Em Holbert

Archaeologists excavating at a stone building in a desert, with the text 'Open Access Archaeology, Antiquity'.

This #NationalPublicScienceDay, explore hundreds of #OpenAccess #Archaeology articles from all periods and across the entire world, all completely FREE in Antiquity!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/open-access

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

He said this a while ago and nobody I knew took it seriously. You bet your ass he's serious.

This is how they manage the loss of migrants doing agricultural work - they send everyone with mental health concerns to do it instead.

Doug Ford Criticized for Out-of-Touch Comments Comparing Ontario Works Recipients to Lazy Youths Watching ‘The Flintstones’ Cartoons at Home Ontario PC leader says unemployed workers “sit on the couch and watch The Flintstones” instead of looking for jobs

Ford was asked about potentially doubling ODSP

He responded by attacking recipients of OW, claiming "healthy people" are defrauding the system of $733/month.

Number one, you’re not going to be healthy if you’re living on 733/month.
#OutOfTouch #ONpoli
pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-cr...

honestly tho, cutting off both gender affirming care and anti-depressants can only be read state-encouraged suicide

the USA is paving the way for trans youth to kill themselves en-mass, and then claim "it was all a trend" as young adult transition rates fall in 2-4 years

WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN

Friends in NYC, today is the LAST DAY to register as a Democrat online so you can vote in the June primary against Eric Adams! Please do it now!

24 hours!

My essay Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World—Then Took It Away is now unlocked and free to everyone.

Part 2 next week.

catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...

This is an excellent sci-fi series set in an alternative 1950s/60s America, making the stakes of the "space race" even higher. Highly recommended!

It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.

That's awful.

Sesame Street is already in the firing sights of HBO, who they're partnered with.

As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

So festive!

Canada announces new immigration stream specific to health workers Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages. To help respond to this challenge, last ...

Got any friends who are #healthcare professionals who want to #immigrate to #Canada?

www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Yeah, not surprised. They keep building condos without thinking of if people can afford them and if people even want them.

Eeewwww.

here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc

one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty

8 sample packages of Adagio tea suit on a placemat beside a pottery mug of tea and a teaspoon. The titles are Assam Harmony, Assam Melody, Currant, Oriental Spice, Almond Cardamom Cake, Thai, Rooibos Earl Grey, and Christmas tea.

Re: last post
8 sample teas from #Adagio in looking forward to trying them!

I also got a tea Advent for cheap because it's past Christmas! I think I'll open it in Feb.

A crow in an apron stirs a pot. In the background, there are hanging herbs and the outline of a window. A text box reads, " I don't need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it."

I got a whole lot of new teas to sample, and I didn't take a photo of any of them. But I had a cup of rooibos cardamom almond and it was really good!

Editing and Publication

I have a student number at a university again. Going to stay a certificate program!

Post-Covid recovery continues. Still coughing a lot, lung capacity is definitely decreased. It's crummy.

I, a Canadian stranded in the USA by covid-19, just had a NP consultation to refill an RX I'm running out of by video call via Amazon.
This is a strange dystopia we're living in.

Day 9 of Covid: so coughing up goo (delightful), still tasting everything with More Flavor!! Still tired. So ready to be done with this.

List of Bills that Pierre voted against

#PierrePoilievre is Canada's common enemy #1. He is NOT here for Canadians, he is here for himself.

And Pierre, #GetYourSecurityClearance!!!

#NeverPoilievre #NeverConservatives #cdnpoli

Sometimes my kids will watch a movie from the 90s and be like “this entire story would be fixed in three minutes with a cellphone” and I sincerely hope their kids say the same thing about UBI.

I have Covid, it sucks. While I'm weathering it pretty well, I'm really sad I can't see people, including my kids.

@bsky.app I'm really loving you overall, and the Mutuals tab is a great idea, but why doesn't it let you scroll down more than about 20 posts?