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Zylla Black

@zyllable.bsky.social

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(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable Pfp by Birdee Blake

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · Nov 8

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...

PraxisTown Projects - YouTube

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 1d

Again, why is the #Massachusetts legislature allowing the Plymouth County sheriff to collaborate with Trump's kidnapping regime?

#mapoli

Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald's office has taken 545 ICE detainees to the Hanscom airport since President Trump took office. The detainees were then flown out of state.

The #Massachusetts legislature could stop this at any time by banning sheriffs from working with ICE.

#mapoli

As ICE ramps up arrests, Plymouth sheriff's office shuttles men from jail to Hanscom airport

The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office has taken 545 ICE detainees to the Hanscom airport since President Trump took office, from January through May, according to data obtained in a public records requ...

www.wbur.org

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, art historian Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, & the AAR summer school. Then, a video game on repatriation, the Nubian ivory trade, a new Roman wood workshop, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more.

Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)

This week, art historian and AAR Classical Summer School attendee Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, and lived experiences in ancient Rome. Then, a new video game allows you to "r...

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 2d

More context for this, since I realized people might not recognize his name. This is this professor. I'm seriously crossing my fingers that it's just some internet assholes social engineering a fraud alert on his tickets and not something much more serious given that "roundtable" that happened today

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Athens Archaeology Festival @athensarchfest.bsky.social · 2d

🍿🎬 Curious about archaeology? Join us for fun animated films that dig into the secrets of the past: from excavation to discovery.

🧠 A lively quiz in Greek at the end will put your new knowledge to the test!

📽️ Films in French 🇫🇷 with Greek 🇬🇷 subtitles | Perfect for ages 7+

#aaf2025 #ancientbluesky

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 3d

#classicstober 7: pharmakis

Pen sketch of a woman in Greek finery sprinkling herbs and pouring water into a large mixing bowl of liquid. Other herbs and a carafe of wine sit on tables to either side.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 3d

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

resdifficiles.com

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 3d

Queer lenses on history have proven very fruitful, and a trans lens will certainly have plenty to work from.

Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 3d

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 4d

Seconding what others have said, for sure- prereading exercises are great! Especially if you start with a lot and then gradually let them do more and more on their own. I'm also very fond of the beginning of class prompt or 'quiz' that they don't need to turn in.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, go get your vaccine. Please.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 4d

#classicstober 6: Moirai

pen sketch showing three women from left to right: an old woman crouching with a drop spindle, a middle-aged woman kneeling at a loom taking thread from the first, and then handing another thread to the third, a young woman seated with shears

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 4d

Rote memorization of facts is good for trivia night and bad for critical thinking. I never really learned how to memorize, and that never has gotten in my way as a scholar or even teacher- only in social-political pissing competitions.

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

(Continued 🧵) Sam Wineburg demonstrated APUSH kids often did better on factual tests than PhDs (not in US history) and STILL did not have basic historical skills of the PhDs. Factual retention & reproduction of facts as "knowledge" is NOT historical thinking. 5/
🗃️ #AncientBluesky

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

It matters that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran on progressive ideals that they ultimately turned their backs on

It matters that Biden had things rigged for him, to undercut more progressive candidates

It matters that Obama didn’t reverse the executive branch power grab that GWB started

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 4d

Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

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Miri Teixeira @miri.bsky.social · 4d

It turns out continuing to take on loads of work when you’re already burned out doesn’t make you better it just makes your work bad and your brain worse.

Just fyi

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 5d

I went onto a podcast to talk about Julian!

Digging Up The Past @diggingupthepast.net · 5d

Who was Julian, Rome’s last pagan emperor, and what was his legacy? I talk with MSU #Classics assistant professor and author Jeremy Swist about how history and early Christian writers shaped his story.

www.diggingupthepast.net/p/the-last-p...

#history #historyfacts #byzantine #romanempire #roman

The Last Pagan Emperor? Rethinking Julian’s Legacy

Listen now | Episode 30

www.diggingupthepast.net

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Edward “Eddie” Wright spent 41 years in prison after he was convicted of murdering his friend, a crime he said he had nothing to do with.

But on Wednesday, he joined his lawyers and other advocates outside the #Massachusetts State House to call for an end to wrongful convictions.

#mapoli

Mr. Wright Goes to Boston

After spending 41 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Edward Wright joined advocates in Boston to call for an end to wrongful convictions

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 5d

#classicstober 5: Hermes Psychopompos

pen sketch of a young man with a winged bowl helmet, a cloak pinned over his armor with asphodel flowers, and a winged staff entwined with serpents extending his hand towards the viewer.

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 5d

Honest answer: They won't, because local cops have been constructed and trained to see this as right. The cops are not on the side of the people; they are violence unchecked. An individual cop might be a good person, but the system is rigged against humanity.

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