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Archaeologist in the PNW studying land, anarchy, and all things zooarch. Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge, déanaimis comhrá! Catch me in the woods cracking open a cold one with Bigfoot. they/iad 📍Kalapuya Land *THOUGHTS MY OWN*
Huh...I wonder if the fact that I was basically chugging antibiotics for chronic ear infections my whole childhood has anything to do with my monumentally fucked up GI health 🤔 whoops!
This is such a fucking disaster holy shit
The first headline I saw about this just had the cheese fortune premise and Tillbrook name so when I read the article I was shocked to discover that the show is NOT set in coastal Oregon 😂
Ok the last name Tillbrook for a family of cheese barons has to be a play on Tillamook right? Because if not that's a wild coincidence lmao
Someone is gonna have to cut their toes off the fit in them like the evil stepsister in the Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella lmao
Hello!! 👋
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
In fact, when I mentioned it to one PI, he asked why they were bothering, since most of the archaeological deposits there had already been destroyed. Just an absolutely morally bankrupt way to think about Indigenous cultural heritage, and yet remains wildly prevalent in both academia and CRM
I worked in the SF Bay Area for 2 years and was absolutely shocked to discover that I was apparently the only senior archaeologist at the company following the efforts to rematriate a shellmound village site to an Indigenous land trust
If you, like me, are a settler archaeologist working with Indigenous histories, I strongly urge you to get involved in decolonization work led by the communities where you live and/or work
These Great Pyrenees pups are coming from an Indigenous medicine woman who raises then wild on her land.
These dogs were born for this, they will focus on their jobs like no other dogs could.
We are very grateful to have the connections to make this happen so inexpensively 🪶✨
I went through all of my elementary school report cards when my parents were moving out of my childhood home and they all included some version of this line, but by 4th/5th grade they also included "this kid's anxiety about perfectionism is gonna kill them pls tell your child to chill" 😅
The field of archaeology was developed as a tool of imperialism and settler colonialism and every attempt to depoliticize archaeology is an abdication of our responsibility to actively undo the harms of our predecessors through reparative justice🏺
*taps the “chatbots are making you dumber and meaner” sign*
Born on this day in 1931, Nisqually citizen, treaty fishing rights warrior, front lines fighter in the fish wars, and salmon management advocate, Billy Frank Jr.
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"Resources must be distributed, there's no point to have them if others don't" is the basic underpinning of the Indigenous potlatch societies on the NWC but soooo many archaeologists still struggle to understand wealth accumulation in this context
Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.
“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
On a related note, "rich person's son" was used as an insult because it referenced children of leaders who didn't earn their status/wealth on their own merit/with the intention of fulfilling their kinship responsibilities to the community
One of my favorite oral historical stories is from Miluk and describes a greedy person who was accumulating wealth with no intention of sharing so they killed him ✨
"Resources must be distributed, there's no point to have them if others don't" is the basic underpinning of the Indigenous potlatch societies on the NWC but soooo many archaeologists still struggle to understand wealth accumulation in this context
There are three major forms of wealth: longevity, health, community and not in that order.
Money is a means to acquiring those riches, not the end goal.
Having 'plenty' means sharing it with community so everyone gets a crack at health & longevity.
Community lasts longer and better as a result.
The thing about mutual aid is that it requires you to get out of a hierarchical mindset where those in need are below you, not your peers, & you can't assist because they're not worthy humans. If you're privileged get out of only hanging with the privileged & meet some social scum eye to eye.
Thank you so much for posting this bc it revealed that my partner had never seen this video and I just had the delightful experience of showing it to them for the first time 😂
Try this one incredible financial trick to dodge the effects of the stock market collapse! It's called, "not having any investment accounts of any kind bc you spent the entirety of your 20s as a broke grad student"
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The Illusion of Freedom and the Myth of America 250 -Leonard Peltier Speaks Out. nativenewsonline.net/currents/nat...