Joe Baubles

Well, there's something I wasn't expecting to see in a book intro. Thanks for letting me know I can't depend on a single thing you "fact-checked" through ChatGPT!

Alright fam, here it is

Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London

The other year we found and scanned the best bits of a graph paper catalogue from 1958. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

I really can't recommend this book highly enough. It's premise – that it is in loss that we find meaning – was as true for Kate’s subjects in the eighteenth century as it is for historians today.

International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.

Armenians of Los Angeles Reflect on the Ethnic Cleansing of Artsakh - Knock LA Two years after the fall of Artsakh, Armenians of Los Angeles reflect on exile, preservation, and continuing the fight for the return of their homeland.

New on Knock: Two years after the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, the Armenian diaspora in Los Angeles continues to feel the impact.

knock-la.com/armenians-of...

Boats in a foggy harbour with black sheds obscured by the fog

Foggy gloam

One of my favorite lessons from Jewish tradition is the idea that every life is a universe.

I can't imagine a state which claims to operate on behalf of the Jewish people thinking it's legitimate to kill dozens of innocent people just to find the remains of others. A shanda beyond comprehension.

Let’s collectively imagine the world otherwise — Archaeology, Anthropology and World Culture Museums can be more than some legacy colonial death cult 💫

Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

Plus a third on the Zimbabwean heroes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

(3/3) From this first overview of the situation for over 20 years, it’s clear that it’s time for DCMS to review its failed historic Guidance, and introduce regulation for the retention of human tissue in legacy colonial collections.
Full story >> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Did anybody else have to memorize the prologue to the Canterbury Tales? I was annoyed at the time, but darn if I don't think about it every springtime.
For anybody who hasn't read it, it basically says that when sweet spring showers come and the birds start singing, people want to travel (1/2)

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

#Relooted: A #museum heist video game. But one with a political twist. 🤔

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f... via @theguardian.com

This archaeological research really captures the enchantment of trying to understand human life across the barriers of time and evidence. A warm July day, grief and sadness, colour, scent and precious things.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your current research focus? Just curious about your Wandsworth expedition!

Bookshelves. Mezzanine. Banners.

IN A LOCAL ARCHIVES. WONDERFUL PLACE.

Public protection order

No ball games

Field work afternoon after archival morning #enclosure #commons #publicspace

This is a fascinating, unguarded conversation between a young Miyamoto and Itoi, just poised on the edge of the future in 1989 and excited about what was to come.

the Trump administration is flying historic American documents around the country, and administration officials are asking you to pray for the pilots and plane

British education is funded by exploited, working class migrants... and dividends from the fossil fuel and weapons industries. You can go to class or teach because Israel drops bombs on Gaza and BAE Systems' stock increases and displaced Palestinians pay thousands to University of Glasgow to escape.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

As it's the start of #WomensHistoryMonth today, your reminder that there are LOADS of women who were active in archaeology, history and heritage @beyondnotables.bsky.social database! beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page

How ‘The Simpsons’ became a shared language for my generation The ritual aspects of the hit TV show provided its fans a common perspective

I remember this and agree! It was written by @tomwhyman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1669...

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers!
vimeo.com/755262849

Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.

Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."

March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

We came to US universities, studied imperial history, met and talked to other elites from other colonized spaces of the US empire, taught our students anti-colonial thought. In the colony, USAID was the face of imperial benevolence, even as US companies brutally exploited its resources.

These connections fostered a growing anti-colonial political consciousness forged by the byways of empire itself. It would not be till the brutalities of the 1930s, when the distinction between empire and colony began to decisively collapse, that anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism coincided 4/