Mark Hudson
@barbarianniche.bsky.social
Archaeologist & historian of Japan in Eurasia at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Fellow Royal Historical Society. Author 'Europe and the End of Medieval Japan' (https://tinyurl.com/2cmcwmwt)
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
New publication on archaeology & Japanese eco-nationalism. Had a lot of fun writing this over the summer. My co-author Claudia Zancan provided several new insights that had not occurred to me before, especially with respect to the Kofun period.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Environmental archaeology and eco-nativist discourse in modern Japan
Claims that Japanese society has lived in “harmony” with Nature and can therefore provide lessons for global sustainability have a long history. While such “...
www.frontiersin.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New publication on archaeology & Japanese eco-nationalism. Had a lot of fun writing this over the summer. My co-author Claudia Zancan provided several new insights that had not occurred to me before, especially with respect to the Kofun period.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
An exciting new publication, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, co-edited by Claudia Zancan. I attended the original conference in Venice but the editors have brought together an important series of papers on the theme of 'metaphors'.
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4...
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4...
Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press
edizionicafoscari.unive.it
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
An exciting new publication, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, co-edited by Claudia Zancan. I attended the original conference in Venice but the editors have brought together an important series of papers on the theme of 'metaphors'.
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4...
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4...
24 Hours in Shogun's Japan: A Day in the Life of the People wot Lived There.
Coming soon (hopefully 😅and certainly with a little help from my friends 🥹)
www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...
Coming soon (hopefully 😅and certainly with a little help from my friends 🥹)
www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...
24 Hours in Shogun’s Japan
www.mombooks.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
24 Hours in Shogun's Japan: A Day in the Life of the People wot Lived There.
Coming soon (hopefully 😅and certainly with a little help from my friends 🥹)
www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...
Coming soon (hopefully 😅and certainly with a little help from my friends 🥹)
www.mombooks.com/book/24-hour...
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Women and Archaeology 1990-2010. Out in hard copy now!
New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Women and Archaeology 1990-2010. Out in hard copy now!
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Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
October 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
A harrowing but important and timely account from my colleague Bucky Sheftall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘The Sun had fallen to Earth’ — a survivor’s recollection of the Hiroshima bombing
Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, it is crucial that witness accounts are saved. Here is what one man told me.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A harrowing but important and timely account from my colleague Bucky Sheftall
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We were sort of neighbours and I attended several concerts in my teens. RIP!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies aged 97
Versatile singer straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with four-octave range, and collaborated for decades with husband, John Dankworth
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We were sort of neighbours and I attended several concerts in my teens. RIP!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Perhaps the president of Liberia could send some of his country’s best educators here to teach Donald Trump some proper English spelling, grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation?
This would be a most profound gesture of goodwill.
This would be a most profound gesture of goodwill.
July 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Perhaps the president of Liberia could send some of his country’s best educators here to teach Donald Trump some proper English spelling, grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation?
This would be a most profound gesture of goodwill.
This would be a most profound gesture of goodwill.
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Peter Thiel—the techno-fascist billionaire behind Palantir and JD Vance’s entire career—revealed his thoughts when he couldn’t answer the simple question of whether or not humanity should endure.
Why?
Because he doesn’t believe all of humanity should survive—only those who look and think like him.
Why?
Because he doesn’t believe all of humanity should survive—only those who look and think like him.
Douthat: I think you’d prefer the human race to endure, right?
Thiel: Uh —
Douthat: You’re hesitating.
Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would —
Douthat: This is a long hesitation!
Thiel: There’s so many questions implicit in this.
Douthat: Should the human race survive?
Thiel: Uh — Yes.
Thiel: Uh —
Douthat: You’re hesitating.
Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would —
Douthat: This is a long hesitation!
Thiel: There’s so many questions implicit in this.
Douthat: Should the human race survive?
Thiel: Uh — Yes.
Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Peter Thiel—the techno-fascist billionaire behind Palantir and JD Vance’s entire career—revealed his thoughts when he couldn’t answer the simple question of whether or not humanity should endure.
Why?
Because he doesn’t believe all of humanity should survive—only those who look and think like him.
Why?
Because he doesn’t believe all of humanity should survive—only those who look and think like him.
Depopulation not necessarily good for nature
Original peer reviewed research article in Nature Sustainability here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan - Nature Sustainability
Human population growth over the past few decades has had detrimental impacts on biodiversity; however, several countries, such as Japan, are experiencing below-replacement human fertility leading to ...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Depopulation not necessarily good for nature
New publication on Ryukyu archaeology with Hiroto Takamiya.
(DM me if anyone can't access the PDF)
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
(DM me if anyone can't access the PDF)
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Ryūkyū Archipelago
AbstractThis chapter provides an overview of the archaeology and historical ecology of the Ryūkyū archipelago located between Kyūshū and Taiwan. Geological
academic.oup.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New publication on Ryukyu archaeology with Hiroto Takamiya.
(DM me if anyone can't access the PDF)
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
(DM me if anyone can't access the PDF)
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order…
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
June 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
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The Trump regime is deliberately deploying ICE agents at immigration hearings so they can more easily detain migrants.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
June 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Trump regime is deliberately deploying ICE agents at immigration hearings so they can more easily detain migrants.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
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Gavin Newsom's full address today about LA protests and Trump's attempt to instigate an inciting event for tyranny is worth listening to:
(this is the full speech, which is surprisingly hard to find) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Icq...
(this is the full speech, which is surprisingly hard to find) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Icq...
FULL REMARKS: Gavin Newsom addresses LA protests
YouTube video by WAAY 31 News
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Gavin Newsom's full address today about LA protests and Trump's attempt to instigate an inciting event for tyranny is worth listening to:
(this is the full speech, which is surprisingly hard to find) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Icq...
(this is the full speech, which is surprisingly hard to find) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Icq...
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A constituent, angry about Medicaid cuts: “People are going to die.”
Republican Senator Joni Ernst: “Well, we’re all going to die.”
Callous doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Republican Senator Joni Ernst: “Well, we’re all going to die.”
Callous doesn’t even begin to cover it.
May 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A constituent, angry about Medicaid cuts: “People are going to die.”
Republican Senator Joni Ernst: “Well, we’re all going to die.”
Callous doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Republican Senator Joni Ernst: “Well, we’re all going to die.”
Callous doesn’t even begin to cover it.
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Beauty of the English language: "in sync" is so much crisper and more elegant than Gleichschaltung.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Beauty of the English language: "in sync" is so much crisper and more elegant than Gleichschaltung.