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@archaeomancer.bsky.social
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Archaeologist. Passionate about history, context, and boring civil process. Slowly becoming the Joker but entirely about participatory democracy. Resident of Tsenacommacah, the densely-settled land. 🏳️‍🌈 #RVA

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h
righteous among the nations
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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Andrew Cothern / RVA Playlist @rvaplaylist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look at all the fun movies RVA’s film community is screening this spooky season! I’ll be at most of these. @hardlight.online
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're in Richmond VA on the 14 of November please consider joining us for the first annual meeting of the Virginia Folklore Society in about 25 years. We have a few special guests and speakers, and will be talking about our goals with an annual journal, online events, and ways to get involved.
The flyer for the VA folklore society annual meeting at the Virginia Museum of HIstory and Culture Nov 14 1-3 PM 2026.
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
both evidence of cultivation before agriculture and further evidence of ‘beer made civilization’ over ‘civilization made beer,’ imo
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hell yes archeological fermentation evidence
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
haha wsj knows in which class the revolutionary potential currently exists and is worried about it
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
so much of what centrist hand-sitters miss is that political leaders have to *lead*. popularism and ineffective incrementalism will leave you in the fucking dust if you have no fucking principles or virtues to guide your interactions with the voting public
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
yeah this is basically accurate and it’s impossible to explain to people because it sounds nuts!
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think alien historians would be fascinated by us being split in two main groups for 10,000 years and then reconnected in 1492, with the full Colombian Exchange. That results from very specific geography which can’t be that common
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Related to this: From so much of what I’m hearing and reading on how AI is going to kill us all, I think the real situation is one that neither lawmakers or journalists are remotely equipped to handle, which is that many of these people are not lying but are in fact sincerely deranged cultists
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lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
yes, exactly bsky.app/profile/bigw...
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
do it. read the world’s premier series of books about being a young wizard, where “wizard” here means “reality tech support”
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 07/09/2026
Look Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner are NOT husbands. …they don’t feel the need to put those labels on their relationship.
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we must end this administration in the same way the Egyptians ended the reign of Akhenaten.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/09/2026
DAMNATIO MEMORIAE folks, more and more people are saying it
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. 
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. 
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. 
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. 
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. 
Elves are terrific. They beget terror. 
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. 
No one ever said elves are nice. 
Elves are bad.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ways 2026 is like NEUROMANCER promised/warned us: 1. stay up all night trawling the raytraced expanses of cyberspace 2. all the homies fucking hate ice
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026
to restore our republic we must return to our ancient traditions
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am so goddamn serious: the next Congress absolutely must remove the power of the Speaker to *unilaterally and indefinitely disband the House of Representatives*. Ideally as part of a broader package of reforms to modernize and reinvigorate the people’s legislature.
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Worrying about this beyond my pay grade, but as an archaeologist one of my professional duties is the preservation bit of "preservation by record". In other words: when we take something apart to see how it's put together we have a sacred duty to make that knowledge accessible to the future.
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
seriously: poll workers are Just Normal People. It’s like being on a jury except you sign up to do it, and it’s hella rewarding. Help your neighbors vote! Maintain the basic mechanisms of democracy! Do Very Important Paperwork!
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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
seriously: poll workers are Just Normal People. It’s like being on a jury except you sign up to do it, and it’s hella rewarding. Help your neighbors vote! Maintain the basic mechanisms of democracy! Do Very Important Paperwork!
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Mike Warner ❌👑 @mike-warner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come join the team! It's not just super-super-meaningful, it's actually fun too.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We used to be a real country with federal striptease regulation
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In my absolute, ideal world, even the liberals on the court lose their robes for this. I don't care what sort of dark night of the soul you had about it, you signed the death warrant of the republic, you should all fall on your swords
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
Bel was one of the Ohioans that Vance demagogued in 2024. He was one of the people who Vance targeted with a blood libel. And now he is dead because of the consequences of that libel. I would like to ask Vance about him.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m not joking, Canada should expel American diplomats over this
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026
the thing about every major figure in this administration is that every single one of them is an irredeemable piece of shit and the thing about the next democratic congress and next democratic presidency is that they absolutely must treat these pieces of shit with all of the respect they have earned
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This book is extremely my shit. An really cool Alternate American history set in the jazz age. It rules.
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hole foe @hole-friend.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A lot of high minded discourse about ‘Woke’ v1 sort of elides what seems to me a pretty simple reason that it comes in for harsh criticism: it’s perceived as losing. Something controversial when you win get’s perceived as a bold strategem. If you lose it’s a fuckup.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
now that’s what I call hyperlexia content
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Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And indeed, many of those same voters are now, or influenced, the Evelyns Normielib of TYOOL 2026!
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm in for sponsoring Baume's Taekwon-Do lessons, since we must not risk failure.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
missing a few, but otherwise... solid!
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