Nik Simurdak 🏳️⚧️
@transthropology.bsky.social
Archaeology student (lithics), a hobby of starting hobbies (ADHD). Somewhat decent at photography (35mm), fiber arts (mostly sewing), and making keyboards (experiencing a rapid descent into 40s).
they/them (gender is a nightmare)
they/them (gender is a nightmare)
Deep and paralyzing fear of being perceived as annoying or foolish VS my inextricable need for human-connection-facilitated learning FIGHT
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Deep and paralyzing fear of being perceived as annoying or foolish VS my inextricable need for human-connection-facilitated learning FIGHT
The whole thread is worth a read, but this point I think is particularly salient.
5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The whole thread is worth a read, but this point I think is particularly salient.
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My first for realsies keyboard pcb is ready to order ehehehehe 😈
February 4, 2026 at 6:16 AM
My first for realsies keyboard pcb is ready to order ehehehehe 😈
So many questions arise from this despicable move. Presumably these are actual displays being used for the image generation, which means that cultural material is being fed into the slop machine seemingly without even a glancing second of consideration.
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
So many questions arise from this despicable move. Presumably these are actual displays being used for the image generation, which means that cultural material is being fed into the slop machine seemingly without even a glancing second of consideration.
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It’s only a surprise to people who don’t understand the nature of supremacism. It’s always been intersectional. Never think in terms of checked boxes, always think in terms of power
February 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
It’s only a surprise to people who don’t understand the nature of supremacism. It’s always been intersectional. Never think in terms of checked boxes, always think in terms of power
"Baldwin refers to this as “the price of the ticket”—you forswear your history and heritage, including often the experience of discrimination, and in return you get to be a white American defined not by your past, but by your (supposed) superiority to and (very real) power over Black people." 👏
wrote about the CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and why it's not really unusual for non white people to do the work of white supremacy. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/not-all-wh...
Not All White Supremacists Are White
On race and the CBP agents who shot Alex Pretti
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"Baldwin refers to this as “the price of the ticket”—you forswear your history and heritage, including often the experience of discrimination, and in return you get to be a white American defined not by your past, but by your (supposed) superiority to and (very real) power over Black people." 👏
I need to unfollow some people to make my feed more manageable since the great following rush right when people first came to bluesky. Thankfully, some of y'all are making it easy by saying weird shit about fat people! 🙃
February 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I need to unfollow some people to make my feed more manageable since the great following rush right when people first came to bluesky. Thankfully, some of y'all are making it easy by saying weird shit about fat people! 🙃
Shit I wish I would have known when I was young and obsessed with his illustrations 😒
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), responsible for coining terms such as phylum, phylogeny, ontogeny. An advocate of scientific racism. Sporting proto-Nazi Social Darwinist views. Honorary invited member of the German Society for Racial Hygiene.
February 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Shit I wish I would have known when I was young and obsessed with his illustrations 😒
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In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South
www.sacurrent.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
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I remember when I learned that Constance Farrington, the Irish translator of *The Wretched of the Earth*, was drawn to Fanon’s text because she saw parallels between the anticolonial war in Algeria that was Fanon’s main point of reference & the freedom struggle in Ireland that was her own
An Irish man responsible for leaking the identities of thousands of US immigration enforcement officers has said he will continue his work until the Trump administration stops targeting immigrant communities.
Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of Ice officers online
Dominick Skinner started publishing identities last year and is assisted by over 500 volunteers across America
www.irishtimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I remember when I learned that Constance Farrington, the Irish translator of *The Wretched of the Earth*, was drawn to Fanon’s text because she saw parallels between the anticolonial war in Algeria that was Fanon’s main point of reference & the freedom struggle in Ireland that was her own
Reading stats about being an adult with adhd is such a double-edged sword of "I should forgive myself because look at how slim my odds are" and "oh my god is the rest of my life gonna be like this"
February 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Reading stats about being an adult with adhd is such a double-edged sword of "I should forgive myself because look at how slim my odds are" and "oh my god is the rest of my life gonna be like this"
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An LAPD officer stands on the corner of Temple and Alameda facing Barbara Kruger's iconic mural featuring 9 questions:
“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?”
“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?”
February 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
An LAPD officer stands on the corner of Temple and Alameda facing Barbara Kruger's iconic mural featuring 9 questions:
“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?”
“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?”
Me, a fool: 2.25 crochet hook should be fine to practice lace-making
My deformed lace shamrock: father has forsaken me
My deformed lace shamrock: father has forsaken me
February 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Me, a fool: 2.25 crochet hook should be fine to practice lace-making
My deformed lace shamrock: father has forsaken me
My deformed lace shamrock: father has forsaken me
Extremely cool! Fun to look at the flakes and have a sense of intimate familiarity - most look exactly like the debitage I work with. <3
Decades ago, archaeologist Grant Goltz made a flintknapping exhibit in 5 parts. At the start of each, he made a resin cast of the piece, and then saved all the stone flakes struck to reach the next stage. This is the last (5th) stage, with the last flakes and final replica Besant point. 5cm scale.
January 31, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Extremely cool! Fun to look at the flakes and have a sense of intimate familiarity - most look exactly like the debitage I work with. <3
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Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.
So here’s a quick thread to help.
So here’s a quick thread to help.
January 30, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.
So here’s a quick thread to help.
So here’s a quick thread to help.
I've been turning my efforts toward establishing more of an online presence as I near completion of my degree, which means tracking down my same username across platforms. Twitch and tiktok have made this an especially annoying endeavor :)))
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I've been turning my efforts toward establishing more of an online presence as I near completion of my degree, which means tracking down my same username across platforms. Twitch and tiktok have made this an especially annoying endeavor :)))
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Concentration camps. Your tax money at work. Enough already. This is gonna get much worse real quick.
NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
W/ @sooophie.bsky.social
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W/ @sooophie.bsky.social
US Spends Millions on Warehouses in Historic Expansion of ICE Detention
Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Concentration camps. Your tax money at work. Enough already. This is gonna get much worse real quick.
So when are we gonna talk about tax protests?
January 30, 2026 at 2:27 AM
So when are we gonna talk about tax protests?
Had a grad student ask very timidly last week if she could work on volcanic glass sourcing at the same site I work with, to which I eagerly said yes and did a big data handover. It's work I can't get to, I want to see it done! Then today, my advisor asked if it was okay that he sent her my way. ???
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Had a grad student ask very timidly last week if she could work on volcanic glass sourcing at the same site I work with, to which I eagerly said yes and did a big data handover. It's work I can't get to, I want to see it done! Then today, my advisor asked if it was okay that he sent her my way. ???
People on that thread talking about Rowling's transphobia aren't wrong, but I do feel we are overlooking the heaps of explicit racism within the text itself. The house elves! Gringotts! The house elves! Gringotts!
January 26, 2026 at 9:55 PM
People on that thread talking about Rowling's transphobia aren't wrong, but I do feel we are overlooking the heaps of explicit racism within the text itself. The house elves! Gringotts! The house elves! Gringotts!
Couldn't be the racism and transphobia, surely not!
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Couldn't be the racism and transphobia, surely not!
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I think at this point it's reasonable to call them death squads and Democrats should have to explain why they're voting to fund the death squads.
January 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I think at this point it's reasonable to call them death squads and Democrats should have to explain why they're voting to fund the death squads.
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“Civility” will not shield any of us from state violence, it will not cause our enemies to respect us, so why should we still be beholden to it?
And why should politicians get to hide behind it?
And why should politicians get to hide behind it?
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“Civility” will not shield any of us from state violence, it will not cause our enemies to respect us, so why should we still be beholden to it?
And why should politicians get to hide behind it?
And why should politicians get to hide behind it?