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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

Caption:
Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/04/2026

11 Months ago I lead on an Open Letter to various archaeological organisations demanding resolute support for trans people in the face of the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. Over 700 archaeologists signed it. I've now made it easier to cite in academic work 👇 zenodo.org/records/1962...

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Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance - May 7th 2025

A PDF copy of the Open Letter written to the CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, regarding the April 16th 2025 For Women Scotland versus The Scottish Ministers Supreme Court ruling and subisuqent EHRC Guidance...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 28/01/2026

Oh this is good! 🤣 (And a very apt critique of ChatGPT, for it should be regarded as altogether evil)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 18/11/2025

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access! Check it out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality

This paper uses Cal Horton’s theory of Cis-Supremacy to demonstrate the interplay of trans exclusionist histories and contemporary cis power structures. The paper, through this preliminary discussion,...

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

…and that’s problematic as a discourse because it negates any theory of change. If you can’t articulate that things are getting worse, you can’t strategize about how to make them better.

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Katie 🌀 @katiefliesaway.com · 16/10/2025

irdk if highlighted quote posts work for promoting anything other than romance but!

$Out of the Loop Day 2 A.L. If time loops were a common shared experience by a large enough fraction of Earth's population, there would probably be more maxims about them. “What happens in the loop stays in the loop,” perhaps. “Every change in the loop happens for a reason: you.” Put that on a plank of wood in a beach house bathroom. “Loop me once, shame on you. Loop me twice ... well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.” Another time loop maxim: “Life after a time loop is like riding a bike.” For Amie, a very mediocre bicyclist, this could be interpreted as "very shaky and potentially dangerous for herself and everyone in her vicinity." But it also meant that twenty-eight years of living a life that chronologists would call "normal" meant that she had deep-rooted instincts that two years in a time loop couldn't wipe out.$

Book cover. Light blue background with a darker blue spiral. Red text reads: Out of the Loop. Below that, in white text: A mystery. September 17 calendar pages form a spiral around the title, ending with a September 18 calendar page under a magnifying glass. Black text below that reads: Katie Siegel. White text below that reads: By the author of Charlotte Illes Is Not A Detective. In the top right corner is the image of a red flower with a black stem and leaves. In the bottom left corner is a black shoeprint.

Available for preorder!
Out February 10, 2026

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Katie 🌀 @katiefliesaway.com · 12/10/2025

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

the whole thread, but especially this. especially this. students need basic religious literacy to make sense of all *this* and how we got here.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble

As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.

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🌱🌷🌼 pallas, rejoicing 🌼🌷🌱 @proserpina.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

i love science fiction for two reasons: its exploration of the unknown, and its exploration of the known

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You cannot address the starvation in Gaza without addressing the fact that Israel also destroyed all agriculture and fishing as part of this engineered famine. It's not just cutting off food aid, it is destroying all internal capability to feed people.

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🌱🌷🌼 pallas, rejoicing 🌼🌷🌱 @proserpina.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

the majority of the references to "embracing" and "kissing" in the akkadian language canon (edēru and našāqu) are either - between sexual partners - between family members (eg, a man and his wife, or his son) and between gilgameš and enkidu

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🌱🌷🌼 pallas, rejoicing 🌼🌷🌱 @proserpina.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

also the only attestation the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary gives for the Gt stem reciprocal meaning "they kissed each other" is from the gilgameš epic, which is interesting. i have trouble believing that's the only time it was ever used in the entire corpus, but the CAD doesn't provide any others

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 26/07/2025

Again, for my colleagues in the heritage sector (including archaeology and museums) - we are not disconnected from the genocide, we are integral to it. If you’re not speaking out, you’re complicit in the further weaponisation of our areas of expertise to exterminate an entire people.

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Thomas M. Pflanz @thomasmpflanz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Well hi, Bluesky! I'm an Egyptology student studying non-elite, queer, and disabled populations in ancient Egypt, both how these populations were considered in elite sources and how these populations recieved those sources. I'm also an avid TTRPG player, theater artist, and baker!

A selfie of a person wearing a grey cap, glasses, and a black KF94 respirator, posing in front of a case of Egyptian funerary masks. They are pointing at a statuette of a ba-bird in the foreground of the case.

A person with a beard, wearing a light blue shirt, a grey cap, and glasses, in front of a small waterfall coming down a mossy roccky surface. They are looking just off camera and up to the sky.

A bald person with a beard, wearing sunglasses and a blue short-sleeved button up with a banana design on it posing with a brown glass bottle with a yellow, orange, pink and purple label that reads "Paulaner Spezi." Behind them is a view of a German town. The most promonent building is a white rectangular tower with a brown, pointed roof, and a colorful clock built into one face of the tower.

A bald person with a beard, wearing glasses, a red graphic t-shirt, and a light blue short sleeve button up shirt with yellow ducks on it. They are standing up with their arms in a jogging motion, behind a Dungeon Master's screen with a large red dragon on it. There is a Dungeons and Dragons battlemap in front of the screen. Behind them is a Christmas tree with the lights on.

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Thomas M. Pflanz @thomasmpflanz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Big News - after two years of intense study at the University of Chicago, in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities with my focus in Egyptology and subaltern histories, I have my MA! I am so deeply excited for what my future as an Egyptologist holds!

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 02/06/2025

I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'. We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense. More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Alt text for this poster can be found here: https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-papers/. Scroll down to the section of the webpage tited 25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 25/05/2025

Always remember folks, the call to "ban pronouns" is just the world's thinest veiled dog whistle for banning trans people. It's not about speech or anything like that, it's about eradicating trans people.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP It is always a good morning for June Jordan.

Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION AND REACTION
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC
OUT THE WINDOWS
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY
NOBODY COLD
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED BOUNDARIES TO DISAPPEAR

I WANTED
NOBODY ROLL BACK THE TREES!
I WANTED
NOBODY TAKE AWAY DAYBREAK!
I WANTED
NOBODY FREEZE ALL THE PEOPLE ON THEIR KNEES!

I WANTED YOU
I WANTED YOUR KISS ON THE SKIN OF MY SOUL AND NOW YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I STAND DESPITE THE TRILLION TREACHERIES OF SAND YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I HOLD THE LONGING OF THE WINTER IN MY HAND
YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I COMMIT TO FRICTION AND THE UNDERTAKING
OF THE PEARL

YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME
AND I HAVE BEGUN
I BEGIN TO BELIEVE MAYBE MAYBE YOU DO

I AM TASTING MYSELF
IN THE MOUTH OF THE SUN

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Newspapers, pundits and politicians are all doing U turns in how they talk about Israel's genocide. I don't buy any of it for a second. Anyone with a single brain cell in autumn 2023 knew what was going to happen. The footage has been available to anyone with a phone the entire time.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/05/2025

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧵 Things have been so busy that I missed out on the amazing new data that in February 2025 ▪️9.3% of ppl identify as LGBTQ. It is inevitable that that figure will rise, given that the numbers have risen even as anti-LGBTQ sentiment has risen dramatically. [1]

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Send this to your friends and enemies that use generative AI.

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Ursula K. Le Guin writing about speculative fiction in The Left Hand of Darkness.

"Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying.

The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don’t recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It’s none of their business. All they’re trying to do is tell you what they’re like, and what you’re like—what’s going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your"

"The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don’t recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It’s none of their business. All they’re trying to do is tell you what they’re like, and what you’re like—what’s going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don’t tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies."

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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In today's Ancient Near East Today, Alexandra Morris discusses the little-mentioned topic of people with disabilities in ancient Egypt, and explores disability as a complex lived experience: anetoday.org/disability-a... 📸 Picture by Fixi, via Wikimedia Commons. CC By-SA 3.0.

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The Study of Disability in Ancient Egypt and Beyond - The Ancient Near East Today

Disability has always been a part of human history, including in ancient Egypt. However, until recently the subject has rarely been studied in Egyptology or in a broader ancient world studies context.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

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Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

At #Nippur, we’re finding the breakage pattern on our 1st mill (top) and 3rd mill (centre and bottom) male figurines is the same. Weak points or persistence of use? 🏺

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

use of starvation of a civilian population as a weapon of war is a completely unambiguous war crime

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 24/02/2025

i was there, dawg. that copper was shit. it was ass.

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Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Our NeoBabylonian household at #Nippur was into making animal figurines, especially camels, a recent domesticate related to the importance of the incense trade. #Tuppi is very suspicious of the one that looks like Feathers McGraw.

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🇵🇸shep distasio🏳️‍⚧️ @shepardnosheep.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

hi friends, I’m rarely here, but Veil Us in Gold is only 99c on the Zon and will be as such until I get it up on itch io when it’s KU period ends! So mark your calendars for March 13th!

picture of book “VEIL US IN GOLD” center justified. Below the book is a mini rug, woven to show Arizona mountains. To the left of the book is a mussel shell and a painted tray of Frida Kahlo. To the right is an empty golden picture frame and a golden watch. Below it all is a wooden surface.

the book cover has a dark blue background with marbled texture. Gold border with each corner being a “stacked” (squares inside of squares) set of overlain squares. Between each corner is a white rectangle (only the lines) with another inside. Center image is golden line-art of a Greek laurel wreath. Beside it are two opposite facing (horizontal) armor bracers with ivy design inside.
Text (from top to bottom) reads:
Book 1 of Sins of the Divine
Veil Us in Gold
Blessed Be They Who Kill Gods
Shepard DiStasio

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 21/02/2025

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my next book, comes out on March 4! That's in 11 days! I'm going on a five-city US tour for it! All tour stops & ticket-booking deets here: us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...

Selfie in which I'm wearing a fuzzy black beanie, wide square-ish glasses, my dark hair in a side braid over a white tank by Yoshi Yoshitano printed with black roses surrounding a sword and embellished with clusters of red berries, and a small black padlock necklace. I'm holding up a copy of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS and smiling.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 23/01/2025

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

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👹 Sarky 🐻🆖 @sarkyfancypants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator" You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor... You are not a faceless "content" machine.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Congratulations to the membership of the American Historical Association for finding the voice, moral clarity, professional integrity to vote YES on the Resolution Against Scholasticide in Gaza! The work is just beginning. There will be more votes, chances to stand up. Take every opportunity. #AHA25

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Prompted by the wonderful editors and with Edward Said as guide, Basma and I write about the scholasticidal tendencies within universities, and invite education scholars in particular to consider their politics and practices over the last year. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Academia in a Time of Genocide – scholars Basma Hajir and Mezna Qato describe "key manifestations of scholasticide" within US, UK & European universities #AHA #AHA2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities
Basma Hajir &Mezna Qato
Received 11 Sep 2024, Accepted 18 Dec 2024, Published online: 02 Jan 2025

Abstract
This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of ‘scholasticide’ and use the term as an explanatory tool to unpack four key ‘scholasticidal tendencies’ that extend to the USA, UK, and European academies: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat posed by certain theories. We critique these tendencies and highlight their deflections, obfuscations, contradictions, and moral failings. We gesture to possibilities beyond them and towards justice as an answer to the ‘question of Palestine’.

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