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Let's all get along.
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A red grouse (Lagopus scotica) I encountered in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh last summer, demonstrating its very human-like alarm call. He seemed extremely cross that I'd had the audacity to ride my mountain bike across his patch and chased me along the trail for quite some distance.
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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4. Look, science and archaeology writing is incredibly important and I get they want to grab headlines. But as I have written about and as Seth Bernard has shown recently: slavery was a horrid institution.

There is never a defense for slavery. hyperallergic.com/new-research...
New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
hyperallergic.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM