@didgebaba this is my all-time favorite movie ♥️

Though it's quite simple, I still enjoy teaching students Twine. I had a great time making the workbook as well--I had them re-create the opening of Zork.

#justnerdstuff

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-are-now-officially-open-source/

#Zork #Microsoft #Retro #OpenSource #RetroGaming

(this post brought to you by trying to get back into a mode of generative anarchism, which is much better for me than the spikier (also legitimate!) anarchism that is bruce-banner-furious at All the Things All the Time)

I guess what I'm saying is that it's okay & not even really that desirable to be a perfect anarchist. You don't overcome those years of statist, capitalist bullshit easily.

Spark a little ember in your heart, be curious, and take it from there.

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Being somewhat visible in this yields loads of questions and some derision and I guess that's fair. I'm generally happy to talk about it, because anarchism is one of the most complicated, hardest, best things, and not wholly commensurate with being an academic archaeologist (shocker).

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I won't lie, the un-learning parts of being an anarchist are intense, and even when you get through it (never ending tbh) there is residual reflexive institutionalism that can be hard to shed. While prefiguration is very important - means leading to ends - purity is not particularly desirable.

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Super cool to learn that I was huffing cinnabar while laboriously excavating paintings at Çatalhöyük. #archink “pigment” #Inktober

Hello fediverse! We are Cambridge Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project based in a squatted pub in central Cambridge, UK.

We cook around 300 hot vegan meals every Thursday and every Sunday, 52 weeks of the year, and we deliver to literally anybody who asks, for free, across the city.

Nobody owns CCK. We have no managers. Nobody has a job title, or decision making power over any part of the operation. And it Works™.

#introduction #introductionpost #Cambridge #mutualaid #solidaritynotcharity

Bracelet clasp
Cameo of Medusa
Origin: England (Georgian Period) 18th Century
Gold, Emerald, Enamel and Diamonds

Reading the EAA meeting transcripts, still pretty stunned at a colleague quoting Goebbels. Amongst many other things.

Good times in archaeology

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.

Here's the article:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325100164

And here's the blog post that describes a bit of the genesis and thanks all the folks who read drafts!

https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/new-publication-archaeology-as-worldbuilding/

A link to save:

The Archaeologist's Guide to Good Practice:

https://archgoodpractice.com

The best and perhaps the only manual for post-excavation stratigraphic analysis--the principle developer is York's James Taylor, with Keith May, Kenneth Aitchison, & Doug Rocks-Macqueen, funded by the AHRC.

One of the most hopeful things I've heard in a long time is how afraid Peter Thiel is of Greta Thunberg

I'm very happy to share my new game/publication, co-authored with Digital Archaeology MSc grad @kennacrowe27

"Other Eyes: Choose your own digital archaeology paradata adventure" in @InternetArchaeology

You can read the intro and play the game here: https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue69/10/full-text.html

Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online:

Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"

In presenting this work, Carter hopes to offer some provocative "objects to think with" concerning present and future potentials of digital art and digital scholarly work.

To get the zoom link, please sign up here:

https://forms.gle/qat71rvyPLRKmG6K7

FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen:

"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"

Sign up to receive the zoom link:
https://forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxzdJ9e9

July exhibition at Avebury is shaping up, with two amazing artists and digital creativity students exhibiting work. Watch this space, etc. 😊

Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as a Student of the Past

https://mander.xyz/post/25765681

@jcalpickard love this