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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 6d

Yes to all cookies but I also think you need to see this video from Jordan Keyes on TikTok

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 6d

New tablet main character just dropped à la Ea Nassir: Lamassi’s Useless Husband. #archaeology 🏺

A cuneiform tablet, from around 4000 years ago, inscribed by an Assyrian woman named Lamassi, responding to her useless husband after her criticized her weaving by saying that he didn’t love the fabric she used. She responded in this tablet by saying “who is this man who lives in your house and who is criticizing the textiles when they get to him”. I feel like he got off easy.

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Zac Lindsey @arkeogato.bsky.social · 10d

Have you heard of the magician who supposedly built this pyramid at Uxmal? 🏺 #yucatan #archaeology #mythsandlegends

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 11d

What’s your sign?

Sign from an exhibit at the Portland, OR “Peculiarium” entitled: is this vanilla ice doll haunted by an evil entity? It goes on to describe court transcripts that detail this 90s era doll as being used in a voodoo type fashion and allegedly was able to visit a person in their dreams in a “somewhat menacing and sexual manner” and that’s honestly: goals.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 17d

Aww, when I was cleaning my office I found a gift from @alexvassar.bsky.social - a copy of the CA Public Records Act autographed by Assemblyman Bill Bagley. A gloriously niche present for a Gov Publications librarian.

Text of the 1968 California Public Records Act, autographed by one of its authors, Assemblyman Bill Bagley of Marin.

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Not now, anthrax smoke cloud.

Gruinard Island: Fire on island used for Anthrax experiments

People who saw the fire on Gruinard Island from the mainland described the sight as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · Aug 31

my superpower is using every tool in the kitchen to make a recipe with "one-pot" in the title

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · Jul 17

Etruscan vie cave near Pitigliano: carved procession roads cut deep into volcanic rock. Sacred, mysterious, dramatic as hell. I love them.

Back in the day I’d 100% be that girl doing parkour down the path and some dude named Larth would be like, “come on, knock it off already” #archaeology 🏺

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Gustaffo Vargas • ALTIPLANO coming soon! @gustaffovargas.bsky.social · May 28

Ayayayayyayyyyyyy!!!! 😱😱🤖 ALTIPLANO, the complete Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel is coming to Kickstarter soon!!! Please follow this link to be notified when it launches!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gus...
🔥 Please share away!!! Wiiiiiiii 🐯😁🤖🤖
#PeruvianCyberpunk #graphicnovel

Cover of ALTIPLANO, a Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel, coming soon to Kickstarter. Jaguar cyborg and two characters in the middle. Cyborg Warriors, tanks, and robots, cyborg monkeys and secondary characters in the background.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Jun 30

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · Jun 24

Etruscan #TombTuesday (Necropolis of San Germano) on the grounds of a winery (Rocca di Frassinello). My favorite kind of two-for-one special! #archaeology #toscana 🏺

Rows of grapevines stretch across golden-brown hills at Rocca di Frassinello in Maremma, Tuscany. The vineyard lies under a wide blue sky, with scattered olive trees and wooded hills rising in the distance.

Bronze vessel with tall, curved handles ending in stylized human hands, displayed in a glass case at the Rocca di Frassinello Etruscan Museum. The bowl rests on a pedestal base, surrounded by smaller blackware cups.

A dramatic, amphitheater-style wine barrel room at Rocca di Frassinello, with rows of oak barrels stacked in symmetrical tiers under soft lighting.

Instructional panel showing both an aerial photograph and detailed plan of Tomb 9 at the Etruscan Necropolis of San Germano, including a numbered list describing funerary artifacts like bronze razors, alabaster urns, bucchero oil flasks, and decorative appliqués such as crouching lions.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Nearly all people in public service are smart, ethical & hardworking, & nearly all bureaucratic rules at least originated for good reasons.

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Diverse teams and psychologically beneficial cultures are more innovative and more successful at solving problems

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus

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scary leah ✧₊⁺ @chairbook.on.computer · Jun 7

people love to act like ironic detachment and being a hater is so cool but have you ever tried being sincere and liking things

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · May 9

god sends the scaldiest pizza cheese to his tenderest mouth rooves

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · May 9

god sends the greasiest pizza slices to his whitest tshirts

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Apr 21

how do you say “diva down” in Latin

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Apr 7

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · Mar 1

I cannot believe my life lasted long enough for computers to stop being fun.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · Feb 28

Classic Jessica behavior

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · Feb 26

My youngest is auditioning for Willy Wonka and practicing “The Candy Man.”

Him: Do you think I should leave the finger guns in?
Me: Absolutely not, please don’t.
My husband: Oh. I was gonna say yes… I liked them. Maybe just one?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Feb 4

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · Jan 19

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

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Jenna 🐻🍫 @jennegatron.bsky.social · Jan 15

They never should have added the Vanilla Frosty at Wendy's. It was a sign of the beginning of the end.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · Jan 15

0% of the time, it works every time

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jan 14

when the person you’re with says to you that it’s been a long day, one nice thing you can do is to help them put things into perspective by saying “actually, it’s just as long as any other day”

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