Charlie
@djcasheel.bsky.social
29 | Archaeologist | Historian | Writer | UIC Undergrad
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Charlie
@djcasheel.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hello new followers! Here's a quick intro!
-Charlie, 28, he/him
-Anthropology/Archaeology Undergrad
-Focused areas: Great Lakes Archaeology, NAGPRA and repatriation efforts, Chinese hunter-gatherers and early cultures and states
-learning Mandarin
-DnD
-RPG videogames
-fantasy fiction writer
-Charlie, 28, he/him
-Anthropology/Archaeology Undergrad
-Focused areas: Great Lakes Archaeology, NAGPRA and repatriation efforts, Chinese hunter-gatherers and early cultures and states
-learning Mandarin
-DnD
-RPG videogames
-fantasy fiction writer
Just got a Facebook settlement payment for a class action lawsuit I joined AGES ago, thats 30 bucks lets fucking go
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just got a Facebook settlement payment for a class action lawsuit I joined AGES ago, thats 30 bucks lets fucking go
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If you are on the Southside of Chicago and have some spare time this evening. Drop by the Institute for Ancient Cultures. 🕖📕🏺🧿
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you are on the Southside of Chicago and have some spare time this evening. Drop by the Institute for Ancient Cultures. 🕖📕🏺🧿
i hate this fucking timeline
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 AM
i hate this fucking timeline
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Delightful read on surfing in Liberia!
We the Surfers documents Liberia’s nascent surf scene
Once ravaged by civil war, Liberia’s surfing crew is growing. Arthur Bourbon’s film We the Surfers celebrates the Robertsport Surf Club and its community.
www.huckmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Delightful read on surfing in Liberia!
ive come down with something terrible for my stress and anxiety disorders and its caring about the Chicago Bears
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
ive come down with something terrible for my stress and anxiety disorders and its caring about the Chicago Bears
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It's a crucial time to donate to food banks if you can. And please donate $ instead of emptying your cupboards.
Also, if you were wondering what to do next after No Kings on Saturday, round up some of your friends who were there, or friends you made there, and get them to donate too.
Also, if you were wondering what to do next after No Kings on Saturday, round up some of your friends who were there, or friends you made there, and get them to donate too.
With Trump and his cronies using the shutdown as cover to shut off the food stamp program, food banks will soon be flooded with demand from the 42 million Americans--including 16 million kids--who rely on the program. Which means the rest of us will need to step up and give whatever we can.
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It's a crucial time to donate to food banks if you can. And please donate $ instead of emptying your cupboards.
Also, if you were wondering what to do next after No Kings on Saturday, round up some of your friends who were there, or friends you made there, and get them to donate too.
Also, if you were wondering what to do next after No Kings on Saturday, round up some of your friends who were there, or friends you made there, and get them to donate too.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
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Keep. Fucking. QUIET about attending a protest. DO NOT sign up for it. Leave your phone OFF, buy things with CASH if you need to, use PUBLIC TRANSIT. BE SMART ABOUT THIS. The last thing you want is the government hunting you down because you got caught.
Since the No Kings stuff is coming up again, reminder that you 100% should not *sign up* for a protest. You can just show up.
October 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Keep. Fucking. QUIET about attending a protest. DO NOT sign up for it. Leave your phone OFF, buy things with CASH if you need to, use PUBLIC TRANSIT. BE SMART ABOUT THIS. The last thing you want is the government hunting you down because you got caught.
Every single news outlet talking about this refers to the freed Palestinians as prisoners. And if you think that it's semantics and it doesn't matter, people are using it to fuel their racist and Islamophobic rhetoric and these outlets are copying each other and are complicit in it.
Israelis celebrated the return of the last surviving hostages from Gaza — a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
Israelis and Palestinians rejoice as hostages are released and prisoners freed, in photos
Israelis celebrated the return of the last surviving hostages from Gaza — a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
bit.ly
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Every single news outlet talking about this refers to the freed Palestinians as prisoners. And if you think that it's semantics and it doesn't matter, people are using it to fuel their racist and Islamophobic rhetoric and these outlets are copying each other and are complicit in it.
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Happy Indigenous People's Day! And Choctaw Day! If you wanna support my art check out the links in my bio, or look at it right here! #indigenouspeoplesday #choctaw
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Happy Indigenous People's Day! And Choctaw Day! If you wanna support my art check out the links in my bio, or look at it right here! #indigenouspeoplesday #choctaw
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I’m. So. Tired.
I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.
I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I’m. So. Tired.
I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.
I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
So glad that while the government is shut down, ICE is still fully operational, meanwhile I have to wonder if my SNAP benefits are going to be paid out next week
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So glad that while the government is shut down, ICE is still fully operational, meanwhile I have to wonder if my SNAP benefits are going to be paid out next week
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I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
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If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.
The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.
The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.
The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.
The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
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Winning at this point is (i) not fascism, (ii) not (climate) apocalypse, and (iii) revolution some time this century or two hopefully
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Winning at this point is (i) not fascism, (ii) not (climate) apocalypse, and (iii) revolution some time this century or two hopefully
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.
www.latimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often
Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?"
A: yes
Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?"
A: yes
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often
Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?"
A: yes
Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?"
A: yes
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A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the industry. https://to.pbs.org/4gBPT0k
Judge lifts Trump's halt of nearly complete offshore wind energy project
A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the U.S. o...
to.pbs.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the industry. https://to.pbs.org/4gBPT0k
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/