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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So sad I will be camping or else everyone would be subjected to this Jungian treasure

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Meat processing has some of the strangest jurisdictional boundaries

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The really bad news about this is that usda and FDA divide jurisdiction on pre-made sandwiches if they are open-faced or closed

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Probably the most fun I've had riding my bike in a couple of years

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One also bad part of this is that San Bruno is actually BARTable so this closure is also an instance where closing the archives makes it harder for pedestrians and cyclists to access the archives

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Most frustrating part of this: another instance where a mainstream pub refuses to recognize a woman who has a doctorate by calling her Dr. instead of Ms

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Unfortunately, I work professionally in the screwworm space. Fortunately, I have this gem to share. Just a reminder that we haven't even been 50 years free of screwworms in America

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ndb Connolly's a world more concrete does a great job of outlining the history of South Florida in terms of race, property, and freeways

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I think it's actually in an anonymous American suburb

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's because he's confused also!

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Unfortunately this guy does not entirely understand how tribes work and basically assumes that all tribal members need to live on the rez

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Haha don't get me started on the railroad checkerboard

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Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In the 1980s, an offroad dirt-biking group bucked the rules in the California desert—and got away with it. Today's anti-environmentalists are following in their tracks, writes anthropologist @jsizek.bsky.social. zps.la/4aj4DOT

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The Dirt Bikers Who Went to War on Desert Conservation | Essay

Today’s Anti-Environmentalists Are Following the Tracks of the ‘Phantom Duck’ and the Barstow-to-Vegas Race

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I wrote about the Phantom Duck and Super Hunky. Come for the names, stay for the history of right-wing anti-environmentalism

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Emily Dolhansky @emilydolhansky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

fuck Coalie. bring back Johnny Horizon, I say:

A government infographic from 1976. It pictures a man in a cowboy hat with the slogan, “Let’s Clean Up America for our 200th Birthday”

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Nws is actually more of an issue related to illegal livestock movement and effective international eradication efforts in the past! Nws used to occur in the US before we developed the sterile fly technique which was used to push the disease down to the Darien gap.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An infuriating thing about journalism is that journalists will cite two equally well-known anthropologists and call the dude professor and the lady Ms.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Same for San Francisco! And by the mid-1850s, there were newspapers in SF published in five languages (adding French, German, and Chinese)

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Also though known as accidental in its most recent iteration, the Salton Sink has been periodically infilling as the Colorado River Delta has changed over time! So both accidental and natural

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My weird obsession with golf courses has finally paid off professionally and I'm very excited about it

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It's almost like AI is more demand-side than supply-side, creating consumer demand instead of promising actual labor saving efficiencies.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In disturbing letterheads I didn't anticipate seeing at work today

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Today! Free on Zoom for those of you who appreciate California history

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Ariane Lange @arianelange.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I couldn't find much 1960s coverage of families displaced by the W-X freeway. So I looked at households listed on W or X in the 1950 census & called up the kids to see if they were still living there when construction began. I found two amazing people? Reporting is fun www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

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Will traffic on Highway 50 ever end? Sacramento history suggests the answer is ‘no’

Where are these freeway lanes headed? “It feels like spitting in the wind a little bit. In five years, we’re gonna feel like we want another lane.”

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Re-establishing Wildcat Canyon as a through route to exurban Contra Costa County is a mistake. Fix it if you must, and leave it closed.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Cadiz Inc up to new antics, zombie projects never die

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Prop 13 continues to be my enemy

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Maybe it's the same people who are trying to claim that JD's hometown of Middletown is also Appalachia (said as someone who lived the majority of my childhood in WV plus another 6 years in non-appalachia Ohio)

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Sand! Also quite effective depending on locale

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I literally had a conversation with colleagues yesterday who told me about their behavior to avoid mountain lion encounters and I reminded them that they're much more likely to die driving to work

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I find that reverse outlines (even if video content!) can help students see things a little better

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

And just think, it was such a win for 'jeffersonian democracy' to create a checkerboard

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Catellus is a superweird and mostly not researched part of the train world, as someone who wrote a bit about them in the California desert (unfortunately not relevant here)

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

AI not only requires tons of groundwater or surface water to operate it, but it also heats up that water to kill all the tiny microbes that make groundwater clean!

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There is one extremely active nimby who has made it her mission to make sure that this intersection isn't safer for cyclists and pedestrians, sadly

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Please follow up with a detailed history of property tax repossession, been waiting for someone to write one for a decade kthanx

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Lol I have tried only to have it summarize a court case once and it was the same problem except for it doesn't understand how laws work

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

watching closely to see if there's a spike in citations for Neither Settler nor Native

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Or if you spend too much time listening to satellite radio with old people... dragnet's theme song is forever in my brain

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Counterpoint: Jaws is just Duel, revamped, so actually the template of the movie is about the terror of the open road and mysterious road rage

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Death valley has more Joshua trees than Joshua Tree. Protecting those trees and the areas around the NP will continue to protect the best habitat for the charismatic species moving forward

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The lobby for this is exclusively golden duplex owners in Berkeley who don't want to improve things for their tenants

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The federal government had a little known program to sell off lands under the small tract act, and they had to end it because of too much interest and too much chaos. Today's checkerboard sale would be more of the same

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Villages connected by freeways

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