Apethiui
@apethiui.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, esoteric enthusiast.
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Oh we’re COOKED cooked.
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Oh we’re COOKED cooked.
Hard to believe the most incompetent actor in the entire cast of From Dusk Till Dawn has so many feelpinions about other people’s acting chops.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hard to believe the most incompetent actor in the entire cast of From Dusk Till Dawn has so many feelpinions about other people’s acting chops.
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Minimum estimates contend 60,000 people were killed over three weeks in El Fasher, and around 150,000 are thought to still be missing.
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Minimum estimates contend 60,000 people were killed over three weeks in El Fasher, and around 150,000 are thought to still be missing.
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CIA interrogator: Did you make the Yuletide gay, answer me
Me: *spitting blood* Fuck you
Me: *spitting blood* Fuck you
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
CIA interrogator: Did you make the Yuletide gay, answer me
Me: *spitting blood* Fuck you
Me: *spitting blood* Fuck you
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me: so have you read about any cool animals lately?
my kidnapper: you don't have to talk if you don't want to.
my kidnapper: you don't have to talk if you don't want to.
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
me: so have you read about any cool animals lately?
my kidnapper: you don't have to talk if you don't want to.
my kidnapper: you don't have to talk if you don't want to.
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To the extent the US has a “National Security Strategy,” it can be found in the Pentagon budget - not some document that policy nerds pretend is important
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
To the extent the US has a “National Security Strategy,” it can be found in the Pentagon budget - not some document that policy nerds pretend is important
I need everyone darker than a manila folder to remember the phrase “not replaced, conquered” because that’s the shit I get hit with any time I bring up this country’s history.
The White House's National Security Strategy includes some smatterings of Great Replacement rhetoric, naturally.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I need everyone darker than a manila folder to remember the phrase “not replaced, conquered” because that’s the shit I get hit with any time I bring up this country’s history.
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May everyone who has made some connection with me,
either for good or for ill, always be happy and joyful.
~ Shabkar
either for good or for ill, always be happy and joyful.
~ Shabkar
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
May everyone who has made some connection with me,
either for good or for ill, always be happy and joyful.
~ Shabkar
either for good or for ill, always be happy and joyful.
~ Shabkar
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Saving Silicon Valley from itself
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Saving Silicon Valley from itself
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There are people in this world who will always hate you, no matter what you do. Give them something worth hating.
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There are people in this world who will always hate you, no matter what you do. Give them something worth hating.
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🎬 Meet a winner: THE SITUATIONSHIP reimagines a 1920s silent film & took third place in the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.
Now it’s your turn—create a 2–3 min short using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Now it’s your turn—create a 2–3 min short using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🎬 Meet a winner: THE SITUATIONSHIP reimagines a 1920s silent film & took third place in the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.
Now it’s your turn—create a 2–3 min short using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Now it’s your turn—create a 2–3 min short using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
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Spectacular strawberry squid! Histioteuthis squid w/massively asymmetrical eyes: 1 larger for viewing the silhouettes of predators & prey above, & 1 smaller eye for capturing glimmers of bioluminescent snacks below. #AsgardArchea - 730m - ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Spectacular strawberry squid! Histioteuthis squid w/massively asymmetrical eyes: 1 larger for viewing the silhouettes of predators & prey above, & 1 smaller eye for capturing glimmers of bioluminescent snacks below. #AsgardArchea - 730m - ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute
Me when I order the guay tiew with a spice level of 4 instead of 3:
damn! this is some spicy Lunch soup!
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Me when I order the guay tiew with a spice level of 4 instead of 3:
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A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
I wonder if they ever explored each other's bodies.
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wonder if they ever explored each other's bodies.
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“San Fran sues food companies for ultra processed food”
Oh hey that’s cool.
Can I sue SF for cultivating, supporting, and exporting the nations most drug addled techno-fascists? Is that a thing?
Oh hey that’s cool.
Can I sue SF for cultivating, supporting, and exporting the nations most drug addled techno-fascists? Is that a thing?
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“San Fran sues food companies for ultra processed food”
Oh hey that’s cool.
Can I sue SF for cultivating, supporting, and exporting the nations most drug addled techno-fascists? Is that a thing?
Oh hey that’s cool.
Can I sue SF for cultivating, supporting, and exporting the nations most drug addled techno-fascists? Is that a thing?
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Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
votersoftomorrow.org/issue/projec...
Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
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Every day is a new opportunity to lose your fucking earring backing 🥰
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Every day is a new opportunity to lose your fucking earring backing 🥰
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"Trump called Somalis 'garbage' but we can't be seen taking the same side as Ilhan Omar, so we'll let a couple of twin city mayors be the only people talking back to the fascist president describing his desire to do a purge" --Democratic leadership, apparently
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Trump called Somalis 'garbage' but we can't be seen taking the same side as Ilhan Omar, so we'll let a couple of twin city mayors be the only people talking back to the fascist president describing his desire to do a purge" --Democratic leadership, apparently