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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17h
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026
Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our friend Brachycephalus rotenbergae is one of several tiny pumpkin toads was first described as a new species in 2021! They are named after a Brazilian conservationist, Elise Laura K. Rotenberg! (photo by herping_brasil)
A closeup of a tiny orange toad looking right at the camera! They have a somewhat rough skin texture and huge dark brown eyes with large black pupils! They are sitting on a mossy surface!
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Patchwork of waste on the inner plates of this MS: a 14th-c copy of Alexander of VillaDei's Doctrinale with elaborate commentary gloss, and different copies of the Pauline epistles to Timotheus, one fairly old (@jlugiessen.bsky.social, Hs 1105) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP000655C10...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just look at tonight’s sky! There is a green edge to the top clouds. Not sure you can see it. One of the most amazing skies I have seen! I did a video as it was impossible to catch in 1 photo!
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v. #medieval #MedievalArt
bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Tim Platt @timplatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
journalism must be ended. as it exists in the UK, it is incompatible with and opposed to human rights and dignity.
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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 24/09/2026
“You still think that you can control them?”
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found just the most delightfully awful heraldry book in the collection this afternoon, and I am SCREAMING at this absolute mush of the Dürer rhino 😂
A variety of crudely engraved heraldic animals
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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026
The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.
Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec GuinnessHayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse
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Kallichoron-Philyra @evavasi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
​📍Coffee with a Codex: Greek Herbal ​Curator Dot Porter examines a 15th-c. manuscript on medicinal plants, closely tied to Dioscorides' De materia medica. ​🗓️ Oct 8 at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT Free virtual event Registration: ​🔗 libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/17673140 #BookHistory #Manuscript #ArtHistory
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Coffee with a Codex: Greek Herbal
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ravens in the mist from a beautiful misty morning. I love these Autumn mornings hopefully lots more of them to come in the next few weeks 😊
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week we held our annual New Acquisitions Showcase, featuring books acquired by the Kislak Center for Special Collections over the previous year. This year, we have a nice handful of manuscripts, including a very rare Middle English folding almanac. Full list here: bit.ly/47bJF37
43.	Folding medical and astrological almanac. England, after 1415. Ms. Codex 2368. A newly discovered “bat book”, not listed in the existing corpus of sixty-three such manuscripts and one of only two known examples in Middle English (the other is in the British Library); it combines a calendar, astronomical tables, medical information, and a Zodiac Man.
https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9979897615803681
51.	Cicero, De officiis. Italy, between 1425 and 1475. Ms. Codex 2379. A manuscript copy of Cicero's De officiis, one of the foundational texts of Western moral philosophy, preserves a work that for centuries served simultaneously as a schoolbook, ethical manual, and introduction to classical Latin.
https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9979828269303681
65.	Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Doctrinale. Cologne, 1400–25. Ms. Codex 2398. A manuscript of the theological volume of Vincent of Beauvais's “Great Mirror” (the others are devoted to Nature and History, respectively), particularly interesting due to the fact that it was owned by Penn English professor Albert C. Baugh (1891–1981) and included in a 1928 campus exhibition.
https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9979748714703681
Franciscan breviary and ritual. Bologna?, 1452–54. Ms. Codex 2400. A small, dense manuscript used for the Divine Office and other liturgical ceremonies, which includes calendars, Easter tables, offices for Franciscan saints, and texts for blessings, exorcisms, and last rites.
https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9979897342603681
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Medieval people loved making lists! But are there any good overviews of medieval lists and their uses, or particularly good studies of listing practices and their significance, that are student-friendly? Help a teacher out!
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I worry this in the kind of knowledge that can only be gained through personal experience, because the sheer extent of that level of dehumanising cruelty is too hard to comprehend and allow. It's just human to push back and say 'it can't be like this, we wouldn't allow it to be like this.' It is.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you're not actively involved in disability rights work, you need to read this thread immediately It's been really striking watching Bluesky (and broader) debates on the assisted dying bill from otherwise progressive ppl with ZERO inclusion of disabled experiences and insights.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since it is International Literacy Day, 📕 📚 here is an ostracon from Deir el-Gizaz showing a Coptic monk practicing the alphabet to write in ‘Bible Majuscule’ style script. (P. L. Bat. 25.11, 550-650 CE, image via the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University). sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/18/a...
Ostracon from Deir el-Gizaz showing a Coptic monk practicing the alphabet to write in ‘Bible Majuscule’ style script. (P. L. Bat. 25.11. Image via the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University).
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/09/2026
The Farage sting is not on the front pages of: The Times Belfast Telegraph Daily Express Daily Mail Mirror Star Metro Morning Star Telegraph Guardian Herald i Independent The Journal The National The Scotsman
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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Very slow rocket launch underway
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have to live in the country that the media has built around us, brick by brick, lie by lie. Extreme right-wingers smoothed over, made relatable, made funny and harmless; mildly left-wing people monstered. British media as it currently exists must end if this country is to be mended.
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I believe the MS pictured in the original post is Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.10.5. The full report is at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and if you find Supplementary Materials at the end you can get a spreadsheet that includes shelfmarks and links to MSS online where available. #medievalsky
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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes
Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...
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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I always like being reminded of the parchment process - here’s some hair that wasn’t scraped off when it was stretched on the parchment frame (Bodleian Library, MS Digby 226, fol. 99r-v) #bookhistory
Folio from a thirteenth-century manuscript with the corner missing where the skin was cut from the parchment frameClose up of the corner of the manuscript with animal hair still attached Reverse side of folio showing animal hair against finger Animal hair left on parchment shown against folio below
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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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You're A Quick Study, Aren't You? Philip Seymour Hoffman
Alt: gif from The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) of Freddie Miles, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, saying "You're a quick study, aren't you?"
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Still a little bit short. :-/
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026
Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'
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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Blue Heron posing for my camera #birds
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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New conspiracy theory: Laura Loomer was hired to headhunt a replacement for Rod Liddle.
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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two, really: Peter Smith-Kingsley, and his floppy hair
Still of Jack Davenport as Peter Smith-Kingsley in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Napoleon III Dynamite
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Tilled Field by Joan Miró, 1923 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.
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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
dispatches from a dystopia most people are able to pretend is not a shared reality. these two posts are immediately adjacent on my feed, after seeing an article 1h ago from the Guardian proclaiming the NHS is spending too much on neurodivergence diagnostics & treatment. it's .. full-on.
A post from TransActual
The EHRC's new Code of Practice is now in effect. Here's what you need to know!

Hashtags follow.

An image featuring trans flags is attached with 'KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!' followed by the same text.
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This weird-looking vessel is a baby feeder, shaped like a teat, buried with a 6-12 month old infant in the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Buckland, Dover. It was placed in the child's coffin, close to their mouth. Only one other A/S example is known. Such pain, care and love across the centuries.
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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today's bit of odd for you. The Coat of Arms once borne by the Kings of France according to GO MS 7 (National Library of Ireland). www.nli.ie/news-stories...
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia
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