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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty wild story. I hope those involved are able to continue their research into how the stone ended up in a New Orleans backyard.

It could provide a very good case study of just how dispersed collections can become in the wake of conflict. 🏺

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 1d

Can I repost with extreme emphasis?

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 1d

Watching my first playoff game of the season and I can safely say I hate batting helmet advertising.

a man is wearing a red and white toyota racing suit

Alt: a man is wearing a red and white toyota racing suit

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 2d

The GOP primary in Texas for Cornyn's Senate seat is going to be spectacularly insufferable. Pray for those of us in Texas just wanting to watch the MLB playoffs, but forced to constantly see these three assholes talk about who loves trump more.

Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Hunt’s entry increases the likelihood that the GOP contest will go to a May runoff.

U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt enters GOP Senate primary against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, Texas AG Ken Paxton

Hunt represents Houston's Energy Corridor and northwest Harris County in the U.S. House of Representatives. His entry into the Republican primary increases the likelihood of the bitter, expensive contest dragging on into a May 2026 runoff.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 2d

Following the DOT's lead, Texas is jumping on the discrimination bandwagon and trashing it's Disadvantaged Business program. I'm guessing most red states are following suit. At the link below you can see the letter TxDOT is sending to firms.

www.instagram.com/p/DPXQ92Glbf...

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 3d

1) No one is going to jail for picking up an artifact on public land. We're lucky if straight up traffickers get jail time.
2) Why not ask an archaeologist or Indigenous person about WHY these laws exist?

Chron.com @chron.com · 3d

Even casual beachcombing can break state law if artifacts are involved.

Taking these artifacts from Texas beaches could get you jailed

Even casual beachcombing can break state law if artifacts are involved.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 4d

For spooky season, the Texas Historical Commission has an interesting online talk coming up on Victorian mourning practices.

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The Business of Grief: Veils, Voices, and the Spectacle of Victorian Mourning - Friends of THC

With the spooky season upon us, join State Historic Site Educators, Elana Barton from the Sam Bell Maxey House, and […]

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 5d

I saw The Descent in a movie theater in Roswell, New Mexico the night before we took a candlelight tour of Carlsbad Caverns. At one point they turned out all the lights and I could swear I could hear crawlers in the dark.

a woman wearing a helmet and goggles is holding a lighter .

Alt: a woman wearing a helmet and goggles is holding a lighter .

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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.bsky.social · 5d

I won't be surprised if FIFA pulls the games from the US if Trump keeps this up. The threat of disallowing games (something the President should have no power to do in a market economy) is a disruption FIFA must avoid.

Fifa says Trump can’t move World Cup matches despite threat to ‘left lunatic’ cities

President Trump said last week his administration would make sure cities were ‘safe’

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Jess Cook Hale @jwcookhale.bsky.social · 6d

Really pleased to share a new open access article with Matt Sanger in Southeastern Archaeology. If you’re looking for spatial stats and mid to late Holocene site distribution patterns, we got you covered! Huge thanks to DINAA for sharing their site data, too!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recent middle and late Holocene transition research along the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico shoreline

We examine here evidence for human occupation along the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico during the middle to late Holocene transition (MH-LHT). It has been assumed that people ignored coastal z...

www.tandfonline.com

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

the stretch from the twenty second mark to the fifty second mark is as good of filmmaking as anything in one battle after another

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 6d

I think it was in Laura Spinney's history of the Spanish Flu, Pale Rider, where she comments on just how little the pandemic featured in contemporary fiction. It's been years so I don't remember if she put forward a reason.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 8d

This Day in History is really on the nose today.

Screenshot of Wikipedia "this day in history" page noting that 87 years ago today Britain and France tried to mollify the Nazis with Czechoslovakia.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 8d

If you're looking for a spooky season read, this might be a good one. I really enjoyed Pale House Devil.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 8d

Look what just showed up in the mail! THE FLESH KING, the sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL, will be out October 7th. It continues Ford, Neuland, and Tilda's story back to where it all began—New York. It's available for preorder everywhere you get your books.

My cat, Aces, lying with copies of The Flesh King

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 8d

Prost!

My only vaguely authentic homemade Oktoberfest.

Brat in bun, side of German potato salad, and golden pilsner in pint glass.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 9d

Jake Taylor: Yeah we got a lake and everything. It’s really Great.

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

This NPR story highlights the AMAZING archeological work of Laura Ng @cocalola.bsky.social. Laura has been tracking down descendants of the original Chinatown, including my dad (who gets a few words in at the end). www.kuow.org/stories/wyom...

Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...

www.kuow.org

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 9d

I bet there will be rain in November, and it will be cold.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 9d

Chron has always been a bit click baity, but over the last few months it's gotten really bad.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 10d

@seeingredpod.bsky.social The Gorman and Walker at bats to end the season felt pretty on brand for the whole season.

Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 10d

Software: We've added a super awesome AI feature, but don't worry you can turn it off if you really want to.

Everyone: Turns that shit off

Software: Issues an update where a slightly different version of the same AI slop can't be turned off.

This must be how Sarah Connor felt every sequel.