@lithicdude.bsky.social
Anthropologist, humanist, husband and dad. He/HimπΉOpinions are my own.
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apnews.com/article/unes... says it's leaving UN cultural agency UNESCO again, only 2 years after rejoining
Gathering of people and cars along a highway.
People and cars along a highway holding signs and flags.
People and cars along a highway holding signs and flags.
Nice turn out for Bailey, Colorado. #NoKings
15.06.2025 00:12 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0#NoKingsDenver
14.06.2025 17:57 β π 117 π 24 π¬ 0 π 4This #NationalHigherEducationDay we celebrate this weekβs win in court on behalf of educators and students to block the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.
Weβll never stop fighting - because an attack on education is an attack on democracy.
Sign and share!
app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
#libraries #IMLS #supportyourlocallibrary #publiclibraries #librarians
Every librarian should read this incredible post called "Librarians Are Dangerous" by @bradmontague.bsky.social today. It truly made my heart sing today. Thank you, Brad! β€οΈ (And thank you to Julie W. for sharing it with me this morning.) bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians... #TLSky #Skybrarian
15.04.2025 17:53 β π 52 π 28 π¬ 2 π 8
The Colorado representativeβs push to end an archaic rule thatβs forced her to bring her 10-week old to Congress four times is over for now, but she isnβt giving up.
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In partnership with the City of Centennial and the Cherry Creek School District, a 12,000-seat temporary stadium will be built for Denver NWSL to play in for the 2026 & 2027 @NWSL seasons. The location will serve as Denver's permanent training facility. ποΈ
27.03.2025 17:59 β π 22 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Always relevant!
@jeffcolibraryco.bsky.social
This is pertinent.
"Unpacking the Supreme Courtβs Recent Decisions and their Impact for Heritage Management" www.chronicleheritage.com/2025/02/12/u...
βTheyβre attacking the institutions, the universities, because the universities provide critical inquiry into the kind of myths thatβs required for these kinds of politicsβ¦β
www.democracynow.org/2024/9/17/er...
#academicsky #academia #education #fascism
Support labor! πΉ Don't cross the picket line!
06.02.2025 14:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Un tweet de @warfareanalysis Un enfant palestinien fait un doigt d'honneur
Β« From Gaza to Trump. Β»
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22.01.2025 17:12 β π 69695 π 17537 π¬ 967 π 633
The @cfbplayoff.bsky.social has been fun to watch. I love the chaos the ensued getting everyone seeded. I do think they need to revise the 4 team bye criteria.
#cfbplayoff
I just love this book. I like to re-read every couple of years. It's my favorite of Clarke's work, followed by Rendezvous with Rama.
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Cover: dark background of mahogany color. Title box at top with desert brown font. Author's box contains the author and subtitle. Author in desert brown, subtitle in white. In the cent of the cover is a Pre-Columbian ChimΓΊ solid gold funerary mask.
20/20
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New research says people arrived in Americas much earlier and co-existed with giant sloths and mastodons | PBS News βThere was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly β whatβs called βPleistocene overkill,'β said Daniel Odess www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
21.12.2024 10:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Yellowish background with red rectangle at the top containing title and author in yellowish text. Bottom portion contains a drawing of an old (ancient?) looking building with some people out front.
19/20
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I would love to see it included in secondary education required reading lists.
18.12.2024 20:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I read it when I was 20. At the time it "spoke" to me as I desperately wanted to go anywhere but where I was.
Years later, I found similar appreciation for Steinbeck's Travels With Charley.
Catalyst for change or just a broken social contract? @theoejwilson.bsky.social is on point as usual.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY4XwhtG/
I should clarify that I don't condone Mangione's actions but I can't bring myself to feel anything toward the victim. I hate that but here we are.
Where is the justice though for the millions of people that have died due to the actions of health insurance companies?
Was he justified? ππ€·πΌββοΈ
Charging Mangione with terrorism? GTFO!
www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...
Red starburst on a black background with the title and author's font in white.
18/20
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Orange background with shades of yellow and pink spots. Full length photo of Henrietta Lacks in the top left.
17/20
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The multiplicity of lithic technologies cannot be overstated, especially given multiple hominin diffusion into early Pleistocene Europe. I will be following closely going forward.
rdcu.be/d3ymM
Cover: African-American woman from the chest up, looking down. In the foreground are 19th Century American slave quarters shown via photo image.
16/20
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Cover: foreground has white font with title large at the top. Author is at the bottom in a cream font. Background is of a man's head, painted in muted creams and browns with the eyes obscured by the title.
15/20
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The cover has a red header with white font for the title. A brown sub-header contains white font for the author. Taking up the rest of the cover is a portion of Jacques-Louis David's painting, The Death of Socrates, with Socrates being most prominent.
14/20
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