Richmond Eustis
@reustis.bsky.social
Reclusive Swamp Druid. Associate professor, Nicholls State: World Lit, Wilderness, and other "Waste" lands. Senior field & Wilderness Medicine instructor at NOLS. Wilderness EMT. Oud, bees. Fulbright Jordan 2015-17.
South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone
South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone
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Richmond Eustis
@reustis.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Obligatory pinned skeet. Behind the scenes with my oud at last year's Arabic Music Retreat.
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The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive
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February 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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To think we actually had a chance to normalize relations and lift the embargo entirely not that long ago.
“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country? It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”
As U.S. moves to block oil supply, Cubans wonder how they’ll survive deepening energy crisis
Anxieties simmered in Havana on Friday, a day after Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned that U.S. efforts to block oil supplies would take a heavy toll on the Caribbean nation and asked Cubans to...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 8, 2026 at 1:45 AM
To think we actually had a chance to normalize relations and lift the embargo entirely not that long ago.
Friend just said of Malinin: "He looks like a fairy prince."
February 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Friend just said of Malinin: "He looks like a fairy prince."
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Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
Mother's immigration arrest leaves Madison soccer standout reeling
Federal immigration agents detained a Madison soccer player's mother while she was in Minnesota for her son's games. Now, he's struggling.
www.jsonline.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
The Party has Problems in this state and it sucks we can't seem to get it together.
It’s very likely true that a Democrat can’t win the upcoming U.S. Senate race in Louisiana, but columnist Stephanie Grace says it’s a still a shame that the party can’t muster a real alternative to what Republicans are offering.
Stephanie Grace: As Republicans gird for battle in Senate race, hapless Democrats are MIA
It’s very likely true that a Democrat can’t win the upcoming U.S. Senate race in Louisiana, but columnist Stephanie Grace says it’s a still a shame that the party can’t muster a real alternative to what Republicans are offering.
bit.ly
February 8, 2026 at 1:33 AM
The Party has Problems in this state and it sucks we can't seem to get it together.
Classic.
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Classic.
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I think many people are unaware how much some independent sources depend on the Associated Press, New York Times , Washington Post and NPR for the facts on which they base their woprk. Truly covering a wide range of news requires a lot of people, which is tough to do outside of legacy platforms.
You teach Journalism, is there still any point to that?
Most of us have left the entirety of legacy media behind, they stopped informing decades ago and are shocked that the citizens know so little.
Most of us have left the entirety of legacy media behind, they stopped informing decades ago and are shocked that the citizens know so little.
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I think many people are unaware how much some independent sources depend on the Associated Press, New York Times , Washington Post and NPR for the facts on which they base their woprk. Truly covering a wide range of news requires a lot of people, which is tough to do outside of legacy platforms.
Top five at backcountry gig:
1. "Drink some water"
2. "Check the map"
3. "Use your judgement"
4. "Put your hood up"
5. "Red-tailed hawk"
1. "Drink some water"
2. "Check the map"
3. "Use your judgement"
4. "Put your hood up"
5. "Red-tailed hawk"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Most of the points on the exam depend on how you analyze the issues you spot."
(That or: "We're a bit behind in the syllabus, but I'll try to catch up next class.")
"Most of the points on the exam depend on how you analyze the issues you spot."
(That or: "We're a bit behind in the syllabus, but I'll try to catch up next class.")
February 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Top five at backcountry gig:
1. "Drink some water"
2. "Check the map"
3. "Use your judgement"
4. "Put your hood up"
5. "Red-tailed hawk"
1. "Drink some water"
2. "Check the map"
3. "Use your judgement"
4. "Put your hood up"
5. "Red-tailed hawk"
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The Epstein Ballroom is such a postmodernist building:
The north facade is a clean copy of Hoban's windows. The portico mirrors one on the Treasury Department, and they've just bumped it from six to eight columns to match exactly. None of this has much relation to the interior.
Decorated shed.
The north facade is a clean copy of Hoban's windows. The portico mirrors one on the Treasury Department, and they've just bumped it from six to eight columns to match exactly. None of this has much relation to the interior.
Decorated shed.
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The Epstein Ballroom is such a postmodernist building:
The north facade is a clean copy of Hoban's windows. The portico mirrors one on the Treasury Department, and they've just bumped it from six to eight columns to match exactly. None of this has much relation to the interior.
Decorated shed.
The north facade is a clean copy of Hoban's windows. The portico mirrors one on the Treasury Department, and they've just bumped it from six to eight columns to match exactly. None of this has much relation to the interior.
Decorated shed.
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I know folks gets mad when I say the American right kinda ceded sports to the left but that has been the trend for years now. Your Republican dad watches the game but right wing influencers are telling young guys sports are beta nonsense.
Wel'l get sports and entertainment and they'll get tallow and preventable disease. Good deal.
February 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I know folks gets mad when I say the American right kinda ceded sports to the left but that has been the trend for years now. Your Republican dad watches the game but right wing influencers are telling young guys sports are beta nonsense.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Most of the points on the exam depend on how you analyze the issues you spot."
(That or: "We're a bit behind in the syllabus, but I'll try to catch up next class.")
"Most of the points on the exam depend on how you analyze the issues you spot."
(That or: "We're a bit behind in the syllabus, but I'll try to catch up next class.")
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Where are your citations?"
"Where are your citations?"
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
"OK. Show me where the text says that."
When your newspaper's publisher has learned all the wrong lessons about use of the exonerative passive:
“difficult decisions have been taken” what
February 7, 2026 at 11:19 PM
When your newspaper's publisher has learned all the wrong lessons about use of the exonerative passive:
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From decimating USAID (hundreds of thousands have died, two-thirds of them children), to holding little children in crowded, unsanitary, traumatic conditions with inadequate food/water/enrichment/medical care, to invading and terrorizing schools,
...this administration treats children like things.
...this administration treats children like things.
February 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
From decimating USAID (hundreds of thousands have died, two-thirds of them children), to holding little children in crowded, unsanitary, traumatic conditions with inadequate food/water/enrichment/medical care, to invading and terrorizing schools,
...this administration treats children like things.
...this administration treats children like things.
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My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.
The bosses are forcing their employees to use it. Politicians are competing to shovel money & infrastructure at it. The billionaires who control media are constantly lecturing & hectoring people to accept it & use it more.
They don't care it's losing money. They don't care people hate it.
They don't care it's losing money. They don't care people hate it.
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.
The only people watching the MAGA Great Value Charlie Kirk Memorial Halftime Special will be hate watchers. In recorded clips. Long after Bad Bunny, and long after the game is over.
And maybe people like Sean Hannity or something.
And maybe people like Sean Hannity or something.
They expected this to be a huge cultural event instead of a joke that is actually now damaging Kid Rock’s “career” so it might be best to not go through with it
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The only people watching the MAGA Great Value Charlie Kirk Memorial Halftime Special will be hate watchers. In recorded clips. Long after Bad Bunny, and long after the game is over.
And maybe people like Sean Hannity or something.
And maybe people like Sean Hannity or something.
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…threatening professors directly, insisting that if they proceed to teach sociology as its defined in peer-reviewed textbooks and by the American Sociological Association, their jobs could be on the line. And so we’re being told to choose, in effect, between the law and professional ethics.
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
…threatening professors directly, insisting that if they proceed to teach sociology as its defined in peer-reviewed textbooks and by the American Sociological Association, their jobs could be on the line. And so we’re being told to choose, in effect, between the law and professional ethics.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The malice and stupidity of the Trump Administration could make it hard for me to cheer for the US at the Olympics, but so often the athletes themselves win me over. There's so much to admire.
Hell yeah Mikaela Shiffrin.
Alpine skiing-U.S. gold medal hope Shiffrin speaks up for diversity and inclusion reut.rs/4cgwnpV
February 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The malice and stupidity of the Trump Administration could make it hard for me to cheer for the US at the Olympics, but so often the athletes themselves win me over. There's so much to admire.
Hell yeah Mikaela Shiffrin.
Alpine skiing-U.S. gold medal hope Shiffrin speaks up for diversity and inclusion reut.rs/4cgwnpV
Alpine skiing-U.S. gold medal hope Shiffrin speaks up for diversity and inclusion
Arriving at her fourth Games, Mikaela Shiffrin said she was just as excited as the first time around.
reut.rs
February 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Hell yeah Mikaela Shiffrin.
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Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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KL: He did it. But it was harmless.
White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.
Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.
Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.
Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.
Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
Q: A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?
Trump: No, I didn't make a mistake. It was fine. I guess it was a takeoff from The Lion King. And certainly it was a very strong post
Trump: No, I didn't make a mistake. It was fine. I guess it was a takeoff from The Lion King. And certainly it was a very strong post
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
KL: He did it. But it was harmless.
White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.
Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.
Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.
Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.
Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
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I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.
February 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.