Angela Costello
@zostepatrikia.bsky.social
Textile Archaeologist PhDing @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Dissertation on the representation of power via dress and appearance in Late Antique Sicily. US Gold Star Spouse. Florida woman. she/her
Tis the season for St. Nicholas Day/Council of Nicaea memes.
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Tis the season for St. Nicholas Day/Council of Nicaea memes.
Mommy says I'm not allowed to go visit my boyfriend for New Years because she's going to be away with my dad in Italy, and I have to watch the cat.
I'm 43 years old. My parents will do anything to make sure I'm never happy in a relationship again because they aren't happy. This is where we are now.
I'm 43 years old. My parents will do anything to make sure I'm never happy in a relationship again because they aren't happy. This is where we are now.
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Mommy says I'm not allowed to go visit my boyfriend for New Years because she's going to be away with my dad in Italy, and I have to watch the cat.
I'm 43 years old. My parents will do anything to make sure I'm never happy in a relationship again because they aren't happy. This is where we are now.
I'm 43 years old. My parents will do anything to make sure I'm never happy in a relationship again because they aren't happy. This is where we are now.
Me, an early church historian: Happy 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea to all who celebrate. *cracks knuckles*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Me, an early church historian: Happy 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea to all who celebrate. *cracks knuckles*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
I swear, being Floridian means that if a holiday ain't turning into a Jerry Springer episode, shit ain't festive enough.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I swear, being Floridian means that if a holiday ain't turning into a Jerry Springer episode, shit ain't festive enough.
YOU'RE INVITED.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
YOU'RE INVITED.
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Happy “There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day” to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy “There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day” to all who celebrate.
Us textile historians have known this for a while. Not only are counterfeits written about, any of us who have worked in colorants knows that madder and woad do work. There was also a lichen that made purple hues. Not dissing archaeometry, just glad they found evidence.
Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/d...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/d...
Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome
Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the nature of its raw materials, the details of its ornamentation,...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Us textile historians have known this for a while. Not only are counterfeits written about, any of us who have worked in colorants knows that madder and woad do work. There was also a lichen that made purple hues. Not dissing archaeometry, just glad they found evidence.
Thinking of my "graduation" present to myself. Since my dig in Malta is in post-ex, I was considering popping in to a volunteer stint at Vindolanda. Or, I could just hike Hadrian's Wall in its entirety. I'll be by myself, but maybe that's needed.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Thinking of my "graduation" present to myself. Since my dig in Malta is in post-ex, I was considering popping in to a volunteer stint at Vindolanda. Or, I could just hike Hadrian's Wall in its entirety. I'll be by myself, but maybe that's needed.
I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
Just because I study something, doesn't mean I endorse it.
I'm fascinated by Early Christian History and Theology. That doesn't mean I go to church. It doesn't mean I'm an apologist for Christianity (though I certainly read the Apologists.) I'm a scholar, not a zealot.
I'm fascinated by Early Christian History and Theology. That doesn't mean I go to church. It doesn't mean I'm an apologist for Christianity (though I certainly read the Apologists.) I'm a scholar, not a zealot.
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just because I study something, doesn't mean I endorse it.
I'm fascinated by Early Christian History and Theology. That doesn't mean I go to church. It doesn't mean I'm an apologist for Christianity (though I certainly read the Apologists.) I'm a scholar, not a zealot.
I'm fascinated by Early Christian History and Theology. That doesn't mean I go to church. It doesn't mean I'm an apologist for Christianity (though I certainly read the Apologists.) I'm a scholar, not a zealot.
Got my serger up and running this weekend and now excuse me while I serge all the things until a thread breaks and opens a gate to hell.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Got my serger up and running this weekend and now excuse me while I serge all the things until a thread breaks and opens a gate to hell.
Capitalism dictates that your boyfriend, who works in healthcare, has to go back to work immediately and travel across the country after being hospitalized for a night, with just a shrug from the boss. He should be staying here another 2 nights and resting, but here we are.
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Capitalism dictates that your boyfriend, who works in healthcare, has to go back to work immediately and travel across the country after being hospitalized for a night, with just a shrug from the boss. He should be staying here another 2 nights and resting, but here we are.
To absent friends and loved ones.
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
To absent friends and loved ones.
I spent my entire day in the ED with the boyfriend, who has some kind of affliction that is making him incapable of keeping fluids down. He has been admitted. I'm home. He flew here to visit me for this weekend and I feel like it's my fault.
Well, if it's viral, I'll find out soon enough.
Well, if it's viral, I'll find out soon enough.
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I spent my entire day in the ED with the boyfriend, who has some kind of affliction that is making him incapable of keeping fluids down. He has been admitted. I'm home. He flew here to visit me for this weekend and I feel like it's my fault.
Well, if it's viral, I'll find out soon enough.
Well, if it's viral, I'll find out soon enough.
I first really experienced Dia de los Muertos when I lived in San Diego. The practices weren't alien to me, because All Saints/All Souls is very popular in Mediterranean cultures as well, and growing up Catholic, we always had an ofrenda-adjacent practice. (1)
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I first really experienced Dia de los Muertos when I lived in San Diego. The practices weren't alien to me, because All Saints/All Souls is very popular in Mediterranean cultures as well, and growing up Catholic, we always had an ofrenda-adjacent practice. (1)
Happy All Saints to people who know Halloween is 3 days long, and happy half price candy day to the rest of you already putting up Christmas decorations.
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy All Saints to people who know Halloween is 3 days long, and happy half price candy day to the rest of you already putting up Christmas decorations.
I LOVE this app.
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I LOVE this app.
I wish that the organizations I am apart of were not on Facebook, I really need to get off of that cesspit. I post a lot, but I can post here just as often.
Honestly, I think I'm hitting a breaking point of human interaction, and as an extrovert that's wild.
Honestly, I think I'm hitting a breaking point of human interaction, and as an extrovert that's wild.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I wish that the organizations I am apart of were not on Facebook, I really need to get off of that cesspit. I post a lot, but I can post here just as often.
Honestly, I think I'm hitting a breaking point of human interaction, and as an extrovert that's wild.
Honestly, I think I'm hitting a breaking point of human interaction, and as an extrovert that's wild.
Someone needs a time machine to go back to 2016, save Harambe's life, and stop the weasel from entering the Large Hadron Collider.
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Someone needs a time machine to go back to 2016, save Harambe's life, and stop the weasel from entering the Large Hadron Collider.
Reposted by Angela Costello
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Direct Relief: www.directrelief.org
Food for the Poor: foodforthepoor.org
Helping Hands Jamaica: helpinghandsjamaica.com/donate
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October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
DONATIONS FOR JAMAICA:
Jamaican Red Cross www.jamaicaredcross.org
Direct Relief: www.directrelief.org
Food for the Poor: foodforthepoor.org
Helping Hands Jamaica: helpinghandsjamaica.com/donate
Jamaican Red Cross www.jamaicaredcross.org
Direct Relief: www.directrelief.org
Food for the Poor: foodforthepoor.org
Helping Hands Jamaica: helpinghandsjamaica.com/donate
I need people to understand that you are not going to Jamaica for spring break.
You are not going to the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos on your cruise.
You are not going to scream about this on social media.
You are going to donate to relief efforts if you ever want to go these countries again.
You are not going to the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos on your cruise.
You are not going to scream about this on social media.
You are going to donate to relief efforts if you ever want to go these countries again.
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I need people to understand that you are not going to Jamaica for spring break.
You are not going to the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos on your cruise.
You are not going to scream about this on social media.
You are going to donate to relief efforts if you ever want to go these countries again.
You are not going to the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos on your cruise.
You are not going to scream about this on social media.
You are going to donate to relief efforts if you ever want to go these countries again.
Trying to explain to some people that the top schools for me to apply to right now aren't in blue states is like pulling teeth. "WHY CAN'T YOU MOVE TO MASSACHUSETTS AND WORK AT ONE OF OUR PRESTIGIOUS BASTIONS OF LIBERALISM THAT IS KNOW FOR THEIR INCESTUOUS AND NEPOTISTIC HIRING PRACTICES?"
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Trying to explain to some people that the top schools for me to apply to right now aren't in blue states is like pulling teeth. "WHY CAN'T YOU MOVE TO MASSACHUSETTS AND WORK AT ONE OF OUR PRESTIGIOUS BASTIONS OF LIBERALISM THAT IS KNOW FOR THEIR INCESTUOUS AND NEPOTISTIC HIRING PRACTICES?"
To make up for some lost funding and help me balance a slimmer budget, I brought back my "Still Salty about the Library of Alexandria" shirts that I offered when I ran The Bitchy Historian.
Please consider purchasing one and/or sharing.
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Please consider purchasing one and/or sharing.
www.customink.com/fundraising/...
Support PhDs are expensive for Offsetting education costs.
Thank you all for helping out. I know you love these silly shirts and I'm glad to keep offering them. The VA screwed up, or rather, the federal government made so many cuts this year that they threw t...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
To make up for some lost funding and help me balance a slimmer budget, I brought back my "Still Salty about the Library of Alexandria" shirts that I offered when I ran The Bitchy Historian.
Please consider purchasing one and/or sharing.
www.customink.com/fundraising/...
Please consider purchasing one and/or sharing.
www.customink.com/fundraising/...
The VA has completely FUBAR'd financial aid for military survivors. This is pre-shutdown related. I am out $1500+ a month now for the remainder of my PhD program. Please consider a paid subscription to my Patreon: patreon.com/zostepatrikia
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October 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The VA has completely FUBAR'd financial aid for military survivors. This is pre-shutdown related. I am out $1500+ a month now for the remainder of my PhD program. Please consider a paid subscription to my Patreon: patreon.com/zostepatrikia