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Rosemary Joyce
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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
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Solidarity from Baicha who doesn’t like the sun changing its schedule.
Cat about to flop over on a bed while waiting for petting. Graceless and needy all at once.
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Warm thoughts of loving cats.
Baicha, a Siamese cat, half rolling on a bed she has decided is simply there to facilitate worship. Her little face looks hopeful…
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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What are the other “great ballrooms of the world”? Wrong answers only.
The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Not a ballroom but definitely a palace.
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Baicha!
Cat with blue eyes peeks over the back of a couch. She is cleverly avoiding being seen if only those pesky ears were less prominent.
September 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“Good faith debate” needs to be redefined if this statement isn’t meant to be totally sarcastic. An exchange that starts by refusing scientific facts and denying personhood of whole classes of people isn’t “good faith”. And it isn’t a debate when one side insists they are right and never changes.
Screen shot of a post by California Gov Newsom urging people to “honor” Charlie Kirk’s memory by “continue[ing] his work”. Proceeds to define that “work” as engagement “across ideology, through spirited discourse”, redefined as “good-faith debate”. Kirk was a deliberate provocateur who took up terrible positions about whole groups of people. His shtick was responding live to unscreened questions which isn’t debate: it’s performance art. Debate would have the potential for change.
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Caturday Baicha! Tolerating the cat sitter.
Siamese cat with blue eyes crouches on a quilt. She stares at the camera. She is putting up with being photographed before the cat sitter gives her the next meal she deserves.
August 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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And I finally have the perfect image: l’otters are not afraid.
Two part image. At top, a group of armed men flanks a hand painted sign “Lotters will be shot on sight”. At bottom, an otter wearing a French beret captioned “L’Otters are not afraid.”
August 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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No. No I will not stop saying “heteronormative” because an imaginary voter might be put off by a word they don’t know. Ditto cisgender and all the rest. These are precise words. Third Way can go third themselves all the way somewhere where this is actually why people vote. Which isn’t here.
A screenshot of a TV news show with a list of words and phrases that “Think Tank Third Way” says Democrats should avoid. Privilege, triggering, micro aggression, safe space, critical theory, cultural appropriation, the unhoused, food insecurity, cisgender, heteronormative, LGBTQIA+, Patriarchy, incarcerated people and involuntary confinement apparently alienate some mythical voters.
August 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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My bird!
Black lines sketch a bird in flight
August 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Bird.


Line drawing of a bird in flight, tail raised, wings spread. Perhaps it is a raptor about to fall on its prey; or simply a seed eater descending to the ground.
August 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Post your lock screen… mine is a painting by Gigi Mills
Image of phone Lock Screen showing a painting of a small round table. A yellow bowl with purple fruits— figs— is on the table. The profile and lower face of a seated woman is partly visible on the other side of the table. In front of this person a yellow vessel stands. Original painting by Gigi Mills.
July 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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As the delayed summer wave is starting, and the friend I was texting with mentions she and her family all just are recovering from summer Covid infections, I am not willing to accept jerks who pretend we aren’t still experiencing a once in a century global medical event. I’d rather be an outlier.
Screenshot of post saying “the pandemic is long, long over” and anyone thinking otherwise is “very, very, very, very, very, very much an outlier”. Luckily another poster points out there are still hundreds of deaths from COVID each week and that the OP is an asshole for trying to marginalize the person they commented on.
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I think I should have looked like that but somehow my personal aversions warped it
This time less wordy: a polar (circular) graph with quadrants for different (undefined) class positions, colored based on a food likes quiz, saying the results resemble “lower-middle class (75%)”.
June 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Hmm. That’s wild considering all the lobster I agreed to, but maybe declining the gilded ice cream counted more.
Graph purporting to identify class from food preferences. Basically overlaps with every one of five “class” segments (lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, and upper class). It looks like the number of segments colored in for lower class is most extensive but middle class only a tiny bit behind. Class being undefined, for the record I am the college graduate and university professor child of two parents who left college after one year; the child of a father who followed his father into working for the local steel plant; and a mother who ran the household, not working outside after she married, unlike her mother who had a small store until the Depression killed it, while my grandfather moved through a series of jobs ending up keeping the boilers running at a Catholic school. All of which obscures the fact that my father’s grandfather was a professor. Class isn’t quite as stable historically as I think theory imagines.
June 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Ouch. “I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm…It was basically, ‘oh, looks like Cuomo is coming back. We don’t want to be shut out. Let’s try and get on his good side.’”
“As donors try to assess their next moves in the mayoral race, one of the biggest donors to Andrew Cuomo…said he is likely to back Mamdani…because of the support he had gotten from Brad Lander…’I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm…It was basically, “oh, looks like Cuomo is coming back. We don’t want to be shut out. Let’s try and get on his good side.’ That’s kind of how things work with Cuomo…”
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Walnut Creek California.
Protest sign, hand written: Not a King. Just a Fascist. Parent and child holding homemade signs. Parent’s checklist: No Kings, Dark Money in Politics, Billionaires; Yes Democracy, Equal Rights, Liberty and Justice for All. Kid’s sign says “Don’t make me come back here in 20 years” with drawing of a child and arrows pointing to a grown up.
June 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
A woman sits on the front of a red car, a book in her hand, while a young man with dreadlocks stands beside the car. They are an unlikely pair of detectives in an Irish town, a retired literature professor and a boy she coached to academic success.
June 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Baicha sending warm purrs
A lilac point Siamese cat peers at the camera. In front of her is her beloved platypus stuffed toy, its nose distorted by her teeth as she uses that hold to carry it around.
May 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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—Tom C. Joyce
Portrait in black and white of a young woman facing left and down, an enigmatic smile on her face. Her shirt is timeless, but her hair is swept up in a style of the 1940s. Her name was Joanne.
May 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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It’s blocking time!
Screen capture of a reply by a deliberately annoying Bluesky account the uses a name “goobertits”. Found trying to create arguments with pro-democracy accounts, posts turn out to be uniformly tedious replies intended to spark fights. Block and move on.
April 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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—Tom C. Joyce
Black and white photograph of a woman with shirt dark hair and dark eyes. She looks directly at the camera with impatient tolerance. Her mouth is compressed, not smiling or frowning. The wall beglhind her has tightly patterned wall paper. Her blouse has a repeating floral motif.
April 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Baicha looking for the other kitty in the mirror…
Siamese cat stands looking into a mirror. Her face, tail, ears and legs are dark grey. The mirror is in a corner above a Japanese cabinet. The cat sees her own reflection— who is the other cat?
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Troll alert. Blocked.
Screen shot of reply by a user calling themself amandawheat in which she repeats a right wing conspiracy theory about murdered journalist Jamal Kashoggi. Other replies equally nasty. Block them.
February 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Block this chud
A series of posts revealing an anti-immigrant troll is lurking. Block scorpionmaster.bsky
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Quote with a bridge from your photos
A suspension bridge with dry brown hills on the left, greenish water at its feet, and green bushes in the foreground. Carquinez Strait bridge joining Vallejo and Crockett and crossing the San Pablo Bay.
January 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM