Notices by Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)

I love the 250-page novel that is a complete narrative and has no sequel.

#books

Commuter boat, great sculpture by Carl Milles who had very poor political judgement. #art #publictransport

Fascists often point to nativity figures when they push homophobic policies. But do we even know if Lesbian couples have fewer kids per capita than other women? What men do is irrelevant in this respect, human semen is a cheap and abundant commodity.

#homophobia #demography

European criminals still use guns from the 90s wars in former Yugoslavia. I don't look forward to when the black market gets flooded with cheap military #drones from Ukraine after this war.

@foolishowl Also they're useless.

Cool way to study regional variation in Old Norse #paganism across Sweden, where the written sources are weak: we have lots of place names that mean "Shrine / Altar / Field / Hill / Grove of [god]". And the various deities named are not evenly spread across the country.

For instance, Ullr was super important around Lake Mälaren, although in the West Scandy written sources this god is barely mentioned.

#religion #vikings

Checking out the new #scifi bookstore in #Linköping .

Stop #1: used RPG books at Mad Wizard Games. #lincon #ttrpg

Tänker på terroristen som var så kass på svenska att han kallade sig "ett utkast" i sitt mördarmanifest. 🙄

There's an extremophile microbe that is highly resistant to radiation, cold, dehydration, vacuum and acid. It's nicknamed Conan the Bacterium. ❤️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans

#microbiology

Good news from England. "South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour"

#trains

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqg73znzzeo

I have a big problem with the idea that people who vote for #Fascism are victims. #Democracy offers many rights, including that of the vote. But it also imposes many duties, including that of educating yourself and shunning anti-democratic parties. Anyone who argues that only educated people are personally responsible for how they vote has misunderstood what universal suffrage means. So to me, the Fascist voter is a much bigger problem than the Fascist politician.

A memory from 2003: the night after my PhD thesis presentation I'm at this great gig at the Debaser rock venue under Slussen in Stockholm. And the singer asks the audience, on mike, to please sell him weed during the intermission.

The woods of Nacka are not very Black Metal. Did you know that the scary scary woods of The Ritual #horror movie are an obvious spruce plantation to Swedish viewers?

#hiking #geocaching

"They're becoming increasingly common, especially in cities: cargo bikes used as environmentally friendly means of transporting goods or children. But how safe are these eco-bikes? A test by the North Rhine-Westphalia State Traffic Safety Association has now revealed something alarming: 9 out of 10 cargo bike riders would not survive their bikes being hit by a cruise missile."

https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/05/risiko-lastenrad.html

Hey palaeontologists! If I'm a colleague of yours 1MY from now: will I see the Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction and the currently ongoing #Anthropocene Extinction as separate events?

#palaeontology

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today's work on my fieldwork report, maybe lunch with old dad, then cycle into town for dinner and a few games of Netrunner. What are you up to?

@aral We've been making random geoengineering interventions for 300 years. There's an argument that we should learn to do intentional ones.

If you hear about a job where it helps to have over 200 publications in academic and popular #archaeology, plus 20 years' experience as a journal editor, plus a solid record as a popular teacher, then please give me a nudge!

#jobs #academia #getfedihired #fedihire

@skinnylatte Have you seen the groups of mostly elderly amateur Beijing / Shanghai Opera performers who gather in parks and play their favourite scenes? Awesome.