Today was a GIS day and it was such a nice break from writing and compliance work 🙏 maps are healing lmao

10 years ago there was national outrage over a bathroom bill proposal MUCH less horrifying than the one passed into law today to the degree that the NBA Finals MOVED in response to it. Now we get fresh new assaults each and every day and it barely even registers. It's just...so much to see happen.

“No county met the herd immunity benchmark of at least 95% vaccination” www.oregonlive.com/health/2026/...

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

A festive shirt for Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

oh that's why i'm so tired

This #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re highlighting our favorite queer ecology reads. These books, essays, and memoirs break down binaries and explore the expansiveness of gender & identity in nature.

Boosting for TDOV 🏳️‍⚧️ with a question for trans field archaeologists... How do you want to see companies protect you in these situations?

As "america's pastime," baseball is inherently a sport designed to pass the time. Rule changes intended to speed the game along have thus compromised its load-bearing societal role as a designated time to hang with the boys, therefore exacerbating the male loneliness epidemic. In this essay, I will

The nonbinary transmasc bathroom experience is: -men's room (pro: most closely aligned to my gender identity, con: risking gendered violence in a closed room with cis men, may get assaulted) -women's room (con: misgendering myself, pro: more likely to get yelled at than assaulted, legal in ID lol)

This won't protect anything, Israel intentionally destroys heritage sites all the fucking time, they're not doing it on accident!! 🏺

Sometime in the last year I remember seeing a pub (can't remember if it was a journal article or a blog post) about repatriation of zooarch collections based on the principle of kinship with non-human relatives and now I can't find it...help??? 🏺

How are CRM 🏺 companies with projects in Idaho planning to protect their trans field staff?

Stellar view of Lawetlat'la on my drive back from Bellingham today 😍

Aul' Connolly knew what was up.

Driving home from Bellingham today so no protest for me but my on the ground report is that pretty much every overpass over I-5 that I have driven past in WA today has had people set up with signs so that's nice!

Can't get a passport without risking having my documents seized or god knows what else at this point, which means I can't leave the country and maybe soon means I can't vote. And now I won't be able to travel to ID, a state I lived 15 minutes from for 4 years. Shit sucks y'all!!!

Hey NWAC 🏺 folks, if you're looking to back up your land acknowledgements with some tangible action this year, consider donating to this great Native-led org helping children heal from trauma just across the sound on the traditional lands of the Jamestown S'klallam

Highly recommend this book for all archaeologists working with Native communities in the US!! 🏺

URGENT 🇨🇺 Delegates of the Nuestra América Convoy — including Thiago Ávila, Chris Smalls and Katie Halper — have been interrogated and detained on return from Cuba. Solidarity is not a crime. We demand their immediate release.

Good thing I have a chronic inflammatory disorder and also a family history of colon cancer 👍

If you're paying money for Harry Potter you're a bad person. You're saying to the world that racist wizard and witch stories are more important to you than trans people existing www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/j-k-...

God I love being around PNW archaeologists

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Chinook Indian Nation seeking judicial restoration of federal recognition.

I had a "New Mexico Cheesesteak" in ABQ once that was the best sandwich I've ever tasted and I long for it constantly. Queso and green chile instead of cheese whiz and peppers and it was 🔥🔥🔥

"The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility." transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Tribal leaders say previous cuts have already impacted the government’s ability to carry out programs in Indian Country.

Hey NWAC 🏺 folks, if you're looking to back up your land acknowledgements with some tangible action this year, consider donating to this great Native-led org helping children heal from trauma just across the sound on the traditional lands of the Jamestown S'klallam

On my way to Bellingham for NWAC! Hopefully I'll see some of archaeology mutuals on here!

My parents met my partner for the first time this weekend and I'm absolutely screaming/cracking the fuck up that my dad made an honest attempt to use their correct pronouns but still spent the whole visit deadnaming me for some reason 😂

Fun Elliot Fact: Randy Johnson is a hometown hero (grew up in the next town over from me) and his high school baseball coach was my elementary school P.E. teacher ⚾🐦💥🪶😂

Been watching this whole debate unfold and have been too exhausted to engage but wanted to chime in and recommend this great ethnography of physicists for anyone interested in how the social context where science happens structures scientific practice, even in so-called "hard" sciences

It's fun that air travel is a mess at the same time as gas prices are making driving long distances untenable and also we have no functional rail infrastructure 👍

My parents are visiting and I had to get some work done today so they borrowed their grandson for an afternoon trip to the coast 🌊

"Why do you think [Trump] is talking about taking Cuba, why do you think he's imposed this [oil] blockade in the first place?" Kneecap speaking from Cuba: "... US imperialism"

My parents are about to fly into/out of SFO, which is how I discovered that TSA contracts out its security to private contractors at SFO???

LUSID was founded in June. I have had 27 online donations. They want to hurt children more than you want to protect them. That is how we got here. Fix your heart or die. lusidpsychcare.org

The Buffy casts' remembrance posts about Nicholas Brendon are all so unbelievably heartbreaking and full of pain, it's so sad seeing him through their eyes, it feels like they all lost him so long ago and finally lost him one last time

Our pups are hard at work today doing their practice drills so they can protect children who need space to heal. Donate today to make this real for a new generation of children 🐶✨ lusidpsychcare.org

Help us reach our $15,000 goal for two service dogs today! These dogs are being raised by an Indigenous medicine woman on her land to be PTSD supports to the children so they can calm themselves enough to heal ✨🐶🐶✨ We are at $485. Just over 3% there! Let's #HelpHealingHappen! lusidpsychcare.org

🚨 NEW POST: Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’) by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/i...

Arguing that by refuting Monte Verde you can refute Pre-Clovis sort of makes me question everything else in the paper right out of the gate.

One is a Fudgsicle. One is a chunk of radiolarian chert. One is tasty, the other is not. Both look chocolatey, though one isn’t.

Destruction of cultural heritage is not tangential to other genocidal acts, it is itself a crucial tactic of genocide that seeks to erase the very history of a people on the lands they call home 🏺

START HRT. YOUR FAMILY IS ALREADY DISAPPOINTED.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

The reason this is relevant to point out, imo, is that this disgusting race science nonsense is a major ideological underpinning of anti-NAGPRA archaeologists and it's important that we understand who we are dealing with 🏺

Paging all evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists