Guy Duke
@archaeoguy.bsky.social
Archaeologist of food, specifically Ecuador and Peru. Canadian unfortunately living in Texas. Au(Ph)DHD . they/them
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Guy Duke
@archaeoguy.bsky.social
· Jan 11
“I’m not an activist”
The Life We Are Living… This collective experience will activate us all
The Life We Are Living… This collective experience will activate us all
We are all but yeast in the bowl of warm water called society.
Age verification?
I regularly was sent to the gas station as a child to buy cigarettes for my dad.
I regularly was sent to the gas station as a child to buy cigarettes for my dad.
Age verification?
I’ve pumped leaded gasoline into a car.
I’ve pumped leaded gasoline into a car.
Age verification?
I had an All Your Base Are Belong to Us tshirt.
I had an All Your Base Are Belong to Us tshirt.
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Age verification?
I regularly was sent to the gas station as a child to buy cigarettes for my dad.
I regularly was sent to the gas station as a child to buy cigarettes for my dad.
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Hope to see archaeologists engage with this game! 🏺
Truly appreciate how unflinching Relooted’s framing is on how African artifacts got away from their homes
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Hope to see archaeologists engage with this game! 🏺
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The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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Something else about the halftime show: As I said, especially as a 41 year old white person who barely speaks any Spanish (much to the shame of my extremely fluent mother), this was not For Me—and I was fine with that
But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”
But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Something else about the halftime show: As I said, especially as a 41 year old white person who barely speaks any Spanish (much to the shame of my extremely fluent mother), this was not For Me—and I was fine with that
But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”
But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”
Seemed appropriate to repost this.
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Seemed appropriate to repost this.
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Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
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Transphobes of all strokes have absolutely zero right to get upset about us calling them pedofash now after calling us perverted just for being here for longer than I've even been alive.
February 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Transphobes of all strokes have absolutely zero right to get upset about us calling them pedofash now after calling us perverted just for being here for longer than I've even been alive.
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
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Canadians, here's a petition for you to sign.
Read it. Then scroll down to the MP who is backing it.
And then, once you stop laughing, gleefully sign it.
Read it. Then scroll down to the MP who is backing it.
And then, once you stop laughing, gleefully sign it.
WAKE UP, HOSERS
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
Petition e-7148 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Canadians, here's a petition for you to sign.
Read it. Then scroll down to the MP who is backing it.
And then, once you stop laughing, gleefully sign it.
Read it. Then scroll down to the MP who is backing it.
And then, once you stop laughing, gleefully sign it.
Random Steve Buscemi anecdote: Working at a remote field site off the coast of Labrador, bad weather stopped excavation for a couple days. We all gathered in the main tent, drinking spiked hot chocolate and playing games. One game involved writing anonymous answers to questions on pieces of paper…
February 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Random Steve Buscemi anecdote: Working at a remote field site off the coast of Labrador, bad weather stopped excavation for a couple days. We all gathered in the main tent, drinking spiked hot chocolate and playing games. One game involved writing anonymous answers to questions on pieces of paper…
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Geriatric/elder Millennials are absolved. No one born before 1990 had a smartphone during their childhood or teen years.
TikTok, IG, and YouTube shorts are dominated by 1990s- and 2000s-born influencers, mostly. They came of age in this immersive digital world.
TikTok, IG, and YouTube shorts are dominated by 1990s- and 2000s-born influencers, mostly. They came of age in this immersive digital world.
February 8, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Geriatric/elder Millennials are absolved. No one born before 1990 had a smartphone during their childhood or teen years.
TikTok, IG, and YouTube shorts are dominated by 1990s- and 2000s-born influencers, mostly. They came of age in this immersive digital world.
TikTok, IG, and YouTube shorts are dominated by 1990s- and 2000s-born influencers, mostly. They came of age in this immersive digital world.
Endangered short-necked alpaca.
This is Kinako. She is a phenomenally proportioned pup proving that bulbous is beautiful. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: nao77001048)
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Endangered short-necked alpaca.
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We got a little silly for Valentine's Day at @thenarwhal.ca
Our first quiz will help you find your Canadian lovebird!
Hilarious writing by @michellecyca.com and excellent illustrations by @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social !!
projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
Our first quiz will help you find your Canadian lovebird!
Hilarious writing by @michellecyca.com and excellent illustrations by @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social !!
projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal
Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share
projects.thenarwhal.ca
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
We got a little silly for Valentine's Day at @thenarwhal.ca
Our first quiz will help you find your Canadian lovebird!
Hilarious writing by @michellecyca.com and excellent illustrations by @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social !!
projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
Our first quiz will help you find your Canadian lovebird!
Hilarious writing by @michellecyca.com and excellent illustrations by @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social !!
projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
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leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals?
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals?
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
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I've been singing this to myself all day
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I've been singing this to myself all day
Happiest sun puppy.
February 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Happiest sun puppy.
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Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: when you have a president who shares racist imagery of a former president on social media, class consciousness alone will not solve it.
White supremacy will not just disappear if we dismantle capitalism. We must do more than that
White supremacy will not just disappear if we dismantle capitalism. We must do more than that
February 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: when you have a president who shares racist imagery of a former president on social media, class consciousness alone will not solve it.
White supremacy will not just disappear if we dismantle capitalism. We must do more than that
White supremacy will not just disappear if we dismantle capitalism. We must do more than that
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“However this kind of radically egalitarian, horizontally organized effort has a label from political philosophy: We are seeing anarchistic organizing in action.”
Minneapolis Shows Us Anarchism at Work — Assigned
The trans community should look to Minneapolis as an example of how leaderless, bottom-up organizing can be more powerful than traditional politics in making change.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
“However this kind of radically egalitarian, horizontally organized effort has a label from political philosophy: We are seeing anarchistic organizing in action.”
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Oh, I get it. It never mattered if the development of AI was successful or profitable or people liked it or used it at all – all that mattered was that we get to the point where nobody fully trusts anything they see, reality is always questionable, and plausible deniability rules. Proof evaporates.
February 5, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Oh, I get it. It never mattered if the development of AI was successful or profitable or people liked it or used it at all – all that mattered was that we get to the point where nobody fully trusts anything they see, reality is always questionable, and plausible deniability rules. Proof evaporates.
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Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not.
1) this is the 4th amendment
2) this is a historical norm at worst
3) this is already required
4) again, at worst an historic norm
5) 4A
6) 4A
7) fine
8) good if enforceable
9) useless
10) again, at worst a historical norm
1) this is the 4th amendment
2) this is a historical norm at worst
3) this is already required
4) again, at worst an historic norm
5) 4A
6) 4A
7) fine
8) good if enforceable
9) useless
10) again, at worst a historical norm
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not.
1) this is the 4th amendment
2) this is a historical norm at worst
3) this is already required
4) again, at worst an historic norm
5) 4A
6) 4A
7) fine
8) good if enforceable
9) useless
10) again, at worst a historical norm
1) this is the 4th amendment
2) this is a historical norm at worst
3) this is already required
4) again, at worst an historic norm
5) 4A
6) 4A
7) fine
8) good if enforceable
9) useless
10) again, at worst a historical norm
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“I’m on something of a campaign to strengthen Texas Monthly’s ties with our state’s universities. I’m eager to meet with folks on campus. I’m particularly ready to speak with students and teachers in journalism, media, and communications departments…“ 👇👇
Attention, students and faculty: We’re here to help.
From our editor-in-chief: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-desk/an-open-letter-to-the-colleges-of-texas/
From our editor-in-chief: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up-desk/an-open-letter-to-the-colleges-of-texas/
An Open Letter to the Colleges of Texas
Attention, students and faculty: We’re here to help.
www.texasmonthly.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“I’m on something of a campaign to strengthen Texas Monthly’s ties with our state’s universities. I’m eager to meet with folks on campus. I’m particularly ready to speak with students and teachers in journalism, media, and communications departments…“ 👇👇