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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

What do you call a political system where those in power refuse to seat a duly elected member of the opposition party? Not a democracy that’s for certain.

Screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Greg Stanton (@RepGregStanton) on X. The tweet says House Republicans are shutting down the House to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva, calling it undemocratic and unacceptable. The image shows a mostly empty House chamber with several representatives, including Stanton, standing near the podium.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

Put another way: with Trump's approval solidly around -9-10, it's a safe bet he is probably underwater *with Texans* and he may not be much above water with Texas National Guard.

'Murder your fellow citizens so a guy you don't really like can be a God-King' is probably not a strong offer.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in the long life of Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans, I'm presenting some of my research at UMass Amherst.

Open to the public!

Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you
@iannelsonmills.bsky.social
for agreeing to present on your research for my early Christianity class. We got a big lecture hall and made the lecture open to the public.

Haec Epistula Non est Pauli
10/28/2025, 11:30 AM,
65 Bartlett Hall
130 Hicks Way, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

More than a century after the massacre at Čaŋkpé Opí (Wounded Knee), the U.S. still honors the soldiers who carried it out. In a new piece, guest writer Amelia Mavis-Christnot examines Trump’s decision to preserve those medals—and the deeper history of erasure it reflects.

Čaŋkpé Opí (Wounded Knee) Is In My DNA

There’s no honor in genocide, Pete.

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you
@iannelsonmills.bsky.social
for agreeing to present on your research for my early Christianity class. We got a big lecture hall and made the lecture open to the public.

Haec Epistula Non est Pauli
10/28/2025, 11:30 AM,
65 Bartlett Hall
130 Hicks Way, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 11d

Put less intelligently, the objection to the so-called AI boom is not about the technology being shitty (although it is). It’s about the shitty people who are using their shit technology to treat other people like shit.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · 16d

I couldn't contain myself when I got this email, and I shouted in joy! My neigbors in offices down the hall (different department) jogged over and asked if I had just got a grant or application accepted, or if my team won a championship. It was indeed the former!😆

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”

Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · Sep 4

My big problem with the phrase “granola fascism” is that granola is delicious as hell, granola does not deserve to be catching strays like this. “Raw milk fascism” is more appropriate. Thank you.

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Graham Hancock has recently repeated his lie that @flintdibble.bsky.social is responsible for the 2024 retraction of Hilman's 2023 Gunung Padang article in Archaeological Prospection. I "prebunked" this claim on MythVison podcast last year. Here is the relevant clip.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnAl...

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic work!!

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Sep 4

This video by AMOPankration is fantastic. It documents his own journey, as an amateur, making a mark in the field of archaeology and publishing peer reviewed papers

It also calls out hypocrisy of those who label scholars as "gatekeepers"
youtu.be/4oqeNliw-YQ?...

I Did What They Tell You Isn't Possible — And You Can Too. Examining Graham Hancock's Thesis

YouTube video by AMO Pankration

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Aug 21

@boslough.bsky.social posted this on another social media platform.

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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is one of the best articles I've read about AI in a while. It points out the many disturbing, if not outright dystopian, ways in which AI has already reshaped our society and culture, which so many people have complacently accepted because it's "the future."

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Aug 14

One of my teenagers shared this amazing video with me, and I am proud. The kid understands my interests.

Did you hear the story of the Victorian hoax about a fake Welsh Kingdom in NW England, which fooled Wikipedia editors for most of the 2010s>>

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Aug 12

For colleagues who may be going to SBL/AAR in Boston this year: I am a late addition to the Monday Rhetoric and Early Christianity program.

@zafulotus.bsky.social; @candidamoss.bsky.social @iannelsonmills.bsky.social; ‪@smehorn.bsky.social‬.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 18

My latest for National Geographic about Byzantine female asceticism featuring the work of @ctschroeder.bsky.social, Christine Luckritz Marquis, and Caroline Walker Bynum.

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Nun’s skeleton reveals that some ancient women were extreme hermits

Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and women were just as hardcore as the men.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Laodicians - the one pseudo-Pauline epistle that is both orthodox and universally recognized as a fake. It may originally have referred to an alternate title for Ephesians.

Thank you @iannelsonmills.bsky.social

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sometimes you have to puzzle over marginalia to figure out what a copyist or reader thought about your text. And sometimes things are a little more clear.

Hoc ep(istu)la n(on) e(st) Pauli
"This Epistle is not by Paul"

Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 6

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Aug 7

Visiting my favourite empress at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The small arch of Galerius features portrait busts of the emperor and what probably used to be a portrait of his wife, Valeria Augusta.

After Licinius executed her for treason in this very city it was recarved as a Tyche.

So-called small arch of Galerius from his palace in Thessaloniki. A carved Marble Arch with portrait bust medallions in the spandrels (on the right a male bust, on the left a female with a turret crown), raised by human figures.

Left hand spandrel medallion on the small arch of Galerius with a bust of a woman wearing a turret crown.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Burrows Cave Scam EXPOSED with Dr Joe Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social

Clip below about gravestones desecrated to make fake artifacts

Full video on YouTube: youtube.com/live/pcBt8qr...
or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0okZ...

The Burrows Cave Scam EXPOSED with Dr Joe Wilson

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you Flint!

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thursday at 6pm UK/1pm Eastern, I'll go live with Dr Joe Wilson to discuss Burrows Cave

Did the Phoenicians make it all the way to Illinois? This tale is a wild one

www.youtube.com/live/pcBt8qr...

The Burrows Cave Scam EXPOSED with Dr Joe Wilson

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

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