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I'm relieved to report that the long-awaited second edition of An Infamous Traffic is even better than the original — in gameplay, in narrative, in clarity. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/10/05/a...

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Again, Opium War, Again

When Cole Wehrle first unveiled An Infamous Traffic way back in 2016, it was a scrappy little devil. Not only was it Wehrle’s second design, it was also the earliest releases from Hollandspie…

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A beautiful #Roman glass bottle, in green & gold with small patches of blue - a lovely thing, although I suspect the original owner would be stunned to know that it had survived nearly 2000 years, & was now on display to the public... #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 28/09/2026

Calling out shitty behavior is a start. But a lot of men know what they’re doing is wrong and they will probably just stop talking about it around you. It’s important to organize with, support, and empower feminists so that we can actually take power away from abusers

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

more of Berlin was still standing in 1945

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

A intricately crafted incense storage container shaped like ship, made of bronze with a weathered patina. The container features a central lighthouse-like structure rising from its deck and is supported by Roman coins serving as decorative wheels, on is missing. The ship’s bow and stern are elevated and adorned with geometric carvings and porthole-like cutouts, enhancing its detailed, miniature design.

A Roman bronze coin, used as one of the ship's wheels, depicting Emperor Nero.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s bisexuality visibility day! When I love to share the Villa Farnesina bisexual visibility fresco, commissioned in the early 1500s by the Italian Renaissance artist Sodoma, depicting Alexander the Great between his wife Cassandra and boyfriend Hephaestion. Bisexuality has always been a thing!

Fresco of a sumptuous bedroom. In the middle Alexander draped in blue and gold robes is offering a crown to Cassandra who is lounging naked in a canopy bed. To the right Hephaestion also naked watches while standing in a sexy pose.

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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been canvassing for the first time (for LA's DSA-endorsed mayoral candidate, Nithya Raman!) and I was really nervous, but it's actually quite fun and easy. Just walking around knocking on doors, giving people pamphlets, and meeting neighbors.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On this #HobbitDay let us celebrate Bandobras "the Bullroarer" Took, whose reaction to the invasion of the Northfarthing of the Shire by a band of orcs was to decapitate the orcs' leader with a club. When the fascists arrive, fight!

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On this, Star Trek's 60th birthday, I think we should remember the undoubted highlight of the franchise: Tom Paris breaking the speedlimit and thus transforming into some kind of sex lizard.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Three #Roman leather shoes, for (l-r) a man, woman, & child. Found in an ancient well at Bar Hill fort on the Antonine Wall (Scotland), they're beautifully crafted pieces of footwear, & show that the military communities had access to a bit of luxury even on the frontiers... #AncientBlueSky

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Picard management tip: Regardless of what time travelers tell you, the future hasn't been written yet.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A #Roman shield found in Dura-Europos (Syria), where it was lost during a siege in the C3rd AD. The only rectangular shield to survive from the Roman world, it is a wonderful find, & gives a great insight into how elaborately decorated these items were #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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John Breen @breen.tech · 06/09/2026

Not going to share the videos, but ICE beat the shit out of some protestors in Frederick, MD who were camped out in a neighborhood protecting their neighbors from getting kidnapped. Fuck ICE

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YoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Nights of King Ludd is a "challenging, thought-provoking rumination on an oft-misplaced history, collective anger, and the depths power and capital will plumb to protect their interests. Stark, sobering, and sometimes hopeful..." Beautifully put, thank you @danthurot.bsky.social 🥹 #boardgames

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

delusional and the MSM keeps platforming this person and using words like "pugnacious???" to describe someone who covered up the killing of a 17 year old by Chicago cops among so much other foul shit.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc

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Tracia Newman's Board Game: Oil Spill & Amateur Art

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was an incredible human being. Her efforts to promote children's literacy, driving economic growth in her home state of Tennessee, and her open acceptance of the LGBTQ community meant so much to so many people. Fly high Dolly 💙

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Europeans in the late 1340s a week before dying be like:

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This extraordinary helmet is a lavish example of a Celtic style worn primarily during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Its dome and neck guard were forged from a single thin sheet of iron, then embellished with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish ...🧵1/3 📷 me

A dome-shaped helmet displayed in a glass museum case, richly decorated with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish coral or sea-snail shell once added striking flashes of colour. Two curved side tubes and a vertical finial on top.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/08/2026

#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A Sphinx (height 4.8 cm) carved from #ivory and with face made of amber. Found in the Grafenbühl burial near Asperg, a rich burial mound from the late Hallstadt period, dating ca. 500 BC. The Sphinx is a product of a #Greek workshop in Italy (Taranto?). It was used as an applique and ...🧵1/2

A small, weathered ivory sculpture with a human head and long hair and a lion’s body, shown against a black background. The face is made of amber.

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 20/08/2026

A very happy birthday to Alan Lee! Alan has illustrated many #Tolkien books including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and most recently The Fall of Númenor. He won an Oscar for his work on the film trilogy, and for many his art perfectly captures J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. #Booksky #lotr

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 19/08/2026

On 19 August, T.A. 3019 in Tolkien's Middle-earth: as part of their bond of friendship, Legolas goes with Gimli to see the Glittering Caves. Gimli later founds a Dwarven colony there and becomes the Lord of the Glittering Caves. Image: Ted Nasmith

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A lovely #Roman pottery vessel, with the image of a peacock delicately scratched into the surface. I suspect this was once a much-beloved belonging for someone living 1700+ years ago #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Splendour from the Black Sea! This Hellenistic diadem transforms gold and gemstones into a miniature mythological scene: a Heracles knot at its centre, surmounted by Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and framed by sea monsters. Dating 250–150 BC, made from... 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A gold diadem in a museum display: A knot forms the central motif, made of a translucent red stone and gold. Above it rises the goddess of victory Nike, flanked by two sea monsters. Two rigid gold bands are attached at the sides over hinges. Tassel-shaped pendants hang down from the diadem.

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's kind of interesting (derogatory) how the word "controversial" in public media context means something radically different to its meaning on professional contexts. Actually controversial matters are rarely described as such in media, because the word is reserved as a polite synonym for crankery.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

After immense pestering from all of you, it is finally here. I wrote about Byzantium, the malaise of political doom everyone seems to be certain of, and how long-term survival is only possible if all of us engage and demand more of our representatives and ourselves. www.patreon.com/KrisFreydalO...

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Byzantium and the Crisis of Contemporary Political Disillusionment | Kris

Decline. War. Economic crisis. The disintegration of the liberal order, human rights, and democracy itself. Unprecedented wealth disparity

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Picard relaxation tip: Re-read good books.

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RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A show about the Diadochi, from the death of Alexander to the death of Antigonus.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

No one, not a single person of note, is arguing that universities should not enforce rules against plagiarism. What we are pointing out is that it is insane and disproportionate for the attention of an entire country to move to one plagiarist until he kills himself.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

August 14, 1791: At the Bois Caïman near Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, over 2000 enslaved people met to plan what would become the Haitian Revolution. I write about the Roman myths grafted onto Toussaint Louverture (“Black Spartacus”) a few years ago for @hyperallergic.com (edited by @sephspeaks.bsky.social).

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Ancient Rome and the Myth of the Black Avenger

Long before Black Panther, early modern Europeans embraced a different kind of Black avenger, one largely constructed by White abolitionists.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Revolutions: France 1820-1880 is one of the best new-wave historical games I've played, covering uncomfortable coalitions and legislative action, uprisings and urbanization, and all with smooth rules that are a cinch to teach. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/08/12/r...

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The Shortest Nineteenth Century

According to one of my uncles, the terms “right” and “left” derive from the fact that conservatism is correct while liberalism is wrong. You know, because we say “that…

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Apparently it's #WorldElephantDay: a #Roman intaglio depicting an elephant creeping out of the shell of a snail. Photo: Metropolitan Museum 🏺 AncientBluesky

An translucent orange intaglio depicting an elephant creeping out of the shell of a snail.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/08/2026

🏺With the solar eclipse in the news here in the UK, it’s probably worth noting that we have archaeological evidence of eclipses. Like this cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia circa 900-600 BCE forecasting a solar eclipse. Now at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. 📜 n2t.net/ark:/21549/h...

A clay tablet with a fragmentary astrological text forecasting the dire consequences of a solar eclipse.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A wonderful horse pyxis, a Greek container distinguished by miniature horse figures on its lid. The horses often served as decorative handles and, likely signalled prestige because keeping horses was expensive. Dating 750-725 BC, on display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me

A horse pyxis displayed in a museum case: A low, round lidded terracotta container covered with dark geometric bands, zigzags, rosettes and animal scenes. Four stylised black horses stand in a row on the lid, their long necks rising above the vessel; larger decorated pottery jars are visible behind it.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Apparently, it's #WorldLionDay! A magnificent lion head carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Although small in size (H. 2.3 cm), it exhibits remarkable detail. Found at the Vogelherd Cave, located in the Swabian Jura region. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

A carved lion’s head made from mammoth ivory, shown in close-up against a black background.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

there’ll be almost two orders of magnitude or more adults marrying children this year in the us than trans kids in sports

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New discovery: A Roman-era shipwreck, believed to date between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, has been discovered approximately three miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo at a depth of 46 metres. The site comprises a substantial assemblage of amphorae, in association ... 🧵 1/2

An underwater photograph depicting amphorae.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The current climate crises only compound my fears for our future. But I guess it does have unexpected consequences, such as - literally- resurfacing Constantine I's Danubian bridge which he built as part of his Gothic campaigns.

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Low Danube waters have exposed remains of Constantine’s 1,700-year-old Roman bridge near Gigen, Bulgaria....

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 08/08/2026

🏺 Unsurprisingly taking advantage of it being International Cat Day to post some of my favourite cats I’ve come across during my research of ancient Egyptian collections 📜 Like this Late Period faience amulet of a cat and kittens, now at the Met Museum. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

A beige coloured amulet depicting a cat and three kittens stood next to each other.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#InternationalCatDay: a terrific #Egyptian gold finger-ring with a carnelian bezel in form of a #cat. The ring is presumably related to the goddess Bastet, who was worshipped in the form of a lion and a cat. 🐈 📷 The British Museum, 1947,1011.2

A gold ring with a red translucent gemstone featuring a small cat-shaped figure.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#InternationalCatDay: a marvellous Egyptian faience ring depicting a #cat and her kittens. 🐈 The ring is probably related to Bastet, the feline goddess of fertility and protection. 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Turquoise-green ring with a sculpted cat perched on top and several small kitten figures grouped beside it, the band decorated with vertical ridges and floral-like raised ornamentation.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I love how humanity has been making silly little guys since the beginning

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