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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️

@graveyardarch.bsky.social
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PhD in Archaeology Mortuary Archaeologist, Adjunct Prof, Researcher, Associate Editor ✨️ I like graves, the C17th, landscapes, & protective magic. I preserve gravestones, write books, & paint pictures (she/her) linktr.ee/RLacy

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We see $0 for journal articles, so please just email us for them 🎉
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A friend I ran into recently asked me "So do you have any trips planned? I feel like you guys are Always travelling somewhere." This is the reputation I want to have in the world 💁‍♀️
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just got an email saying my chapter proposal has been accepted into @drmaryclary.bsky.social & @librarianchef.bsky.social's forthcoming edited volume 'Hauntology'!! Wooo! 🎉 #author #archaeology
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Alt: Spongebob Squarepants wiggling back and forth says 'yay'!
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 12 - Sep 25, 2026 CANADA MODERATE [no change] About 1 of every 158 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 3.9 x higher -Long COVID: 2.9 x higher -Hospitalizations: 4.2 x higher -Deaths: 3.9 x higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Sep 12 - Sep 25, 2026, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is MODERATE [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 4.0

About 1 of every 158 people is infected.

Estimated infections this week: 151,700-309,800
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: MODERATE; 3.9X higher
Long COVID: MODERATE; 2.9X higher
Hospitalizations: MODERATE; 4.2X higher
Deaths: MODERATE; 3.9X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks

Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months

Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Taps the sign.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have you preordered my new book? It's my first non-academic publication & I could not be more thrilled! #graveyard #cemetery #nfd
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heads up friends, I just sent in a book proposal so hopefully I'll be sending out a CFP soon! If you're a Canadian heritage worker or volunteer in a community heritage group relating to cemeteries, I'm hoping to work with you! #heritage #graveyard #archaeology 🏺
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Cute Baby Girl Dancing Woohoo
Alt: Cute Baby Girl Dancing Woohoo
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Watching Bones S11 E20 & the big bad just said 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a name for yourself in archaeology?' 😂 I'd say just as hard as any science no one wants to fund! #archaeology
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So glad my laptop appears to be ok after I just dumped a cup of tea across my table while grumpily reviewing a terrible proposal for gravestone repairs. They won't be happening on my watch, even if I have to dab tea out of my computer!! #conservation
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Odin Stone at Stennis in Orkney was where ‘two persons, generally lovers, desirous to take the promise of Odin,’ would clasp hands through the stone, according to Sir Walter Scott in 1814. When a farmer later destroyed the stone, locals set his house on fire. #WyrdWednesday 🎨 Lady Stafford
Drawing of the Odin Stone by Lady Stafford, 1805
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NL ended the moratorium on cod in 2024, which seemed sketch, so it's amazing to see the numbers are still going up! Now, don't 👏 overfish 👏 again 👏
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New swear unlocked everybody
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obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"
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this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The point of the movie Starship Troopers is that Paul Verhoeven gets the audience to support the soldiers before slowly revealing to the audience that they’ve been duped into cheering for Nazis. Costumes play a huge role in this, providing a signifier that the humans might be the villains. 1/2
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Space Force Uniform Inspired By Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers'
The president shared photos on Truth Social of the uniforms, which include in their color palette "space gray" and "midnight black" as well as knee-high leather boots
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh no, we found some terrible gravestone repairs last weekend in a C18th #graveyard. I wrote a post about it, & we're in the process of contacting the municipality. 🏺 #cemetery #conservation spadeandthegrave.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Old Parish Burying Ground – Conservation Concerns
This past weekend, myself and my husband traveled over to Windsor, Nova Scotia, to visit our friends and tour around a couple of the local burial grounds…because what else would we be doing o…
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy 1 year anniversary of me not dying in a rock climbing accident! I cannot believe it has been a whole year, & 9 months of physio! I've got all but 5-7% of my range of motion back, stairs & slopes are getting better, & my left kneecap is slightly smaller than the right, but I'm alive 🧗‍♀️
The photo shows the view looking up q rock climbing craig from the base. The stone is streaked brown and grey, and tree branches reach towards it with a blue sky above. My legs in the passenger seat of a car, wearing hree hiking pants with black panels over the knees. My left leg is being supported by a makeshift splint made of tree branches, a triangle bandange, and a climbing sling. I'm giving a thumbs up for not being dead, and its totally dark outside.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shout out to good unions, you guys are one of the major last lines of defence against fascism!! We love u!!
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Seeräuber Áine @seerauberaine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you a medievalist interested in 🐈‍⬛✨witchcraft✨🐈‍⬛? We're looking for papers for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 'Witches: Imaginary Enemies of the Community'. Submissions are open until 20 September. We'd love to hear from you!
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching National Treasure, aka the best movie ever, & we're huge nerds so I was like 'I see you wire nail, you weren't built 200+ years ago' & my husband just cackled 🏺😂 #archaeology
Exhibit A: a board with a nail pulling through it because Nic Cage is pulling on it, on the tv which is paused. It's a round head wire nail, which is not accurate for something over 200 years old, and I noticed because I'm a dork.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Carney and Cabinet tried to bury it. It's Cabinet which is supporting him and his incineration of our children's futures.
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Canada's Latest Climate Report Should Be Call to Action, Instead Gov't Tried to Bury It - Environmental Defence
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shameless plugging of my new book 'Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland'! Part history chat, part guidebook, part gravestone nerding out, this book is a labour of joy and love for historic #cemeteries in Nfld! I cannot wait for you all to check it out 🥰 #heritage www.booksellers.ca/books/gravey...
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Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland : The History, Stories, and Unexpected Beauty of 50+ Intriguing Cemeteries from Robyn Lacy | English books | Travel | Museums, Tours, Points of Interest | Canada | b...
In every town and outport in Newfoundland, down sideroads and ATV trails, up hidden paths, tucked between bushes, and perched on cliffs overlooking the surf, cemeteries are nestled against…
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What if I spent all my time reading for a project I don't have funding for, instead of...i dunno..my job?
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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
'Stones & Bones': the tour that recently sold out almost straight away. We've added another date on 29 September and (already) there are just two tickets remaining 🤯 This is our tour for all you brilliant archaeology fans. Last two tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.com/exetercathed...
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Medieval Leprosy Hospital Cemetery Excavated in Switzerland www.medievalists.net/2026/09/medi... #archaeology #Switzerland
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Medieval Leprosy Hospital Cemetery Excavated in Switzerland - Medievalists.net
Archaeologists in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, have uncovered more than 200 burials at the site of a medieval leprosy hospital and chapel.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You can stay on hospice care indefinitely as long as a doctor regularly re-certifies that your life expectancy is six months or less. There is no maximum time limit or automatic cutoff for services. Hospice care DOES NOT extend life-it eases SUFFERING. STFU and go pay attention to Measles, Bobby.
A social media post claims RFK Jr closed 500 hospices in California for not making patients die fast enough and encourages readers to marinate on that. The post shows engagement counts.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I cannot wait! I shall, as usual, be playing only with photos already on my phone from Nov 2025 to this Oct! Lets see if I have them all already 😍
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 We’re HIRING! ☠️ Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology* (full-time, 2-year post starting January 2027). 📅 Application deadline: 14 September 2026🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxrwbh #AcademicJobs #Archaeology #Osteology #Teaching #Edinburgh #EdinArch #HEjobs @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy Sept! I've been in my new job & city for 6 months somehow, there is a crispness to the air, & I've begun eyeing my sweaters 👀
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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This weeks posting for #SkullSaturday is a detail from the row of tombstones posted last week. The monument is to Susanna Holt. I could not read the date that she died but the HMI volume for the churchyard states 5th September 1773, aged 73. All Saints, #Hertford @graveyardarch.bsky.social
A tombstone with a lot of long grass growing in front of it.  The main lower block is text.  The upper decorated panel has a skull in profile view on the right and am hourglass with wings in the centre. The hourglass has a crown.  On the left is a motif which is difficult to see as it is eroded, but is probably a second skull in profile but looking more upwards than the one on the right.Detail of the stone showing the skull in profile.  It has distinct eye and nose sockets.
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Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Out digging at the Camphill earthwork with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and Kieran Manchip @archscot.bsky.social and students and volunteers. This site has everything from prehistory and post-medieval farming to rich contemporary archaeology (campfires, arboglyphs, graffiti, and witchy rituals)!
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Elizabeth Whitten @elwhitten.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Want to know more about NL comics on #ReadLocalComicsDayNL - then pick up my book Off Panel: A History of NL Comix (Engen Books)
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Attended a gravestone preservation review webinar today (happy to report my techniques are all up to snuff), & what do I spy?? My photo of a particularily terribel repair from the GPC in St. John's done with draw rails! It's the far left! 😂🏺
A slide with three gravestones on it. On the left is the back of a stone with two drawer rails bolted to it. In the centre is a stone capped with concrete, and on the right is a bad break repair to marble done with something grey...caulking possibly??
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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hi hello!!! A) you should apply for this and come hang out in Providence to talk about women, gender, and families and perhaps enjoy a crisp diet coke and/or a whaler's or two; B) would anyone be interested in putting together a panel on "the family" and wartime?
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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
*finds interesting thing online* *sends interesting thing to myself via email* DING!!! *Oooh! Who's sending me emails?* Repeat until death or redundancy.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A random fact about myself: I have never purchased a bicycle. I did, however win 3 bikes at different stages of life 💁‍♀️ (I have purchased 2 unicycles though)
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I was happily saving a paper I've been asked to peer-review last night & thinking that I was excited to read the research. Then I thought 'wow I'm a nerd' 😂 and I wouldn't want it any other way! 🏺
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Got a podcast interview ask & a peer-review request today! Then I rolled my ankle on the way to the pond & managed to fall backwards onto my paddleboard pack? Happy Friday!
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Spent the day visiting the freshly refurbished and repaired @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with their new paint jobs to reflect how they would have originally looked when they were first installed, and they look amazing.
Photograph of the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus sculpture.Photograph of the two Crystal Palace Iguanodons.Photograph of one of the Crystal Palace ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs in the foreground and a couple more ichthyosaurs in the background. The ichthyosaur in the foreground has an Egyptian goose perched on its head.Photograph of the Megaloceros/ Irish elk sculptures on display at Crystal Palace. In the foreground is the female sitting down and behind her is a male with large antlers.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Friends, I visited the Garrison Graveyard in Annapolis Royal today on a road trip around the area with my husband & parents! I hadn't been since my PhD research trip in 2022ish, it was so magical to be back! 🏺❤️
View looking across a grassy graveyard with tall leafy trees in the background, and a number of slate, marble, and sandstone gravestones in the foreground. The sky is overcast with some blue peaking through.
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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The PCR positivity map is out now, UKHSA's server having come back online. The adjusted positivity for England is 5.14%, but the simplest sign that a surge has begun is that nearly every area has started reporting again. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
They did it, those sons of bitches actually managed to get them in a row.
A line of ducks all sitting in a row, on a partially submerged log in a pond.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I made a tiktok about the fictional grave & potential impacts to archaeology 😬 #archaeology vt.tiktok.com/ZS43Dv7WE/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh wow, she's gorgeous!
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My friends and family are scrambling to save farm animals in the Okanagan right now as several towns are evacuated. My best friend texted my videos of literally driving through fire to save their horses. If you support anything that is making forest firest worse, you are a Monster.
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STrRedWolf @redwolf.ws · 07/08/2026
The quote is what gets me.
Arizona DOT installed a wildlife camera at Route 87's pedestrian crossing outside Payson last September. Standard deer migration count.  After six months, they had footage of zero deer and 147 clips of the same coyote pressing the crosswalk button with its paw at sunrise.  The animal waits for the walk signal.  Steps into the road.  Crosses at a trot. Every single time.  Biologists believe it learned by watching hikers at the adjacent trailhead. "It's not random," said the lead researcher. "That coyote understands cause and effect better than half our interns." DOT voted unanimously to keep the camera running.  The coyote hasn't jaywalked once.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bad art is better than AI slop.
four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop  or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If I hadn't yelled about it enough already, my Graveyard Guidebook is available for pre-order!! I've collected some of the links where you can get it from, please consider supporting a bb author or requesting it for your library! 🏺 spadeandthegrave.com/2026/08/05/g...
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“Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland” Book Pre-Order is live!
The book cover! It’s nearly here! After two years of hard work, my first non-academic book is nearly out in the world! “Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland: The history, stories, and une…
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