what do police even do

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

Des portraits d’Adolf Hitler ainsi qu’un insigne SS collés sur les murs du Vieux Nice. Près de la gare, des affiches représentant des femmes blondes et l’inscription « Les Niçoises aux Niçois ». Dans certains collèges et lycées, des signes nazis tagués dans les toilettes. Sur la promenade des Anglais, des joggeurs aux tee-shirts noirs arborant une kalachnikov et l’inscription « Defend Europe », « défendre l’Europe » en français. A Nice, les groupuscules d’extrême droite imposent de plus en plus leur présence dans l’espace public.

Utile rappel: l’extrême droite au pouvoir, ce sont des nazis dans les rues.

the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks
is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

6th-Century Fire in Phanagoria Reveals Lost Wallets Filled with Ancient Coins—Including Counterfeits - Arkeonews 6th-century fire in Phanagoria reveals lost wallets filled with ancient Bosporan coins, including rare counterfeits, offering new insight

What can coinage tell us about crisis? 🪙 The spatial pattern of finds from late antique Phanagoria (Black Sea, now Russia: pleiades.stoa.org/places/854724) indicate citizens dropping coin purses, likely during a fire while the city was besieged (Justinianic, 545-554 CE) arkeonews.net/6th-century-...

This is what I try to emphasize to people. What the Israelis are doing is actually entirely rational in so far as the US and Europe have given them the incentive structure to do exactly as they please to anyone they please and without pushback in any real or tangible form. That is the West's fault.

Put another way, I think the Jewishness of the army and the state is basically incidental. This is simply what happens when you have a racial supremacist state and a racial supremacist army and a racial supremacist law. The soldiers, regardless of the particulars, will act as if they are supreme.

First to Second Century AD floor mosaic from Rome with the head of Medusa at the centre. Now part of the collections at the Terme di Diocleziano in Rome. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome

Hang on a minute, I don't remember this bit in the Bayeux not-a-tapestry... ;)

a vintage Indonesian sticker of "Jean Picard" from Star Trek

Ok, this week has started incredibly well as we've just stumbled across a website that collects, curates & archives "vintage Indonesian labels and stickers – presenting the archipelago’s lavish visuals and their significance as knowledge and reference materials."

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grafisnusantara.com

Túrin learns the truth after slaying Glaurung

“Palantir must be destroyed” is a phrase that works in both Middle Earth and Plain Old Earth.

Public housing ends up being cheaper, as well as being a social good.

Meanwhile, French history:

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

One of the four ‘Dacre Bears’ located in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s Church at Dacre in Cumbria. Their origins are unknown, but it has been suggested that they are pre-Saxon and may have served as boundary markers for a pagan shrine. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Darce

Our collective trying to bring a radical bookshop to Newcastle is £33 away from 50%! Help us get past the half way mark if you can!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Bloody hell that is a unvarnished white supremacist techno fascist imperialist manifesto. It gross & deeply concerning that Palantir is so deeply embedded in not just the US gov't but also spreading to other countries through contracts such as with the NHS in the UK.

Me after being left behind by AI

A pretty excellent piece on fascism and the nature of today's international far right.

Well it was inevitable—but trolls who follow me have decided to review bomb the B&N listing for High Tide.

My haters are (of course) related to my trans identity and the human rights I openly fight for.

Please support me by reporting the trolls posts and putting a positive review of your own!

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

My photo shows a frontal view of a buff-coloured Minoan pottery jug with a dark-red, stylised octopus painted beneath the dark red pouring spout. The jug has a rounded body with very short neck with out-turned rim, the body tapers downwards to a slightly turned out flat base also painted red. On each shoulder there’s a small chunky loop handle. The octopus is stylised and looks cartoon-like with a vertical dumbbell shaped body, with two large circular eyes with central red dots staring out at the viewer. From the top of the head emerge eight suckered arms. Four arms hang symmetrically downwards on each side of the body, writhing and curling at the tip. There is a similar red octopus on each side of the jug not shown in my photo.

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙

From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Picard management tip: Study history. The answers are there.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of”

historians are all like “well actually”

and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say
“in these slightly precedented times”

"Our common language is resistance"

"Our common language is resistance"
Seen in Athens, Greece

Golden (runic) bracteate (type C) and clasp button (John Hines' group B1 VI) from Sjonhem, Gotland. Found in a garden in the 1970's and kept by the family until last year. Photo: Gotland Museum

Similar bracteates from Gotland.

Clasp with buttons from Havor in Hablingbo, southwestern Gotland (SHM 8064).

Better pictures of the recently reported golden (runic) bracteate and clasp button from Sjonhem, Gotland - along with parallells.

#FindsFriday 🏺

Three tall, slender cobalt-blue glass bottles with flared rims and pointed bases, one decorated with white spiral lines and the others showing patches of weathered surface against a plain light background.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass!

Delicate #Roman unguentaria, vessels used to hold perfume or oil.

Dating 1st century AD.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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