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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

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Zooarchaeologist. 🏺 Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜 Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪 Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK. She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️‍🌈♿️ https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · Aug 22

I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.

Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!

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Links to find me and my current work.

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 9h

The companion video I mention in Nintendo's Museum Problem is NOW UP!

youtu.be/8GWeO7glE-4

The lower level of the Nintendo Museum features games, both analog and video, that commemorate Nintendo’s past. But you won’t be able to play them all! So which ones are actually GOOD?

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 9h

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 13h

Oops, gave the peace prize to another fascist freak who just so happens to be pro genocide. Im sure that was accidental.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16h

Wow! Interesting

Nothing to see here for sure

However, following the
announcement, many have started to point out that the 58-year-old is a strong ally of Israel and openly backs the country's decision to bomb the largely unarmed civilians of the Gaza Strip. While there is no known evidence to argue that she supported the one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians, Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the centrist-right leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.

In 2020, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner's party, Vente Venezuela, signed a cooperation agreement with Likud to cooperate on "political, ideological and social issues ... strategy, geopolitics and security." For the unversed, Likud - National Liberal Movement is the right-wing Israeli political party whose chairperson is Benjamin Netanyahu. "The struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," she had said on X in 2019.
There is a claim that in 2018 Machado sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for the use of "power" (possibly including military intervention) against the Venezuelan government. She had

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 13h

I’ve said this before but it bears repeating how the lack of uncritical thinking has gotten us to this moment.

And yes, these demands for “women supporting women no matter what” performative feminism and “vote blue no matter who” political worship is part of this.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 13h

Watching people celebrating the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner despite her allegiances to Trump and her support of Israel’s genocide…as well as folks cheering on Japan’s first woman as PM who is a straight up fascist…like, c’mon.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 13h

It’s 2025, can we please let go of uncritically and unthinkingly celebrating and supporting any woman who does anything noteworthy?

Women can be fascists, they can be reactionaries, can be just as cruel and destructive as men!

Why buy into biological determinism as shallow “feminism”?

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

Please donate to help Nesma and her children if you can, and share widely.

www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 15h

It's thought that a great auk head was added to the foundation of an Iron Age wheelhouse on Eilean Leòdhais (the Isle of Lewis) during its construction over 2,000 years ago 🐧

Now extinct, it's possible that these flightless birds held some ritual significance: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

Illustration of a great auk with a juvenile: resembling a penguin with a black back and white underside, a heavy black beak with grooves, and tiny wings

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

A lot of people on here, in multiple directions but primarily in the left-bashing formula, are less interested in Gaza or Palestine itself than what they can achieve out of it vis a vis their online arguments.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Doesn't look as niche as I thought unfortunately

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Interesting niche of people (and it is a niche, even on here) who very clearly desperately hope the ceasefire plan to end the war fails not because it's bad on the merits (it is) but because it would undermine their "hope Dearborn is happy" schtick if it succeeded

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

has there ever been an era in history where someone like me wasn’t seen as satanic and demonic in some way 🫩

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

Regardless of the ceasefire, Palestinians are still in need of help.

You can donate to help Hassan’s family here: www.gofundme.com/f/under-the-...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 16h

10 hours left 🚨 Please refocus—support STOPPED. These six families & a camp STILL desperately need urgent help.

The immediately need is food & supplies—and soon, transportation, costs of rebuilding, and more in the next, uncertain days.

Click “weekly” if you can! 81/640:

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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guerin @ontopoetic.earth · 16h

The farce of being awarded for a peace never realized.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15h

For folks celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize news as some sort of “dunk” on Trump…

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15h

Love it

María Corina Machado
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 20h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 23h

Seeing as @oxbowbooks.bsky.social sought to cherry pick my review of Snettisham, I thought I would add from the rest of my review.

You might also wish to read longer review here, which goes into detail about my significant issues with the books:

bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/t...

#Archaeology 🏺

A snipped section of my review for Norfolk Archaeology, describing it as 'Another sparkling review for the Snettisham Hoards'

Another section from my review for Norfolk Archaeology:

"However, for the examination of the terminals and other metalwork, omitting the insights of goldsmiths has led to some evidentially unsupportable conclusions (see torc L.14 above). The most glaring of these occurs with the 'iconic' Great Torc which is incorrectly identified as being of sheet and cast hybrid construction. The multiple evidence seen on the Great Torc (dents, cracks and hammering), comparable examples (e.g. the Netherurd and Near Stowmarket terminals), and previous research (Maching & Williamson 2020) which supports the interpretation of the Great torc terminals having been created using gold sheet has been largely ignored."

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Öykü Koç @oykukoc.bsky.social · 22h

Not a philosopher, but, as a geoscientist this feels incredibly familiar. So this is another reminder that your scientific association/union is complicit, if they are silent or avoiding to use the word genocide.

Performative blame avoidance is very common in such organisations.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 21h

good thing we’ve been paying thousands of pounds into it via the surcharge to help it out!

…hold on, I’m receiving some clarification on that…

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Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · 22h

Hello dear folks of BlueSky. This fundraiser isn’t moving, and Maha and her family are still in dire need of food as well as adequate shelter. Any donation helps and gives them hope.

Thanks for your support, so appreciate everyone’s efforts who are helping this family survive.

Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · 5d

120/1300 raised so far for Maha’s tent. Please keep this going. We also now have set up the ability to accept credit card so you can make a regular donation if you want.

Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha

My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza. On 29 September they were displaced again from Gaza City to the south. We managed to raise funds to transport th...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Shares please. You have been an incredible light to young dad H and his toddlers—keeping them housed for almost a year has saved them from deadly cold, exposure, shrapnel. For kids, this isn’t trivial. Sit with that impact and keep it going.

They still need that support.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

Whose peace is this?

Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Today we’re highlighting H and his toddlers. This little family has depended on you to stay sheltered since January—and you always come through for them. No names or photos. Just hope and dignity.

Keep it going. 4 hours left on today’s goal 🚨 619/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 1d

The New York Times should not exist. It props up fascism and supports genocide. If you are still giving them any of your money, you support that as well. If your relatives or friends do, they support those things. Prevarication isn't tolerable anymore. Having moral standards is non-negotiable.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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