Zylla Black
@zyllable.bsky.social
(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
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Zylla Black
@zyllable.bsky.social
· Nov 8
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Hi hello influx of yet more new followers! I'm a weirdo Lefty who thinks you can, too! I do ancient history, linguistics, activism, and advocacy, and I even write fiction sometimes! Welcome.
Here's a starter: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Here's a starter: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
My day yesterday was ruined by heartbreak. My day today feels... extremely mixed. I don't know what this will look like, going forward, but this article mirrors my own thoughts very well.
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation:
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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
epiloguegaming.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
My day yesterday was ruined by heartbreak. My day today feels... extremely mixed. I don't know what this will look like, going forward, but this article mirrors my own thoughts very well.
#archaeogaming approved.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸
It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England.
The answers lie in the soil...
It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England.
The answers lie in the soil...
October 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
#archaeogaming approved.
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Franklin gets a visit from his old archaeology professor, and Garibaldi is concerned by Sinclair's heroics. @renthebarbarian.bsky.social @zyllable.bsky.social & @saraezzat.bsky.social dig into the ideas about power, academia, and ethics in this kinda messy #B5 episode
youtu.be/zTXjxt8dc8s
youtu.be/zTXjxt8dc8s
B5 Episode 1.4 Infection
YouTube video by 9to5scifipod
youtu.be
October 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Franklin gets a visit from his old archaeology professor, and Garibaldi is concerned by Sinclair's heroics. @renthebarbarian.bsky.social @zyllable.bsky.social & @saraezzat.bsky.social dig into the ideas about power, academia, and ethics in this kinda messy #B5 episode
youtu.be/zTXjxt8dc8s
youtu.be/zTXjxt8dc8s
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You know what happens when you walk away from men who think they're entitled to your attention?
They follow you.
They follow you.
October 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
You know what happens when you walk away from men who think they're entitled to your attention?
They follow you.
They follow you.
We are.
survivors of sexual violence are constantly asked to sacrifice our safety and wellbeing on the off chance that people who've committed literal torture might at some point have had a change of heart. when will our safety, wellbeing, dreams, aspirations, futures, or peace of mind matter?
October 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
We are.
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Thread - this framing is one I think more folks should default to as they talk about what the big tech companies.
They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.
They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.
When I have this conversation, someone usually mentions that we give Apple and Google a lot of our data too. That's true. We tend to talk about whether you can "trust" these companies. But I think it's more useful to talk about incentives. Who has the *incentive* to screw you over.
September 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Thread - this framing is one I think more folks should default to as they talk about what the big tech companies.
They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.
They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.
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This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
September 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
Reorganizing my books has so far taken 4 hours, resulted in 2 liquid spills (no books were harmed), broken one bookshelf (I fixed it), and overheated both myself and my partner a great deal. But all the fiction is in alphabetical order by author now!
September 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Reorganizing my books has so far taken 4 hours, resulted in 2 liquid spills (no books were harmed), broken one bookshelf (I fixed it), and overheated both myself and my partner a great deal. But all the fiction is in alphabetical order by author now!
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Republicans aren't just saying they will kill or institutionalize or forcibly detransition all trans people: they are actively and overtly *campaigning on promising it*.
And every day, cis people are saying that trans folks are fearmongering, overreacting, or don't know what genocide is.
And every day, cis people are saying that trans folks are fearmongering, overreacting, or don't know what genocide is.
September 28, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Republicans aren't just saying they will kill or institutionalize or forcibly detransition all trans people: they are actively and overtly *campaigning on promising it*.
And every day, cis people are saying that trans folks are fearmongering, overreacting, or don't know what genocide is.
And every day, cis people are saying that trans folks are fearmongering, overreacting, or don't know what genocide is.
Things were already abysmal on this front. Much like everything Trumperdink's administration has 'improved', it has gotten so much worse.
Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity.
It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.
It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.
A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them
A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...
time.com
September 28, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Things were already abysmal on this front. Much like everything Trumperdink's administration has 'improved', it has gotten so much worse.
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September 28, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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annual reminder that i made a kinda lazy but fun & interesting video about Frankenstein for Halloween 3 or 4 years ago
i checked and it holds up about as well as it could 😎
i checked and it holds up about as well as it could 😎
Frankenstein: A Monster's Education
YouTube video by Silver Samantha
youtu.be
September 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
annual reminder that i made a kinda lazy but fun & interesting video about Frankenstein for Halloween 3 or 4 years ago
i checked and it holds up about as well as it could 😎
i checked and it holds up about as well as it could 😎
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In the time of enshittification of, well, everything the role of higher education is not to teach students how to enshittificate more efficiently. It is to provide them with hard skills like source criticism, languages, writing or critical reading that will allow them to survive all of this.
September 25, 2026 at 11:14 AM
In the time of enshittification of, well, everything the role of higher education is not to teach students how to enshittificate more efficiently. It is to provide them with hard skills like source criticism, languages, writing or critical reading that will allow them to survive all of this.
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Blow it up, BlueSky. $9.25 pays for months of books for a kid.
Home
Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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September 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Blow it up, BlueSky. $9.25 pays for months of books for a kid.
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This was a delightful interview at the University of Arkansas!
Angela and Larissa were great! 🩵
open.spotify.com/episode/2HGP...
Angela and Larissa were great! 🩵
open.spotify.com/episode/2HGP...
September 25, 2026 at 4:24 AM
This was a delightful interview at the University of Arkansas!
Angela and Larissa were great! 🩵
open.spotify.com/episode/2HGP...
Angela and Larissa were great! 🩵
open.spotify.com/episode/2HGP...
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📕 #BookReview 🏺 #Archaeology
Placing people with disabilities at the centre of historical archaeology, Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf's 'An introduction to crip archaeology' explores how disability studies can transform how we think about the past 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Placing people with disabilities at the centre of historical archaeology, Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf's 'An introduction to crip archaeology' explores how disability studies can transform how we think about the past 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
September 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
📕 #BookReview 🏺 #Archaeology
Placing people with disabilities at the centre of historical archaeology, Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf's 'An introduction to crip archaeology' explores how disability studies can transform how we think about the past 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Placing people with disabilities at the centre of historical archaeology, Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf's 'An introduction to crip archaeology' explores how disability studies can transform how we think about the past 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones.
At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
www.motherjones.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones.
At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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❗Event is happening TOMORROW! RSVP today!
LIVE interview with @artifactually_speaking at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, September 24th.
RSVP now: https://www.saveancientstudies.org/event-details/crewing-the-ship-port-ancient-highlight-artifactually-speaking
#live #liveevent #interview
LIVE interview with @artifactually_speaking at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, September 24th.
RSVP now: https://www.saveancientstudies.org/event-details/crewing-the-ship-port-ancient-highlight-artifactually-speaking
#live #liveevent #interview
September 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM
❗Event is happening TOMORROW! RSVP today!
LIVE interview with @artifactually_speaking at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, September 24th.
RSVP now: https://www.saveancientstudies.org/event-details/crewing-the-ship-port-ancient-highlight-artifactually-speaking
#live #liveevent #interview
LIVE interview with @artifactually_speaking at 9 a.m. EST on Thursday, September 24th.
RSVP now: https://www.saveancientstudies.org/event-details/crewing-the-ship-port-ancient-highlight-artifactually-speaking
#live #liveevent #interview
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None of us are free until all of us are free: if you would throw trans people under the bus to win an election, you have already lost everything that counts.
September 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
None of us are free until all of us are free: if you would throw trans people under the bus to win an election, you have already lost everything that counts.
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O hey
Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers --
Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down.
huh.
Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers --
Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down.
huh.
September 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
O hey
Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers --
Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down.
huh.
Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers --
Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down.
huh.
This is so completely exhausting, and I'm just over here wondering why my tax dollars are going into it; my life isn't upside down because of it.
NEW: After a judge overturned his murder convictions due to new scientific evidence, James Carver just wants to live a normal life. But prosecutors are fighting to put him back in prison.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
#Massachusetts #mapoli
James Carver just wants to live a normal life. Prosecutors want to put him back in prison.
A judge overturned his murder convictions due to new scientific evidence—but prosecutors say the ruling should be reversed
massdump.ghost.io
September 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
This is so completely exhausting, and I'm just over here wondering why my tax dollars are going into it; my life isn't upside down because of it.
John does genuinely important work. I'm always happy to promote him getting paid to keep doing it.
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September 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
John does genuinely important work. I'm always happy to promote him getting paid to keep doing it.
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Sincerely this would have caused a schism in Judaism during the times of the Sages
September 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Sincerely this would have caused a schism in Judaism during the times of the Sages
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#DS9 gets its first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, and we get our first ethical dilemma. @renthebarbarian.bsky.social ,@zyllable.bsky.social , & @saraezzat.bsky.social discuss several related ethical issues.
CW: fox hunting colonization FGM
spoilers for S4 Ep1 of SNW.
youtu.be/pZWiyqxrvBQ
CW: fox hunting colonization FGM
spoilers for S4 Ep1 of SNW.
youtu.be/pZWiyqxrvBQ
DS9 Episode 1.6 Captive Pursuit
YouTube video by 9to5scifipod
youtu.be
September 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
#DS9 gets its first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, and we get our first ethical dilemma. @renthebarbarian.bsky.social ,@zyllable.bsky.social , & @saraezzat.bsky.social discuss several related ethical issues.
CW: fox hunting colonization FGM
spoilers for S4 Ep1 of SNW.
youtu.be/pZWiyqxrvBQ
CW: fox hunting colonization FGM
spoilers for S4 Ep1 of SNW.
youtu.be/pZWiyqxrvBQ
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Trump's Border Wall is OBLITERATING Archaeology. It's the first in a series I'm putting together on the border wall, and more broadly threats to archaeology
In this video I cover the archaeology of Southern Arizona and the destruction of O'odham and Huhugam cultural heritage
youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
In this video I cover the archaeology of Southern Arizona and the destruction of O'odham and Huhugam cultural heritage
youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
Trump’s Border Wall Is OBLITERATING Archaeology
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
youtu.be
September 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Trump's Border Wall is OBLITERATING Archaeology. It's the first in a series I'm putting together on the border wall, and more broadly threats to archaeology
In this video I cover the archaeology of Southern Arizona and the destruction of O'odham and Huhugam cultural heritage
youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
In this video I cover the archaeology of Southern Arizona and the destruction of O'odham and Huhugam cultural heritage
youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM