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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 9h

Celia Imrie has Resting Traitor Face and it will be her undoing

Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 15h

Great thread. Next time somebody asks how I'm doing, the answer is *howl**bark bark bark**llama noises* *honk honk honk* *Greek expletives* *SHOTGUN BLAST*

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16h

So... I grew up on an old horse farm in East Central Illinois. Across the road lived the proprietor of the Greek family restaurant in town. His name was Pete Poulos and he was, in fact, Greek.

Pete raised lambs for the restaurant. Occasionally a coyote picked off a lamb, much to Pete's chagrin.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 1d

fuckin amen

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody's asleep and snoring LOUDLY in this library.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 6d

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ant...

The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

alanlester.co.uk

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 2d

[Insert your favourite 'British Museum stealing stuff' meme]

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations! Excellent news

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 3d

2/3 of these are just ‘academia’

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 4d

ricism

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d

Please share, 6 hours left! I’m writing this last night when despite headlines, all of Gaza has been criminally bombarded nonstop for hours.

Every alleviation, bite to eat, blanket, hour of shelter matters—and is our duty. For Palestinian life. 78/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 4d

Cute! Wish they came in orange.

Page from IKEA website showing set of Halloween plates. Four white plates with designs: one ghost, one cobweb, one angry looking black cat, and a bunch of spiders.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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David Rosenberg @davidjrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favourite anniversaries today: 4 October 1936, the Battle of Cable Street. Very pleased to write an article in the Morning Star about the people who were there, and the urgent tasks for anti-fascists here and now. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/batt...

Battles on the streets and beyond

I CAN’T recall when I first heard of “Cable Street” but as a child I remember my grandfather, Syd, formerly an East End amateur boxer, boasting about “Blackshirts” he had floored.By my teens, when I f...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "We need to not conflate the Jewish community & the ongoing genocide in Gaza.. you can both be absolutely clear that antisemitism & Islamophobia in our country is totally unacceptable & you can stand against the genocide & our govts complicity.."

Well said Zack.

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 5d

Took Paul Celan's advice - 'Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends' - and had a nice mug of hot chocolate before bed. Slept like the dead.

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 6d

Any aircraft with tricycle landing gear that meant the airfix model needed weighting up front.

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 6d

On a wall outside Maison de la Paix

Stencil graffito of a girl doing chest compressions on a dove. Heavy handed symbolism.

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 7d

Tim Schadla-Hall mid-rant at Pizza P once told me "listen you little fucker, you're going to be professor of public archaeology one day" Well today is that day. I miss you Tim.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".

Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 8d

Foraged and roasted these delicious chestnuts. 🌰

Two square plastic tubs full of chestnuts, sat on a white kitchen counter.

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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · 9d

The program for CHAT Botxo @chatarchaeology.bsky.social in Bilbao is now out! Registration will be available soon :)

botxochat.chat-arch.org/program/

Program – CHAT Botxo 2025

botxochat.chat-arch.org

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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