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Taylor G. (5'5")
@vertarchy.bsky.social
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Arkansas archeologist. Kentucky Colonel. Poet.
Ole Miss MA, Kentucky BS
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They were hiding under her picnic table to get away from this egret harassing them.
A white great egret stalking two brown ducks on the bank of a pond
September 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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A tweet by Donald Trump (Deseaced) (from 2020, iirc) "I have died. Badly."
August 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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My contempt for the Yankee liberal is quite endless, really.
Quote tweet from "Fossil Locator" @FossilLocator "There are feral humans in the Appalachian ans they're occasionally responsible for disappearances" Quoted tweet: "What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?" Reply to previous tweet by "Fossil Locator" "I love the range of responses to this from 'you're being mean to Appalachians!' To 'I grew up here, you don't go into the woods after dark, don't get lured off trail by whistling, and if you hear whispering turn around and go back'" Reply to first tweet by Joshua Lisec "That's not a conspiracy theory. I met one of these families in 1998 in the hills above Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Their kind has since retreated higher, deeper into the mountains, far and away from the tourists. Only to be stumbled upon at the opportune moment. As it were." "Fossil Locator"'s reply: "Ya, most of them just want to be left alone. But there's a few that may have been alone for too long and you hear things and you hear places you don't go."
August 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Highlights from the car show
A black and white photo of a truck wheel. The bolts are spikes. A black and white photo of a model Dale Earnhardt's stockcar sitting on a car engine. A black and white photo of an extremely low pick up truck, taken from ground level. A black and white car bumper and a shopping cart sitting in the middle of the sidewalk.
May 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point
May 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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It even has skulls and crossbones
Taylor, a man making a squinting face with long, tied up hair, wearing a blue shirt and a red bowtie with a skulls and crossbones pattern
May 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Anyone need some Blue?
A punch jar at a BBQ place, it is full of an electric blue liquid.
May 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The Mississippi State flag, it is broken into 5 vertical stripes in red, yellow, blue, yellow, and red. In the center is a blooming magnolia flower, surrounded by stars with a yellow star at the peak, and the motto "In God We Trust" under the flower.
April 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Waiting on hibachi
A scene of rural town, an empty lot, a crossroads, with low clouds in the sky.
April 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Lol
Fisherking1000's handle showing the "Jesse Singal follower" tag
March 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Misint. Fact 4: The Moon-Eyed people are a Mississippian myth.

As I understand, the Moon-Eyed people are very specifically a Cherokee myth. If I'm wrong, I'll happily be corrected, but this likely would not have been a story existed among the Chickasaw and Choctaw of this story's setting.
“Indeed,” said Harold. “After our talk yesterday, I was curious. So, I decided that if they were going to be waking me up at ungodly hours anyway, I might as well get some information out of them about the mounds. I was right when I told you no one knew why the Mississippians kept burning down their cities or where they went, but a lot of legends from other tribes feature a common enemy that might be to blame.” Gideon sat on the stool beside Harold. This sounded like the kind of story worth settling in for. “There’s even less known about this enemy tribe, if they even existed, than there is about the Mississippians, but in the stories they’re always referred to as ‘the Moon-Eyed People’. Legend says they only came out at night, burrowing in the ground during the day because the sun was too strong for their eyes. They also say the Moon-Eyed People were strangely pale. Some historians—white historians, of course—think this means they were actually Vikings or other early European explorers, but they would, wouldn’t they? White folk are always putting themselves into things where they don’t belong.”
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Misint. Fact 3: Mississippians burned their entire towns.

House burnings were common throughout the Mississippian world, for many different reasons. But rarely, if ever, were entire towns burned at the same time.
Gideon leaned his elbows on the counter as he listened. “They would burn down their villages every three or four hundred years. Burn ‘em right to the ground. All their homes and crops and everything. And then, craziest of all, they’d build right back on top of them. On the exact same spot!” The old man huffed and returned to his book. “Can’t have been all that impressive if they kept burning ‘em down, but I still got to deal with the damned archeologists trying to dig ‘em back up!”
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Misint. Fact 2: The mounds weren't burial mounds.

Some were, some weren't. However, burials were common in mounds throughout the Mississippian world during their entire civilization.
“But they’re not burial mounds?” Gideon asked, interested despite himself. Until Ray came in, his choice was either talk to Howard or learn how to make rotisserie chicken at home from the infomercial. —It’s so easy! Just set it and forget it!— “Not burial mounds at all,” replied Howard, clearly pleased to have an audience. “They built the mounds for their chiefs to put their houses on. The lowly common Mississippians like you and me had to build their houses on the ground and literally look up at their leaders. Goes to show, some things never change. But you want to know the craziest thing we know about ‘em?”
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Misinterpreted fact 1: The Mississippians "disappeared".

No they didn't, their polities collapsed under the pressures of colonization and genocide and they coalesced into some of the Tribal Nations we know today, such as the Chickasaw and Choctaw (in this story's Mississippi setting).
“Technically, they’re not burial mounds, despite what we call them,” said Howard, back in full professorial form. He put a finger down on his book to mark his place on the page. “What do you know about the ancient Mississippians?” Gideon shook his head. “Not much.” “Then you know almost as much as those damned archaeologists waking me up at ass o’clock. About all we know is that their civilization once covered from the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to the Great Lakes, then one day they just disappeared. Later tribes have all sorts of stories, but we don’t know exactly what happened to them, just that they left these great big mounds all over the country.”
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm 31 now
Taylor, a man in a blue shirt and khakis, with a mustache, a man-bun, and wearing glasses, taking a photo of himself in a standing mirror.
February 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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An edited version of the "Why is she marrying a video game soundtrack...?!!!!" Meme, with the Game Changer logo on the man's head and the text reading, "Why is she marrying a Game show?"
February 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Really obsessed with this caption.
Am Instagram screenshot of a post by roamwolfdogs of a wolf on a shelter looking at camera. The caption reads, "Tomorrow, I'm really gonna give it my nothing."
February 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The dream of the 90s is alive in rural Arkansas.
A turquoise and purple carwash with an old Dr Pepper machine.
February 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Alas, sometimes the lens on old camera is wildly foggy.
A foggy photo of a house and fence. A foggy photo of a bell tower, theatre, and tree. A foggy photo with a light leak across the center of an office building. A foggy photo of a boarded up barber shop.
February 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Baby need smoko
The same picture of Jorts, an orange tabby cat, with a poorly edited emoji of a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
February 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Chris Hayes:
A picture of Walter Benjamin with a quote (falsely) attributed to him. Text reads: The vibes are in fucking shambles, fam. I'm freaking out. - Walter Benjamin, social theorist and critic
January 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Tweet from @hermit_hwarang: american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
January 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Made a couple of camera straps for $10.
A Pentax 17 with a camera strap made of braided Paracord. A Zeiss Ikoflex II/III with a camera strap made of braided Paracord.
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Loaded the first roll of film in her :)
An Ikoflex II/III camera, a Twin Lens Reflex camera, with a roll of Kentmere Pan 400 sitting on top of it.
January 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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New (old) camera :)
A Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex II/III, a black TLR camera. On its left is a plush rat, on it's right is a Pentax 17.
January 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM