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Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social

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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 .. more

Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

— W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

with the animals dying around us
taking our feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 5h

Water Lily Pond at Giverny - 1918/1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11245

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 5h

The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.

ICE ordered to stop holding immigrants in S.F. until it improves facility conditions

The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 5h

Still recent enough to be hoping for readers!

www.routledge.com/Sites-Traces...

Sites, Traces, and Materiality: An Alchemy of Medieval Honduras

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as trac...

www.routledge.com

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 5h

La Roubine du Roi with Washerwomen-17 July 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3108962

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 6h

I am going to use this lovely post as an excuse to ask a question that has plagued my adulthood: is the idea of a “relish tray” a regional thing or is it just that my family didn’t do it? If someone asked me to bring one to a gathering i would have genuinely no idea what they meant

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7h

let's talk about relish trays! thanksgiving mvp, refreshing, balancing, and only occasionally turkeypomorphic. what's on yours?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.

The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.

The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.

www.lawdork.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?

35 min ago
Michael Birnbaum
In the wake of the D.C. shooting, the Trump administration will conduct a full review of Afghan nationals who were admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration, President Donald Trump said. "We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

Prediction: Some will seize on the shooting to try to pull Dems back to a position of cowardice on Trump's deportations, and Stephen Miller will scam dimwit commentators into making this case as well, but what happened ultimately won't dent public disapproval of the raids/arrests in the slightest.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Contrary to what you might read on Axios, DOJ is not filing an Emergency Appeal on Jia Cobb's Guard deployment order BECAUSE of the shooting. They noticed their appeal on Tuesday.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Defendants hereby appeal to the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from this Court’s November 20, 2025 Memorandum
Opinion (ECF No. 88) and Order (ECF No. 89) granting Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary
injunction and a section 705 stay.
Dated: November 25, 2025 BRETT A. SHUMATE

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard members to Washington after shooting, Hegseth says.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

ok I wrote a book
pbump.com

I will sign it as a Christmas present if you want?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 15h

A Honduran woman whose father was a victim (in Honduras) of gang violence. The kind that this anti-immigrant sentiment was whipped up around. It’s a tragedy.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 15h

Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

just got my sales statement and realized how few people have bought my book of poetry isabout not being Akhmatova and Jewish diaspora. so...buy my book! paper and digital available. there are blurbs that say it is good! www.amazon.com/Not-Akhmatov...

Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project)

Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project) [Berlatsky, Noah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h

"being ill makes you morally compromised" is literally RFK's whole ideology! it's why he's evil!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h

I wish ppl wouldn't go after RFK for being a heroin addict.

drug addiction is an illness. lots of addicts are lovely people who are not trying to destroy the public health system and murder children. 1

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 17h

The President of the United States personally called and pressured Georgia election officials to declare him the winner of an election he'd lost. This is permissible.

Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17h

Roger Stone, Michael Anton, Kash Patel, Sean Duffy-- dandyism, usually ill-fitting, is a significant strain within fascism, a class variation of Andrew Tate-style machismo.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 17h

Pope Leo Returns Indigenous Artifacts from the Vatican Museum to Canada pattersonjournal.com/2025/11/25/p...

Pope Leo Returns Indigenous Artifacts from the Vatican Museum to Canada

By Brooke Bihl The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts from its large ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples of Canada, as a part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in …

pattersonjournal.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sure Trump’s cratering approval will be fixed by him getting away with more crimes.