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Glenn Shepard
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Ethnobotanist, anthropologist, polyglot & filmmaker living and working in Brazilian Amazon; traditional medicine, sensory ecology, Indigenous media; New York Review contributor; Blog: Notes from the Ethnoground https://ethnoground.blogspot.com .. more

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · Jul 25
Infinite Jest: an homage to #DavidFosterWallace I made many years ago for an #InfiniteJest film festival. This short film imagines J.O. Incandenza on set with Mme. Psychosis as they make the fatal samizdat from the eponymous novel. Enjoy, but not too much…

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Infinite Jest IV
Infinite Jest IV (Digital video, color w/sound; 8 minutes) ©2011 by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. and Lee Matney Infinite Jest, inspired by the novel by David Foster…
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 13h
A mosaic patolli board built into a Maya floor at Naachtun challenges ideas about ancient play. Planned, durable, and Early Classic in date, it links games to architecture, labor, and power. #Maya #Archaeology #AncientGames #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/a-game-set...
A Game Set in Stone and Clay: What a Mosaic Board Reveals About Maya Play and Power
At Naachtun, an Early Classic Maya city, archaeologists uncovered a patolli board unlike any other. Built into the floor itself, it forces a rethink of how games, labor, and architecture intersected.
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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16h
agreed

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16h
Quite a jarring double feature, like chasing Cracker Jacks with a fine Barolo. But whatever gets you through the night!

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
Titanium Noir sequel now menacing a bookstore near you! Don't miss this genre defying series by @nickharkaway.com : Phillip K. Dick meets William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social meets Dashiell Hammett
authoredrobins.bsky.social Ed Robins @authoredrobins.bsky.social · 22h
Merry Christmas to me! Excited to finally read @nickharkaway.com's follow-up to Titanium Noir. 🪐📚💙

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
Can't wait! Titanium noir was really something, I even had a Titan appear unbidden in my dreams while reading the first book.

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
Can't wait!

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
I don't think he's ever read anything, not even Art of the Deal

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
Not to mention the clear threat of violence the phrase "put him to sleep" implies. The hipocrisy as usual is staggering.

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18h
It's like no one has ever watched a sci-fi horror movie...

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 19h
#Archaeology ⚓
We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board
Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city—ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea. Submerged ...
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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 21h
Merry Christmas from the world's most corpulent musical instrument!
profduff.bsky.social Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 23h
Me playing a Christmas carol (an arrangement of In Dulci Jubilo) on the Rockefeller carillon at the University of Chicago. At 105 tons, it is the largest musical instrument ever built. Have a happy holiday!

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 21h
I highly recommend Helene Wecker's Golem and Djinni series: genre defying historical/magical realism set in late 19th century New York

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 21h
I actually like the Zoe Boehm Oxford novels better!

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 22h
Either my printer needs maintenance or I've tapped into another tranche of Epstein files!

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Printed page with illegible text

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Ed Robins @authoredrobins.bsky.social · 22h
Merry Christmas to me! Excited to finally read @nickharkaway.com's follow-up to Titanium Noir. 🪐📚💙

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 23h
Me playing a Christmas carol (an arrangement of In Dulci Jubilo) on the Rockefeller carillon at the University of Chicago. At 105 tons, it is the largest musical instrument ever built. Have a happy holiday!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Democracy dies in ▪️.

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
Merry Christmas to all you Twin Peaks and Lynch fans!

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
all that's missing are the swastika mini marshmallows

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
don't forget the cigarette and maybe a mangled ear!

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 1d
#TwinPeaks #Christmas

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Bravo @meidasjordy.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
In our "upside-down moment," hideous Lord Vecna needs to be stopped before he steals everyone's soul and sets the planet on fire.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
2 for 2, that's quite a streak!
mikedrucker.bsky.social Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d
2 for 2!

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d
Bronze votive statuette of a warrior with a shield, wearing a helmet is of Athenian type with the cheek-pieces upturned, and a scale corslet over a short tunic. He originally held a curved sword, of which part survives, in his left hand, and probably had a spear in his right.
#Etruscan (See Alt.)
British Museum Museum number 1847,1101.5 The statuette was cast whole, with the shield and helmet-crest (now missing), made separately. The stance reflects Greek Sculpture of the late 5th century BC, and the style is related to the bronzes of central and northern Etruria. 420BC-400BC Findspot Excavated/Findspot: Falterona, Mount, Perhaps from the site of the Lago degli Idoli. Found in 1836. Europe: Italy: Tuscany: Florence (province): Falterona: Falterona, Mount. The bronzes from Falterona (from J.Swaddling in Bruschetti et al, 2014, pp.417-418): In 1836, after a chance find, many votive bronzes were brought to light in or near a small lake high on Mount Falterona, a peak of the Apennines about 40km east of Florence. It has become known as the ‘Lago degli Idoli’. Over 600 bronze statuettes were found together with more than 2000 other offerings. These included models of animals, tools and weapons, coins and representations of various parts of the body. Many of these objects have since been lost, and others have been dispersed to various collections. The offerings date mainly between 600 and 200 BC. . Like other votives they were dedicated to the gods in thanksgiving or in the hope of favours. No remains of buildings have been found near this remote lakeside sanctuary, which may well have been connected with a cult of healing. The discovery of the deposit is recorded by George Dennis (Dennis, G, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray 1848, pp.108-112), who relates how a shepherdess by chance noticed a bronze figure in the soil. Word of the discovery of the statuette, representing Herakles, soon got out and local villagers were quick to search for more objects, draining the lake to aid their recovery. Other Herakles figures and those of warriors, in addition to weapons, suggest a lakeside sanctuary which may have been a stopping point for soldiers and merchants crossing the Apennines.