hot and thirsty work! The bottles of beer were the wee stubby French ones from Morrisons, so we were drinking responsibly. I appear to be wearing a t-shirt of the Bradford punk band Health Hazard, who were a firm favourite of mine.

I remember nipping to the garage to buy more charcoal on my motorbike, but when we had finished I had drunk too much beer to ride safely/legally and got the bus home. The house and bellows owner, Rog, was an ex-biker and had a fettle with my bike the next day when he got up (he's that sort of person). I don't know what he did, but I never managed to get it to run as well as its post-Rog fettling phase.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026

NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

Yup. The entire 16 months I’ve been on the ICE flight/TCR beat, I’ve encouraged other journos to join me, bc there are more stories here than I could possibly tell on my own. Many indy journos have. But for MSM reporters, too often they seem content to just repeat what’s already been reported.

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