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@archaeoguy.bsky.social

Archaeologist of food, specifically Ecuador and Peru. Canadian unfortunately living in Texas. Au(Ph)DHD . they/them

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Eby says this ban is needed to prevent violence and vandalism... which are already crimes.

This kinda reminds me of anti-trans bathroom bills. The nebulous concept of "safety" being used to take away everyone's rights, despite there already being laws that directly address the stated safety issues.

10.03.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure this is what they used to call war profiteering.

10.03.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 236    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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the English major is so important now with the rise of ChatGPT. yes, the humanities are in decline; they’re seen as less useful than STEM, but with the rise of AI, we need people thinking about humanity.

what is the human? what makes us human? what could be more important?

03.03.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

I feel like it should be bigger news that Trump is now openly considering a military draft. Young men haven't been called up for a draft since 1972. Not during the Gulf War. Not during Iraq or Afghanistan. He received five draft deferments but is now open to drafting your kids.

08.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1750    πŸ” 678    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 55
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Device thrown at Gracie Mansion protest was an explosive device, police say The football-sized devices appeared to be jars wrapped in black tape and filled with nuts, screws and bolts, police said.

There are moments in a nation’s life when an incident appears small almost fleeting but reveals something far larger beneath the surface. The device thrown during a protest outside New York City’s mayoral residence was one of those moments.

08.03.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7631    πŸ” 3242    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 159

When Saddam Hussein did this to Kuwait there was incandescent outrage from Republicans everywhere

08.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"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

08.03.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah. I knew I was trans in preschool, whether or not the society around me acknowledged the existence of others like me (it did not).

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

08.03.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

This spreadsheet is insane. Search for your cancelled NEH grant here! πŸ‘‡

08.03.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
The 8 White Identities
by Barnor Hesse

White Supremacist
Clearly marked white society that preserves, names, and values white superiority

White Voyeurism
Wouldn't challenge a white supremacist; desires non-whiteness because it's interesting, pleasurable; seeks to control the consumption and appropriation of non-whiteness; fascination with culture (ex: consuming
Black culture without the burden of Blackness)

White Privilege
May critique supremacy, but a deep investment in questions of fairness/equality under the normalization of whiteness and the white rule; sworn goal of 'diversity'

White Benefit
Sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately; won't speak act in solidarity publicly because benefitting through whiteness in public (some POC are in this category as well)

White Confessional
Some exposure of whiteness takes place, but as a way of being accountable to POC after; seek validation from POC

White Critical
Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in exposing/marking the white regime; refuses to be complicit with the regime; whiteness speaking back to whiteness

White Traitor
Actively refuses complicity; names what's going on; intention is to subvert white authority and tell the truth at whatever cost; need them to dismantle institutions

White Abolitionist
Changing institutions, dismantling whiteness, and not allowing whiteness to reassert itself

The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse White Supremacist Clearly marked white society that preserves, names, and values white superiority White Voyeurism Wouldn't challenge a white supremacist; desires non-whiteness because it's interesting, pleasurable; seeks to control the consumption and appropriation of non-whiteness; fascination with culture (ex: consuming Black culture without the burden of Blackness) White Privilege May critique supremacy, but a deep investment in questions of fairness/equality under the normalization of whiteness and the white rule; sworn goal of 'diversity' White Benefit Sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately; won't speak act in solidarity publicly because benefitting through whiteness in public (some POC are in this category as well) White Confessional Some exposure of whiteness takes place, but as a way of being accountable to POC after; seek validation from POC White Critical Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in exposing/marking the white regime; refuses to be complicit with the regime; whiteness speaking back to whiteness White Traitor Actively refuses complicity; names what's going on; intention is to subvert white authority and tell the truth at whatever cost; need them to dismantle institutions White Abolitionist Changing institutions, dismantling whiteness, and not allowing whiteness to reassert itself

Time to pull out old reliable once again.

07.03.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Stop the police brutality against Secwepemc Land Defenders. Stop the security surveillance against Secwepemc Land defenders.

07.03.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9261    πŸ” 6040    πŸ’¬ 604    πŸ“Œ 1534
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Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

Shameful but not surprising: β€œcollections include bodies and body parts looted from cemeteries and battlefields by British colonial fighters and officials, then brought to the UK as macabre trophies or for use in racial pseudoscience, such as eugenics.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

07.03.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. 

Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.

The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.

Attacking access to water is definitionally genocidal.

07.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 14

The truth is finally coming out about this massive cover-up. The current "administration" knew all the way back then that the American People would not stand for ICE murdering anyone like this. GET JUSTICE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter! FIPOTUS BB

07.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the Canadian Christian Lobbying Group Pushing Anti-LGBTQ Policy - www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/insi...

07.03.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

07.03.2026 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2882    πŸ” 1231    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 32

My insides hurt today. As a result I can't think of anything else to say right now to elicit donations.

But if I don't post at all they definitely won't come.

Anything helps. πŸ™βš’οΈπŸ’•πŸ’ΈπŸ³β€βš§β™ΏπŸ’œ

07.03.2026 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

For those keeping track, we’re at the β€œsecretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

07.03.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1838    πŸ” 610    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 22
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

07.03.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2398    πŸ” 605    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 73

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

06.03.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

wtf do the Americas even need to be shielded against, if not the United States?

06.03.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Mark Ruffalo and Bikini Kill bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

06.03.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 8

PedΓ³filo y vΓ‘ndalo

05.03.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carney says he won't 'rule out' Canada joining U.S. mission against Iran | CBC

So-called Canada always capitulates to the US, regardless of what might have been said in Davos.

05.03.2026 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

04.03.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2444    πŸ” 767    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 30

There are no greater terrorist entities operating on the world stage right now than the US and Israel

04.03.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For a billion dollars a day we could have universal healthcare.

04.03.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0