Isis Naucratis
@isisnaucratis.bsky.social
I decipher power through times and places
Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Archaeologist. Professor.
The past is now
مصر دائما 🐍
🎨🏺✍️
Lead editor: Everyday Orientalism
From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback
Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Archaeologist. Professor.
The past is now
مصر دائما 🐍
🎨🏺✍️
Lead editor: Everyday Orientalism
From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback
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On Being a Historian in Dystopian Times
by Katherine Blouin It is tempting to identify with Resistance and to say, “That is what I would have done.” Alas, we are far more likely to act, in parallel situations, like the Vichy majority. In…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
I wrote an essay about how it feels to be a historian at this particular point in history
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
"Both were both asking the same question: How do we build a world where people like us have unlimited power & the rules don’t apply? Epstein couldn’t find an answer & died a pariah in a prison cell; Thiel, meanwhile, is continuing to hoard resources & audition katechons for the final battle ahead"
Must Read
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
@davidfutrelle.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
@davidfutrelle.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
www.thenation.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:32 PM
"Both were both asking the same question: How do we build a world where people like us have unlimited power & the rules don’t apply? Epstein couldn’t find an answer & died a pariah in a prison cell; Thiel, meanwhile, is continuing to hoard resources & audition katechons for the final battle ahead"
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We have previously written about how normalized these kinds of horrific and entirely preventable forms of athlete killing are in US football, and also how common it is for players to be compelled to continue in the face of their teammates' suffering and potential death.
‘Play hurt, practice hurt’: How life-threatening injuries became normalized in college football
At many elite programs training is seen as impossible if sessions are stopped to care for injured players
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
We have previously written about how normalized these kinds of horrific and entirely preventable forms of athlete killing are in US football, and also how common it is for players to be compelled to continue in the face of their teammates' suffering and potential death.
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A 16 year old San Antonio kid was essentially killed by a football coaching staff during an offseason workout.
Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.
After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.
After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A 16 year old San Antonio kid was essentially killed by a football coaching staff during an offseason workout.
Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.
After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.
After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
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#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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Did you know that the first appearance of the word "Dystopia" was to describe Ireland, because it was being improperly managed by ignorant natives and insufficiently skillful Protestant settlers?
I wrote an essay about how it feels to be a historian at this particular point in history
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
On Being a Historian in Dystopian Times
by Katherine Blouin It is tempting to identify with Resistance and to say, “That is what I would have done.” Alas, we are far more likely to act, in parallel situations, like the Vichy majority. In…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Did you know that the first appearance of the word "Dystopia" was to describe Ireland, because it was being improperly managed by ignorant natives and insufficiently skillful Protestant settlers?
USA obviously #1
France #2
Canada #10
France #2
Canada #10
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
USA obviously #1
France #2
Canada #10
France #2
Canada #10
🤩 New Pompeii villa opens: "The villa, once home to Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero, is revealing vivid decorations, including a peacock fresco linked to the Roman goddess Juno, as conservation work nears completion."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxV...
Italy: 'Virgin' frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
🤩 New Pompeii villa opens: "The villa, once home to Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero, is revealing vivid decorations, including a peacock fresco linked to the Roman goddess Juno, as conservation work nears completion."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxV...
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Friends!
The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.
We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interested? Fill the interest form here!
www.resistancestudiesseries.com/worldcupwait...
The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.
We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interested? Fill the interest form here!
www.resistancestudiesseries.com/worldcupwait...
World Cup Waitlist — RESISTANCE STUDIES SERIES
www.resistancestudiesseries.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Friends!
The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.
We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interested? Fill the interest form here!
www.resistancestudiesseries.com/worldcupwait...
The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.
We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interested? Fill the interest form here!
www.resistancestudiesseries.com/worldcupwait...
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“What does it mean – and how does it feel – then, to be a historian in increasingly dystopian times?” Important reading, esp the powerful final section, “Defeat.”
I wrote an essay about how it feels to be a historian at this particular point in history
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
On Being a Historian in Dystopian Times
by Katherine Blouin It is tempting to identify with Resistance and to say, “That is what I would have done.” Alas, we are far more likely to act, in parallel situations, like the Vichy majority. In…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“What does it mean – and how does it feel – then, to be a historian in increasingly dystopian times?” Important reading, esp the powerful final section, “Defeat.”
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"I foresaw what we are in the midst of now globally in 2008-2009, the year of the financial crash. I thought of 1929. And I thought of what followed 1929, including the rise of fascism in Europe and WWII. That ominous feeling stayed with me ever since, and now we are in the thickening thick of it."
February 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"I foresaw what we are in the midst of now globally in 2008-2009, the year of the financial crash. I thought of 1929. And I thought of what followed 1929, including the rise of fascism in Europe and WWII. That ominous feeling stayed with me ever since, and now we are in the thickening thick of it."
I wrote an essay about how it feels to be a historian at this particular point in history
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
On Being a Historian in Dystopian Times
by Katherine Blouin It is tempting to identify with Resistance and to say, “That is what I would have done.” Alas, we are far more likely to act, in parallel situations, like the Vichy majority. In…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I wrote an essay about how it feels to be a historian at this particular point in history
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
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Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"
"Hundreds of pages of documents in the Epstein files reveal how the disgraced financier used his connections to try to facilitate entry into colleges & pay the tuition for many of the young women in his orbit, including those who charged that he sexually abused them"
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
Epstein Used Cash to Wield His Influence at Columbia and N.Y.U.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"Hundreds of pages of documents in the Epstein files reveal how the disgraced financier used his connections to try to facilitate entry into colleges & pay the tuition for many of the young women in his orbit, including those who charged that he sexually abused them"
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
Not the president of Bard College being an Epstein fan?
In December 2018, weeks after the publication of a Miami Herald story about Mr. Epstein’s sex abuse, Epstein received a sympathetic note from Dr. Botstein.
Dr. Botstein wrote, “I want you to know that I hope you are holding up as well as can be expected.”
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Dr. Botstein wrote, “I want you to know that I hope you are holding up as well as can be expected.”
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
New Email Shows Bard’s President Thanked Epstein for Caribbean Trip
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Not the president of Bard College being an Epstein fan?
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Final spaces available:
3D Imaging & Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13 - 17 Apr
shorturl.at/byWuw
Through a mix of discussion and practical training, this in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.
3D Imaging & Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13 - 17 Apr
shorturl.at/byWuw
Through a mix of discussion and practical training, this in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.
February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Final spaces available:
3D Imaging & Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13 - 17 Apr
shorturl.at/byWuw
Through a mix of discussion and practical training, this in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.
3D Imaging & Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13 - 17 Apr
shorturl.at/byWuw
Through a mix of discussion and practical training, this in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.
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totally depraved.
this week I was teaching about how British anatomists were jealous of the Nazis who had a steady stream of corpses for dissection. the students are often surprised to realize how complicit everyone is in this type of horror.
this week I was teaching about how British anatomists were jealous of the Nazis who had a steady stream of corpses for dissection. the students are often surprised to realize how complicit everyone is in this type of horror.
"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."
I'm honestly speechless.
I'm honestly speechless.
![Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies “the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw—and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken.” Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive—via brain death—or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners’ torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can’t. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreiesvmsm3hrmrwxi7d7wvuaxc7u7oovqonpx2tdpxdnjhlgxh7lhni@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 11:19 PM
totally depraved.
this week I was teaching about how British anatomists were jealous of the Nazis who had a steady stream of corpses for dissection. the students are often surprised to realize how complicit everyone is in this type of horror.
this week I was teaching about how British anatomists were jealous of the Nazis who had a steady stream of corpses for dissection. the students are often surprised to realize how complicit everyone is in this type of horror.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."
I'm honestly speechless.
I'm honestly speechless.
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."
I'm honestly speechless.
I'm honestly speechless.
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No. lol. The text extruding plagiarism machine is hype all the way down. AI is a world-destroying grift, and anyone who calls themselves a journalist should at least understand this basic fact. This is clown shit.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
No. lol. The text extruding plagiarism machine is hype all the way down. AI is a world-destroying grift, and anyone who calls themselves a journalist should at least understand this basic fact. This is clown shit.
This is giving Roman Late Republican deriliction
BALINT: Was the president aware of Secretary Lutnick's ties to Epstein when he chose him to lead the Department of Commerce?
BONDI: Chris Malen was a Border Patrol agent----
BALINT: So I'm going to conclude that he did know!
BONDI: Shame on you
BALINT: This is pathetic! This is not a game
BONDI: Chris Malen was a Border Patrol agent----
BALINT: So I'm going to conclude that he did know!
BONDI: Shame on you
BALINT: This is pathetic! This is not a game
February 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is giving Roman Late Republican deriliction
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Emmanuel Macron fait surtout tout pour que personne n'enquête sur la présence du nom de Bruno Lemaire dans les mails.
Emmanuel Macron affirme que l'affaire Epstein concerne "surtout les États-Unis".
Je rappelle que Jeffrey Epstein s'est rendu en France une dizaine de fois par an.
Nous demandons l'ouverture d'une commission d'enquête à l'Assemblée nationale sur cette affaire.
Je rappelle que Jeffrey Epstein s'est rendu en France une dizaine de fois par an.
Nous demandons l'ouverture d'une commission d'enquête à l'Assemblée nationale sur cette affaire.
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Emmanuel Macron fait surtout tout pour que personne n'enquête sur la présence du nom de Bruno Lemaire dans les mails.
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Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, amid daily violations of a ceasefire agreement.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 587 Palestinians. Over 1,550 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 587 Palestinians. Over 1,550 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
February 11, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, amid daily violations of a ceasefire agreement.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 587 Palestinians. Over 1,550 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 587 Palestinians. Over 1,550 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
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Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft.
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social
Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year
The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft.
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social
Our Govt does not want to know.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social