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@archaeoiain.bsky.social

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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · Oct 21

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Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication

This book descibes the origin and evolution of art and that art consists of relationships between people. It challenges the standard definitions of art

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3h

The contrast must be shocking. Poor man. And then he has a war to contend with.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3h

Bernie gets it right again. It beggars belief that the US has a couple of outstanding politicians, Bernie and AOC, who will probably never become President and the US and the world has to endure two bouts of a person in the White House who will damage the world and is a convicted criminal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h

He is a very naughty boy

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h

Why not now

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h

On x-twitter. What do you expect?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h

Presumably the edict to present a positive view of US history is so that when people look back there could be a positive view of the episodes of President #45 and #47. Trouble is that that will be impossible. So it is really an edict to end the Smithsonian.

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 21h

To Albanese:

Honestly, did you ever care about Palestinians? Or was your Parliamentary Friends of Palestine just a ruse/strategy of some kind?

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Colin Howey @colinhowey.bsky.social · 1d

Late medieval bench-ends within Wiggenhall St Mary, St Mary, west Norfolk #wiggenhall #norfolk #westnorfolk #fenland #churches #benchends #medieval #light #countrychurches #history #heritage

Late medieval carved bench-ends bathed in sunlight within St Mary, Wiggenhall St Mary, west Norfolk

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BakerArt @bakerart.bsky.social · 1d

Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking.
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair

Watercolour drawing of garden objects in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbotts, a display of sempervivums, aeoniums, fuchsias and pelargoniums including a wire and straw horse alive with botanical colour. Also a wrought iron bike and a small angelic figure with flowers, and a head of Buddha.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

She's a menace. If she was serious about her role she would not be so aggressive and would reach out to others.

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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 2d

Israels foreign minister now says it's antisemitic to oppose Israel's illegal settlement expansion.

Israel cheapens the concept of antisemitism, throwing Jews abound the world under the bus to advance its agenda of land grab.

Everyone is being played and it's so very dark.

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 3d

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

If you can bear to read the degrading behaviour the "men" inflicted on the girls. One example was enough for me. Vance should be President

Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 5d

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 5d

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

Beware. AI has the capacity to destroy all the knowledge we have fought for so hard.

Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 7d

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6d

We are not good at blowing our own trumpets. I published a book on art trying to understand why archaeologists do and do not use the word in the same breath as Velazquez and Picasso. And two shorter articles with some of the lessons, one in the Conversation coauthored with my Aboriginal friends.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6d

Where are the law enforcement officers brave enough to arrest him and lock him up?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot understand why anyone is using ex Twitter.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6d

So should we be thinking of the Epstein Tapes as the US's own Bondi massacre?

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 6d

"Rather than debate the substantive moral claims being made by people all around the world against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, those claims are cordoned off."

Read more:

theaimn.net/when-antisem...

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6d

Winter Appeal – Help Families in need Survive the Winter chuffed.org/project/1533...

Winter Appeal – Help Families in need Survive the Winter

🧣 Winter Preparation Appeal – Help Families in Gaza Survive the Winter 🧥

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7d

If they are rolling in dough perhaps we could bake them

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7d

I can smell the brine, Michael. Can you look at your chats, please? I asked a question long ago. Do you know the answer?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7d

I only have one question for Samsung. How do you turn the damn thing off?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7d

I visited that in the summer of 2018. A bit more reason to have an alignment towards the sun, then. But the interesting thing was the people "walking the wall" who strode on by without even a glance. How much do they miss in their zeal to tick off the task in their bucket.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7d

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