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CRM archaeologist interested in the late 19th/early 20th century. In particular WWI training camps and conflict sites. I also sometimes have thoughts on movies, beer, and politics. You know, human culture and stuff.

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Whole home generators over a certain size should be taxed and the proceeds put towards public utility resiliency like burying power lines. Also, public utilities should be removed from private ownership. Also, also, tax the fucking rich.

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Yesterday CenterPoint said their lack of communication was because they were busy "assessing" and they would announce a plan today. Today there is no plan. If state & city politicians won't hold them accountable, those politicians need to be held accountable.

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Tree that came down on our fence during Beryl, before and after trimming.

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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast:

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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"customers along unimpacted systems may see power restored quickly, others in harder-hit areas “may experience prolonged outages and should prepare accordingly,” the company said. CenterPoint did not identify which areas should expect to remain without power."

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Meanwhile in Houston, CenterPoint, who has a monopoly on power delivery here, hasn't provided an update in 5 hours and that was just to say .. "hey there was a hurricane". Oh and a heat advisory goes into effect at 7:00 AM tomorrow.

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When I used to run book signings (couple dozen/year) we kept a special stash of "event pens", but I 'd estimate more than half of the authors I worked with brought their own.

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Texas. If the christo-fascist state government doesn't kill you, climate change (which the state government refuses to acknowledge) will. I love it here.

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This is frankly wrong. Biden could be the 50 yo super clone of FDR & Obama designed to be the ultimate Dem nominee and it would be a couple point bump, max. No individual candidate can overcome the systemic undermining of democracy and growing conservative love of totalitarianism.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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I mean if you still lived in Texas you'd have that AND a tropical storm to worry about.

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A very frazzled Beryl is giving it a go this morning, but truth be told, it has to fight a lot of dry air yet. Details on what we expect from Beryl over the next couple days as it approaches Texas: theeyewall.com/a-very-frazz...

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When it comes to the 4th, I find myself increasingly agreeing with the dogs.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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For the Fourth, the most "Murica" photo I've ever taken. Patriotic, junk food, kinda sexy, definitely terrifying.

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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As well as the recent madness, this is why so many pretended that DeSantis, Haley, and RFK Jr. were anything other than sideshows.

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Among many other factors, one thing that's painfully obvious is that most DC reporters/pundits can only discuss politics as a horse race, and they've been STARVED for fuel since this race has been set since 2020.

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When I was working in Turkey we walked past some old dude drinking tea on our way to the beach and one of them referred to me as "goat cheese".

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While technically accurate, "Max" calling Saw and Urban Legend "Turn of the Century Horror" feels very, very wrong.

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At this point Biden needs to challenge the legitimacy of the conservative judiciary and just straight up ignore one of these rulings...as an executive action of course.

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BREAKING: in a 9-0 decision, the black-robed Supreme Injustices of Mordor have ruled that the Dark Lord has immunity for official acts undertaken while wielding the One ring to rule them all.

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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter

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In the space of a couple days the conservative justices legalized bribery AND made themselves the ultimate arbiters of interpreting regulations. Cool.

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I think it depends, Roberts decision specifically says that rules previously declared valid using Chevron are still covered. So say the validity of 106 is still safe. But...the USACE trying to update Appendix C or changes to NAGPRA might be fair game. I think we're in the hands of the lawyers.

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I will absolutely be getting one, I have a book tour and international travel in the fall.

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This why when college coaches complain about the transfer portal & athletes getting paid, reporters should just laugh in their face.

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The Houston Mayer is the embodiment of your worst uncle on Facebook (old, kinda racist, kinda misogynist, thinks because he's old everyone should listen to him). I look forward to him getting crushed in the next primary.

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Favorite Gates McFadden trivia is that she was head choreographer for Jim Henson studios.

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Late 18th century French nobility and late 19th century robber barons look at modern sports team owners and think "that's a bit much".

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These people are totally and completely out of ideas.

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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to add a little more here, it is not that economic anxiety is fake, it is that it cannot be neatly disentangled from racial anxieties. for instance, if you are doing well but see black people doing better, you may feel anxious on account of your internalized idea of what the racial order should be.

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I'm sure that $2 million number is supported by a full budget breakdown of equipment, labor, and administrative costs.

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Wonderfully kitschy town. When I visited Roswell we went to see the Descent at the movie theater and the next day toured Carlsbad Caverns.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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If I was an elite poster I would have been able to turn this into a full on Shakespeare parody complete with references to Bleeding Kansas to the Norm Stewart era at Mizzou.

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Two state legislatures, alike in dignity (none). Both these state's Republican legislatures have stripped the social safety net for parts, but will fall over themselves for a welfare handout for a billionaire's ballpark.

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"Excellence in the Negro Leagues wasn’t easier. It was harder. No major league athlete of that era had to worry about where he could stop and get something to eat. Major leaguers did not have to sleep on the team bus and dress underneath the stands." wapo.st/3Xu5DLq

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I used to love following the weather (with the bonus it was extremely useful to doing fieldwork), but I'm increasingly finding it exhausting.

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