100% all of this ❣️ thank you for recommending the book. Our stories build our world, and we should be the ones building that, expressing that, finding ways to expand our perspectives and deepen our empathy, remember, learn, love, and more — not machines
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So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling.
The machines can *never* do this.
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“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”
Or the Neo-Assyrian governor who was like “I wag my tail like a dog for you, and you never reply to my messages”.
Taram-Kubi complaining that her brother sold her textiles for too little. Urad-Gula complaining about being excluded from court and therefore dying of a “broken heart”. So so many
Just to make it fit my preferred format
“All that he has, like
smoke into the sky,
will evaporate.”
It really does
Love this. The exception might be cuneiform…almost everything you read has not felt the light of day for thousands of years.
Every ancient letter, receipt, star map, math problem, or fragment of a poem is new again. It adds to our knowledge and remembrance. It absolutely is thrilling 🧡
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
We always have to check in 2026 😭
Someone at NYT is unironically writing headlines with @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Map of northern Mesopotamia, with arrows pointing from regions of the Assyrian Empire expected to pay tribute and regions expected to provide ‘gifts’ to the imperial core.
What was taxation like in the ancient world? #TaxDay
In the Assyrian Empire, the imperial core extracted resources in the forms of taxation and tribute from the settlements it took over, meaning wealth disparity increased as the empire expanded.
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🏺 #Archaeology
This is gorgeous!!!
Yes! They’re also protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. If only more nature was…
Some beauty in this world.
Thank you! That’s reassuring 😅 I made the trip today especially to see them, and it was so worth it.
Beautiful 🥰
Photo of bluebells in a wood among many young trees
Photo of bluebells and long green grass with two fallen trees in the backdrop whose tree rings are visible. Many other young trees stand in the background
the whimsy of it all
Truly bad photo of bluebells and long grass.
I will not be quitting my day job to take up photography
Photo of bluebells up close. Not a very good photo, but the drooping purple flowers look beautiful
Photo of bluebells in a wood, crisscrossed by numerous young trees. They look like a purple carpet
bluebells in Bagley Wood
On my timeline on the same day . .
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When #archaeology REALLY means something...
Photo of the book “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History”.
Next book!
“Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” by Moudhy Al-Rashid. As some of you may have noticed from some of the past few books I’ve read, I’ve become quite obsessed with ancient history, particularly…(1/)
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the book and for sharing your thoughts and kind words! 🙏🏽❣️🥹 (The astronomy chapter was my favourite one to write!)
If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope.
Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.
Translation: you can't take it with you.
given that my 5-year-old’s handwriting is more legible than mine, you make a compelling point here 😅🤣
Bold to assume that the neater handwriting is the teacher’s
My phone does the same autocorrect of her name so no need to worry