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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are the Crown Prince pumpkins tasty or bland, in your opinion? (Assuming you tried them.) Wonder if they're worth growing. Certainly pretty.

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is National Coffee Day, which is all the reason we need to re-share this beautiful ceramic coffee pot by William De Morgan. #NationalCoffeeDay #Coffee

A ceramic teapot with a tall, gourd-shaped body, a curved spout, and handle. It features decorative red patterns with floral and abstract designs on a white background.

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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Being in your 50s is confusing. On paper, I’m 55. At a concert, I’m 24. After 8/9 PM, I’m 88. Getting up off the floor makes me 115. But when the'80s music starts playing, I’m 17 all over again.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is it the Cromwell-Gardiner cypher? see: cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/henryvi...

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Ciphers during the Reign of Henry VIII

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having grown up in E. Europe, I can tell you it's always Lolek & Bolek, not the other way around 😜 Otherwise, a fairly accurate description of the Kushner & Witkoff duo.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One reason so many people mistake emotion for thought may be that the language surrounding public life has shifted away from evidence, logic, and verification—and toward feeling, belief, and emotional instinct. Research on millions of books shows that this reversal accelerated after 2007.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"the drying Danube has revealed a German military motorcycle in Hungary, an unexploded 700-kilogram British bomb in Slovakia and what are believed to be the ancient remains of a mammoth in Bulgaria" !!! www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

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Why are Nazi warships resurfacing in the Danube River? | CBC

Nazi German warships scuttled in the Danube River during the Second World War are resurfacing as water levels plunge — a striking sign of the extreme heat and drought gripping Europe this summer.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Bonus points to Christopher Nolan for locating Hades on one of those black sand beaches in Iceland.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/02/2026

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 11/07/2026

Once people start laughing it’s very difficult to stop them on the grounds you alone don’t think it’s funny.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Dutch Spotted sheep? They are lovely. And... OK, confusing.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

piff-paff, nye popal? 😜

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Protest song from 85 yrs ago...

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Was curious & looked him up: Maxim Kalashnikov = a pen name of Vladimir A. Kucherenko (he's not related to Mihail T. Kalashnikov the AK-47 inventor). So Maxim Kalashnikov the vatnik, RU war blogger, rabid RU nationalist, was born with a Ukrainian last name 🤔 (Ancestors now spinning in their graves)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

An embarrassment of riches 😀 fill your boots, @headlineoftheday.bsky.social

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Day 1561 of my 3 day war. This war has now lasted longer than Russia's involvement in WW1. An incompetent Czar presided over endless disasters, mass casualties & economic calamity causing the army to eventually mutiny. I remain a master strategist.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@delbra.bsky.social Mesaj direct nu-ti pot trimite fiindca nu mi-au verificat varsta 😀 Ma ocup... mai incolo. Cand am aterizat pe BlueSky era un pic mai simplu! dar incearca: blueskystarterpack.com E important sa blochezi p0rn0graf1a pe BlueSky (se face prin subscriere la o "lista neagra" de ~ )

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm parsing that BABYDDY license plate as "British Airlines Biddy" (elderly stewardess?)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Bill Bryson on the subject of Brits bristling when others point out the oddness of old units: "'Of course they make sense,’ the British person will sniff. ‘Half a firkin is a jug, half a jug is a tot, half a tot is a titter, half a titter is a cock-droplet. What’s not logical about that?’" 😀

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

For the past 30-40 years, society sold us the lie that you could just "individual responsibility" your way out of having to do politics. But politics is just decisions about how we organize society, and "not doing politics" is the same thing as giving up your voice.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 27/05/2026

When it's hot outside and you burn easily so you're staying inside in the dark with your skull.

We are looking at an oil painting of a pale looking gentleman with an orange beard. He is wearing a full black outfit including what looks like a dark fur lined robe with caned shoulders. He is holding a book in one hand and his other hand is resting on a skull.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Society in Russia must change so that the current Putin becomes the last. Putin himself gave the order for war, but he did not create the dictatorship that made this possible by himself. Lots of people were involved; most gazed indifferently at the dictatorship under construction." (@prof_preobr)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

...said man who voted for the Dragons Eating People's Faces party 😅

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, & The Trouble with Goats and Sheep were all intriguing titles, although derived from very common expressions (& 1 Bible verse, for that last one).

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Some titles hit you with a 1-2 punch of incongruity, or a jarring contrast that's immediately intriguing: The Yawning Heights; The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Babies and Other Hazards of Sex; A Confederacy of Dunces.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Surely no supervisor can object to an employee taking 10-15 min to post a daily photo or fact relating to your site & collections? It can only amuse & delight the fans, and further drive up interest & visits to your venue. To stop this kind of engagement would be a boneheaded move (pls quote me).

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Somewhat disturbing how many entries google finds for "painting of an angel smoking a cigarette", but the above does tug at the heartstrings :-)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

As I remember, there was a painting of a winter landscape somewhere on the wall opposing these stairs...? What was it... a Breughel? (a copy, or a print, I assume; I remember pausing on the stairs to admire it.)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Wow. Some clear outliers on that map, more gullible than the rest, & quite a few yrs behind the curve 🤔 (How big a wallet cramp at the gas pump is needed before they sour on Trump?)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

That mayor's gonna end up with egg on his face: Trump is hovering around 30% approval rate in the US; I'm curious what the approval rate is over there? Doesn't someone need to be _popular_ in our old country/cities (and preferably, dead) before people start agitating to get stuff named after them?

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So, he wants theocracy back? Fat chance. Obviously, you can't _convince_ these fossils & their fundamentalist followers to quit this nonsense, but the rest of the country will ultimately vanquish them in the simplest way: by outliving them.

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The traditional E. European carnivore's philosophy was always "everything but the squeal"; the squeamish were the outliers (of that, I was reminded at every family feast... might as well emigrate! 😜) But some things I learned to enjoy (calf brains pane', tongue with olives, liver pate')

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

OMG! Who did this to you, and where? 😀(Am in E. Yorkshire now, was that abomination local?)

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Anca @ancah.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I see your assorted-animal-guts-in-aspic (called "piftie" in Romania) and raise you... more offal: tripe soup ("ciorba de burta"). Ugh. And yet, there are people who rave about this stuff. www.jocooks.com/recipes/trip...