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Taylor (5'5")

@vertarchy.bsky.social
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Arkansas archeologist. Kentucky Colonel. Poet. he/him

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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hundreds of beavers
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Second paragraph of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848):

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
God I remember when y'all were good and would have made fun of this """controversy""" rather than post a story for clicks. What a waste of good faith and talent y'all had.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Crazy how you can go online now and see dedicated dog accounts do genocide denial everywhere.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 11/09/2026
“This is getting pretty eerie, Simmons. … Another skull, another fortune.”
“This is getting pretty eerie, Simmons. … Another skull, 
another fortune.”
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This film development shit is expensive as hell I gotta get my own scanner
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I like that the surgeon who saved the guard's life is, from one line, extremely obviously the same one who saved Noel's dad. Great callback.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Emailed the author about it and she specified it's different from SdB's because of some minor wording and suggested that it's ~possible~ AD was paraphrasing SdB. Sure, think you just wanted to whistle to some dogs with a quote from one anti-porn book before launching into your own.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the whole of social media is a rage machine and brother i'm furious
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Performative y'all"
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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This was provocative bc fascists are always saying that their worldview is "natural" and anything else is naive or deviant. A main reason they love ancient Greece & Rome is that it allows them to point to ancient history to say “this is how things really are/should be.” see my "White Pedestal" 1/
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm not engaging any more with non archaeologists who refuse to cite a *single* study that shows widespread evidence for war and fascism/ authoritarian rule in the ca 400,000 ish years pre agricultural revolution and millions of years before... b/c they don't exist. 0 evidence. We were peaceful.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Damn fascism is a part of human nature? Guess someone should have informed the last 300,000 years of humans that they could have been fascists the whole time rather than just the last hundred years.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.
My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Coca cola
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 14/10/2023
There’s about a 20-year period between 1995 and 2015 where actors from the 90s got 20 years older
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
really crazy to open a pop feminism book a friend recommended only to find an Andrea "All Men Are Born Rapists" Dworkin quote opening the introduction. and not only that, but it's a very famous quote by Simone de Beauvoir misattributed to Dworkin.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ngl every time I see a MTG crossover card I can't help but to think it's the lamest game ever made. Reddit slop.
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Emily Wilson critique good
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Indiana Jones and the Orientalist Tropes
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Okay Argentina lost, who cares?
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
we want 1 billion Night In The Woods players a day
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Aside from the artifacts, Probably my 50ish year old film camera my dad gave me
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Should have posted this before, but I'm going to have two (2!!!) poems in the Fourth Bullshit Anthology this fall! Super excited about it :) Both are very NSFW so don't expect me to post them when it's published lol
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
this is obviously a hyper-conservative project but honestly at the national level there's a broad bipartisan consensus that the only way to be "apolitical" and "neutral" is to be a white cishet culturally conservative christian nationalist who loves israel and fears gender affirming care for minors
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 19/06/2026
guys let's all read articles on JSTOR
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I've been collecting gear/materials for fieldwork and Ribbit decided to help me test my new soil book. I'd say she's firmly within pretty much all of the 10YR range, with a few splashes from the 5YR range 🧐
My hand holding open pages from a soil colour chart book over my cat's back. She's a tabby tortishell pattern of blonds, greys, browns, and reds. Same book pages and cat, only now she's smooshing her nose on the side of the book
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Need that Saddam Hussein Hole shirt
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We used AI to fuck up jerseys we had been making fine for 20 years
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
that dumb fucking pedophile showed up to the garden just to shit his pants and curse the city for another fifty years
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 05/06/2026
Recency bias: Every single story on the post office’s woes should include a paragraph explaining that no one thought it needed to break even until Reagan came along. It’s a public service. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
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Postal Service Frees Up Enough Cash to Keep Operating for ‘Several Years’
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Thunder @thunderafterdark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
whenever i see people gloat about how they "don't use references" for art i just think about this bit from sam and max
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You ever see a post from a random and just know they're really normal about non-white people? I bet you she's not racist at all, if she thinks, uh, cutting your food up before you eat it "denotes a breakdown in civilisation."
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A great opportunity to be Trump's arch nemesis. Comment by noon on June 3. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...
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Public Comment Period: Proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed...
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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Watched Salò. Baby's first film to clutch your pearls to.
A 4.5 star review of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by me.

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Everything you've heard about this film is true. It's horrifying, disgusting, difficult to watch and harder to stomach.

It's also baby's first outrage film. The violence, the gore, the rape—pales in comparison to what's in the New French Extremity movement. Hell, Human Centipede is a more revolting film with less to say.

The horror of Salò isn't just what's happening on screen, the actual torture and rape and shit eating, but the circumstance. The fact you know these men will get away with it because of their position in the fascist party, and the fact the only people in the film capable of stopping them are just following orders.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
justin timberlake "it's gonna be may" meme
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Will the platform of “give senators millions of tax payer dollars” be popular with voters in November? The New York Times spoke with a group of deranged maniacs who say the answer is complicated
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193
A painting of a man and a woman standing in front of a red Chevrolet truck. The man is holding a hoe; the woman is holding a bucket with house cleaning supplies. The artist's two parents stand proudly in front of the painting.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"Rural voters" never means voters in rural areas like, say, the Mississippi Delta.
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Computer, delete all video podcasts from all podcast apps, authorization Disillusion alpha zero zero one.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14/05/2026
🏺 Oh nothing, just thinking about the top of this jar from Thebes, now held at the Met in NYC. 📜 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
A ceramic jar lid made to look like a cow.
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 15/04/2026
Revisiting @horrorvanguard.bsky.social's episodes on the Terrifier series and once more stealing this @rosegardenofeyes.bsky.social quote: "Haters gonna hate, hate, hate. And they would be right to do so, listeners."
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...
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The right tried to take down this transgender instructor in Oklahoma. She's staying put.
Mel Curth says the university’s public handling of a grading controversy made many people wrongly believe she had been fired.
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Kristina M. Gill @kmgill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
30 SCIENTISTS SLAM STRAT STUDY 30 experts just published a series of three eLetters in Science May 4-9. The letters systematically dismantle the claims made by Surovell et al. that Monte Verde is <8k yr old, upholding the rigorously documented conclusion that Monte Verde really is 14.5kyo 🏺🧪🌎
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