Bill Auchter

Happening today at Crooked Run Fermentation in Sterling, VA! Come hear me talk pirates & taverns! Get tickets here: profsandpints.ticketleap.com/piratetaverns/

Energy Co just came by. Our lights were blinking after a storm. I hope it works. I need to play online today.

For those interested there will be a summit of Maryland Indigenous People and Archaeologists on September 6, 2024 in Annapolis, MD. 🏺

JD Vance evoking some of that know-nothing nativism of Bill the Butcher.

Yes… YES we have achieved Bill the Butcher discourse

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There's an actual anthropology lesson here! Or two! Lesson #1: The Grandmother Hypothesis Lesson #2: anthropologists need to be careful about how our work gets disseminated and used in the public sphere. Let's start with the Grandmother Hypothesis, which is honestly quite interesting! 1/

"the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female" is some absolute psycho sh**

I'm not ready yet to talk about decolonizing history with normies yet. I made the mistake with my wife saying the history of the US was "made up" rather than "imagined". And that the history of the US was just one of many stories. I've been out of practice with my public history.

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WUSTL is hiring an environmental historian, time period and geographical focus are open. Great school in a great town! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

H-Net Job Guidewww.h-net.org

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remembering the most iconic baltimore advertisement of all time

As someone who suffered heat exhaustion more than once doing fieldwork, excessive heat is a health and safety issue which more employers need to take seriously and provide protection for those who work outside. It's only going to get worse as temperatures rise. Work is not worth dying for!

This week, workers are organizing actions in 13 cities across the country focused on heat protections. “We have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,” said Lourdes Cardenas of United Farm Workers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

US workers launch Heat Week to fight for ‘the right to water, shade and rest’www.theguardian.com In likely the hottest summer ever, workers are organizing in 13 cities to raise alarm about workplace heat exposure

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ProPublica is hiring! They're looking for 3 investigative reporters for their DC office.

Reporter, D.C. – Ida B. Wells Societyidabwellssociety.org

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New "Database Specialist" job opening (in the IT department) at the Maryland State Archives Not a permanent job but might turn into one eventually? Only cool people should apply (ok I'm biased but the point stands) #LISJobs and I guess #GLAMJobs www.jobapscloud.com/MD/sup/bulpr...

DATABASE SPECIALIST IIwww.jobapscloud.com

The lying liar lied. Weirdo

A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trumpwww.npr.org A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.

Stable genius

New Downfall video of Trump post-Kamala (h/t Sam) youtu.be/WiEO9p8OVMQ

mein fuhrer —youtu.be YouTube video by Tiedrich

This weirdo, who keeps changing his name, appearance, and ideology has the nerve. Also, J.D. why is your boss in hiding? www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Vance lashes out at Harris and Walz as he attempts to seize back momentumwww.theguardian.com Amid a faltering campaign, Republican VP hopeful claims pair are ‘uncomfortable in their own skin’

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Now this I like! 🚂 🚂 🚂

Breaking news! Transit advocates will be hosting a fundraising call for Harris/Walz on Thursday, August 15th at 7 pm ET. Several high ranking speakers have been confirmed. RSVP to join us. Please share! 🚌🚆

Train Lovers for Harris/Walztinyurl.com We’re having a big volunteer run call for train lovers, bikers, walkers, rollers, riders, workers, etc. to support the Harris/Walz campaign!

Breaking is my new favorite sport. Sorry rugby seven was my new favorite but now it's breaking.

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HUGE NEWS: our article with results from the first archaeology ever done in space has just been published in PLOS ONE! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Stay tuned for media coverage! 🏺

Archaeology in space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station. Report 1: Squares 03 and 05journals.plos.org Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE...

Happy International Cat Day! 😼

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Sharing in case it can help someone else low-income w covid

www.paxlovid.com/paxcess

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New results from the first ever archaeological fieldwork in space: rethinking gravity 🧪

Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station – and discover surprising quirks of zero-gravity lifetheconversation.com Where do astronauts keep their toiletries? What’s with all the velcro? Here’s what we learned from doing archaeology on the International Space Station.

Today is testing my nerves. My nerves become hyper vigilant when over stimulated. USWNT semifinal and finding out the Tim Walz news has me trembling. Plus the celery falling out of the fridge made me jump. No regrets, just life with a neurological disorder.

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Hey friends, I get the sense that a lot of you are super fired up to donate money rn, but if you could just put at least some of that toward mutual aid funds for folks in need, I'd really appreciate it. I got some Native American / Indigenous & Palestinian MA requests/recs for yall on my profile 👀

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Playboy's Haring (Poster), by Keith Haring, 1986

Truly a shame that officials of both parties are trying to "leave" COVID-19 behind while it is still running rampant.

COVID data quietly disappears while cases rise, Ash Peterson reports. Concerned citizens call for more funding after “major blow” to key COVID-19 tracking metric as they now have to chase down information from one resource-strapped program to another. prismreports.org/2024/08/06/c...

COVID data quietly disappears while cases riseprismreports.org Concerned citizens call for more funding after “major blow” to key COVID-19 tracking metric

What weirdo would have a hyperbolic response like this?

A reasoned response:

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“the white male moderate midwestern governor is too left wing to appeal to swing voters” is such a laughable take. perfect example of how the only real thing these folks believe is that anything that makes lefties happy must be bad.

chait is mad / proof this was good

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"Hidalgo...said, “Fuck the reactionaries, fuck this far right, fuck all of those who would like to lock us into a war of all against all,” in an interview with Le Monde published Tuesday, using the expletive in the original English." you're welcome France www.politico.eu/article/anne...

‘Fuck the reactionaries’: Paris mayor to Olympics opening ceremony criticswww.politico.eu Anne Hidalgo blamed the far right for stoking divisions in French society.

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in other news, @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote a newsletter for us! read about D&D and (medieval) history #medievalsky 🗃️ buttondown.email/ModernMediev...

D&D as Historybuttondown.email Games have a (medieval) history