Pineapple is wonderful on a pizza that has jalapeños.

Also: this video illustrates the incompetence, lack of training, and dangerous approach that these mercenaries employ.

And at the drive-in, The Creeping Flesh with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Star Wars: a New Hope.

"Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past..."
--- Rage Against the Machine, 1999
--- George Orwell, 1984, part 1, chapter 3

The silly Egyptian vase thing that Matt Beal and Uncharted-something-or-other keep promoting in the world of pseudoarchaeology has been a moderate curiosity of mine. I've yet to really dive into it, but I think I'm going to start with this online paper.

Not sure if any of that works for you, but it might give you some ideas. I'd say the possibilities are wide open if you have enough time :-)

My Forest does a lot of public outreach with the local historical societies here. We have 3 counties and they each have a society. I probably give 1-2 talks a year to each on archaeology. We also do a heritage-themed geocache ea. year, which gets people out in the Forest.

Local events and opportunities related to history/arch. I know you're a pre-contact specialist, but historic archaeology can be a big hit among locals since they can get a better sense of participation. I've been wanting to highlight some work at historic cemeteries where I am. Just a thought.

If First and Fourth Amendment rights are not working, maybe some should consider the Second.

If you need more evidence of both systemic and overt racism in this administration, read this.

This is depressing.

"Only 16% of participants read for pleasure. Of those participants, the average person spent 1 hour and 37 minutes reading."

N=236k

I think it shows. In my dealings with proponents of pseudoarchaeology on X, they just seem to refuse to read.

New blog article from David Connelly on the craziness in the pseudoarchaeology world these days.

"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."

I picture him getting bootleg pierogies in a back ally somewhere from a guy with a limp and a bad haircut.

My chat with Cooper and Mike at Elevated Thoughts is up on their YT channel. It was a fun discussion about pseudoarchaeology but about some real archaeology as well! Be sure to check out their other videos, the other folks they interview are way more interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTf...

I really hope the editors do this one at least twice. I have a feeling a lot of readers of the first effort will immediately realize they have great stories to share. I'm looking forward to this.

The biggest red flag I noticed was the comment about "technical quality" that was "so high it is hardly (if at all) matched by" modern porcelain.

Followed by, "no signs... indicate modern origin."

This is so similar to stuff I see in pseudoarchaeology about "it's so perfect it has to be older."

Gutfield: "What does it tell you though?"

Me: it say's you're a little too comfortable being referred to as a Nazi.

A couple of weeks ago, Graham Hancock praised an article on Hub Pages for calling out archaeologists. Turns out it was written by generative AI and not very well.
ahotcupofjoe.net/2025/07/an-a...

Thanks. Definitely sad news. But what a wonderful life he lived.

This doesn't seem to be reported anywhere else that I've found in a quick search. Is there an official announcement somewhere? Sad news indeed. :(

I highly recommend this video on the history of public lands in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7U7...