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Doc McCullough

@marginalviking.bsky.social

Archaeologist and historian. Museum Director. Musings on public history, Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic. Opinions my own, etc. Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking

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The claim that Erich von Däniken was killed for getting too close to the truth at 90 years old and almost 60 years after “Chariots of the Gods?” is demonstrably false enough that it’s probably the tribute he would have wanted.

#Archaeology #VonDaniken #pseudoscience

03.03.2026 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

28.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 16271    🔁 5034    💬 126    📌 103
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💯 🤣

26.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I drove one of these in college. I bought it from a guy who incompetently put in peel-on window tinting and a wobbly custom shifter handle. You had to rev it to start it and none of the seatbelts retracted.

I loved that car.

24.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Having just returned from Puerto Rico I can confirm.

23.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used to think that the accusations against Gilles de Rais (1404-1440) were too far fetched to be real but with every passing day of these damn files, man….

#Medievalsky

10.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I always wanted to develop a class called “The End Of The World” about different times in history humans were pretty sure we were cooked.

(I suspect that POV goes back to the first little bipedal hominin to see a lion.)

05.02.2026 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Chippewa, AKA The Mighty Chip’

04.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or, as I have said, just get really into #Warhammer40k

03.02.2026 03:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minnesota's effort to end the surge is rejected as journalists are arrested, but pushback continues A judge denied Minnesota's ambitious request — a day after Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested. But, in Texas, a judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his dad released.

It's been a helluva a 36 hours for keeping track of what the Trump administration is doing in Minnesota.

Here's my Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/minnesota-...

31.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 353    🔁 130    💬 9    📌 1

@klobuchar.senate.gov
@smith.senate.gov

Do not fund #DHS! Demand an end to #MetroSurge, ID of Pretti’s killers, Independent Investigation, Dismissal of Noem & Miller!

You HAVE the leverage and you HAVE the support of your constituents!

28.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is really important.

28.01.2026 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.

28.01.2026 01:23 — 👍 2799    🔁 836    💬 223    📌 411
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

27.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 20446    🔁 4308    💬 598    📌 351

There are moments that make you say “this is us, this is what we do, forever”

27.01.2026 04:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fulbright Greece - Jerolyn Morrison MINOAN ARCHAEOLOGIST, CERAMICS EXPERT, AND POTTER UNITED STATES TO GREECE Promoting and preserving the culinary history of the Aegean Dr. Jerolyn...

Jerolyn Morrison is fantastic:

www.fulbright.gr/en/alumni/al...

26.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No rest for the wicked.

26.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

25.01.2026 20:55 — 👍 56347    🔁 13915    💬 1607    📌 1309

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

25.01.2026 00:34 — 👍 18749    🔁 3877    💬 112    📌 152

Yes, obviously.

24.01.2026 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Governor, evict them. The time for urging calm and tense phone calls is past. Get them out or they will keep summarily executing your constituents.

24.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The crowd is yelling at the Minneapolis police to arrest the federal immigration agents involved in the shooting. “Here you are, protecting murderers!” one man shouted https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice/f66fc18b-7c88-50d7-8254-9e6a2c666e65?smid=url-share

24.01.2026 16:35 — 👍 167    🔁 45    💬 1    📌 2

#ICE just murdered another person on video in #Minneapolis. @governorwalz.mn.gov @smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov It’s time to evict them. Asking nicely isn’t working. They will kill again.

24.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All cruelty stems from weakness.

22.01.2026 04:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the guy who decided to run for president because Obama roasted him in 2011. The Peace Prize is an ongoing reminder of something Obama has that he doesn’t. Despite how fantastically stupid this is, it is entirely unsurprising.

19.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🫡

18.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

17.01.2026 14:52 — 👍 8190    🔁 1510    💬 113    📌 59

Last I saw 75% of Americans polled ALSO think the #Greenland thing is idiotic. It’s been a long time since that many of us agreed on anything.

1. I genuinely think he may be slipping cognitively.

2. #EpsteinFiles

17.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0