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Joanne Hammond
@joannehammond.bsky.social
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Archaeologist & anthropologist talking land and heritage and society. Settler working & learning in Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux territories. Land back. Free Palestine.
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wtf is happening for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be making sense, even as a Canadian I know this is not normal
“She said voters were tuning out Washington because "they know how much credit card debt they have, they know how much their own bills have gone up over the past five years, they actually do their own grocery shopping and know food costs too much, their rent has increasingly gone up, they have been outbid by corporate asset managers too many times when they put in an offer to buy a house."
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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omw to explain that we have to dig up and move the bodies
A headshot of a gape-mouthed pink-skinned white man in a suit, with blurred people in the background. (The man is United States speaker of the house Mike Johnson)
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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testing
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Sarah Aziza’s The Hollow Half is an *amazing* recent read: a beautifully poetic and completely unique Palestinian-American memoir of the colonialism and diaspora.
Book cover: The Hollow Half, Sarah Aziza, a memoir of bodies and borders. Background is green-blue with a painted red poppy with leaves and stem above a peach cut in half with pit removed.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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These are Royal Canadian Mounted Police. RCMP were created to clear the land that is now Canada of Indigenous peoples and to secure it for occupation by white people, with extreme prejudice. Their entire history is consistent with that goal. But sports, I guess?
A social media post that says “This is Canada. This is the Grey Cup. I love my country.” Underneath is a photo of two Mounties (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the regimental red serge suits holding a large trophy topped with a silver cup. The cop on the left is a white man wearing the classic flat brimmed brown felt RCMP hat, the one on the right is a brown-skinned Sikh man with a moustache and beard in a grey turban.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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This is a crucial bit about clandestine child graves at residential “schools”. FNMI communities who’ve become caretakers of the remains and memories of many thousands who died at residential “schools” owe us non-Indigenous Canadians NOTHING. It’s not about us or up to us.
Excerpt from quoted article: “Tk’emlups, who has taken responsibility for the children, is under no obligation to disturb them from their resting places just to counteract the ignorance of a few toxic hatemongers.”
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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read the trc: nctr.ca/publications...
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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sky says free free Palestine 🇵🇸
photo by @lacci.bsky.social
photo and alt text from @lacci.bsky.social: Northern lights from the corner of my front yard. There are trees in the foreground and some bits of houses.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Can someone tell Mark Carney that he doesn’t need to concede in advance to every pressure/bully/lobbyist/liar/influencer/rich guy? It’s embarrassing and unsustainable.
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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full uncropped disclosure tho
A large gangly beige and white dog sitting up in a wicker chair with one hind leg just casually dangling off the chair. The dog’s attention is out the window to the right.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Head of a young girl looking down, Francesco Curradi (1570-1661). And Pepper.
Oil painting of the head, neck and shoulders of a pale skinned girl/young woman with her brown hair tied back. She’s looking down and to the right with lowered eyes. Photo of the head, neck and shoulders of a pale gold dog with ears pressed back. She’s looking down and to the right with lowered eyes.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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oh you mean
Video still Yellow script says “Perfect Strangers” over photo of two male brunettes, taller one on the left in a shiny red to, shorter one on the right in blue sweater
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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this is nazis doing concentration camp cosplay
A tweet from ABC News (@ABC) reads: “Rep. Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy, a real estate broker from Windsor, Colo., attended a Halloween party dressed in costumes portraying a Mexican woman and an Immigration and Customs enforcement agent, photos obtained by ABC News show.” Below is a blurred photo of a man in a tactical uniform and a woman in a sombrero and Mexican-style dress at a party. The caption at the bottom says: “Lauren Boebert’s racially charged Halloween costume spar…”
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The remains of more than 14,000 murdered Palestinians are mixed with 61 million tons of explosive-laced debris and their families are looking for them with WITH HAND TOOLS because Israel won’t let heavy machinery in.

The point of this ongoing apartheid is to be the most cruel.
Map of the Gaza Strip showing the relative amounts of rubble left by bombed buildings, the most dense areas are dark red, the least dense are yellow or white. Most of the map is dark red.
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Yoda-eared dog who rolled in gross decaying salmony sand slime and was MIRACULOUSLY not cast out, but lovingly bathed and eventually even welcomed back home, and is grateful
a small brown dog with Yoda-like ears draped in a towel
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Colonialism lies about everything, everywhere. It’s not you, it’s terra nullius.
🧡 Sarah Aziza, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
For years, I have diligently disbelieved myself, flooding my mind with imagined sins. I listened to America proclaim endless summer, its emancipation from the past written in fluorescent heat. Four hundred years since Jamestown, the nation still insists that it is young. Each day born as innocent, virgin land. Salvation in a white, white slate. A noisy kind of silence, a building over graves. But the rupture exists. Inside me, I feel it breathe.
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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seen in Lytton, BC
and yeah
Red spray painted word “CRACKED” on a dirt surface marked with truck tire and tracked machine prints
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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FYI NWMP=Northwest Mounted Police and their successors RCMP=Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
These militias “cleared the land” in Canada by enforcing race-based laws that prohibited all forms of Indigenous existence and kidnapped generations of children into church-run abuse factories. #Cdnhist
Close up of pole described in photo 1 showing upside down cross with upside down maple leaf and the letters RCMP and NWMP carved in thin red lines.
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I’m trying to alt text but it’s also processing, there is a LOT going on in this pole-
A black and red barrel-shaped northwest coast carved pole, at least two storeys high, set in an empty, mostly white oblong museum hall. There is a large black raven with outstretched wings on top. The pole is carved in a regular grid of black carved faces separated by narrow red lines. In the grid is an upside down cross with upside down maple leaf and the letters RCMP and NWMP carved in thin red lines. Close up of a section of the pole described in photo 1, centering a carved skull-like face with large eyes and a grimace. It sits in a grid surrounded by other unsmiling faces. The style is northwest coast but the gridded layout and faces evoke Maya carvings of skulls/death/suffering.
October 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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enjoy a few moments of the wind in the ponderosa pines at Tl'kemtsin/Lytton, vol up💙
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Anti-bird architecture on the Thompson River at Kamloops
A rounded wooden pole with a dull grey metal cone on top, against a blue sky with a wisp of white cloud lower right A bunch of tall poles with dull metal cones on top jutting out of the river against a background of dry grass mountains, blue sky, low white flighty clouds
October 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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View from the field today, from near to far: TransCanada Highway, some ponderosa pines, Lytton townsite, Fraser River, the headlands of the Stein Valley, the great blue beyond. Nlaka’pamux territory since time immemorial.
View up a large arid mountain valley with a big river chalky blue in the distance, a four lane highway at the bottom, and the village of Lytton townsite in between. A few ponderosa pines are in front of the frame.
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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rivers don't choose their names, white men do
#landback
A digitally altered sign in stereotypical roadside heritage dark green and cream painted cast iron on a wooden post. It's titled THE MYTH MAKERS and reads “David Thompson never saw the river system that now bears his name. Simon Fraser travelled his eponymous river just once, thinking it was the Columbia. In acts of hubris amd convenience, the two men named these rivers after each other, then left the west behind. Unsanctioned and hollow, this renaming erased millennia of Indigenous relationships with these waters and rewrote history for the settler conscience.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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a note about the nomenclature
Two versions of a sign in stereotypical western roadside heritage plaque of dark green and cream painted cast iron, mounted on a wooden post. The one on the left is titled THE MAP-MAKER and says: It was May, 1808, when David Thompson, “the greatest land geographer”, sought a fur-trade route along the opposite shore. Thomposon’s route became the busy Walla Walla Trail when gold was discovered in the Kooteneays in 1864-65. Over it moved long pack trains from southern Washington to the goldfields. The course Thompson mapped serves us today” The sign on the left is digitally modified and is titles the MYTH-MAKERS, and reads: “David Thompson never saw the river system that now bears his name. Simon Fraser travelled his eponymous river just once, thinking it was the Columbia. In acts of hubris and convenience, the two men named these rivers after each other, then left the west behind. Unsanctioned and hollow, this renaming erased millennia of Indigenous relationships with these waters and rewrote history for the settler conscience.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The two rivers do start to mingle about 1 km downstream from the confluence once they get to know each other (or else it’s something to do with water temperature, velocity and particle loads 🤷‍♀️), it’s a nice spot too
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM