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If you're enlightened and you know it clap one hand...

If you're enlightened and you know it clap one hand...

Since when do police vans say 'Mutual Aid' in huge letters on the side?

Since when do police vans say 'Mutual Aid' in huge letters on the side?

What if street signs showed femme images as neutral?

What if street signs showed femme images as neutral?

Reminder, I'll be speaking on 'Decentering Europe Two Ways: Swimming and the Slave Trade in Classical Antiquity' at 5 pm Malta...

Reminder, I'll be speaking on 'Decentering Europe Two Ways: Swimming and the Slave Trade in Classical Antiquity' at 5 pm Malta time Wednesday 11th January; that's 11 am EST/8 am PST.

Register here:

https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/events/um/2023/01/online-public-lecture-by-mca

#histodons #swimming #classics

Totally satisfied with 2022: got my last kid successfully launched at college, published an article (on the ancient spread of feather fans)...

Totally satisfied with 2022:

got my last kid successfully launched at college,

published an article (on the ancient spread of feather fans)

and a well-received book (on the history of swimming),

and had a deck built on the back of my house.

What more could I ask?

Giving myself anxiety attacks by reading other people’s bibliographies and feeling bad that I haven’t read everything they listed back...

Giving myself anxiety attacks by reading other people’s bibliographies and feeling bad that I haven’t read everything they listed back to the 1800s.

Whenever you're tempted to post about how much ruder people are now, or how much stupider, or crueler, try to remind yourself that...

Whenever you're tempted to post about how much ruder people are now, or how much stupider, or crueler, try to remind yourself that people say that in every generation, and that it is usually understood to mean that we all remember being young and cool as better than being old.

A great way to start the morning: an old friend from college told me mine was one of his favorite books he read this year, and that he had...

A great way to start the morning: an old friend from college told me mine was one of his favorite books he read this year, and that he had just recommended it to a friend!

Now I will set to work with a will!

Reflective window makes zillions of candles.

Reflective window makes zillions of candles.

Mastodon blood found in Canada on stone tool from 11,000 BC, presumably wielded by long-ago ancestor of Elon...

Mastodon blood found in Canada on stone tool from 11,000 BC, presumably wielded by long-ago ancestor of Elon Musk...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9358574/mastodon-blood-found-2000-hamilton-excavation/

Total self-promotion: I hope you all enjoy reading my new article about the deep historical connections between swimming and social class on...

Total self-promotion: I hope you all enjoy reading my new article about the deep historical connections between swimming and social class on WorkingClassicists as much as I enjoyed writing it!

https://www.workingclassicists.com/post/swimming-and-social-class-across-the-ancient-mediterranean

#histodons #classics #mediterranean #classWar

rape in the 600s AD.Nothing new department: in 603 AD, Justa accuses the bishop Desiderius of raping her, and the Merovingian queen...

rape in the 600s AD.

Nothing new department:

in 603 AD, Justa accuses the bishop Desiderius of raping her, and the Merovingian queen Brunhilde consequently exiles him to a monastery on an island.

(from his Life)

#histodons #medieval #womenshistory

How my morning's going:Rando white guys: I know something from Tiktok that sounds right! Twitter: cool we'll like that a zillion...

How my morning's going:

Rando white guys: I know something from Tiktok that sounds right!

Twitter: cool we'll like that a zillion times

Me: uh that's actually not true, here's some academic sources.

Rando white guys: you're probably hysterical and angry.

Me: mute and block.

'As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported''Black people are fatally shot by police far more often than is evident...

'As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported'

'Black people are fatally shot by police far more often than is evident in the FBI data, The Post has found — at more than double the rate for White people.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/fatal-police-shootings-unreported/?tid=ss_tw

#antiracism #antifa

Archaeologists, with their long history of supporting colonialism, espionage, looting, slavery, and white supremacy, needn't be so...

Archaeologists, with their long history of supporting colonialism, espionage, looting, slavery, and white supremacy, needn't be so shocked to find out now that white supremacists are using archaeology to push the public still further right. We made this bed, and a lot of us are still making it in various ways.

#archaeology #histodons

Snow! #portland

Snow! #portland

watching the brave Iranian women demanding equal rights, and thinking sadly of the women who got the French Revolution off the ground, and...

watching the brave Iranian women demanding equal rights, and thinking sadly of the women who got the French Revolution off the ground, and how angry they were a few years later when men shoved them out of power, and again in the Commune. Hoping for better this time.

#histodons #iran

Talmud (Nedarim 40) reminds us to go visit the sick, specifically to make sure they are being well cared for:"Rabbi Akiva went out and...

Talmud (Nedarim 40) reminds us to go visit the sick, specifically to make sure they are being well cared for:

"Rabbi Akiva went out and taught: Anyone who does not visit the ill, it is as though he is spilling blood."

#histodons

I am pretty careful with my twitter and other social media feeds, and pleased to say that absolutely none of the garbage I see others...

I am pretty careful with my twitter and other social media feeds, and pleased to say that absolutely none of the garbage I see others complaining about is reaching me, at least not yet. My feed is still delightfully full of positive, interesting ideas and anecdotes. thanks to you all.

Dinner at Vegan Junk Food on Foster. Man, it’s just exactly, but exactly what I thought it would be. #Portland #food

Dinner at Vegan Junk Food on Foster. Man, it’s just exactly, but exactly what I thought it would be.

#Portland #food