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Stephen Berquist
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the kwisatz haderach of west-central illinois. anthropologist (derogatory). don't read my posts. they're fake, and i have no opinions.
i have a cathedral in there too
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
it gets slightly more nuanced in some cases, but its still essentially just people arguing over the definition of "fascism"
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
nor do any of these people define what "moving to the left" means or describe how this characterizes democratic politics. utter charlatans. completely unserious.
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My grandpa was a photographer in WWII and was stationed in Guyana- he took a photo of a man who had been more-or-less skeletonized by piranhas. It's real!
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Reposted by Stephen Berquist
this isn't a legitimate government, they have no interest in the mechanisms of governing and no belief in the value of governance. you don't need to play at process anymore. you need to build a plan whereby as many of these officials and their funders as possible are eventually behind bars or broke
September 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
actually, one of the first things that they really drill into us in archaeology school is that burials and monuments to the dead don't necessarily say much about the dead person
September 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
porchetta is basically the same as Peruvian chicharron, which is explicitly a breakfast sandwich (which I just ate for breakfast). just needs some fried sweet potato and sarsa criolla.
September 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
you should stop saying things like this. if you notice that your arm hurts and then decide to cut it off, you haven't "accurately diagnosed the pathology," you've accurately observed a symptom of it and then wildly misdiagnosed the pathology.
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Counterpoint: what if shadowy cabal, but all very stupid
August 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
also, I'd think that a fair criticism of congressional dems and their consultants is that probably not having the votes frequently results in them abandoning the issue entirely instead of working to solve the problem
August 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
That's a great question. It's hard to give a definitive answer yet: we see cut marks on the bones from butchering but also a ton of tools for spinning and weaving from the same context. They're also probably using the llamas for caravan trade. I'll get back to you after the analysis.
June 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
i've definitely never had a bad alpaca burger
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I just spent 8 hours dusting animal bones from an 1100-yr old garbage dump, if it makes you feel any better
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Reposted by Stephen Berquist
in general the user experience philosophy motivating a lot of academic software appears to be "lol fuck you"
June 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sort of the issue here is how many people construct 'science' as "Truth" and treat any challenge to that as a challenge to science itself
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM