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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 9m

Tests being done for potential H5N1 Avian Flu in Saltville wildlife.

Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 2h

Virginia: Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town wcyb.com/news/local/s...

Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town

The Town of Saltville said that they have reached out to agencies to investigate the sudden death of vultures throughout the town.In a Facebook post, the town s

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Jul 7

“you seen this shit, dawg?”

Instagram screenshot: archaeologyart Sculpture depicting a seated man wearing a full head mask representing a prairie wolf, accompanied by two dogs, dated
400-800 AD, originating from Veracruz, Mexico. Currently housed in the collection of Museum aan
de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Sep 13

yo dawg you ever stood in the very granary of powhatan, seen the sun glisten off the wild rice and spotlight the small flowers growing amongst them?

bro, bro, have you ever been filled with tears at a glimpse of the landscape before the desolation of colonialism

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Feb 25

🌿🌰 I went and visited the nearest piece of public land to this site and found something almost as rare: an American chestnut | Castanea dentata.

These functionally extinct trees, which resprout from their early 20th century roots, are uncommon in the mountains, but truly rare in the coastal plain

A living twig with leaf buds. Smooth, which is one of the ways you can tell it is a chestnut and not a chinquapin

the long, straight, possibly dead main trunk

a stump sprout with the characteristic orange-y bumps of chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 15m

FB really does hate links

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 15m

75 hits from here, 33 from IG, and 11 from FB

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 18m

having run a natural experiment on different social media, I can say that this is the place that drove the most traffic to my source post yesterday, and by a lot.

FB did almost nothing, despite me being friends with most of my professional circle.

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jake frankenstein's monster not the doctor @okabacus.bsky.social · 2h

so fuckin true my g

Medieval text showing a chicken and the words "puilus pipit / the chicken peepeth"

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

an old drawing of a bad b smoking and hitting a male bicyclist with her bike. The caption “THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF VELOCIPEDING”

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

and then from there publishing my dissertation (oof)

I‘m not in academia, but my ideas are good and can contribute to the field still

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

You may detect a theme here, but it’s about a guy from Oklahoma who gets kidnapped to Mexico City, and who was extremely good at hand signals. My hypothesis is that Plains Indian Sign Language is a few centuries older than we think it is.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

That Appalachia source that I posted last night needs a little more polish, I reckon, but the final boss of academic procrastination is this article manuscripts that I have been sitting on since before the pandemic. It’s done, it just needs a ton of edits.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16h

since I am engaged in horn-tooting:

I created a tool to systematically consult the records for every volume held at the Spanish Archivo General de Indias, and almost nobody uses it.

www.scottcave.net/classic-inve...

Classic Inventario Dinámico — Scott Cave

www.scottcave.net

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

I have it! I love her work.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14h

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm, that’s troubling.

It seems to be working for other people I have sent the link to and works for me in incognito mode.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16h

Old comic panel that has been modified: Dr. Doom toots as he pleases

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16h

since I am engaged in horn-tooting:

I created a tool to systematically consult the records for every volume held at the Spanish Archivo General de Indias, and almost nobody uses it.

www.scottcave.net/classic-inve...

Classic Inventario Dinámico — Scott Cave

www.scottcave.net

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 16h

Velvet Ants are not ants, but solitary wasps. Only males fly; females like this one are wingless. They run almost nonstop, looking for burrows of other ground-nesting wasps and bees, which they parasitize. They can sting but are not aggressive. She was small, under 1 cm. Pryor Mountains, Montana 🐙🌿

A macro photo of a female velvet ant (a type of fuzzy, wingless wasp) on pale orange sand. The insect's main color is dark orange above, with dark legs and black sides & belly.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 19h

Most problems can be solved by having more time to read pdfs under a tree

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16h

sorry for all the reposts, I’m just proud to finally be doing history again after multiple years away from it

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

these are my sons, Emmer and Einkorn

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 18h

Give this a read. I grew up 10 minutes from Saltville, VA, where this takes place. It's a remarkable archeological site in the mountains and, in fact, recent evidence suggests that Virginia's documentary history begins in Appalachia, not the Tidewater.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia

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