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@cowboysangha.bsky.social
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Miscomunico en varias idiomas. Rangelands, caballos, NM rural, Gayhitched. Dōgen Zenji & ceramics. Comadres/padres Chihuahenses y Potosinos. 🇲🇽 de inclinación, 🇨🇱 de pituto, 🇸🇪 på farfar. Doctorado en Antropología. ENMU profe agregado. I swear in class, too.
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Go ahead, culinary purists, make ick noises, but red Chile is a perfect dip for onion rings at the Sierra Grande Cafe in Des Moines, New Mexico. That's DeS MoineS & you shall pronounce both of those terminal /s/s because this is the Hi Lo and that's how we roll.
Then, chicken fried steak.
Bueno.
Small white bowl of red Chile in a once full white platter of onion rings.
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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X marks the spot
Donde esperas y esperas y esperas y esperas
Hasta que el CBP terminan sus fregardías.
#Juarez
El monumento X de Juarez desde el camino al puente Córdoba, cielo gris.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Blue sky definitely needs more pictures of kitties and doggies. This old boy supposedly hates cats. Evidently, that does not apply to calico kitties.
Black dog reclines on a gray pillow looking at the camera.He has a white blaze on his chest.His two feet extending towards the camera have white paws.Leaning against his chest is a very small calico kitty looking straight at the camera.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Don would enjoy Nathan Sayer's work on the history of USFS and BLM grazing policy: bad science mixed with racism from the start. Latino herders got screwed & so did family ranches.
Cover of Sayer's "The Politics of Scale: a history of rangeland science" showing an image of 2 men, one in pith helmet, one in a fedora, faces not visible, marking out a square to measure ground cover in some short grass prairie.
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Spiny glochids on Cylindropuntia leptocauli tunas should scare you away from these tasty and mildly narcotic blasts of Southern New Mexico desert color.

This bad boy was hiding under an ocotillo.
#NewMexico
Bright red pencil cactus fruit.
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Weed and Feed. Some just visit for the alfalfa.
También hay yierbas.

#NewMexico just like that.

Also, we hit 4% for No Kings yesterday.
Not bad for a bunch of stoner farmer vatos. Don't forget to stop in Vado. The flautas at the taco truck up the street from Weed & Feed are bien ricas.
Painted sign on blue cinderblock building, Vader Weed & Feed. Compact car rear end, a light blue Ford Focus (?), trunk open, with bale of alfalfa sticking out the back.
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you have been grinding away at Mandarin like me, for, what, 25 years (gad!) and you’ve hit the ceiling, this app/website out of the Netherlands is the bomb-bizzle.

Good help for diving into Shōbōgenzo, too, since Dogen was all about the Chinese characters. . .

#Mandarin #Dogen
example page for 何必, showing how the website offers both sound, stroke-order, and example sentences, with colors indicating word tonality.
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Not intro level, but these ideas belong in anthro 101.
Unless you teach where deans are terrified of, em, fachos.

Blakey is known for NYC’s African Burial Ground work, problematizing/erasing the idea that slavery was rare in Northern states.

www.ourcontexts.org/s/Blakey-202...
Abstract from Michael Blakey’s “Understanding Racism in Physical (biological) anthropology. Abstract The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non-Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti-racial than anti-racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white space, biological anthropology continues to deny its own racist history and marginalizes the contributions of Blacks. Critical disciplinary history and a shift toward bio-cultural studies might begin an anti-racist human biology.
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I was wondering what annual dues to Antifa organization might be.
So, I went to antifa.org
Here’s what I got.
archived tweet from trump with (evidently) a reply saying antifa is not an organization, on the Library of Congress website, loc.gov
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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When shit gets you down, go outside & play with some 4 legged cousins.

Need a beauty of a mohair cinch? Visit wild cayuse cinches on FB.

Needed a 32" one for a gelding that suddenly lives with me. Got it right at home in Capulin at J&S game processing. Makes me happy.
#horses #tack #NewMexico
Turquois mohair cinch, hanging on a wall in front of a pair of chinkaderos with a brown and white twisted fiador rope hanging beside it.
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Got TV? Got an ABC affiliate? \
Do this simple trick.
Post from Dan Satterfield that says , first, see if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area, then watch the local new, find out who advertises there, then call them and tell them you won’t buy anything from them until they quit supporting a media company that caves to censors.
September 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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And the Sangres on the horizon 5 minutes later.
# NewMexico
Same Gringo mesa with Sangre de Christos on horizon.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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...the Sangres on the horizon behind.
#NewMexico
Same sunset 5 minutes later zoomed to show outline of the Sangre de Christo mountains.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Gringo mesa on fire in New Mexico's Hi-Lo country.
#NewMexico
Gringo Mesa in sunset with rainshower in front of a strip of fire colored sky.
September 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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How you know fall is around the corner in #NewMexico
Big bags and black boxes of hatch Chile.
August 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
Margaret Mead. c1972, black & white photograph, grandmotherly in her late 79s, wearing wire- rimmed glasses and a short- sleeved plaid figured jacket with a narrow black & white edge trim over a top of the same material. A triangular stone pendant hangs from her neck.
August 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Live in the middle of unpopulated lovely but with shit for cell coverage, try to work remote when every tech-bro-designed security system wants to text you. (Adjunct online teaching anthro 101 at 35 cents an hour, but library access and a chance to bend some minds. . .).
Dogs runs toward camera next to small flower garden with vega and mesa behind on NE New Mexico (with shitty cell service).
July 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Dogs live their best life in the HiLo country of NE New México.
#NewMexico
Dog bounding into the garden, big green vega near Trinchera Pass with high mesa and blue sky in background.
July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Folsom: a liminal space, an extension of the Rockies also in the short-grass High Plains; 8,000+ ft peaks, hidden canyons, & settled from west to east by New Mexican herders and Comancheros. Many Irish merchant-ranchers came from Mora to the West.
Folsom. A Hi-Lo story-storehouse.
#NewMexico
Poster with an image of Black Cowboy George McJunkin. VISIT The Folsom Museum In Folsom, New Mexico Home of the Famous Folsom Archaeological Site Discovered by Mr. George McJunkin (pictured below) A Former Slave Later Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Poster notes the Museum is open daiy.
July 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Come see our best drag king and skilled photographer Luca and their saddle pals in Corrales.

lucamaudeberkley.com

#NewMexico #Cowboys
Poster for exhibit and performances at the Inhabit Gallerie in Corrales, new mexico. July 19 - Sept 26.
July 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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NE New Mexico. After a rain.
Fine evening.
Sorrel horse looks over her right shoulder at camera, foreground before her her a camping chair and propane bottle, behind green shortgrass prairie, a line of small trees then high mesas in Pine and volcano above the blazed face of the horse. Deep Blue sky and a stretch of clouds.
July 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Zafita, a coming 4-year-old, wonders if this sunset makes her look fat.
#NewMexico #Potra
Filly in silhouette against a 9pm New Mexico sky, clouds tinged pink.
June 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Gurls are an essential part of Team Rescue, of course. Always have been.
June 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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If you are, or can be, in S Fe on June 23, help us make some noise.
#NewMexico #PublicLands
Poster for We need Public lands rally June 23rd Santa Fe , De Vargas park, 3:30 pm. Interior Secretary Bergham will be at the Western Governor's conference.
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Just another New Mexico cowboy afternoon.

#NewMexico
Evening in northeast New Mexico with Jose Butte on the horizon, at right, and a flat pickup waiting for parts in the foreground just beyond a fense corner. Green grass looks kind of golden at sunset.
June 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM