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Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h
There’s nothing that I really want: The stars tonight are rich and cold Above my house that vaguely broods Upon a path soon lost in dark. My dinner plate is chipped all round (It tells me that I’ve changed a lot); My glass is cracked all down one side (It shows there is a path for me).
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11h
On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey
Two houses stand at dusk in a snowy street. One is smaller and brightly lit. The other is larger and mainly in darkness. 
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My own
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Cascading planetary-wide ecosystem effects of the extirpation of apex predatory Krayt dragons on Tatooine
Author’s note: this post is part of the “Science of Tatooine” blog carnival. Though obviously about science fiction and not the real world, it includes real ecological theories,  …
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
New in PN: Will Dems offer a New New Deal? "Today's situation — in which the economy continues to grow but working Americans have an ever-shrinking share — has been a long time coming. But Trump’s nihilistic policies have put the lie to the Reaganite promise of prosperity through assaulting govt."
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Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026
We have a new high poll for Dems AFAIK of D+16 on the generic ballot among likely voters. I think pollsters are playing kind of fast and loose with these filters to only use decided voters but still. Holy hell
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump now argues that “his supporters will be deterred from contributing to the [Kennedy] Center if his name is removed.” This is the good stuff: pure, unadulterated horseshit.
Plaintiff's alleged harms pale in comparison to the real harms on the other
side of the ledger. For one, the absence of a recognition to President Trump
threatens to impede the Center's fundraising efforts and contribute to the financial decline of the Center. As the Center's Executive Director explained, the President has been a central force in the Center's current fundraising efforts,
but his supporters will be deterred from contributing to the Center if his name is removed. See ECF No. 47-1 at 2. This loss of fundraising time and potential is also definitionally irreparable, and the public interest weighs in favor of an
economically viable Center.
Again, the district court erred in concluding
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're arguing that the Trump name is so valuable it alone will pull the Kennedy Center back to financial success and (gestures broadly) what the fuck are you talking about?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rusty...
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21h
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Bushes' and 'SB' in place of 'trees' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'trees' in any applicable setting."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h
man the republicans who hate language policing are going to be so mad about this
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21h
Hey read my latest article, it’s protective against basilisks, according to Bayesian inference
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20h
It is kind of one of the reasons you have to impeach Vought: there is no trust that he will implement the appropriations instructions authorized by Congress.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20h
The reason I keep murmuring our low level constitutional crisis will break out in the open is that if the Democrats take both houses, the President will start to veto appropriations bills.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20h
The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h
If nothing else, watch minutes 4-7. Senator Eric Schmitt, exposed for one of the more embarrassing mistakes I've ever seen in my life, responds by lashing out.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21h
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
😂😂
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
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Anne Welsbacher @awelsbacher.bsky.social · 22h
For authors: beware emails or other approaches by an outfit called ClaimsHero offering to represent you in suing for use of your works to train AI without your knowledge. authorsguild.org/news/claimsh...
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Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Focus on the shapes. “Cirrus”, a curl, “stratus”, a layer, “cumulus”, a heap. “Humilis”, a small cloud, “cumulus humilis”, a fine day to fly.
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Drawing Knotted in the Manner of a Net www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Extremely ironic and tone deaf hella uncomfortable 250th anniversary ad from a cotton company saying freedom gave us the opportunity to farm cotton, a legacy worth protecting 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬 Girl read the room

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250 years ago, our founding fathers chose independence and laid the foundation for a nation of growers, builders, makers and doers!
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250 years ago, our founding fathers chose independence and laid the foundation for a nation of growers, builders, makers and doers!
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Freedom gave us more than a nation!
It gave us the opportuniy to build, farm,
create, manufacture, and leave something better for the next generation.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"When we invented and deployed our Critical-Infrastructure War-Crime Leopard, it never occurred to me that the Critical-Infrastructure War Crime Leopard would blow the head off my own teenage son" "Yeah, sure, dad, go on crying, we're fretful about the price-of-diesel over here" #modernity
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Timeline cleanse! 🐕✨ A charming Egyptian dog figurine made of faience, dating 2120–1795 BC. An adorable glimpse into the past 😊 On display at Neues Museum Berlin.
Small blue dog figurine with irregular black spots, standing in profile and facing right, displayed in a museum case.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
tfw you think you’re an end and you find out you’re a means
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years
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Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years
Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alito recuses himself from one of the big upcoming SCOTUS cases.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
yes
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The defense of the new BOP policy has been met with a brick wall over the past year and half from Lamberth, an 83-year-old Reagan appointee who first blocked the second Trump administration’s anti-trans prison efforts 15 days into Trump’s second term." A story you know well if you read Law Dork.
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He’s a robber warlord not a president
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is delusional beyond belief.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rain is falling through the roof. And all that prospered under the sun, the books that opened in the morning and closed at night, and all day turned their pages to the light;
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Part of the foundational grift of right wing talk radio and primetime cable was having some of the richest and most widely aired stars paint themselves as pirate broadcasters. Today, Bari Weiss along with legions of podcasters, academics, and Substackers are continuing that tradition.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We are in a moment where the government is working to purge people who believe in trans rights, racial equity, and human rights for Palestinians from the public square. Meanwhile, the people thriving in this environment pretend they're the ones in danger.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
re-upping this because we've reached another tentative equilibrium in which Saudis have been able to ramp up exports, and oil and gasoline both have come back down a bit off their highs. But with Trump formally rejecting Iranian deal, look for Iran to start using other methods to apply pressure
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-im...
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hoo-boy I have one word of suggestion to anyone using Claude and similar applications to do their research. Don't.
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s not remotely hard to do this. And yet ….
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is my native territory as well.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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