Justin Walsh
@jstpwalsh.bsky.social
Space archaeologist, hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA) | avi by Zach Weinersmith
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Justin Walsh
@jstpwalsh.bsky.social
· Sep 23
My "Neferkare is established and living" cartouche is raising a lot of questions already answered by my cartouche
Really looking forward to Joyce Carol Oates' Milkshake Duck period
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Really looking forward to Joyce Carol Oates' Milkshake Duck period
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We built L.A. TACO to show the real L.A. in all its beauty and its challenges. To celebrate the creativity, the struggles, and the resilience of this city; its taqueros, street vendors, underground creatives, artists, dreamers, immigrants, teachers, and everyday Angelenos. lataco.com/join
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We built L.A. TACO to show the real L.A. in all its beauty and its challenges. To celebrate the creativity, the struggles, and the resilience of this city; its taqueros, street vendors, underground creatives, artists, dreamers, immigrants, teachers, and everyday Angelenos. lataco.com/join
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Los Angeles is under siege, and corporate-owned media has failed to meet this critical moment. #FreeLA
If you believe L.A. deserves better, support independent publications like L.A. TACO: lataco.com/join
If you believe L.A. deserves better, support independent publications like L.A. TACO: lataco.com/join
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Los Angeles is under siege, and corporate-owned media has failed to meet this critical moment. #FreeLA
If you believe L.A. deserves better, support independent publications like L.A. TACO: lataco.com/join
If you believe L.A. deserves better, support independent publications like L.A. TACO: lataco.com/join
Of course his head overlaps the word "LIBERTY"
people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention
Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'
The U.S. Treasury revealed the draft of a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump on both sides.
people.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Of course his head overlaps the word "LIBERTY"
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the democrats will start running on introducing a 100 year mortgage
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
the democrats will start running on introducing a 100 year mortgage
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
Cyborg-Technology Relations
| Journal of Human-Technology Relations
journals.open.tudelft.nl
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
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Los Angeles journalists, and those tracking/defending community are truly Democracy Defenders, heroes, working in war zones daily, witnessing unjust violence. Support ANY way you can @lataco.bsky.social Lataco.com/echo-park-world-series-2025 by @shoton35mm.bsky.social
Bartenders and Innocent Bystanders Tear Gassed, Knocked Over By Horses, And Shot With ‘Rubber Bullets’ During World Series Night Celebrations ~ L.A. TACO
One man who was walking to Gold Room bar had to get surgery on his finger after being shot with a “rubber bullet.” “He was just running away and they got him in the leg and shot the top of his finger off,” the man’s girlfriend told L.A. TACO.
Lataco.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Los Angeles journalists, and those tracking/defending community are truly Democracy Defenders, heroes, working in war zones daily, witnessing unjust violence. Support ANY way you can @lataco.bsky.social Lataco.com/echo-park-world-series-2025 by @shoton35mm.bsky.social
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Someday I would like a conservative to articulate what business it is of the government what gender they are
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Someday I would like a conservative to articulate what business it is of the government what gender they are
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
I was kind of excited to see that the ISS Archaeological Project was being covered by a Danish news site (another new country!)...until I realized it was just an AI-generated summary with very little info about our work 🫤
www.dagens.com/news/25-year...
www.dagens.com/news/25-year...
“25 Years in Orbit: The Archaeology of Life Aboard the International Space Station
Living History in Orbit
www.dagens.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I was kind of excited to see that the ISS Archaeological Project was being covered by a Danish news site (another new country!)...until I realized it was just an AI-generated summary with very little info about our work 🫤
www.dagens.com/news/25-year...
www.dagens.com/news/25-year...
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the look of a man who is constantly annoyed that dying people are interrupting his party
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
the look of a man who is constantly annoyed that dying people are interrupting his party
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NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Just want to note that not all problems can be solved through technology - sometimes you need cultural solutions instead (and that's why you need the social sciences)!
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just want to note that not all problems can be solved through technology - sometimes you need cultural solutions instead (and that's why you need the social sciences)!
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good thing there's nothimg better to do with $50 billion than making some futile plan-shaped holes in the desert
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
good thing there's nothimg better to do with $50 billion than making some futile plan-shaped holes in the desert
Great interview with the creators about their aforementioned great project ISS in Real Time (issinrealtime.org)
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
The Space Review: Above us, always: Chronicling humanity’s home in space, in real time
www.thespacereview.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Great interview with the creators about their aforementioned great project ISS in Real Time (issinrealtime.org)
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
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Gardeners! 🌱 Why are “unsightly” dead stems of flowers dead leaf piles critical? Why does 15% of bare soil = gardening goals? To save climate-warmed, extinction-threatened native ground-/crevice-nesting native bees, butterflies and other critical insects. Support via link in her reply.
Last call for support letters!
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
The City of Atlanta has decided to give me a court date, accusing me of violating code because I have a yard full of edible and wild plants as opposed to a monoculture lawn.
Let me know if you want a letter template! Thank you for your support
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Gardeners! 🌱 Why are “unsightly” dead stems of flowers dead leaf piles critical? Why does 15% of bare soil = gardening goals? To save climate-warmed, extinction-threatened native ground-/crevice-nesting native bees, butterflies and other critical insects. Support via link in her reply.
This is literally what they do at a country club, the highest and most serious form in architecture
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is literally what they do at a country club, the highest and most serious form in architecture
I muted "Mamdani" long ago because I can only handle so much NY talk, so, seeing how much "Zohran" is in the timeline, I can only imagine you all are being extremely intense about this
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I muted "Mamdani" long ago because I can only handle so much NY talk, so, seeing how much "Zohran" is in the timeline, I can only imagine you all are being extremely intense about this
Everybody should just be ready for these election results to be used as the justification for eventual crackdowns on future elections
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Everybody should just be ready for these election results to be used as the justification for eventual crackdowns on future elections