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Former archaeologist & current library worker. Civilization enthusiast. I was dooming then; I'm coping now. He/him

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Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I just love this photo!
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Autumn Hillside Franklin Carmichael 1920
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Tall Pine Mary Wrinch n.d.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
>we’ve reached the worrying about prison phase of the Trump Presidency
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Opeongo Ridge, Clear Lake Charles Comfort n.d.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Guilfoyle took it in the divorce
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I wish I had the receipts, but I've been saying DHS was Chekhov’s Agency since the day it was created. Even the name tells you "this is the future totalitarian security arm". Before DHS was created zero people referred to America as "the homeland". That name seemed chosen purely for foreshadowing.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
They're mad that they spent a lot of money and time spinning up ads and bot campaigns to promote this conspiracy theory only for it to turn to dogshit in their mouths aren't they
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/10/2026
i cannot believe this is how i find out the pope has cancer
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/10/2026
The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm never going to buy another computer lmao
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ITzzy SeaBOOscuit @ijspurcell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Every single one of these scenarios has the load-bearing assumption of “terraforming another planet will be technically easier than fixing the worst case climate change scenario on Earth” and that is just such a phenomenally stupid belief
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☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.゚☠ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
SECRETLY TRAVELED TO DUBAI…
WITH HIS MISTRESS…
TO PARTY WITH TWO INDICTED AMERICAN FUGITIVES WHO DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN…
WHO STOLE $293 MILLION FROM A TAXPAYER PROGRAM MEANT TO BENEFIT POOR PEOPLE
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
conservatism is just the belief that your survival should be determined as it was before 1796. nothing more
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.” ~ Peter Cameron, ‘Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.’ #Drawing, ‘Glacier de Viesch,’ Études sur les glaciers, Louis Agassiz, 1840.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/10/2026
This is correct, but not a long-term solution. Democracy cannot, and does not, persist if it depends on one party winning major elections every time. People don't like to hear this because it's very hard to solve. But the only solution is two major parties that support liberal democracy.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I believe original sin is transmitted by the act of union so as long as nobody fucked the computer to make Claude it should be okay
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Autumn Woods Tom Thomson 1915
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
October Gold Franklin Carmichael 1922
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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The thing about being a liberal or progressive in the South is you do not entertain The Noble Savage/Trump Supporter in a Diner thought whatsoever.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Loudoun County, VA bsky.app/profile/titu...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Earth and Moon looking at the rest of the solar system
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That does sound good, but unfortunately quinces don't seem to be that much of a thing in the US. I bought fresh ones once at a fancy store (only time I've ever seen them in my life) for the novelty and was very disappointed lol
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
btw thank you Mr. Secretary for announcing to all the world's potential psychopaths that they can get a livestream of their martyrdom sponsored by the United States government if they shoot up a federal facility
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Teotihuacan: pretty fucking cool, guys
Pyramid of the Sun, TeotihuacanMural and dog, Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun viewed from the pyramid of the moon, Teotihuacan
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
can we talk about quinces anyway? expensive fuckass fruit. what do you mean I have to boil it to make it edible. Is it a potato
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
political sign for Harvey Esptein (other sign says no relation)
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
in kind of an odd cultural niche I think in that I own quite a few guns and go target shooting and hunting and such, but also find guns to be quite ugly and just sort of distasteful really
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the problem American 'conservatives' have with communists isn't that the latter oppressed, starved, and immiserated millions and generally ran fucked-up societies; American 'conservatives' are most offended by communists' *symbolic* commitment to the notion of social justice
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@beaubaumann.bsky.social is right: everyday, until the supposed day of public execution, is a struggle over the message. I would add two things: First, when I say that the Civil War taught us No Kings, No Masters, this is what I mean. The master had sovereign authority over the plantation.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Night and Willow.’ #Painting by Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) #art
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the entire Trump administration makes sense when you realize the animating force is just state violence as content
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it‘s always been conspicuous consumption, but with Trump it‘s also taken on an element of like German officers intentionally getting smacked in the face with swords to get dueling scars
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rare body oils @rarebodyoils.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(on my deathbed, releasing the tension from my tired bones and letting the last waves of awareness pass through me and leave beyond me) at least i...always dismissed things. (coughing softly) and was above them
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They worship and love death. It is their god
The Christofascists of today do not view themselves as existing outside
Christianity, but it can be said that they worship a different god: the god of the plantation, concentration camps, prisons, punishing your enemies, apartheid, and genocide. Again, Söelle says as much, stating that in the Religious Right, she saw
"a God without justice, a Jesus without a cross, an Easter without a cross-what remains is a metaphysical Easter Bunny in front of the beautiful blue light of the television screen, a betrayal of the disappointed, a miracle weapon in service of the mighty."
Their political objectives reveal the god of Christofascism as a god of death, a god who proclaims a gospel of counterfeit life while feasting upon life itself. Within this god's political project, being a good
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