Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Well hello everyone! Welcome to Bluesky!
I'm an anthropologist (PhD).
My ethnographic research is on Hindu/Buddhist pilgrimage and sacred fossils (called Shaligrams) in the Himalayas of Nepal.
My new project focuses on robot religion in South Asia.
I also wrote "The Way By."
I'm an anthropologist (PhD).
My ethnographic research is on Hindu/Buddhist pilgrimage and sacred fossils (called Shaligrams) in the Himalayas of Nepal.
My new project focuses on robot religion in South Asia.
I also wrote "The Way By."
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. May you have a day without any unpleasant surprises at dinner.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. May you have a day without any unpleasant surprises at dinner.
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
A Babson College student was detained at Logan Airport in Boston and then deported to Honduras while trying to travel to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving.
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Babson student detained at Logan Airport, deported to Honduras while trying to travel for Thanksgiving - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
BOSTON (WHDH) - A 19-year-old student at Babson College was detained at Logan Airport then deported to Honduras while she was trying to travel to<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/new...
whdh.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A Babson College student was detained at Logan Airport in Boston and then deported to Honduras while trying to travel to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving.
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
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New 2025 Krampus plans have dropped.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New 2025 Krampus plans have dropped.
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
New 2025 Krampus plans have dropped.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New 2025 Krampus plans have dropped.
A Babson College student was detained at Logan Airport in Boston and then deported to Honduras while trying to travel to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving.
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Babson student detained at Logan Airport, deported to Honduras while trying to travel for Thanksgiving - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
BOSTON (WHDH) - A 19-year-old student at Babson College was detained at Logan Airport then deported to Honduras while she was trying to travel to<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/new...
whdh.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A Babson College student was detained at Logan Airport in Boston and then deported to Honduras while trying to travel to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving.
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Today is the Indigenous Day of Mourning. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca has now been stolen on stolen land.
whdh.com/news/babson-...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. May you have a day without any unpleasant surprises at dinner.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. May you have a day without any unpleasant surprises at dinner.
Turns out that head-chopping brutality isn't a useful foundation for a functioning democracy. They should have gone with the tart in the lake throwing out swords.
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Turns out that head-chopping brutality isn't a useful foundation for a functioning democracy. They should have gone with the tart in the lake throwing out swords.
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
This is it! Tonight's the night for my favorite yearly tradition!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is it! Tonight's the night for my favorite yearly tradition!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
This is it! Tonight's the night for my favorite yearly tradition!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is it! Tonight's the night for my favorite yearly tradition!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
The Thanksgiving Chorus!
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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"It's because I'm over 40, isn't it?! That's AGEISM, you immortal hypocrites!"
W.B. Yeats: ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"It's because I'm over 40, isn't it?! That's AGEISM, you immortal hypocrites!"
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
W.B. Yeats: ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
W.B. Yeats: ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
W.B. Yeats: ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
W.B. Yeats: ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Me: **stomping on the ground** "Let me in you xenophobic bastards!"
Portal - Carol Of The Turrets
YouTube video by Harry101UK
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I guess I need to consider this style more often. This sketch has sold!
Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil.
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I guess I need to consider this style more often. This sketch has sold!
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
Look, I got distracted cleaning my planted betta tanks and feeding my isopod colonies.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Look, I got distracted cleaning my planted betta tanks and feeding my isopod colonies.
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
Look, I got distracted cleaning my planted betta tanks and feeding my isopod colonies.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Look, I got distracted cleaning my planted betta tanks and feeding my isopod colonies.
Reposted by Dr. Holly Walters
I'm serious when I say that STEM without the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities will produce more "innovative" tech bros who giddily reinvent rent, roommates, taxes, and...roller skates. With complete, straight-faced, sincerity. This is a problem. And I have a list (So, a thread )
July 3, 2023 at 4:18 PM
I'm serious when I say that STEM without the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities will produce more "innovative" tech bros who giddily reinvent rent, roommates, taxes, and...roller skates. With complete, straight-faced, sincerity. This is a problem. And I have a list (So, a thread )
RIP Roe v. Wade.
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
RIP Roe v. Wade.
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If I were ever to have a message for future generations it would be, "I am SO jealous that you get to live through a time of space travel and new astronomical discoveries while I'm stuck here with the dumbest major historical events ever."
a man in a pirate hat is peeking out from behind a window .
ALT: a man in a pirate hat is peeking out from behind a window .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If I were ever to have a message for future generations it would be, "I am SO jealous that you get to live through a time of space travel and new astronomical discoveries while I'm stuck here with the dumbest major historical events ever."
I guess I need to consider this style more often. This sketch has sold!
Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil.
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I guess I need to consider this style more often. This sketch has sold!
Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil.
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil.
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
"Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)
If I were ever to have a message for future generations it would be, "I am SO jealous that you get to live through a time of space travel and new astronomical discoveries while I'm stuck here with the dumbest major historical events ever."
a man in a pirate hat is peeking out from behind a window .
ALT: a man in a pirate hat is peeking out from behind a window .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If I were ever to have a message for future generations it would be, "I am SO jealous that you get to live through a time of space travel and new astronomical discoveries while I'm stuck here with the dumbest major historical events ever."