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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

@merovingians.bsky.social
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Extremely Online medieval archaeologist and somehow now aspiring politico in the PNW. Dem Tea Party Believer. AOCista. 2ndGen 🇨🇺🇺🇸 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
they are going to be furious if and when Ossoff runs for higher office and the left brings up LR or the crypto bill and accuse them of making the perfect the enemy of the good because the idea that voting for things has moral implications is foreign.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
it's remarkable how, with the Laken Reilly Act and the Lankford bill, much like the Gaza genocide, while people like Dana will extremely belatedly recognize they are Bad they chafe at anyone being held *responsible* for their deletrious effects
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
still pretty sure he didn't realize Newsom was mayor of San Francisco lol
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
remember when Dana demanded I name a bunch of mayors and got mad when I named several who had more famous later careers
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
Democrats don't do 'rabid' and they certainly don't do 'rabid' pro-immigration. that's not even true of the base (which Dana likes to ellide between them and more reactionary elected Democrats)
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
to believe Democrats are rabidly pro-anything, much less immigration, requires a kind of brain that stopped taking in new imput in 2002
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h
laken riley act
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
*sighs in yankees fan*
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
george was nasty for that one lol
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Boo-cey Kwiatek 💀 @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 9h
Or Tullys.
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 8h
Finally watched this clip and I lost it when Talarico says "he was a child of Gd and endowed with infinite worth" 😭
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Femininomicon ex Mortis 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 @ofvick.bsky.social · 9h
If we are unprotected we are unbound. Anything else is just Wilhoit's Law
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 11h
Reading between the lines of this article, it seems like the ESPN shift from entertainment to content coincided with their shift to wall to wall gambling coverage. Also with Jimmy Pitaro taking over for John Skipper www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Pete ParaNormal @petenormal.bsky.social · 9h
Also can I just say... I listened to the Brewers game on ESPN Radio tonight, and the talking heads they were promoting during time outs made Jim Rome sound like freaking Aristotle. Shit is BLEAK.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
yeah she's a DemSoc but not officially DSA afaik?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9h
Once again the United States, sitting behind two oceans with reasonably well consolidated states on its only land borders is going to play this game on easy mode, because it can simply leave - whereas Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, etc. cannot vacate the near proximity of their neighbors.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9h
I think one of the implications of drone warfare going forward is that powers are going to have fewer alternatives to occupy-and-govern as solutions to problematic neighbors, which creates a nasty kind of zugzwang because modern warfare also makes occupy-and-govern hideously costly.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
Arkansas would be particularly hysterical
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 8h
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Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
ALT: Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 7h
A Norman doorway from Peterborough Cathedral which is located on the south side of the former cloister (also known as the ‘Bishop’s Doorway’). 📸 My own. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #PeterboroughCathedral
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 7h
Julie wouldn’t have been so predictably stupid
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 5h
The Hexham Hoard was discovered in the abbey grounds by the sexton and his assistant as they dug a grave #OTD in 1832. About 8,000 Northumbrian coins of the 9thC were found in a bronze bucket of the same period. Some 50 more coins were recovered in December 1841. 📸British Museum
The bronze bucket.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
no she would have gone for broke because the Trump rump faction demanded it
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 5h
As much as one would like to imagine supporters of the AfD as passive victims longing for an alternative to neoliberalism, a left-wing alternative was available and was actively rejected. A near majority of voters chose a far-right party that plans to dismantle the welfare state, but also promises a national revival through mass deportations of the supposedly parasitic foreign masses that have been holding back the German people. The AfD made no secret of its aims and means, and for many this was the appeal. As historian Peter Fritzsche once wrote, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations.”
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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 7h
This is so telling: openly admitting the illegal settlements are there to disrupt a two-state solution. These squatters can't be removed because that's ethnic cleansing. Them being there by evicting Palestinians and ignoring international law? That's because it's Judea and Samaria Fucking chutzpah
day after the president ambushed Netanyahu on the eve of his visit with a speech declaring his intention to pursue negotiations intended to force Israel back to the 1967 armistice lines. That reset American policy to one in which Washington was implicitly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the territories to gratify Palestinian ambitions and the division of Jerusalem.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
this is probably pretty close to the median Israeli opinion and we should proceed accordingly
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14h
Hey so I guess we’re gonna get a final word on which Dem leadership has a semblance of a spine, huh
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22h
A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺
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Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of miles
Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6h
Zelensky has cut the cord
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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 6h
granting an invasive species not protected status but personhood is such a colombia thing to do
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
if it was good enough for South Africa, it's good enough for Israel.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
anyway these people are absolutely fucking unhinged and the only way to deal with them is to isolate and economically destroy their ethnostate until they decide if starving is better than living equal with an arab in the levant.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h
Reading this is eye-opening in some ways, it's even more uncompromising and outright deranged as like, Zionist twitter, which certainly seems to exist in its own reality at points. It's surreal to see it repeatedly stated that accusing Israel of genocide is 'blood libel'
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
I think this is a more reasonable assessment of Haley's political talent, yeah.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
maybe, but does that then create the kind of thermostatic backlash Trump avoided in term I?
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
hap burth day!
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 9h
It’s a reasonably good analogy insomuch as it was clear that before the Soviet alliance Cuba was at peace with the U.S. but not truly free of it
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jan Rob @janpoblano.bsky.social · 9h
a socialist majority?
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Say That Again
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
Israel is not going to take the inevitable withdrawal of support and sanctions well.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
she has a less psychotic secdef than Hegseth, even if it's a near thing
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
he was like 12!
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
like why's bro catching strays it's one of the few things he genuinely believes in
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
blaming Shapiro here is hysterical lmao what the fuck
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 9h
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 9h
Withholding funds in a neutral seeming way from red states until they swear fidelity to the Union. Firing all undesirable MAGA leftovers from the government with impunity. Defunding and shuttering rebellious agencies. Etc.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 9h
We will need to use some of the weapons that have been left on the table for us until the opposition capitulates. Most will be political in nature.
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Femininomicon ex Mortis 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 @ofvick.bsky.social · 9h
Deportation denies us the pleasure of dealing with these devils ourselves
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
I think Trump has allowed the right's most insane fantasies to come true in a way that previous administrations simply didn't
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
she also lost Ohio, which was considered nearly as shocking at the time bsky.app/profile/para...
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