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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 1h

Which is, notably, still $9.25 less than the state minimum wage

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

calmatters.org

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Power Miss Major.

I was so fortunate to profile Miss Major for SF Weekly.

From her political education from the leaders of the Attica prison uprising and getting knocked out by a cop at Stonewall to performing in the Jewel Box Revue and founding TGIJP, she led an extraordinary life.

archives.sfweekly.com

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to read Binford with this book cover in mind really gives it this energy 😂

Screenshot from Arrested Development showing Gob and a group of magicians standing on the steps of a building with the sign "We demand to be taken seriously"

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 2d

It's truly the most bonkers cover art of all time 😂

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 2d

You're welcome 😂

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 2d

Giving a lecture on settlement archaeology this week so you KNOW I had to include my favorite archaeological book cover of all time 😂🏺

The original cover art for Lewis Binford's book "In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record" which features a scene of 4 people outside, 2 in traditional Inuit clothing. In the foreground is a photo of the author, a white man in his 60s with white hair and a beard wearing a sweater vest and big 1980s-era glasses who is gesturing like he is mid-lecture. (He looks like a dweeb)

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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · 3d

From the archive. Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. The study of people, and their remains, shows that sex should be viewed the same way. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/inte...

What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary

Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. Human remains show that sex should be viewed the same way.

www.sapiens.org

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Anarchist Art Ⓐ @anarchistart.net · 5d

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 5d

I will try, but they have crazy strict rules about stimulant prescriptions so I am not optimistic 🫠

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 5d

I have barely been holding my shit together for the last month, I am so scared y'all there is no way I am making it through even a week without my meds without fucking up something to an unsalvageable degree

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 5d

tbh it feels like malpractice for the psychiatrist treating your ADHD to fail to send you the reminder they agreed to send you to schedule a follow-up appointment to get your meds refilled. so anyways I am completely fucked for the next 2 weeks AT LEAST

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 10d

For my algae heads: happy spooky season!

(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)

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The bulbous ends of two pieces of bull kelp (Nerocystis luetkiana) carved into grinning jack o lanterns. They are on a rocky beach and you can see waves in the background.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 9d

Irish breakfast is my fav for the morning! Also green tea and rooibos

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10d

This is so fucking sadistic. I’d like to hear the hasbara merchants try to defend this most recent depravity.

According to Turkish activist and Global Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik, who was recently released :

“They dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.”

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11d

The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...

A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature

The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.

baynature.org

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 11d

Statement on American Cultural Resource Management Companies and Saudi Arabia

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 13d

This weekend in Eugene, OR!

Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 28d

Heads up for parents in the Eugene area! There will be a letter-writing event for kids to write letters/draw pictures to send to children in the occupied West Bank on October 4th at the public library!

A brightly colored event flyer. The background is red with watermelon seeds and there is a band of green on the bottom third of the image. The main text reads "Penpals for Palestine. Children's Letter Writing. Eugene Public Library. Bascom/Tykeson Room." There are green bubbles in the top corner of the flyer with the date (October 4th 2025) and time (1-4pm) of the event. The text on the green band at the bottom of the image reads "The children living in the West Bank need some light and compassion. Let's let them know they have friends in Eugene who are thinking of them!" with larger text below that reads "Building bridges from our families to theirs."

Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 16d

I sure hope my audio doesn't skip or cut out weird in the middle of one of these lectures I'm recording bc I sure as shit am not listening to my own voice for 18 minutes to confirm that 🤞

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 16d

❝ The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation ❞

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why ...

mondoweiss.net

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 18d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 18d

I'll never forget the day my field school at Cahokia was rained out and our PIs drove us around the outskirts of East St. Louis pointing out the buildings, parking lots, and overpasses where mounds used to be. A whole history of Indigenous urbanism+ceremony erased. What a huge win for the Osage!

(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 18d

nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

Osage Nation Reclaims St. Louis’s Last Surviving Indigenous Mound

The Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office proudly announces the full reacquisition of Sugarloaf Mound, the oldest known human-made structure in St. Louis and the last remaining Native American mo...

nativenewsonline.net

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 18d

RIP to the Oakland As 😭😭😭

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 18d

I'm just excited to have a team I can root for in the playoffs this year lmao

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 18d

Just as the lack of affordable housing and influx of techbros into the San Francisco Bay Area led me to betray my hometown and move to the PNW, so to has the Giants' lack of playing good baseball forced me to abandon them for the welcoming arms of the Mariners this postseason

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 19d

This is so much funnier if you're familiar with San Rafael, which is a richy rich city full of high strung white people 😂

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