@luilog
Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account. I repost anything that catches my attention: cats, AI slop hate, politics, Star Trek, cats, academia, archaeology, cats, and other things. Also cats.
It’s even more sinister than this if you take into account extremist evangelical views about the need for conflict in the region before the return of Christ. They require war in SWANA/MENA.
Everyone is someone else’s pawn in a colonial, theological, or legal face-off.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Our home was in North Gaza, but war took everything.
Now my daughter fights a serious illness, and we can’t afford treatment.
🙏 She survived the war… please help her survive this illness.
🫶 Any donation, even small, can save her life. Please don’t leave my child alone
chuffed.org/project/1565...
Baalbek, Lebanon
'This Phoenician city.. was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period... Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.'
whc.unesco.org/en/list/294/
Let's play a game
Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote
Which picture are you submitting?
Only four European countries have banned trade with the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine
Spain
The Netherlands
Belgium
and Slovenia.
This does not look good.
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!
Also, any femininity influencer telling you that you must change your appearance or personality wants your money. If you are pleasant enough to have friends, you are pleasant enough to have a partner. No additional effort needed.
The operational name "Epic Fury" will be admissible evidence at the war crime trials.
I've had men hit on my mum and me simultaneously. Which, yes, creepy, but you have to respect a trier.
I was going to say... Like, she's pretty? And young? Probably gets hollered at by dudes left and right. Just not the ones she likes
Two pack and plays full of various sized goats
Holy shit. A catastrophic storm just ripped our baby goat shelter out of the ground. And these guys are way too big to confine in these playpens.
Oh no! But they look sooo cute 🥹
This is the kind of humour that I'm here for. Also why I had no friends in school.
The fact that you keep doing this to yourselves... Thank you for your service, but I'm gonna give that one a skip 🫡
Brilliant. Thank you!
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
I fully blame @movieswedig.bsky.social for making me acutely aware that Troy was actually a movie about the Iraq War.
Den absurden Krawall, den die CDU jetzt nach der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg aufführt, sollten sich Wählerinnen und Wähler in Rheinland-Pfalz genau anschauen. Kein Bundesland kann sowas gebrauchen.
Sterbehilfe wird als fortschrittlich und liberal wahrgenommen. Dass gerade vulnerable Gruppen das Angebot annehmen, deutet auf einen Missstand hin.
Right?!
“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”
The temperature in Gaza has plunged today, leaving Sama'a and her family shivering in the cold. Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/157569
They're talking about the Iliad again. Just like they did in 2003...
When White House aides are leaking furiously to the media about how all this isn’t their fault if only someone had listened to them is that usually a sign that insiders are confident the policy is going well
This makes me sad. Only 6 years ago, feels like a lifetime.
We knew we were watching our world end. Its a trauma which i think affected many people.
Die Affäre um den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis geht weiter: Der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien (BKM) hat die drei ausgeschlossenen Buchhandlungen belogen. In einer E-Mail vom Februar teilte der BKM ihnen mit, die Jury hätte sich nicht für sie entschieden. Das war unwahr. (1/6)
One of the now famous images of British servicemen manning a naval gun at Shoremead whilst wearing full pantomime drag. It's usually claimed to be an image that was banned by the government or somesuch nonsense, but there's actually a rich vein of propaganda photographs of servicemen carrying on with normal, humorous life in the middle of a war. That the Nazis were understood to be dead against this sort of stuff only added to its value.
So whilst the self-reported big manly men are accidentally closing a narrow shipping channel by having a big manly war and shouting big manly war things, a reminder of that time a bunch of lads who were much secure in their gender did it deliberately.
