Guy Duke

@archaeoguy.bsky.social

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Former academic (archaeologist), now academic adjacent, Canadian living on stolen Musqueam/Salish/Tsleil-Waututh land (aka Vancouver, BC) but with strong ties to the queer community of Deep South Texas (RGV). Au(Ph)DHD. they/them 💛🤍💜🖤

Calendar entry reading “Remove men”
Jar of ORS HAIRestore “Hair Mayonnaise” on a drug store shelf.
Screenshot of a skeet from Sarah E. Bond reading: You really forget that man buns are still a thing until you watch a few World Cup games. Followed by a skeet from Puff the Magic Hater reading: I think we should eat them.
Screenshot of a skeet from Sarah E. Bond reading: You really forget that man buns are still a thing until you watch a few World Cup games. Followed by a skeet from Puff the Magic Hater reading: I think we should eat them.
Selfie of a breakfast on an outdoor backyard patio with a mug of coffee and toast on a plate on a table surrounded by trees and flowers with a clear blue sky overhead.
Screenshot of skeets reading: Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor • 1h Today I'm presenting alongside a guy who used generative "Al" to make his presentation about Indigenous digital sovereignty and I don't know how I'm not going to yell a lot about this staring blankly into the... @ianmos... • 4m lol Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com • 5m effinbirds.com/post/8132596... (Image of a drawn heron on a blue background) I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL THESE DIPSHITS WHO NEED TO FUCK OFF
Two university faculty at graduation wearing their colorful regalia from their Alma maters
On a rainbow background, text reads, “Welcome to the queerest day at the SAAs: Friday, May 1, 2026”
Orange and white cat sleeping while draped across a grey chair with a rainbow colored throw pillow behind him.
Black cat in silhouette against an arched window. Photo in black and white.
A cat in silhouette stretches in front of an arched window above a doorway,with blue sky and trees outside.
Orange cat curled up inside a grey laundry hamper.
tHReads post from user archaeo_girl to the Heated Rivalry community: My partner got a blessed daytime nap today and during it they dreamed that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie were going to star in a new Zoolander movie as the sons of Ben Stiller's and Owen Wilson's characters. The movie will be called Blue Steel: GenerationZ
Your AEo JND 0.0021 Genuinely remarkable. You sailed past the theoretical human limit like it owed you money. I'd accuse you of cheating but I don't actually know how you'd cheat at this. Share result Again. I can do better. Read the post about this.
Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn) Dickens, the last child of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens.
Grey tabby looks at camera while intermission show of gold medal men’s hockey game plays in background.
Peaches and cream cat lounging blissfully in a paper bag laying on its side on a tile floor.
Our students are not encountering these issues for the first time in a classroom. They are living them. Immigration raids do not pause because a syllabus avoids the topic. Gender violence does not disappear because a professor is told to “remain neutral.” Racism, economic precarity, and state surveillance shape students’ daily lives long before they ever raise a hand in class. To label the conditions of students’ lives as “controversial” is to tell them their realities are inconvenient. That their truths are risky. That power—not integrity—decides what can be named.
Chihuahua lounging blissfully in a sun mote on a wood floor.
Peaches and cream cat lying stretched out on its back between the legs of a barefooted human wearing blue jeans lying on a green couch. Toe beans and curled back feet are prominent.
Cover of One Chord to Another by Sloan (1996) featuring the band members gathered around a keyboard with guitarist Jay Ferguson in front with a guitar all on a blue background.
Soda Pop by Saja Boys from the movie KPop Demon Hunters
The head of a small grey kitten pops up from the bottom of the frame, its paw reaching toward the keyboard of a laptop with a series of Word documents on it littered with comments. Photo taken in 2016 as I was completed my first full draft. Graduated a year later.
Peaches and cream cat curled up adorably on a pillow.
Cover of the New Expanded Edition of Miguel León-Portilla's classic "The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico."
Person wearing a blue “trans kids belong” shirt sitting on a brown couch next to a peaches and cream cat lying on a colorful throw pillow.
Peaches and cream cat sitting prettily in a metal sink.
Large spider suspended in its web above a bee caught and entangled below. Background of blue sky and neighborhood street with cars and trees.
Orange cat in a cardboard box. Image #1: crouched deeply within, lid down, preparing to pounce
Peaches and cream cat voluntarily sitting in an open pet crate.
Redd Kross, Third Eye
Tumblr post: badmoonraisin I am reading an essay called Male-Male Desire in Pharaonic Egypt (by Alex Clayden) which is actually pretty good but I just need to draw attention to this little gem of a pick-up line [series of Egyptian hieroglyphs] nfrwi-phij = kj "How beautiful are thy buttocks!"32 rhazade-waterbender Attention, followers: you now know how to write "nice ass" in hieroglyphics.
A gross parliamentary committee overreach A small group of MPs are demanding five years' worth of personal data on research-grant applicants, threatening to politicize the process An Opinion in the Globe and Mail by Andre Picard Leaders of Canada's three federal research-funding agencies were recently invited to the Standing Committee on Science and Research for what should have been a routine discussion of the state of the scientific enterprise in Canada, and how the allocation of federal dollars can promote excellence. What happened instead was a mugging by a small group of parliamentarians with a seemingly odious agenda. The committee, made up of Liberal, Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs, adopted the following motion: That the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), "provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the Master's level on-wards, for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include 1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire; 2) the institutions and departments of appli-cants, including the institutions of collaboration; 3) the language of the application; 4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant); as well as 5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion; and 6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded." There's a lot to digest there so let's break it down. First, the committee is demanding personal details on every researcher who has applied for a grant, successfully or not, in the past five years,…
A white plushy llama with a brown, red, orange, and yellow crocheted blanket on its back.
Screenshot of a typo reading "THat" with both the T and the H capitalized with the following suggestions for corrections: T Hat That Tat Teat Twat Add to Dictionary I was sorely tempted to go with one of the last two but it's a comment on a student assignment, so I restrained myself.
Peaches and cream cat curled up sleeping on a brown couch with a paw stretched out to touch the foot of its human.
Dashboard display of the song “Let’s Get Out Of This Country” by Camera Obscura of the album of the same name with an image of the album cover to the right.
Orange and white car with a pink nose, collar, and tag, looks proudly into the camera while resting on a piece of white cardboard, a pencil under its front paws.
Peaches and cream cat resting adorably on a throne-like pillow, paw stretching toward the camera, head curled under.
Dr. Dre
Screen shot of a partial text message reading, “UT Health RGV: Pronounced Ghee, you have an upcoming visit”
Yuri Knorozov, a Russian epigrapher known for his work on deciphering Maya script, holding his beloved cat, Asya, who was listed as co-author on many of his publications.
Grey cat with golden undertones lying on a child’s bed.
A floofy grey cat lounges glamorously on a blue velvet chair.
Two peaches and cream cats lie on a green couch with their human.
Chihuahua’s face peeking out from under a green crocheted blanket.
Yellow sticker with image of a black boot stepping on a snake with a ball gag and text below reading, “ugh, tread on me harder daddy”
Grey and white kitten sitting on a light brown doormat in front of a glass door with a broom on the other side.
Fear Guy S Duke The trip has been long the stops infrequent, and now I need to pee. Far from anywhere but full of people, a rest stop like any other. A public restroom, taken for granted my entire life, until now. I have never felt so noticed before in my life and I am not comfortable at all. The briefest of pauses as he washes his hands. A side-eyed glance at the air-dryer and muttered disapproval as I walk past to use the stall. I stay for longer than needed. Waiting, hoping he leaves and no one else comes in. When I finally get up the way is clear, the room is empty. But the fear of what may await me outside inexorably creeps through my very being. And nothing happens. I get back in the car and we’re on our way once more. But now I know the fear, and it intimately knows me. pg. 78-79 Boundless 2025: Valley International Poetry Festival
When you're lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
Chart showing my political ideology results to be further economically left and socially progressive than all of the major Canadian political parties.
A colorful Lego structure featuring many levels and an oddly placed ladder.
Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz and Guildenstetn in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Packaging of a Boston Market chicken pot pie with a maple leaf and “Product of Canada” stamp in the bottom left corner.
Christopher Lloyd, wearing a metal contraption on his head, as Doc Brown from the movie Back to the Future.
A light brown dog of unknown breed lying down with her tongue slightly sticking out in a beige dog bed.
1% of people regret their gender affirming treatment. Chart of 100 human shaped figures, 99 are in trans flag colors, 1 is dark grey. The regret rate across all surgeries is about 14%. Chart of 100 human shaped figures, 86 are white colors, 14 are dark grey. Sources: regret after gender-affirmation surgery. National library of medicine / regret in surgical decision making. National library of medicine.
1% of people regret their gender affirming treatment. Chart of 100 human shaped figures, 99 are in trans flag colors, 1 is dark grey. The regret rate across all surgeries is about 14%. Chart of 100 human shaped figures, 86 are white colors, 14 are dark grey. Sources: regret after gender-affirmation surgery. National library of medicine / regret in surgical decision making. National library of medicine.
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future, wearing a large metal contraption on his head.
Grey tabby with gold and white undertones shows her belly while coquettishly looking into the camera and lying on a rainbow colored rug.