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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 7h

yes I AM tired of reading theory. yes I DO believe I will be rewarded in the kingdom of heaven for reading theory. yes I am VERY worried the reward will be more theory to read

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Fwank @gaymerotter.bsky.social · 14h

Starting a challenge called oktober where for the whole month everything is going to be ok

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 4h

so tired of this take. ask some conservatives if they want to make adjunct salaries and see how eager they are. gosh, i wonder why lots of left-leaning folks choose professions like teaching, counseling, and care work? must be indoctrination! no, we just give a shit about others and our world.

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 1h

Congratulations! So much antiquities fraud, I expect you can have a series :/

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10h

I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...

Cover of the book The Styrofoam Mummy https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 2h

I’m so sorry you’re sick - I hope you get to have a birthday celebration when you’re feeling better very soon as well

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 2h

my ps5 pro has been randomly turning on for days and i was getting kinda stressed because they’re very expensive to replace now but it turns out that this criminal has decided that the cables/old peripherals/misc. bin in the closet is her new bed and she was turning it on via a spare controller

a fluffy white and gray tabby cat perched up on a man’s seated thigh exposing her chin and neck for scratches

same cat now flopped chin-down on the man’s leg for back of neck scratches

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

When white nationalist are a part of your voting base

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 2h

A couple of miscreants hope you feel better (well I do too)

Two fairly fluffy cats poke at each other from opposite positions on a fuzzy grey couch.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 8h

you do want to see this

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New book from Brill: Dr. Markéta Preininger's "The Magical Body: Embodiment in Coptic Magical Papyri." It covers "[t]he lived experience of individuals from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt." #Classics #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky brill.com/display/titl...

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The Magical Body

"The Magical Body" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new interactive archaeological map of Alexandria! 🗺️😍 It launches CartAlex of the Centre d'Études Alexandrines, "a new online cartographic platform dedicated to the archaeological & historical heritage of Alexandria & its region." #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky maps.cealex.org/maps/alex/

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CEAlex maps - Alexandrie

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h

sent this to everyone.

The cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik suggests A.I. is a “cultural technology” that emulates the stories and information humans have documented, and that we should think about A.I. agents as “fictive characters abstracted from text.” Edmund is just such a character — a “breaking bad” trope who becomes generally evil. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they’ve learned in their training — a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The “covert” messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5h

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 16h

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 20h

Between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel dropped more explosives on Gaza than were dropped on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during all of WWII. The destruction of Rafah, which I believe is the city in this picture, did not begin until May 2024.

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 23h

For @drdragases.bsky.social (tidied up from yesterday)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23h

This presents a serious challenge to those of us in 'AI positive' institutions, where we have no choice but to engage with AI to some extent. (Tho' students here have an ethical opt-out, teachers do not.) We must educate our students about ALL aspects of AI, including the (un)ethical underpinning.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the THIRD YEAR in a Row, Native honorees are among the MacArthur Fellows. Congrats to poet Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and historian Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria), two of this year's MacArthur Fellows! redpopnews.com/layli-long-s...

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Layli Long Soldier and Elizabeth Ellis Among the 2026 MacArthur Fellows

When the MacArthur Foundation unveiled its 2026 class of fellows this week, two of the names belonged to Native women who work with old documents to say something urgent about the present. Layli Long ...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026

An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza.

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NFL Threatened to Ban Player From Game for Honoring Slain Palestinian Girl

Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wrote Wafaa Akila, the name of an 8-year-old girl killed by Israel, on his face tape.

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 01/10/2026

You deserve help and I am hoping you find a solid lawyer. This is not okay and you should not be having to be punished for other people’s lack of integrity

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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Reconciliation prompted us to relinquish negative feelings over the past, but many, including myself, were not willing to do that. Because we have not severed from the past. The past endures,” says Billy-Ray Belcourt in an interview about his latest book.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Poems Insist on Indigenous Freedom

In his first poetry collection since 2019, the acclaimed author from Driftpile Cree Nation challenges readers to imagine new political possibilities…

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 01/10/2026

As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app correctly points out, mines are the lethal autonomous weapon precedent we should consider. The "AI Arms Race" is deployment of land mines "on a Napoleonic scale"; @redunley.bsky.social on the failure of arms control leading into WWI historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

When war broke out in August 1914 even these limited agreements soon fell by the wayside. The Germans, unsurprisingly, considering their position at The Hague, used mines from outset of the war with little regard for their impact on neutrals and non-combatants. The British situation is in many ways more remarkable. There is no doubt that opposition to mines was strong within the British government, the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, described them as ‘a hellish device’. Yet within weeks of the outbreak of war the Cabinet was discussing the use of the weapons specifically to target neutral vessels, and by October 1914 Asquith ordered their deployment ‘on a Napoleonic scale’.

Edwardian society was almost unanimous in condemning mines as illegal and unethical due to their autonomous nature, and the danger they posed to non-belligerents. Despite this, arms control failed. In large part it did so because mines were cheap and effective, in exactly the same way that their far more developed LAWS cousins promise to be. Beyond this arms control depends on trust and accountability, and autonomous weapons from mines forward invariably offer a degree of plausible deniability. The failure of arms control at the Hague Conference was in a certain respect irrelevant. The fact that militaries across the major powers expected their opponents to deploy mines in a future conflict ensured that they developed and planned to use the weapons themselves.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🗃️ I have never seen these highlighted before

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That Immigrant Witch 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, my witches & brujas/os. I was just informed that my book *Pagan Portals - Maria Lionza* about our Venezuelan Indigenous Goddess, is officially out in the UK through Amazon and other digital stores, and is also arriving in physical stores today. @moonbooksci.bsky.social #WitchSky #BookSky

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This phrase, säbʾa sägäl , refers to the three Magi in Ge'ez, with the s-g-l root relating to augury, divination, or astrology--which, like the word "Magi" itself (related to, y'know, magic) initially connoted not general wisdom but the wisdom garnered through such arts and practices. Love that.

the phrase meaning "the Magi" in a Ge'ez manuscript

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 30/09/2026

Many ancient Mediterranean cities have undergone periods of rapid expansion since the 20th century, obscuring millennia-old agricultural landscapes under urban sprawl. New research uncovers this culturally important 'green heritage' #WednesdayWisdom 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

1826 map of land use in Zadar, Croatia depicting an organically arranged mosaic of agricultural green space classifications around Zadar that include cultivated fields, gardens, grasslands, vineyards and olive groves.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧵 It's Orange Shirt Day. Today please wear orange in remembrance of reeducation camp (Indian boarding "school") survivors and those we are still working to bring home. The echoes of the atrocities visited upon those tiny shoulders still reverberate today. If #alt4me

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worst epic incipit ever

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know what... I hope everyone tries to be a Hussein for everyone else in their lives. I know I'm gonna try to be more like Hussein. That's how we'll get through this.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jenny Holzer Painted sign 1981 "Living" series, 1980-82

all-caps red text on a white background, reminiscent of a warning sign. The text reads:
YOU CAN WATCH PEOPLE ALIGN THEMSELVES WHEN TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR. SOME PREFER TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE TOP AND OTHERS WANT TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE BOTTOM. IT'S A QUESTION OF WHO FRIGHTENS THEM MORE AND WHOM THEY WANT TO BE LIKE.

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Perseus Digital Library has been hard at work on Minimum Viable Perseus (Perseus MVP). Designed as a static site and heavily inspired by the beloved but faltering P4 (and its awesome users), please check out our efforts here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates) and try it out: beta.perseus.tufts.edu

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New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org · 29/09/2026

Disability rights asks, “Are our rights being protected?” Disability justice asks, “Who is still being left behind?” There is no one without the other, and it's up to all of us to make sure the work of both continues.

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I've said multiple times at this point, "The Internet Is Not Real Life" should be understood as an Aspirational Statement rather than a Descriptive one.

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026

“We all know that a body that cannot scrutinise, take a position, or evaluate is not an advisory body at all,” the departing members wrote in their resignation letter. “It is decoration and accountability theatre.” Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/indepe...

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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Julie (Aakadewin-O Waawaashkeshi Kwe) Francella @juliefrancella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Indigenous children should not have to produce their bones before Canada agrees that what happened to them was inhumane. I said what I said.

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile your editor is sitting there holding one of the hinges and patiently waiting for a rewrite 🙃❤️

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We’re surviving, Striving towards thriving, and Indigenous to this land—Always." Get your copy at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/traci...

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Indigenous from A to Z

From an award-winning author-illustrator team, Indigenous from A to Z offers a bold, beautiful, authentic view of Indigenous peoples' history, culture, value...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 29/09/2026

Thank you ❤️ I needed this today and everybody needs a little more Stevie in their life

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 29/09/2026

Right, basically it’s “collecting” followers and then spamming to get more, which is not the point of Bluesky, it’s not about how many people you follow or who follow you but the quality of the interactions. Many follow farming accounts are also run by bots and that’s the main reason I delete them.

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