Andy Roddick
@aroddick.bsky.social
Associate prof @ McMaster; Andean Archaeologist; Bolivia; Dad; Photographer; Cyclist, Music. roddick_a@mstdn.social Opinions mine not of my employer.
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I have been told we are posting perfect '90s albums.
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I have been told we are posting perfect '90s albums.
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my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
Nice gift of Amesbury Grape Cup produced by @pottedhistory.bsky.social using Bronze Age potting techniques
December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nice gift of Amesbury Grape Cup produced by @pottedhistory.bsky.social using Bronze Age potting techniques
Red chair on Ottawa River on Christmas Eve.
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Red chair on Ottawa River on Christmas Eve.
Just lost an old friend in Bolivia. First excavated with Papi 25 years ago. A kind and hilarious man. Early on we exchanged cuss words in our native language. For years I’d say in broken Aymara “Ukajj wali thayawa” and he’d happily reply in English “Andres, it’s fucking cold”. QEPD.
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just lost an old friend in Bolivia. First excavated with Papi 25 years ago. A kind and hilarious man. Early on we exchanged cuss words in our native language. For years I’d say in broken Aymara “Ukajj wali thayawa” and he’d happily reply in English “Andres, it’s fucking cold”. QEPD.
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If there was an academia wrapped it would say: ‘you read these articles, those abstracts, half of this book, a third of that one, maybe a chapter from this…’
December 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If there was an academia wrapped it would say: ‘you read these articles, those abstracts, half of this book, a third of that one, maybe a chapter from this…’
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"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control."
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
hyperallergic.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control."
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum fully delulu good lord
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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How doth it feele?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
The Beths - "Expert In A Dying Field" (Official)
YouTube video by The Beths
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
How doth it feele?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
As the grandson of practicing British Quakers - respect.
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
December 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
As the grandson of practicing British Quakers - respect.
The 7-year old and I snapped some photos out of the train on the way to Cambridge this morning. Sony A7cii with 40mm 2.5
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The 7-year old and I snapped some photos out of the train on the way to Cambridge this morning. Sony A7cii with 40mm 2.5
Just brutal. All of it. A plague of fake knowledge production, and university admins embrace it as a brighter future.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Just brutal. All of it. A plague of fake knowledge production, and university admins embrace it as a brighter future.
Hahahaha. no.
Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
techcrunch.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hahahaha. no.
Glorious sunshine after days of rain here in York
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Glorious sunshine after days of rain here in York
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My first TAG uk done @tag2025york.bsky.social. Met lots of digital space friends. Great talks, chats, and parties. Hope that @pennybickle.bsky.social @evamol.bsky.social and @clmorgan.bsky.social get a well deserved break. (A screen grab from the talk @kjkillackey.bsky.social and I gave)
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My first TAG uk done @tag2025york.bsky.social. Met lots of digital space friends. Great talks, chats, and parties. Hope that @pennybickle.bsky.social @evamol.bsky.social and @clmorgan.bsky.social get a well deserved break. (A screen grab from the talk @kjkillackey.bsky.social and I gave)
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Now Mazen Iwaisi, “Gaza in the Museum: subject, materiality & memory,” mentions this exhibition “This is not an Exhibition” palmuseum.org/en/exhibitio...
This is Not an Exhibition
Brought to you by Shababek for Contemporary Art and the Eltiqa Art Gallery in Gaza
palmuseum.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Now Mazen Iwaisi, “Gaza in the Museum: subject, materiality & memory,” mentions this exhibition “This is not an Exhibition” palmuseum.org/en/exhibitio...
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Esta imagen es estupenda para hablar de historia de África. Si me permitís, os explico por qué en seis posts:->
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Esta imagen es estupenda para hablar de historia de África. Si me permitís, os explico por qué en seis posts:->
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CONGRATULATIONS to the @trowelblazers.bsky.social for their incredible contributions to the field.
Praxis baby, praxis
Praxis baby, praxis
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to the @trowelblazers.bsky.social for their incredible contributions to the field.
Praxis baby, praxis
Praxis baby, praxis
A meander on the York 🏴 walls.
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A meander on the York 🏴 walls.
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Fuck this. Fuuuuuuck this
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fuck this. Fuuuuuuck this
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And here, friends, is why the assurances one hears about how AI errors are being fixed ring hollow.
On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post.
On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago.
Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.
On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post.
On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago.
Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
And here, friends, is why the assurances one hears about how AI errors are being fixed ring hollow.
On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post.
On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago.
Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.
On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post.
On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago.
Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.
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All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
Excited to be doing TAG UK after many North America TAGs. Although juggling two kids I do hope to see many unmet Bluesky archaeologists in York this week!
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Excited to be doing TAG UK after many North America TAGs. Although juggling two kids I do hope to see many unmet Bluesky archaeologists in York this week!