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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ

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—Heather McHugh, "After Su Tung P'o"

07.08.2025 05:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

turns out dumb as oakum—and more sinister. That way
he can crown a tranquil life by being

appointed a cabinet minister.

07.08.2025 05:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

well, vigor and intelligence have wrecked my life. I pray
this baby we are seeing walloped, wiped and winningly anointed,

07.08.2025 05:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When a child is born, the parents say
they hope it's healthy and intelligent. But as for me—

07.08.2025 05:49 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*

Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

07.08.2025 04:59 — 👍 1064    🔁 346    💬 24    📌 14

Please god let us see the training videos for how to best flag Trump’s name in the pedo files

07.08.2025 05:41 — 👍 36    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

me, coming back to 2012 me:

2012: wtf your hair is blue?

2025: listen that's not important. forget economics & political science degrees. they're not any use in the future.

2012: so what should I do now? law?

2025: oh god definitely do not do law

07.08.2025 03:14 — 👍 326    🔁 27    💬 18    📌 1

Quite supposable this will effectuate a farrago of preternatural verbiage

07.08.2025 05:44 — 👍 50    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 0
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'Out Of Control' Republicans Are Viciously Attacking A Congresswoman With Calls To Deport Her Right-wingers are going after Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Ill.), who was born in the U.S., for comments she made about her pride in her Guatemalan heritage.

These attacks against Congresswoman @ramirez.house.gov are unconscionable.

I'll be interviewing her live tomorrow evening at the @netrootsnation.bsky.social conference in New Orleans, and look forward to talking about this and much more.

07.08.2025 04:00 — 👍 614    🔁 157    💬 13    📌 10

Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
That done, dissever your united strengths

07.08.2025 04:14 — 👍 191    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 3

The brothers Cuomo are both vicious and both dumb, but in different combinations. Andrew: primary vicious; secondary dumb. Chris: primary dumb; secondary vicious. But to repeat, both are both.

Anyway dad Mario is spinning like a corpse tornado under the dirt.

07.08.2025 04:51 — 👍 897    🔁 94    💬 12    📌 4

On the other hand it is sound social policy to get Kevin Sorbo off the dole

07.08.2025 02:50 — 👍 936    🔁 20    💬 20    📌 0

Speaking as a 56-year-old man I think you’re going to have problems swelling the ranks of ICE with 59-year-old men. Like I can probably leap out of a panel van in a Nazi suit to chase brown people in a Home Depot parking lot ONCE before my knees are going to give out and I’m on medical leave

07.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 1682    🔁 168    💬 98    📌 9

my plan to avoid being sent to an el salvadorean gulag is now just "Brisk walk"

07.08.2025 04:57 — 👍 119    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Contributing to the performativity of this project by considering the precarity of academic discourse concerning intra-action…

07.08.2025 05:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

when you ask someone how they're doing and they say "can't complain" ???? girl I can

07.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 884    🔁 99    💬 35    📌 6

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

06.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 22400    🔁 6678    💬 634    📌 258

No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research.

1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.

2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.

06.08.2025 17:13 — 👍 2105    🔁 588    💬 52    📌 24
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sulawesi stone tool study UNE Professor Mark Moore contributed to a study that has reshaped understanding of how archaic human relatives spread across oceans.

More on the Sulawesi stone tools
www.une.edu.au/about-une/ne...

07.08.2025 05:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Figure 2 from a new publication on ancient stone tools from Sulawesi. Seven light-coloured stone flakes are shown on a white background, each photographed from four different angles. The original caption reads: ‘a, Artefact 1: a large chert flake discovered partially exposed on the surface in a heavily cemented conglomerate. A black linear mineral stain marks the boundary between the exposed part of the flake and the portion embedded in the sandstone. b, Artefact 2: a medium-sized retouched flake struck from a core made from brecciated chert. The arrows indicate the direction of retouch scars across the dorsal face. c, Artefact 3: a small flake struck from a water-rolled chert cobble. d, Artefact 4: a small flake with moderate taphonomic (that is, non-cultural) flaking to both faces (it is broken diagonally). e, Artefact 5: the proximal end of a large flake broken by weathering. f, Artefact 6: a medium-sized redirecting flake struck onto a relatively flat cortical surface of a water-worn chert cobble. g, Artefact 7: a heavily abraded flake with moderate to heavy taphonomic flaking to both faces. Scale bars, 10 mm.’

Figure 2 from a new publication on ancient stone tools from Sulawesi. Seven light-coloured stone flakes are shown on a white background, each photographed from four different angles. The original caption reads: ‘a, Artefact 1: a large chert flake discovered partially exposed on the surface in a heavily cemented conglomerate. A black linear mineral stain marks the boundary between the exposed part of the flake and the portion embedded in the sandstone. b, Artefact 2: a medium-sized retouched flake struck from a core made from brecciated chert. The arrows indicate the direction of retouch scars across the dorsal face. c, Artefact 3: a small flake struck from a water-rolled chert cobble. d, Artefact 4: a small flake with moderate taphonomic (that is, non-cultural) flaking to both faces (it is broken diagonally). e, Artefact 5: the proximal end of a large flake broken by weathering. f, Artefact 6: a medium-sized redirecting flake struck onto a relatively flat cortical surface of a water-worn chert cobble. g, Artefact 7: a heavily abraded flake with moderate to heavy taphonomic flaking to both faces. Scale bars, 10 mm.’

Seven stone flakes dated ca. 1.5-1 million years ago from the Calio site in Sulawesi, just reported in @nature.com.

Most likely made by an erectus/floresiensis type hominin, but I’ve got my fingers crossed that an orangutan ancestor made these 🧪🏺🦧🪨

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

06.08.2025 18:20 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

Amazing streak bsky.app/profile/atru...

07.08.2025 05:22 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

IT'S MIDNIGHT! YOU'RE TAXES HAVE INCREASED! MISERY AND POVERTY FLOW ENDLESSLY FROM MY BUTT! MAGA!

07.08.2025 04:16 — 👍 60    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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New York Governor Stands With Quorum-Breaking Texas Democrats, Pledges to Fight GOP ‘Fire with Fire’ Read more here.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stood with quorum-breaking Texas Democrats and announced plans to redraw the state’s congressional map:

“If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, then... we must do the same.”

07.08.2025 01:11 — 👍 1744    🔁 385    💬 50    📌 42
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Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes.

Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items.

If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch.

07.08.2025 03:17 — 👍 6097    🔁 3105    💬 400    📌 301
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UC must reconsider policy barring undocumented students from jobs, court rules A California court ruled that the UC system's policy banning the hiring of undocumented students on campus is discriminatory and violates state law.

A state court ruled that the University of California has not provided sufficient legal grounds to justify its “discriminatory policy” barring the hiring of undocumented students from on-campus jobs. A lawsuit filed last year argues the policy violates state law.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

06.08.2025 18:35 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Fair question: Why did the Stanford Daily have to do this?

Why not Stanford University?

07.08.2025 03:16 — 👍 1868    🔁 244    💬 64    📌 7
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Pawol to make history as MLB's first female umpire Jen Pawol will make history this weekend as the first woman to be an umpire in a regular-season MLB game. Pawol will ump three games during this weekend’s Marlins-Braves series in Atlanta, including b...

I'm practically in tears

After 45 years of umpiring and advocating for other women umpires, I'm about to witness what I was beginning to believe would never happen: Jen Pawol will be in uniform on the field in Atlanta this Saturday for the Marlins @ Braves doubleheader. www.mlb.com/news/jen-paw...

06.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 768    🔁 91    💬 23    📌 5
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COVID is rising again in California — just as school and festival season start California is experiencing a renewed uptick in COVID-19 infections — fueled by newer variants of the coronavirus.

California is experiencing a renewed uptick in COVID-19 infections — fueled by newer variants of the coronavirus.

07.08.2025 04:30 — 👍 30    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

I would pay good money for a reporter to ask Donald Trump to explain what an mRNA vaccine is and what his administration’s exact objection to it is.

07.08.2025 04:33 — 👍 2366    🔁 462    💬 138    📌 36

TAIWAN: TSMC “EXEMPT” FROM TRUMP’S 100% CHIP TARIFF

07.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 22

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