What the-- I didn't know that I was one of your students!

The first betrayal was promising them a different future then leaving them worse off with the same a-holes in charge, except now they have a target on their back for being collaborators.

Now this.

Good luck getting locals to help in future foreign conflicts, America. Bang up job.

I thought it was a widely known and understood statistic that the overwhelming majority of military casualties across history are directly attributable to disease, not enemy action. 🤷🏼

It's like it is this guy's job to crater the US military's combat readiness as quickly as humanly possible.

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It was on the Bespin Embroidery.

what is the charge. what crime has been done

I really enjoyed your and @badancient.bsky.social 's ADHD-fuelled tangents on the Xenophon episode. (Sincerely!)

It was like a mirror into how my brain works, and how my stories typically go when talking about ancient history. 😂

What a fascinating modern age we live in.

a man is sitting on a swing in the grass Alt: a man is alone, waiting, sitting on a swing in the grass, at a table, then standing in an empty pool

The CRM Archaeology 🏺 Dilemma (Vancouver Islander working on the Mainland Edition):

Body still wired for early morning starts.

Bags fully packed.

Too early to leave for the ferry.

Ferry leaves too early to do anything else.

Waiting at my hotel ike:

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A Simpsons meme with Milhouse showing Bart Jeremy's cake book (on Julian Augustus) and saying, "Remember Julian? He's back, in cake form!"

If anyone out there has dry eyes or their hearts are feeling numb right now, please just go watch some of the Artemis II crew's speeches after their return to Earth. 🏹

Okay, maybe the Alamo isn't the best first example of an L. Though it definitely is an early example of the US involving itself for imperialist gain at the cost of significant blood and treasure.

It's astonishing how many losing wars that spread into much larger and deadlier conflicts involve the United States.

From the Alamo, to the Chinese Civil War, to the First Indochina War, to Iraq/ISIS, the US has either inflicted upon itself or injected itself into many Ls in its short 250 years.

This game introduced the early gamer in me to the art of environmental storytelling, using subtle and not-so-subtle cues about how the characters perceive, feel about, and can interact with their surroundings.

To this day, I remember Bones being unimpressed with the snowdrifts.

Is it ΔΔΡεʹ?

That "would you rather meet a bear or a man alone in the woods" and women consistently choosing Bear makes so much sense.

People believe women when they say they've been attacked by a bear.

Women aren't forced to be around abusive bears.

They don't make known bears the president of the country.

I saw a post about how the Artemis II mission's popularity is because it is desperately needed competence porn.

Yes, but it's so much more than that.

It's teamwork. It's doing the scary thing. It's emotional competence. It's being vulnerable in front of the world, and the world crying with you. 🏹

The level of criminality of being an undocumented immigrant in the US is on par with firing or denying the promotion of a person based on their race and/or gender.

So if anyone tells you that undocumented immigrants deserve this treatment but Hegseth and his goons don't, that person is trash.

Driving home today, thinking of the Artemis II crew returning today, and then The Long Winters song "The Commander Thinks Aloud" starts playing.

Haven't changed a song quicker in my life.

I love the song. Truly. But not today. Couldn't risk it.

Glad to hear they've made it safe and sound. 🏹

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For the uninitiated, this esoteric and arcane bit of archaeologica is called 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂, or "blocking the sun with a tarp to get even lighting across the thing you're trying to photograph so that its not just a half-washed-out-half-too-dark-to-see picture." 🏺

Remember when the InstaPot guys were like, "We're discontinuing chili in older InstaPot models, and we don't give a shit if you've already bought all the ingredients."

You don't? Oh. Maybe that's because companies shouldn't be able to do that to sell you more stuff.

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You made it! 💪

Growing up Catholic, my mom told me several times (and rightly so), that I was so bad, I'd piss off the Pope.

But he never announced he'd never come to Canada because of me.

So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Biden, the Democrats and the Republicans, university admins, state legislatures, journalists and pundits (including you lot) came down so hard on those students--they were expelled, arrested, assaulted, lost job offers, had immigration status destroyed.
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?

Boss: Why weren't you at work yesterday!?

Me:

For those struggling to discern a difference between "Death to America" and "a whole civilization will die tonight":

The former is often chanted by people getting bombed and/or sanctioned into poverty by the US and who have no power to act.

The latter was tweeted by the POTUFS, who has nukes.

Daily Telegraph 1, obverse.

Daily Telegraph 2, reverse.

The first cuneiform text found after George Smith's decipherment of the Epic of Gilgamesh's Flood Tablet in 1872 was a literary text called šarru ana dīni lā iqūl, or 'The King Does Not Regard the Law'.

'The King Does Not Regard the Law' concerns rulers who act out in a state's self-interest:

Xenophon asks Socrates, "Should I go to war in Persia?"

Socrates replies, "Go ask your question to the Oracle of Apollo."

But Xenophon knows he *wants* to go to war, so he asks the Oracle a different question, "What stocks should I short before going to war?"

Oops, this skeet is about Trump.