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Katherine Piper

@katherinepiper.bsky.social

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Retired Egyptologist/archaeologist now heckling. Occasional roundhouse builder and regular volunteer at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Currently @theees.bsky.social bake sale, formerly archives and events volunteer. Dog servant. Spooky. AuDHD.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · Nov 11

I don’t really do much Egyptology stuff these days, but it’s good to see more people (and institutions!) making their way over here. It would be nice if more of Egyptology Tw*tter made the great migration …

Carrie Arbuckle @archaeocarrie.bsky.social · Nov 11

First run through at an #Egyptology Starter Pack. Let me know who I need to add!! #Archaeology #AncientMediterranean

go.bsky.app/ypboLQ

Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 2h

“I need to ask a young person about this,” is such a weirdly liberating stage of life to reach.

Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 2h

I love approaching social media as someone in my mid-thirties because what do you mean Tywin Lannister’s A+ parenting is somehow now a meme

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3h

Fucking ace news about Caerphilly's by-election too. The Labour vote plummeting and Reform underperforming shows that people really do want an alternative to Just More Thatcherism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Plaid Cymru defeats Reform in Welsh Parliament Caerphilly by-election

Labour came third after suffering its first parliamentary defeat in Caerphilly for 100 years.

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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 17h

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral

The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

jonn.substack.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The way to answer "has anybody done this since Idi Amin in 1972" would be for Conservatives to name a democratic government that revoked permanent settlement to remove legal rights & then deported, expelled those people.

Important they get asked to give the counter-example to "since Idi Amin"

Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 3d

Essential @sundersays.bsky.social thread on Katie Lam.

Ms Lam is proposing policies last used by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 3d

Ah thank you! Those are some very thick walls, they must have been lovely and snug with all that insulation. You’d have to do so many layers of thatch with heather to get it all to overlap, but if that’s what’s around, it makes sense.

Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 3d

Just out of interest, do you know what were they building roundhouses out of over in Eryri? I’d love to see a mountain roundhouse in contrast to a fen edge one!

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 3d

This is so interesting because I knew that the suits used in tarot were historically the standard playing card suits in use before we moved on to diamonds, spades, etc., but I didn’t know that playing cards in Italy and Spain still use the old suits, and now I need to look that up.

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 3d

If you live around the Alps, there is a fair chance you have several if not all different types of playing cards in your house. Growing up in Munich we had three in our house. Source: buff.ly/x3JI1ub buff.ly/83YBVFO

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Pedro Pascal was spotted at the LA No Kings protest with the best sign there.

Pedro Pascal at an outdoor protest holds a bright red and yellow sign that reads “NO KINGS ONLY QUEENS” with a black-and-white photo of Divine and Trump. Pascalis wearing glasses and a yellow T-shirt, pursing their lips playfully while pointing at the sign. They stand among a crowd of people holding various protest signs; the scene appears to be in a city street on a sunny day.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

How is it taking them this long to work this out?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4d

I'm thinking this through further and there is no difference between deporting people to form a "culturally coherent group of people" and Hitler saying jews could not be aryan.

Caution around Godwin's Law should be dropped. Katie Lam has openly supported nazi ideology.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

She said both that integration matters but was very pessimistic about how possible it is after *many* generations

Language of "a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" conveys a sense that *some* people may remain too visibly different, somehow, to be "culturally coherent"

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 5d

If you ever wanted to see a Masterchef final stretched out over three episodes with added trade war stakes, this is the show for you.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d

very good point, "The Ass is the father of the legs"

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 9d

What if Masterchef, but 500 years ago, and you have to cook for the critic from Ratatouille except he’s hot and threatens to have people executed if he can find fault with their cooking, all while negotiating court politics and trying to get back to the future, absolutely god-tier nonsense 500/10

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 9d

I saw the premise of the KDrama series Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, and thought it was too bonkers not to check out. I don’t know anything about Korea, but this is everything a TV show should be. Cannot recommend highly enough, more prestige TV should have big AO3 energy.

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Sarah Krienen M.A. @sarah-krienen.bsky.social · 10d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand:

"Provenance: Anonymous Swiss collection"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 11d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"landowner used an excavator"

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 12d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 13d

I really enjoyed watching KPop Demon Hunters with my friends because we’re all 35 and were sat there like, “Girl that is a LITERAL DEMON speedrunning the shitty emotionally manipulative boyfriend playbook, RUN,” in between bopping to the songs, 15/10 would get eaten by the demon boyband again.

a cartoon bird wearing a hat and sunglasses with yellow eyes

Alt: a cartoon magpie wearing a hat with three yellow eyes up the length of its neck

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve never seen Jurassic Park or Home Alone, and have absolutely no desire to change that.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 18d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 19d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 20d

Underrated great moment in K-Pop Demon Hunters is Bobby the manager finding out in real time that his superstar phenomemon girl group are basically the Korean Powepuff Girls and were not kidding about the whole demon thing.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22d

Labour continues to show complete disregard for either basic humanity or reality.
While family reunion routes are already fairly limited, you couldn't create a bigger gift to smuggling gangs than cancelling them. These policies will increase number of people forced to use irregular routes. #r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22d

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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