Gabe Moshenska
@gabemoshenska.bsky.social
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Found this exquisitely auto-translated advert for a bunch of old engraving tools.
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Found this exquisitely auto-translated advert for a bunch of old engraving tools.
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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my works, which are part of a nutritious breakfast.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
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For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly.
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
80. Ea-nasir: everyone's favourite copper merchant - Thin End of the Wedge
Gina Konstantopoulos, Andrew Deloucas, Gabriel Moshenska, and Steven Garfinkle discuss internet favourite, Ea-nasir. What do we know about the Dilmun traders and their role in the supply of copper to ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly.
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
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The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':
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Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's remembrance remembrance day
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It's remembrance remembrance day
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29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
Dignity and poise
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Dignity and poise
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After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays:
middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...
Pathetic fallacy?
Digital doom?
The pained wails of curators everywhere?
Yep.
🏺
middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...
Pathetic fallacy?
Digital doom?
The pained wails of curators everywhere?
Yep.
🏺
Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays
It truly was born from pathos. The first photograph I took was of an apple imac, on a stand, relegated to the corner next to a traditional museum sideboard. It was 2006 at the Hagia Sophia, and I w…
middlesavagery.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays:
middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...
Pathetic fallacy?
Digital doom?
The pained wails of curators everywhere?
Yep.
🏺
middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...
Pathetic fallacy?
Digital doom?
The pained wails of curators everywhere?
Yep.
🏺
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Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
Second Call for Articles: The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past Special Collection explores how the medieval past is ‘curated’, that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated, across both professional and popular soci...
olh.openlibhums.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
Good square-naming
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Good square-naming
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And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
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We’re hiring! We are recruiting for Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/48Ll8nU
Closing Date: 9th November 2025
#WeAreSTS #education #lecturer
Closing Date: 9th November 2025
#WeAreSTS #education #lecturer
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We’re hiring! We are recruiting for Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/48Ll8nU
Closing Date: 9th November 2025
#WeAreSTS #education #lecturer
Closing Date: 9th November 2025
#WeAreSTS #education #lecturer
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
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I hope people remember just how many decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have been about the continued failure of the British legal system to confront Britain's atrocities in Ireland.
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I hope people remember just how many decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have been about the continued failure of the British legal system to confront Britain's atrocities in Ireland.
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Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
Soldier F cleared of two murders on Bloody Sunday
A former British paratrooper has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
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No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.
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Earlier this month, we published an interview with 2024 Voltaire Prize Winner and Researcher Mr Gerawork Gizaw concerning his fieldwork in the Kakuma Camp Refugee site in Turkana County, Kenya.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...
Archiving Legacy of Resistance in Post Colonial Kenya: An Interview | MBC
Gerawork Gizaw discusses importance and challenges of oral history as well as endurance of detention centres in post colonial Kenya
museumofbritishcolonialism.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Earlier this month, we published an interview with 2024 Voltaire Prize Winner and Researcher Mr Gerawork Gizaw concerning his fieldwork in the Kakuma Camp Refugee site in Turkana County, Kenya.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...
Mindlessly hung my towel on the back of the door last night. Woke up at 2am, saw this in the dark and almost shat meself.
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Mindlessly hung my towel on the back of the door last night. Woke up at 2am, saw this in the dark and almost shat meself.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Previewing Lupin season 4
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports
A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Previewing Lupin season 4
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Elephant shrew having ramen
October 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Elephant shrew having ramen