We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you remember last autumn when I was live-skeeting excavations at Rossano di Vaglio, the first report of that work has just been published (in Italian). Happy for it to see the light of day, and also very pleased to present five new Oscan inscriptions to the world...
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#ArchaeologyBluesky

When you study a language that has, say, 500 inscriptions surviving and someone out of the blue SENDS YOU FIVE MORE...! I don't think I've ever cancelled my plans faster than when Dan sent me these. So pleased everyone can read this wonderful publication.

thanks/apologies!

thanks for this, Liv! Hopefully we can get these cleaned up a bit better in the near future...

I did a micro post on the coins in this article. V v interesting. Attn: @andrewahala.bsky.social
livyarrow.org/2025/10/05/3...

many thanks to @mweissohcgl.bsky.social and @katherinemcdon.bsky.social for their help with this

If you remember last autumn when I was live-skeeting excavations at Rossano di Vaglio, the first report of that work has just been published (in Italian). Happy for it to see the light of day, and also very pleased to present five new Oscan inscriptions to the world...
🏺
#ArchaeologyBluesky

This is absolutely excellent to see.

Community defense in this way is massively important and literally saves lives. If you see something step in if possible.

Why does nobody see ignis fatuus now, paper speculating that lanterns or flaming torches ignited marsh gas, but authors doubtful this fully explains the extinction of this phenomenon. As marshes are restored will ignis fatuus be restored?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Zohran, what's your stance on comments in footnotes?

tuff mentioned

Živjo, Slovenija. Final train of the day

The rail replacement bus comes with an auxiliary van for bicycles

Trieste greeted me with a fleamarket in front of the bus station

If you accrue enough unfinished business you should get to be a ghost before you even die

fastboi

Two trains down, two and a half to go...

on my way (four trains plus a section of substitute bus, in one day, arriving 🤞in late afternoon- viva l'Europa!) from Pisa to Ljubljana for the ASMOSIA conference (more than you ever wanted to know about stone), to present initial stages of my research on tuff quarries w IN-Rome...
www.asmosia14.si

too many quarries to clean up in GIS in one day, let's say...