Jeanne Reames

With several new followers: I have one foot in Classics/ancient history and another in the writing community. I teach Greek history at the Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha, answer "asks" on Tumblr as public history, and write history-inspired SFF and historical fiction. Not a prolific poster here, alas.

Destroyed for a Date centre To make billionaires richer So you can chat to a chatbot So AI can take your job Hack your bank account Create a surveillance state 250,000 trees of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NationalBlackCatDay! Celebrating Cecilia Iphigeneia (top), and remembering The Mighty Licorice (bottom), who made it to 19.5! #blackcatsofinstagram #tuxedocatsofinstagram

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

I wouldn't even know how to do so. I'm far too arrogant about my own thinking and writing ability.

Yep. We can and will win.

Alexander the Great and the burning of Persepolis. Or when archaeology steps in to offer a useful corrective to our source narratives. #ancientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #AlexandertheGreat #ancientPersia

Gavin Newsom knows how to fight back against Trump because he's cut from the same cloth. That makes him a good attack dog. But we don't want him for president.

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Cut off his access to all the services property taxes fund and see if he understands how stupid that question is.

Tribal Nations and Native organizations have lost nearly $470 million in DOGE funding cuts, violating federal trust and treaty obligations. www.brookings.edu/articles/dog...

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

whoa... the current map of "No Kings: Vote Early" events planned for tomorrow, sat oct 17: www.nokings.org

For any interested parties. UNO History is hiring and it's tenure-track. Please share. We begin application review Nov. 15.

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Alexander's successes get a lot of air-time. When (if) people talk about his failures, it's often sensationalized.... He's a drunk! He's a megalomaniac! Here, I talk about where Alexander failed to achieve his objective: uniting Eastern & Western ruling traditions. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky

How beautiful!!!! ❤️

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

I miss having a president. I mean a REAL president -- someone who works and lives the position. Someone who doesn't shame us but instead is always a person to respect and be proud of. Someone like Barack Obama.

This is wonderful news. I dearly love her translation of The Bakkhai, and use it in class.

Yes. Newly minted phuds should be allowed time for their diss to sit & simmer, and like good chili, get far better/more complex. I am glad I did NOT rush to pub my Hephaistion diss. When the Heph/Krateros book I'm writing now does come out (30 years later)? It'll be different...and SO much better.

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

but my educated (no pun intended) guess is that pretty much every university administration is generating (pun intended) the same statements about putting genAI everywhere to prepare students for the future, making the same confused gurgling noises about its risks, and leaving the fallout to faculty

It feels like we’re five weeks from a dangerous precipice - people vs. corporations! 😬

Good lord, that's absolutely disgusting looking (and bonkers, too). It's unfair to compare that to Dolly Parton (even if she was joking).

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

3xs Cy Young winner, the great Justin Verlander. My 2nd favorite Tiger of all time. (The immortal Al Kaline is 1st; I got to see him play as a little girl.) So glad they brought him back and he got to retire in a Tigers uniform. (Even if they didn't get a W that night.)

And appropriately in a Detroit uniform. So glad they got him back before he ended his career. Super sweet way to go, too, with his daughter.

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Indeed, the cruelty is the point. Also, the cis gay men and lesbians who abandoned the trans & intersex communities... yeah, they're coming for you too. (Fortunately most of the queer folk I know, cis or not, are well aware of that, but a few believe it won't happen to them....)

Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.

It should not be lost on any of us that Cornell University swiftly suspended students for peacefully protesting atrocities against women and children, but allowed men who drugged and gang-raped a woman for seven hours to write an essay and continue with their education.

Video in response to a viewer's question about whether I intended to continue Alexander the Great's story in further novels. The short answer is "I hope to," but there are some caveats, mostly to do with publishing itself. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #AlexandertheGreat

Happy Caturday from Beatrice. While pulling basil leaves to make pesto, she had to get up on the counter to inspect. I let her sniff my fingers and all I can say… She’s not a basil fan. Funniest disgusted face. #SiameseBluesky #Siamesecats

Happy Dolly Parton Day

Corporate Dems care about corporate donors and not the will and best interest of their constituents and democracy. This is CATASTROPHICALLY STUPID advice. Dem establishment determined to claw defeat from the jaws of victory.

This is an excellent discussion (imo) from Parkrose Permaculture (video). As absolutely awful as some of these people are, the collapse of small and smaller farms is not good overall, and simply accelerates a problem already in the offing.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.