Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Well hello everyone! Welcome to Bluesky!
I'm an anthropologist (PhD).
My ethnographic research is on Hindu/Buddhist pilgrimage and sacred fossils (called Shaligrams) in the Himalayas of Nepal.
My new project focuses on robot religion in South Asia.
I also wrote "The Way By."
I'm an anthropologist (PhD).
My ethnographic research is on Hindu/Buddhist pilgrimage and sacred fossils (called Shaligrams) in the Himalayas of Nepal.
My new project focuses on robot religion in South Asia.
I also wrote "The Way By."
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That's it. I think it's time for a cover reveal.
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
That's it. I think it's time for a cover reveal.
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Oh, don't worry. That's just today's migraine.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Oh, don't worry. That's just today's migraine.
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A few copies of The Way By are also still available from the publisher's site! Support your indie authors and the small presses that make us possible!
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
The Way By - The Three Little Sisters
Fairies are real. Or they ought to be, at least, according to Madame Bel Carmen's best hypotheses. Her problem, however, is that after searching the world over for the lore to prove it, she hasn't unc...
shop.the3littlesisters.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A few copies of The Way By are also still available from the publisher's site! Support your indie authors and the small presses that make us possible!
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
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That's it. I think it's time for a cover reveal.
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
That's it. I think it's time for a cover reveal.
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!
Because "religious liberty" does not mean "I have the right to never hear about or see something I don't like."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Supreme Court rejects challenge to legalisation of same-sex marriage
The court rejected an appeal from a clerk who was ordered to pay compensation to a same-sex couple after refusing to grant a marriage licence.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Because "religious liberty" does not mean "I have the right to never hear about or see something I don't like."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I finally did it! My "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I finally did it! My "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
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My debut novel, The Way By, came out last year. The sequel, By the Way, opens for pre-orders this December!
Want a story about an evil unicorn trying to take over the world? Well, I've got news...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
Want a story about an evil unicorn trying to take over the world? Well, I've got news...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
The Way By - The Three Little Sisters
Fairies are real. Or they ought to be, at least, according to Madame Bel Carmen's best hypotheses. Her problem, however, is that after searching the world over for the lore to prove it, she hasn't unc...
shop.the3littlesisters.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My debut novel, The Way By, came out last year. The sequel, By the Way, opens for pre-orders this December!
Want a story about an evil unicorn trying to take over the world? Well, I've got news...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
Want a story about an evil unicorn trying to take over the world? Well, I've got news...
shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the...
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
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A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.
Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
I finally did it! My "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I finally did it! My "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
Initial sculpt is done. Once this sets up, it'll be time for all the minute details before priming.
I think my apple is feeling......artistic.
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I think my apple is feeling......artistic.
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As the nights grow darker, colder, you must remember....
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As the nights grow darker, colder, you must remember....
As the nights grow darker, colder, you must remember....
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As the nights grow darker, colder, you must remember....
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Where can I get a "On your Marx, get set, Zo!" t-shirt?
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where can I get a "On your Marx, get set, Zo!" t-shirt?
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
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They know.
And they know they deserve to be there.
And they know they deserve to be there.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They know.
And they know they deserve to be there.
And they know they deserve to be there.
They know.
And they know they deserve to be there.
And they know they deserve to be there.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They know.
And they know they deserve to be there.
And they know they deserve to be there.
Where can I get a "On your Marx, get set, Zo!" t-shirt?
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where can I get a "On your Marx, get set, Zo!" t-shirt?
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
I'll also settle for a copy of the front page if anyone has some floating around.
You know, for posterity and all.
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Republican by +1.2 "a mandate"
Democrat by +35 "questions remain"
Democrat by +35 "questions remain"
Media orgs are confused and upset about last nights Democratic wins.
I don’t recall a “questions remain” after Trump or GOP wins.
I don’t recall a “questions remain” after Trump or GOP wins.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Republican by +1.2 "a mandate"
Democrat by +35 "questions remain"
Democrat by +35 "questions remain"
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Especially universities, their boards, and administrators.
They saw it as an opportunity to "clean house."
Make no mistake about that.
They saw it as an opportunity to "clean house."
Make no mistake about that.
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Especially universities, their boards, and administrators.
They saw it as an opportunity to "clean house."
Make no mistake about that.
They saw it as an opportunity to "clean house."
Make no mistake about that.
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What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
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Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
![The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ygvvtokrezoev7nol4wgxjc/bafkreict5fc4gs3ctiqtgfxjkx7rliiylycp4bkm37eitwrjzqssbtddiy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.