Zylla Black
@zyllable.bsky.social
(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
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Zylla Black
@zyllable.bsky.social
· Nov 8
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Hi hello influx of yet more new followers! I'm a weirdo Lefty who thinks you can, too! I do ancient history, linguistics, activism, and advocacy, and I even write fiction sometimes! Welcome.
Here's a starter: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Here's a starter: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
January 19, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
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How simple is it just to not talk about someone's body?
Just don't, man. Why is this difficult?
Just don't, man. Why is this difficult?
January 19, 2026 at 6:34 PM
How simple is it just to not talk about someone's body?
Just don't, man. Why is this difficult?
Just don't, man. Why is this difficult?
A lovely Arisia. I missed it for the last 5 years! Happy to be at an event where everyone was masking as much as possible, and I could still go be my grand, nerdy self.
And the perfect cap to the event: a big, fluffy snow ❄️
And the perfect cap to the event: a big, fluffy snow ❄️
January 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM
A lovely Arisia. I missed it for the last 5 years! Happy to be at an event where everyone was masking as much as possible, and I could still go be my grand, nerdy self.
And the perfect cap to the event: a big, fluffy snow ❄️
And the perfect cap to the event: a big, fluffy snow ❄️
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This is the truest truth of any creative career
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is the truest truth of any creative career
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Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
Heck yeahhh! #AncientBluesky this ought to be really good.
✨FREE #MasterClass ‘Outside the Frame: Re-Focusing on Africa's Women in the Ancient Christian World’ w/ Princess O'Nika Auguste
🗓Mon, Jan 26 @ 12pm ET
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#Education #EducationMatters #KnowledgeIsPower #AncientHistory #History #FYP #AfricanHistory #ChristianHistory #ChristianWomen
🗓Mon, Jan 26 @ 12pm ET
➡️tinylink.net/0nPBA
#Education #EducationMatters #KnowledgeIsPower #AncientHistory #History #FYP #AfricanHistory #ChristianHistory #ChristianWomen
January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Heck yeahhh! #AncientBluesky this ought to be really good.
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you can really tell the actual Trek fans from the fakes bc one major through line is that Federation culture wholeheartedly REJECTED eugenics and genetic tinkering in the pursuit of "perfection"
Roddenberry's ideology was "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"
Roddenberry's ideology was "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"
Starfleet Academy haters being anti-fat on top of the transphobia.
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
you can really tell the actual Trek fans from the fakes bc one major through line is that Federation culture wholeheartedly REJECTED eugenics and genetic tinkering in the pursuit of "perfection"
Roddenberry's ideology was "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"
Roddenberry's ideology was "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"
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I'm shocked by this information.
Absolutely shocked I say.
Absolutely shocked I say.
The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I'm shocked by this information.
Absolutely shocked I say.
Absolutely shocked I say.
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Bostonians have also gathered in large numbers to protest against ICE and Trump.
January 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Bostonians have also gathered in large numbers to protest against ICE and Trump.
No stream today, sorry. Nor next weekend, either. We'll be back after that.
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
No stream today, sorry. Nor next weekend, either. We'll be back after that.
In other news, here's a great message for white folks, including the best sequence of I'm-so-white jokes I've heard in a long while 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUx...
White Men, are we okay with this?
YouTube video by Swolesome
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January 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM
In other news, here's a great message for white folks, including the best sequence of I'm-so-white jokes I've heard in a long while 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUx...
Speaking up here to say that I am SO proud of AIMS for turning it around. I now fully endorse this conference and org, and I hope to see a lot more from it in future.
My personal boycott is over based on the new anti-racist policies in place.
My personal boycott is over based on the new anti-racist policies in place.
Last Call for this round of paper, workshop, and other innovative session proposals for the monthly winter conference series for Antiquity in Media Studies! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2026-confere...
Call for Proposals: AIMS 2026 Virtual Conference Series
Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for a new monthly conference series, running on the last weekend of every month from February through April 2026. The AIMS virtual conference serie…
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January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Speaking up here to say that I am SO proud of AIMS for turning it around. I now fully endorse this conference and org, and I hope to see a lot more from it in future.
My personal boycott is over based on the new anti-racist policies in place.
My personal boycott is over based on the new anti-racist policies in place.
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/2 But if, when folks are risking their lives to oppose ICE, and people are talking about how to best defend them and how we might support each other and do right, the role YOU are called to is to slump in and tell us what we are talking about is naive and meaningless, you can just fuck right off.
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
/2 But if, when folks are risking their lives to oppose ICE, and people are talking about how to best defend them and how we might support each other and do right, the role YOU are called to is to slump in and tell us what we are talking about is naive and meaningless, you can just fuck right off.
If you write a story about cooling systems, thats fanfiction.
If you write a story featuring a Ford Fiesta, that's autofiction.
If you write a story featuring a Greek cheese, that’s fetafiction.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
If you write a story about cooling systems, thats fanfiction.
ahahahahaha 🙃
First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?
He had no idea.
He had no idea.
January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
ahahahahaha 🙃
The #SCS is in two days, doo dah, doo dah,
My paper is at 4 p.m., oh, doo dah day
(7 p.m. EST, Thursday Jan 8 - The Intent of History: Heaven's Vault and the Motivations for Investigating Antiquity)
My paper is at 4 p.m., oh, doo dah day
(7 p.m. EST, Thursday Jan 8 - The Intent of History: Heaven's Vault and the Motivations for Investigating Antiquity)
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The #SCS is in two days, doo dah, doo dah,
My paper is at 4 p.m., oh, doo dah day
(7 p.m. EST, Thursday Jan 8 - The Intent of History: Heaven's Vault and the Motivations for Investigating Antiquity)
My paper is at 4 p.m., oh, doo dah day
(7 p.m. EST, Thursday Jan 8 - The Intent of History: Heaven's Vault and the Motivations for Investigating Antiquity)
Listen to oppressed people when they tell you they are being targeted and killed.
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Listen to oppressed people when they tell you they are being targeted and killed.
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here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
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If you had told me there was a version of Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" in the style of @fishboneband.bsky.social, I'd have thought it was a bit from Anthony "TenSecondSongs" Vincent or some AI nonsense. But it's real and from 2020. Listen! youtu.be/o4gdl7lB1Ik?...
Fishbone - "Them Bones" by Alice In Chains | MoPOP Founders Award 2020
YouTube video by Museum of Pop Culture
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January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
If you had told me there was a version of Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" in the style of @fishboneband.bsky.social, I'd have thought it was a bit from Anthony "TenSecondSongs" Vincent or some AI nonsense. But it's real and from 2020. Listen! youtu.be/o4gdl7lB1Ik?...
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Europe knew but not Congress
January 4, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Europe knew but not Congress
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Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy.
January 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy.
Saturday stream-day! @tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing some more Hades II and talking myth, etymology, and history, 3 p.m. EST on Twitch!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
zyllable - Twitch
Hello and welcome! I'm Zylla, and this is where I'll be streaming. I'm primarily planning to use this space to play and comment on video games that touch on my areas of expertise, particularly the a...
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January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Saturday stream-day! @tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing some more Hades II and talking myth, etymology, and history, 3 p.m. EST on Twitch!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
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If you ever want to get into a fascinating rabbit hole, I highly recommend learning about the history of arson investigation and the full century of investigation methods that were mostly guesswork (now they’re led by fire science, mostly) www.texasobserver.org/fire-and-inn...
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
If you ever want to get into a fascinating rabbit hole, I highly recommend learning about the history of arson investigation and the full century of investigation methods that were mostly guesswork (now they’re led by fire science, mostly) www.texasobserver.org/fire-and-inn...
It's Saturday, stream-day, for all those who celebrate!
@tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing and commentating on Hades II, myth, language, and history on my Twitch channel at 3 p.m. EST!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
@tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing and commentating on Hades II, myth, language, and history on my Twitch channel at 3 p.m. EST!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
December 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's Saturday, stream-day, for all those who celebrate!
@tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing and commentating on Hades II, myth, language, and history on my Twitch channel at 3 p.m. EST!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
@tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing and commentating on Hades II, myth, language, and history on my Twitch channel at 3 p.m. EST!
#archaeogaming #AncientBluesky 🏺
www.twitch.tv/zyllable
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Thailand and Cambodia agree on ceasefire, Cambodia Defence Ministry says https://aje.io/tzveip
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Thailand and Cambodia agree on ceasefire, Cambodia Defence Ministry says https://aje.io/tzveip