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Jesse Hession Grayman

@kopyor.bsky.social

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Social/medical anthropologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau - U of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from Schenectady NY, USA. Research in Indonesia. Gardener. Home fermentation. Music nerd. Genre fiction. 📚📝🎓🎧🆘🌱🪴🌶️🌌🪐🇺🇸🇮🇩🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈 He/Him

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · Nov 26

Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 2d

starks early elberta peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 14d

Two skeets within minutes, each quoting #Andor, including one from the governor of Illinois. And that's just from today's brief scroll. Maybe it's cheesy, or tainted because its provenance is Disney, but I'm OK with the Andor screenplays serving as the sacred texts for our *hashtag* resistance.

Dave Itzkoff quote-skeets from Nemik's manifesto on Andor (“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”) above a skeet by Aaron Rupar quoting the president who complained: "These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter."

The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, quotes from Nemik's manifesto on Andor as follows, "Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.” And places this quote above a headline from variety.com announcing Jimmy Kimmel's return to ABC networks on Tuesday.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 15d

thank you for this response! Your recipe has expanded my options for future ferments! 🌶️🌌🪐

Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 15d

“And it’s finger popping 24-hour shopping in rapture.”
music.apple.com/us/album/rap...

Rapture by Blondie on Apple Music

Song · 1981 · Duration 5:36

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 15d

Of all the brands to go for you pick the one that held its own through “the tylenol murders” and refused to change its name

BKinDetroit @bkindetroit.bsky.social · 15d

Tylenol ain't taking this shit

From tylenol.com

A statement from the Tylenol website stating that Tylenol does not cause autism

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 16d

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 18d

Do lemons ferment well? I always guessed that the lemon acidity might get in the way of the processual lacto acidification. Also curious about the melon…I haven’t done that either (only watermelon rinds).

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 18d

lent golden peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19d

We’re losing so many mothers to childbirth and genocide. It’s our responsibility to act on both | Jacinda Ardern

We know women give birth during war – and too often, they die. But we must do much more to achieve safety and stability, says former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern

www.theguardian.com

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 19d

I would try this…once.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 19d

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 20d

just re-reading this and your alliteration at the end is just... 🤌🏻

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 20d

oh no, not “the relentless unleashing of congressional subpoena power”

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 20d

House Democratic leaders issue a joint statement calling on FCC’s Brendan Carr to resign, labeling his actions a “corrupt abuse of power.”

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 20d

We firmly believe firing comedians is not a sign of a healthy democracy. In some countries, they even elect them to defend against ambitious fascists. — PM Tuxley II

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 23d

It’s time to vote for ruru 🦉 and four others! #BirdOfTheYear
www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Bird of the Year ‹ Forest & Bird

Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24d

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 26d

Happy Birthday though! 🎂

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 27d

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28d

the anthropologist comes thru with a possible witchcraft accusation (written before the shooting): www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

www.jezebel.com

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28d

I had the same reaction 20 years ago when the #BattlestarGalactica reboot decided the key to all of the show’s mysteries resided in a Jimi Hendrix cover of a Bob Dylan song.

Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28d

Needle drops on #AlienEarth are some of the worst in television history. Boomer/GenX hard rock shatters any suspension of disbelief.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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