Damien Huffer
@damienhuffer.bsky.social
Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow U. Adelaide |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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Kind of funny that basically if people just write for themselves, AI will completely fall apart
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Kind of funny that basically if people just write for themselves, AI will completely fall apart
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Brazen nighttime robbery out of the Oakland Museum's storage facility! @museumofloot.bsky.social www.ktvu.com/news/nightti...
Oakland Museum burglary: 1,000 items stolen days before Louvre heist
More than 1,000 items, many of them indigenous historical artifacts, were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California earlier this month.
www.ktvu.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Brazen nighttime robbery out of the Oakland Museum's storage facility! @museumofloot.bsky.social www.ktvu.com/news/nightti...
🌟The Wildlife Crime Research Hub at the soon-to-be Adelaide University is hiring! 🌟
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please apply or share within your networks! Adelaide is a lovely city and you'll get to see plenty of 🦘🐨🦜!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please apply or share within your networks! Adelaide is a lovely city and you'll get to see plenty of 🦘🐨🦜!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
🌟The Wildlife Crime Research Hub at the soon-to-be Adelaide University is hiring! 🌟
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please apply or share within your networks! Adelaide is a lovely city and you'll get to see plenty of 🦘🐨🦜!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please apply or share within your networks! Adelaide is a lovely city and you'll get to see plenty of 🦘🐨🦜!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”
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Today's theft from the Louvre (
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.
Jewel Heist at the Musée du Louvre
"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."
art-crime.blogspot.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today's theft from the Louvre (
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.
As one does.... www.abc.net.au/asia/the-sta...
Meet the Japanese man dressed as a leopard walking across Australia - ABC Asia
Kentaro Jin is walking over 5,000 kilometres across Australia solo, with nothing but a wheelbarrow full of supplies and his trademark leopard-print onesie.
www.abc.net.au
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
As one does.... www.abc.net.au/asia/the-sta...
I'm very happy to announce that the website (w/front cover) for my and Dr. Evie Handby's new edited volume is now live! We are very excited to see this out in the world next year.
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huffer...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huffer...
Investigating Online Heritage Crime: New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm very happy to announce that the website (w/front cover) for my and Dr. Evie Handby's new edited volume is now live! We are very excited to see this out in the world next year.
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huffer...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huffer...
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The beautiful 124-year-old East Wing of The White House, all of which is owned by The United States National Park Service, is being destroyed this week without any authorization.
And yes, that includes the demolition of the first family’s beloved movie theater, constructed in 1942.
And yes, that includes the demolition of the first family’s beloved movie theater, constructed in 1942.
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The beautiful 124-year-old East Wing of The White House, all of which is owned by The United States National Park Service, is being destroyed this week without any authorization.
And yes, that includes the demolition of the first family’s beloved movie theater, constructed in 1942.
And yes, that includes the demolition of the first family’s beloved movie theater, constructed in 1942.
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archaeologists: this structure replicates and elaborates an architecture of power and domination linking it to earlier imperial expansions and creating a symbolic genealogy typing it to ancient European cultures, and thus to a very 19th c idea of inherited white Christian power 1/2
Ah @theonion.com , never change.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
archaeologists: this structure replicates and elaborates an architecture of power and domination linking it to earlier imperial expansions and creating a symbolic genealogy typing it to ancient European cultures, and thus to a very 19th c idea of inherited white Christian power 1/2
F'in unconscionable and infuriating!
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
F'in unconscionable and infuriating!