Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
@fdeblauwe.bsky.social
Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American
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I will post my phone doodles here. All made starting from a photograph & then filtered/collaged/cut/mirrored/etc. w. free apps using only free features & w/o any AI. First 1000, I made them basically daily; nowadays, it varies. You can see all the previous ones at www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let's all drink a "White Gilgamesh" = ⅔ beer, ⅓ goat's milk?!? LOL This seems to be a joke meme I hadn't encountered yet… Some people actually tried it…
New Year With White Gilgamesh
YouTube video by Cerebulon
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Let's all drink a "White Gilgamesh" = ⅔ beer, ⅓ goat's milk?!? LOL This seems to be a joke meme I hadn't encountered yet… Some people actually tried it…
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/
Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/
Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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16th-century majolica tile flooring.
Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena
The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972.
Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance.
#TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance
Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena
The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972.
Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance.
#TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
16th-century majolica tile flooring.
Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena
The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972.
Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance.
#TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance
Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena
The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972.
Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance.
#TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance
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A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm.
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm.
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
I voted, as I always do 🙂 The weather is so nice today, I walked to my polling station, just in a polo shirt!
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I voted, as I always do 🙂 The weather is so nice today, I walked to my polling station, just in a polo shirt!
Nope, not Mesoamerican… Mesopotamian!
>>Lion Fighting a Snake Chlorite Vessel with inscription, “Inanna and the Serpent.” Temple of Inanna, Nippur, Iraq. Early Dynastic II/III Period. ca. 2600-2400 BCE<<
(king-of-uruk.tumblr.com/post/1026830...)
>>Lion Fighting a Snake Chlorite Vessel with inscription, “Inanna and the Serpent.” Temple of Inanna, Nippur, Iraq. Early Dynastic II/III Period. ca. 2600-2400 BCE<<
(king-of-uruk.tumblr.com/post/1026830...)
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Nope, not Mesoamerican… Mesopotamian!
>>Lion Fighting a Snake Chlorite Vessel with inscription, “Inanna and the Serpent.” Temple of Inanna, Nippur, Iraq. Early Dynastic II/III Period. ca. 2600-2400 BCE<<
(king-of-uruk.tumblr.com/post/1026830...)
>>Lion Fighting a Snake Chlorite Vessel with inscription, “Inanna and the Serpent.” Temple of Inanna, Nippur, Iraq. Early Dynastic II/III Period. ca. 2600-2400 BCE<<
(king-of-uruk.tumblr.com/post/1026830...)
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
That said, American Stalin is tomorrow's problem, because American Mussolini is here today and his presence is steadily converting 40-odd percent of the country into fascists by peer pressure, day, by day, week by week.
And I am sincerely unsure how we stop that.
And I am sincerely unsure how we stop that.
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
That said, American Stalin is tomorrow's problem, because American Mussolini is here today and his presence is steadily converting 40-odd percent of the country into fascists by peer pressure, day, by day, week by week.
And I am sincerely unsure how we stop that.
And I am sincerely unsure how we stop that.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Garnets; 7th cent. England
Sutton Hoo treasures reveal ancient global connections - with Sue Brunning | Curator’s Corner S10 E7
YouTube video by The British Museum
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Garnets; 7th cent. England
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ea-Naṣīr has done it again! #halloween
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ea-Naṣīr has done it again! #halloween
"The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve."
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve."
The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers » Yale Climate Connections
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve.
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve."
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve."
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM