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hellabarnes.bsky.social
Scott Cave
@hellabarnes.bsky.social
Once and future historian of colonial Latin America, current stay at home dad. just a clod of the common earth

Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I knowFrisian is pretty close to Anglo-Saxon but Dutch is also in the English uncanny valley
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
January 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I was going with Umayyad.

You could go buck wild and go through Pheonician Gadesh/Cadiz
January 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
my god, I’ve created the Tommy Westphall universe of nationalisms
January 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
therefore, Taiwan is part of the Levant
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Spain is Syrian, or possibly Lebanese, land
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Hi! Appomattox > James > Chesapeake
January 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
an old bespoke meme from my twitter days
January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I know the world he lives in will be hotter, but I can’t stand the thought that it will be meaner
January 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
and sometimes the Guadalquivir
January 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
before that, St. John’s

before that, Peace

before that: the Gulf of Mexico
January 12, 2026 at 8:31 PM
“you’ve thrown the worst fear,
that can ever be hurled
a fear to bring children
into the world”

has played in my head for the last year and change.

I’m afraid for his present, and for his future.
January 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM