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Bill Auchter

@archaeothoughts.bsky.social
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Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) archaeologist archaeogaming Historian RPG All things Baltimore and Maryland 🦀⚾🏈🗃️🏺 Retro gaming 🕹️🎮

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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
FND + mobility aids = empowerment. For many living with Functional Neurological Disorder, these tools aren’t defeats, they’re freedom. Use what helps you move through the world. 💙 #FND #FunctionalNeurologicalDisorder #MobilityAids #FNDAware #ChronicIllnessSupport
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
You haven’t lost yourself. FND didn’t take you out of the story. It changed the angle you’re seeing it from. Different perspective. Different pace. Still you. Still here. That counts. #FND #FNDaware
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
FND, explained simply: Your brain sends signals like “move,” “speak,” “stand.” With FND, the signal gets scrambled on the way. The body isn’t broken. The message just doesn’t land. It’s not imagined. It’s neurological. #FND #FNDaware
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Living with FND means doing things most people do without thinking. Moving. Speaking. Standing. All are deliberate acts costing energy and requiring focus. So if you made it through today, that counts. Even if no one else saw the effort.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Before #FND, it was called Conversion Disorder, “Hysteria,” even “Demonic Possession” in the West. Over 3,000 years ago, early diagnoses were recorded, mainly in women. For centuries Western medicine stayed focused there. The condition didn’t change. The labels did. tinyurl.com/3te95ed6 #FNDaware
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
FND makes people uncomfortable because it doesn’t behave the way they expect. Not “visible enough” to feel physical Not “psychological enough” to feel mental So people default to doubt. The condition isn’t confusing. Our expectations of illness are. #FND #FNDaware
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Small tricks that can help during a flare-up of symptoms: Distract → Remember, this too shall pass. Shift your breathing rhythm, take deep long breathe. You’re grounding your brain, remember the flare-up is now but not forever. If you're lucky, the flare-up stops. #FND #FNDaware
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Myth: “FND is a diagnosis of exclusion.” Fact: There are tests to positively diagnose #FND. Think: • software issue • not hardware issue Medicine is still catching up to that idea. April is FND Awareness Month #FNDaware
I am, #FNDaware  ,Functional Neurological Disorder, Are you?
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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Maryland’s oldest public building, at almost 300 years, is now a museum
The Old Treasury Building in Annapolis was once the site of attempted break-ins to steal Maryland’s money. Now, it’s home to a self-guided museum tour.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Imagine your body becomes out of sync… but everything looks normal on the blood test and imagery. You try to walk with a limp some days much worse. "Remember, there is nothing physically wrong with your leg." That's a very cold comfort That’s my daily reality with #FND.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
FND isn’t rare. It’s just rarely recognized. It affects how the brain sends signals to the body's movement, speech, even consciousness regions. The wiring is there. The signals just don’t land correctly. That’s not imaginary. That’s neurological. #FND
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I emailed my reps. They are the ones with power now. If they fail us, then it's up to us. actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
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Email your representatives: No War with Iran!
I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Iran. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-no-wa...
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We can multitask: -ICE, CBP -Minneapolis and elsewhere -Tactics not changed -Trade Wars and potentially hot wars -Economy tanking because of tariffs (which we pay) -the East Wing is rubble -I know there are more And why does Trump keep appearing as a suspect in the Epstein Files! Don't let up!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Federal government is led by living embodiments, caricatures of Toxic Masculinity.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Maryland's attorney general has cleared cops of wrongdoing in 95% of police-involved death cases his office is responsible for investigating
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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has cleared cops of wrongdoing in 95% of police-involved death cases his office is responsible for investigating
In the 39 cases in which the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has completed an investigation of police-involved fatalities, the office’s Independent Investigations Division has brought charges in ju...
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...
Protestors turn from Pratt Street and block traffic on Calvert Street.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
At first, I thought the agents were using a urinal. That would've been more appropriate.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Video of the inside of this detention center have come out showing inhumane conditions. I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Public Officials: Shut Down ICE Detention at 31 Hopkins Plaza and ABOLISH ICE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Your Public Officials: Shut Down ICE Detention at 31 Hopkins Plaza and ABOLISH ICE
You are ready to take action against ICE. You are ready because 32 people died in ICE detention in 2025. You are ready because you’ve seen the inhumane conditions of those kept at 31 Hopkins Plaza. Be...
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"But the truth is that book banners are cowards... Of change. Social progress. Losing their unearned privilege and power. They cling to control by restricting our access to information: accurate historical accounts, diverse storytelling, critical awareness." www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Book banners say they protect children. This is the real truth.
Book banners are highly organized and loud, but we can defend our right to read.
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Reclaiming FND for Rehabilitation Medicine – new open access editorial Neurorehab colleague Phil Milburn-McNulty and I set out why Rehab Medicine is so well-suited to treating FND, why they historically haven’t and what can be done to change things. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The recording of my talk "How to be a Video Game Archaeologist," presented at ITU Copenhagen, is now online! It's the most comprehensive overview of my PhD research I've given
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New @aanmember.bsky.social guidelines for the management of functional seizures led by Ben Tolchin. A landmark for people with FND worldwide. ✅Rigorous evidence-based process ✅Consensus practical recommendations ✅Endorsed by @fndsociety.bsky.social www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The real reason for the season. #solidarity #crushice
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
👍🏽⚡
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Sociolinguist Shelley Dawson has an insightful chapter in this new book called "Long Covid vs. Functional Neurological Disorder: Punching Down" It details the dismissal, rhetorical tricks, and stigma that a handful of Long Covid researchers use to invalidate FND www.routledge.com/Clashing-Vul...
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Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
This book is about how we might think about vulnerability—what it is and how it operates—by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash.   Disability is often portrayed as a vulner...
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The last time time the White House was this extensively altered was for architectural and structural reasons, not vanity. Source: Wikipedia share.google/7FuC3xCHcFqs...
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White House Reconstruction - Wikipedia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An important study (IMO) looking at social dynamics re: FND on Twitter. People w FND face continual attack by a variety of groups who dismiss our condition and experiences - ranging from abusive clinicians to other disabled people. It makes it even harder to exist in public with this dx.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The only king I recognize. America is broken, we don't need Band-Aids. #nokings #kingkong
Image (1000121246.jpg): A stylized, close-up digital illustration of an angry gorilla wearing a gold crown, set against a dark, glowing orange background.
Link: Link to Adobe Stock search results for 'Angry King Kong Images', showing thousands of stock photos, vectors, and videos.
https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=angry+king+kong
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
TLDR: Grave marker in an Italian museum collection. Missing after WW2. G.I. and his Italian bride have possession. Grave marker given to granddaughter. Granddaughter put a marker in the backyard. The house was sold to the people who "discovered" it. Mystery solved. wapo.st/47bsQVP
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Roman-era gravestone found in New Orleans yard sheds light on WWII mystery
Roman soldier Sextus Congenius Verus was buried 1,900 years ago in Italy. So how did his grave marker end up in a backyard in New Orleans?
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/10/2025
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/09/2025
Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
For nearly two weeks straight Trump has escalated his attempt to take over DC. Federal agents are now violently profiling, harassing, and arresting Black and Brown DC community members and their presence is a severe danger to people here. Join us today at 3 PM to demand FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW.
DC demands federal forces out now. Press conference + rally. Today, August 18, at 3 PM. 14th St & U St. NW.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/08/2025
"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist
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New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released
With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We must all be sub guyz now. Look how insecure and weak they are. #NotAllHerosWearCapes
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Don't sit by
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I will join the choir of posters, 'I thought he was already dead.'
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It Was Not the “News” That Traveled Slowly — It Was “Power” -- an essay on #Juneteenth by Christopher Wilson to #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth Read excerpts in this 🧵
It Was Not the “News” That Traveled Slowly — It Was “Power” -- an essay on #Juneteenth by Christopher Wilson | text on top of black and white photo of men standing in suits
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Grand Union Flag" Continental Union Flag, 1775 For Flag Day, remember those who fought to remove the yoke of a king. #NoKings
"Grand Union Flag" Continental Union Flag, 1775
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Or articles of impeachment could be drafted by a member of the house of representatives. Take action.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I saw posts yesterday about the death of Brian Wilson. Didn't really register at the time. Now I'm sitting at my desk with "I get around" as an earworm. I'll have to make time to listen to Pet Sounds this weekend. RIP
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Inside FND" - a new short film about FND A film that draws on evidence from patients, clinicians and research to counter common misconceptions about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAv...
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Inside FND
YouTube video by Jon Stone
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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Time to get the facts straight. 🙌 Thanks @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Caoimhe McLaughlin and Anna Ross, and the ETUDE team for bringing this to life.
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"American archaeologists face a diminished, uncertain future. Government support for research, preservation and museums has been largely scaled back. Archaeology and cultural heritage staff have been fired, federal agencies have been gutted..." #archaeology #anthropology 🏺
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In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future
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Bill Auchter @archaeothoughts.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great summary of the dangers of "ai." The same as before, corporations and governments wanting more control of your life.
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