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Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ .. more

Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Further on the declaration of a winner in the Honduran presidential election: the third electoral commissioner, Libre’s Marlon Ochoa, has characterized the action as illegal. News reports explain the two other commissioners voted with a back-up (suplente) to make the required third member. 1/

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

—Conrad Hilberry, “Christmas Night”

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

Let midnight draw whoever’s left
to the grate where a burnt-out log unrolls
low mutterings of smoke until
a small fire wakes in its crib of coals.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

the streetlights out. If children sleep
after the day’s unfoldings, the wheel
of gifts and griefs, may their breathing
ease the strange hollowness we feel.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

Let midnight gather up the wind
and the cry of tires on bitter snow.
Let midnight call the cold dogs home,
sleet in their fur—last one can blow

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

I think it’s more mundane: having constructed a fantasy category of Dems who forced the Epstein papers release, and saying all the people in the files are Dems, the two categories overlap and some Dems will end up exposed/shunned/maybe prosecuted?

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 8h

I agree!!!

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 8h

Merry Christmas from me and my extremely tolerant horse Sammy!

A horse wearing a Santa hat

Horse in blanket with Santa hat

Win and festive horse

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 8h

We are now entering the weird liminal space between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Anything could happen during this time. You could feel weirdly nostalgic, you could see a photo of a cat, you could remember to feed your Neopets. The possibilities are endless.

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Bill Cipher @redcycle.bsky.social · 9h

Because when you marshal the facts of:
1. Capra was a staunch anti-New Deal conservative
2. He still portrayed Potter as a fucking monster
3. Right-wingers *today* straight up think Potter was the good guy

...it flies in the face of everything we've been saying about conservatism since 1981.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

the message of the movie is that you seek help in your time of need from your community and family, not The Government, who are secondary antagonists to Potter

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

like it's a movie about the preservation of a homeowner focused society that can practice mutual aid with those they know closely and kind of tell anyone else to fuck off

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.

Almost.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

Donald Trump: the president who destroyed ISIS in record time in his first term and also the president who is boldly taking on the ISIS terrorists in his second term.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

I‘ve been eyeing recipes will have to try it!

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

Social media is meant to share these unexpected stories.

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

In the city where Jacuzzi was founded, a company based on Jacuzzi Street is installing a Jacuzzi.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13h

Scallion and chive? Details!

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 13h

The orange felon is spending his entire Christmas holiday calling half of the country “scum.”

And he wonders why he’s so hated and loathed aside from being a deranged disgusting trashy idiotic corrupt immoral racist sexist rapist pedophile asshole criminal dictator wannabe.

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 13h

If you're in Puerto Rico 🇺🇸 (or anywhere around the Caribbean) and want to help journalists track the American build up of aircraft, as well as logistics flying in and out of PR, you can make a big difference and help out. Yes, even you.

www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join...

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Existing Equipment Already have a receiver and want to start contributing to the ADSB Exchange Network? Build Your Own Technically Savvy? Get detailed instructions on building your own ADSB receiver. ...

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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 13h

“The federal government can’t deport a green card holder like Imran Ahmed, with a wife and young child who are American, simply because it doesn’t like what he has to say,” the British researcher’s lawyer said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate

www.nytimes.com

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Imani Gandy Cane 🎅🏾 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h

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Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria

President Donald Trump announced on Christmas that the U.S. has bombed "Terrorist Scum" in Nigeria.

www.mediaite.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13h

“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June, according to energy think tank Ember” www.science.org/content/arti...

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy

Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

www.science.org

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 13h

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

aha!

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 13h

Doctors interviewed 21 deported mothers. More than half said ICE never asked if they had children before deporting them, leaving babies and young children behind in the U.S.

sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...

Deportations Have Caused Growing Crisis of Family Separations - The San Fernando Valley Sun

Last month, a young woman stepped off a plane and set foot in her native Honduras for the first time in at least 15 years. But this wasn’t a happy […]

sanfernandosun.com

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

Probably from this @berkeleyside.org piece! www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/04/j...

Jacuzzi brothers’ whirlpool invention bubbled up from their Berkeley machine shop in early 1900s

The bath that started the hot tub craze was created in a shop opened on San Pablo Avenue in 1915 by a family of Italian immigrants.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 13h

Three marine warnings for possible waterspouts issued off the Bay Area coastline. Either of these three storm cells could produce a short-lived tornado as they come ashore sometime between now and 7 p.m. #CAwx

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 13h

How’d they get that big candy cane up there.

The Empire State Building on Christmas night, lit in green, red, and white. The spire is red and white striped like a candy cane.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

I only learned this a few years ago.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

In the city where Jacuzzi was founded, a company based on Jacuzzi Street is installing a Jacuzzi.