Katherine Piper
@katherinepiper.bsky.social
Retired Egyptologist/archaeologist now heckling. Volunteer assistant logboat conservator at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Currently @theees.bsky.social bake sale, formerly archives and events volunteer. Dog servant. Spooky. AuDHD.
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First run through at an #Egyptology Starter Pack. Let me know who I need to add!! #Archaeology #AncientMediterranean
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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 …
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I want Jewish people to have holidays where they are not also mourning the massacre of Jews
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I want Jewish people to have holidays where they are not also mourning the massacre of Jews
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Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
An incredible story spanning generations
From Poland to Sydney, a bar mitzvah amidst rising antisemitism
www.australianjewishnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
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This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
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I mean obviously part of the point here is that it immediately marks all trans people not wanting to be segregated as uncivilised and anti social and even criminal
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I mean obviously part of the point here is that it immediately marks all trans people not wanting to be segregated as uncivilised and anti social and even criminal
Gorgeous @skullsandsheets.bsky.social Mari Lwyd cards arrived today, and I can’t wait to send the undead horses off to their new homes (toast not required)!
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Gorgeous @skullsandsheets.bsky.social Mari Lwyd cards arrived today, and I can’t wait to send the undead horses off to their new homes (toast not required)!
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Zeus is also a son of Kronos, why doesn’t he just boot himself –“ thank goodness for new Percy Jackson.
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Zeus is also a son of Kronos, why doesn’t he just boot himself –“ thank goodness for new Percy Jackson.
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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The oldest evidence of fire-making has been unearthed in Suffolk, UK 🔥
Dating to 400,000 years ago, it shows that early Neanderthals were controlling fire in northern Europe as our own species was only just emerging.
Find out how this shaped human evolution 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Dating to 400,000 years ago, it shows that early Neanderthals were controlling fire in northern Europe as our own species was only just emerging.
Find out how this shaped human evolution 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Earliest fire-making dating back 400,000 years ago unearthed in Suffolk, England | Natural History Museum
We were not the first species to master the flame.
www.nhm.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The oldest evidence of fire-making has been unearthed in Suffolk, UK 🔥
Dating to 400,000 years ago, it shows that early Neanderthals were controlling fire in northern Europe as our own species was only just emerging.
Find out how this shaped human evolution 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Dating to 400,000 years ago, it shows that early Neanderthals were controlling fire in northern Europe as our own species was only just emerging.
Find out how this shaped human evolution 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Happy Wednesday from the crime sheep, charging up their batteries.
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Happy Wednesday from the crime sheep, charging up their batteries.
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Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
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Going to be fun watching them try to figure out a way to say "oh we didn't mean dual citizenship with a white country" without sounding like massive racists.
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Going to be fun watching them try to figure out a way to say "oh we didn't mean dual citizenship with a white country" without sounding like massive racists.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Should go without saying, but if protections against torture are preventing your policies being implemented then it isn't the protections which are the issue.
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Rights groups warn against UK plans to weaken torture protections in ECHR
Exclusive: Ministers face pushback over potential changes to asylum seekers’ rights before Council of Europe meeting
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Should go without saying, but if protections against torture are preventing your policies being implemented then it isn't the protections which are the issue.
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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This sounds incredible: @aberuni.bsky.social leading the way for ancient #Celtic languages again 👏🏺
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This sounds incredible: @aberuni.bsky.social leading the way for ancient #Celtic languages again 👏🏺
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Very glad that none of my mum’s retrospectively really quite autistic family is still around to learn that hyperindependence is considered to be a trauma response, not a virtue to be internalised until someone has a breakdown, because … that would not have gone down well.
this does however in many families lead to an unfortunate expression of disbelief: “well that’s just normal, everyone does that, we all are like that”
if your bio parent says this to you it is probably true but that doesn’t mean it’s not also ADHD
if your bio parent says this to you it is probably true but that doesn’t mean it’s not also ADHD
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Very glad that none of my mum’s retrospectively really quite autistic family is still around to learn that hyperindependence is considered to be a trauma response, not a virtue to be internalised until someone has a breakdown, because … that would not have gone down well.
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adhd literally isn’t our fault it’s fucking genetic
I see Hadley Freeman is back on her horse about ADHD/autism. Only this time she is obviously far more aware of the reality than...checks notes, the actual expert. Does she ever get bored of just churning out the same old ignorant attacks on different groups?
www.thetimes.com/article/476e...
www.thetimes.com/article/476e...
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
adhd literally isn’t our fault it’s fucking genetic
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I'm reading the news about wild boar spotted near @butserancientfarm.co.uk and I can't help letting my imagination run wild.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I'm reading the news about wild boar spotted near @butserancientfarm.co.uk and I can't help letting my imagination run wild.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huge fan of whatever is wrong with the person who came up with the Gwi-Ma occasionally consuming souls to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack ambient … fireplace thing on Netflix.
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Huge fan of whatever is wrong with the person who came up with the Gwi-Ma occasionally consuming souls to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack ambient … fireplace thing on Netflix.
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TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.
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The moment Kaikai grew strong enough to walk great distances, our little sprite discovered her non-negotiable: daily mud baths. Weather forecasts mean nothing. Keeper schedules are merely suggestions. When Kaikai decides it's mud time, it's mud time! swt.bio/kaikai
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The moment Kaikai grew strong enough to walk great distances, our little sprite discovered her non-negotiable: daily mud baths. Weather forecasts mean nothing. Keeper schedules are merely suggestions. When Kaikai decides it's mud time, it's mud time! swt.bio/kaikai
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.