Alberto B. Foglia
@abfoglia.bsky.social
He/him. Archaeologist and 3D artist. Also into urbanism and video games! 🇮🇹/🇧🇷 living in 🇺🇸
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Hello there! I’m an archaeologist and 3D artist, and when I can I’ll post about my art, archaeology, or my other interests. #PortfolioDay
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I'm told that one or two spaces have just become available on the ICS Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage
ics.sas.ac.uk
February 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I'm told that one or two spaces have just become available on the ICS Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
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The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸
February 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸
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An undeniably emotional experience seeing the other half of the ‘peacock room’ in Oplontis being excavated and meeting their counterparts: the two peahens that graced the facing wall. What a delightfully playful idea by the artist.
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
An undeniably emotional experience seeing the other half of the ‘peacock room’ in Oplontis being excavated and meeting their counterparts: the two peahens that graced the facing wall. What a delightfully playful idea by the artist.
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular
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there are only two moods as an artist
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
there are only two moods as an artist
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Yet another crucial point: the vast majority of the world’s historical archives have not been digitized and are thus totally invisible to LLMs/AI.
bsky.app/profile/jcte...
bsky.app/profile/jcte...
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Yet another crucial point: the vast majority of the world’s historical archives have not been digitized and are thus totally invisible to LLMs/AI.
bsky.app/profile/jcte...
bsky.app/profile/jcte...
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Dinosaurs remain cool as hell - this iguanodontian was basically a big porcupine!?
Really taken with Haolong dongi, out today from Jiandong Huang, Pascal Godefroit and team. Just submitted news article on it. An iguanodontian with abundant hollow spikes across the neck and body, projecting from among conventional basement scales, and with rows of plate-like scales along the tail.
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Dinosaurs remain cool as hell - this iguanodontian was basically a big porcupine!?
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"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting." Prosecute.
February 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting." Prosecute.
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
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A Corinthian delight: three examples of ancient caricatures. The pyxis at the top shows a child-like Herakles drawing water from a fountain. On the lower left, a kylix depicting a woman playing the usually all-male drinking game kottabos. On the lower right, Artemis and her curious dog. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
A Corinthian delight: three examples of ancient caricatures. The pyxis at the top shows a child-like Herakles drawing water from a fountain. On the lower left, a kylix depicting a woman playing the usually all-male drinking game kottabos. On the lower right, Artemis and her curious dog. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
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#ReliefWednesday - A rather fabulous polychrome relief of a 'secutor' type gladiator, with wonderful colour survival: ca. 2nd Century AD. Its excavation context was only rediscovered in 2017. #Art #Gladiator 🏺
Image: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (MTH 28158). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitio...
Image: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (MTH 28158). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitio...
January 28, 2026 at 9:48 AM
#ReliefWednesday - A rather fabulous polychrome relief of a 'secutor' type gladiator, with wonderful colour survival: ca. 2nd Century AD. Its excavation context was only rediscovered in 2017. #Art #Gladiator 🏺
Image: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (MTH 28158). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitio...
Image: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (MTH 28158). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitio...
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I keep forgetting to share my art (or anything) here so have my latest Elrond, who has bangs because if any elf was to have bangs it would probably be Elrond.
#silmarillion #lotr #lordoftherings #silmart
#silmarillion #lotr #lordoftherings #silmart
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I keep forgetting to share my art (or anything) here so have my latest Elrond, who has bangs because if any elf was to have bangs it would probably be Elrond.
#silmarillion #lotr #lordoftherings #silmart
#silmarillion #lotr #lordoftherings #silmart
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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This one was so powerful, I felt like I’d been slapped in the face. I’d known that the Washingtons owned slaves, but this brought it out of an abstract idea, to instead seeing a young woman who was forced to always sleep on a rug like a dog at the foot of Martha Washington’s bed, ready to serve.
January 23, 2026 at 3:31 AM
This one was so powerful, I felt like I’d been slapped in the face. I’d known that the Washingtons owned slaves, but this brought it out of an abstract idea, to instead seeing a young woman who was forced to always sleep on a rug like a dog at the foot of Martha Washington’s bed, ready to serve.
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"we'll look weak and out of touch"
ICE is underwater with non-college whites including 41% "strong disapprove"
there's no polling to hide behind, if you're not willing to fight here it's because you don't want to, not because it's a losing fight
ICE is underwater with non-college whites including 41% "strong disapprove"
there's no polling to hide behind, if you're not willing to fight here it's because you don't want to, not because it's a losing fight
January 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"we'll look weak and out of touch"
ICE is underwater with non-college whites including 41% "strong disapprove"
there's no polling to hide behind, if you're not willing to fight here it's because you don't want to, not because it's a losing fight
ICE is underwater with non-college whites including 41% "strong disapprove"
there's no polling to hide behind, if you're not willing to fight here it's because you don't want to, not because it's a losing fight
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this is absolutely horrifying. we live in a deeply sick world led by spiritually bankrupt people
Jared Kushner presented a 'master plan' for Gaza at the Board of Peace event this morning. Slides included 'New Gaza' and 'New Rafah'.
January 22, 2026 at 5:34 PM
this is absolutely horrifying. we live in a deeply sick world led by spiritually bankrupt people
My problem with this take is two fold: 1. The indigenous populations were not immigrants and nation of immigrants rhetoric excludes them and their genocide (intentionally or not). 2. It keeps the framing on immigration. What is actually good is the multiculturalism, not that people weren't born here
I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM
My problem with this take is two fold: 1. The indigenous populations were not immigrants and nation of immigrants rhetoric excludes them and their genocide (intentionally or not). 2. It keeps the framing on immigration. What is actually good is the multiculturalism, not that people weren't born here
Haven’t seen much noise around the classics bluesky accounts about this, but archaeologists have finally found the basilica Vitruvius designed in Fano! It seems to match his description perfectly. Pretty big discovery! They’ve been looking for it for centuries www.reuters.com/science/ital...
Italy uncovers basilica designed by Vitruvius, the 'father of architecture'
Italian officials on Monday hailed the discovery of a more than 2,000-year-old public building attributed to Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect and engineer known as the "father of architecture."
www.reuters.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Haven’t seen much noise around the classics bluesky accounts about this, but archaeologists have finally found the basilica Vitruvius designed in Fano! It seems to match his description perfectly. Pretty big discovery! They’ve been looking for it for centuries www.reuters.com/science/ital...
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yes, Dems are 100% ok with it. if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have voted for it dozens of times or tried to hit Republicans from the right for not being “serious about the border” during the 2024 election or be totally abdicate fighting against it now. but they did all that, they’re social fascists
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
yes, Dems are 100% ok with it. if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have voted for it dozens of times or tried to hit Republicans from the right for not being “serious about the border” during the 2024 election or be totally abdicate fighting against it now. but they did all that, they’re social fascists
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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At the Court of the Sun King. Nonfiction book illustration showing the dinner of Louis XIV as a court performance in the early 1680s.
Can you guess I love painting very detailed scenes? 😆
Client: Noordhoff Uitgevers
Can you guess I love painting very detailed scenes? 😆
Client: Noordhoff Uitgevers
January 18, 2026 at 6:58 PM
At the Court of the Sun King. Nonfiction book illustration showing the dinner of Louis XIV as a court performance in the early 1680s.
Can you guess I love painting very detailed scenes? 😆
Client: Noordhoff Uitgevers
Can you guess I love painting very detailed scenes? 😆
Client: Noordhoff Uitgevers