Orion🌈&sm9eb
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Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
What kind of garbage headline is this?! I'm so glad I stopped giving @nytimes.com my money.
Look who successfully walked outside with a harness so that he could eat some grass instead of flopping on the ground like an immovable lump for the very first time this evening!!
My native wild persimmon tree and native wild pawpaw tree seeds finally sprouted!! I was told it was unlikely they would germinate and hard to do, particularly the persimmon. Well! Now there is the issue that I don't actually own land.
HEADS UP, fully funded Ancient History PhD position at Basel! A dear friend just finished her Egyptology PhD there; they have a great ancient studies ecosystem and resources, as I understand it. AND in Basel you're close to the annual Augusta Raurica Roman fest (like RenFest but Roman)!
Italy has apparently signed an NDA and won't tell me if he's going to a fancy Virginia vineyard wedding today, but he's dressed for it.
Maybe I'm not kidding. What elite Virginia vineyard wedding would be complete without this little guy in a wig and tricorn hat?? He could be a Quaker abolitioncat. He could officiate! (Side note: my car is not working, making certain aspects of this plan problematic.)
#Charlottesville people, if I got a little wig and tricorn hat for Italy, do you think local people would hire us for events? He could be Hamilton, not TJ! 😁
Vought's OMB is at it again, endangering independent peer review and research. See below from the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), via Fbook (sorry).
#AstronomyOnTap #Charlottesville! Interferometers, Betelgeuse, the Crab Nebula, Karl Jansky, LIGO! Where does GOLD come from?? AND........ A BRAND NEW TINY ASTROBABY (not pictured but extremely cute and extraordinarily well-behaved)!!! #AoT had it all! Shout out to Firefly for being awesome.
Did the Twitter account for the 14th St Bridge whenever it eats trucks make it over to Bluesky? The funniest thing could happen right now.
We debated over keeping the black and white theme, but I think the pattern of the plaid contrasts nicely with his natural tuxedo.
They've progressed to singing YMCA. Someone explain to ne how this went from being a major LBGTQIA+ anthem to a MAGA rally song, I don't get it.
Man, I hope everyone in DC under the shells falling from this is ok after this fiasco. Maybe it will rain again and that will help. Props to the NSO, Navy band, Marine band etc. They put up with a lot. But curious how Bon Jovi and the other bands will respond.
"I was with a group of people who normally wouldn't be watching..." DT says of the #ArtemisII crew. OH MY GOODNESS that poor crew, being used as props by a man who is destroying US science. #America250
Three phases of Italy on a rainy, thunder-y Fourth of July night for #America250:
My little friends are back!! I never saw male ruby-throated hummingbirds at all last year; it was always the same, very territorial little lady friend, chasing away competitors! @sapinuwa.bsky.social
Thunderstorm starting!!! Maybe we'll get lucky; we actually really need rain, and it will help wash out the Proud Boys when it reaches DC.
Oh yeah, at that point there was! There was another big group inside and I had to wait to go in, so I visited the Commander's brick and played through the glass. But then I got to play in person. He even let me scratch his tail base while I distracted him with a feather! (He's scratchy!)