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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

An orange cat and a black kitten napping on a bed, each with a paw stretched out touching the other’s paw

Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two weeks ago my sister and I found this starving kitty in desperate need of medical attention. Thanks to Familiar Hearts Animal Society she got that care and is now steadily gaining weight! Please consider donating to help cover her care and help them keep saving animals givebutter.com/FHASbespoke

Very thin tabby cat with bright green eyes and oversized ears

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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Endnotes

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The right wing attempt to apply the term “politics” only to liberal discourse while pretending their social conservativism is somehow apolitical is never not extremely infuriating to me

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask. Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project @chreproject.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📖 Newly published: B. Hellings, M. Spoerri Butcher (@gordien3a.bsky.social) and C. Howgego (eds), Roman Coin Hoards across Frontiers (Oxford, 2026). doi.org/10.1093/9780... An impressive amount of new evidence for our understanding of the reach of Rome and the connectivity of the ancient world!

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Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers

Abstract. The book presents an introduction and thirteen other chapters on the hoarding of Roman coin outside the Roman Empire from c. 30 bc to ad 518, and

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations! And I will also offer a plug to say that it is excellent!

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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Got word from the team @princetonupress.bsky.social that advanced copies of my book are arriving at the press (they sent me this photo of it in the wild)! So excited to be able to hold it in my hands!

A hardback copy of "Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Indian Ocean Trade" by Jeremy A. Simmons standing upright on a stone bench in the lovely green courtyard of Princeton University Press.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Marius sitting alone at the bar: “empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will sing no more…” his dead friends rolling in on the party bus: WE’RE BACK, LET’S PARTY

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Captcha final boss. I’m sweating

Captcha asking to type animal or bird name from three listed words which are salmon, bebop, and lemur

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i...

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS...

Abstract for a paper entitled "The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP): Methods and Preliminary Findings." Abstract says the paper discuss Roman republican coin series with sequential numerical control marks and a group of recut dies.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

These are the specimens cited and illustrated by Abdy. I can email you a pdf if you want!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Coins (top to bottom): Jameson Coll. 1 (L. Hamburger 95), lot 212 [now Kestner 1352a]; NAC 78, lot 1694; NAC H, lot 1561; NAC 92.2, lot 1581

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics

Series of four Roman republican coins that share the same obverse die but have reverses signed by four different moneyers

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“We didn’t cave to fascists, we’re just fascists too 🥰”

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Do you think snakes think legs are dumb

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Registration is now open for the RRDP conference at the American Academy in Rome, 9-11 April 2025! Join in person OR online! aarome.org/events/coins...

Coins, Counting, and Community: Exploring Deep Data from the Roman Republican Die Project

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ooh yeah good call, the black stripe across the eye!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I would guess the bird is a European Robin which have that same little white line on the wing and the red goes up onto the face (common redstarts have black faces)

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Subargenteus @subargenteus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#news in #numismatics 🏺 The book: "Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii: Making and Faking Coins on Both Sides of the Limes" available open access via @brepols.bsky.social www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

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Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What is the go to visual reference guide for all the different ancient representations of Roman military standards of all sorts including vexillia and aquila? Is there one? surely there must be.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Your regular reminder that being funny in alt-text is lovely, sure, but if it is NOT USEFUL TO PEOPLE WHO ARE USING IT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE than it's useless and trash. If you can't be both funny AND accessible just be accessible. Just describe what's in the image.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Really interesting, although much later than the coin I’m dealing with. But perhaps the Roman’s had something similar, we certainly know they were catching birds by other methods!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Oh, that’s interesting! I’ll have to look them up. Thanks!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thanks! What a cute little token!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It's paired with a large nail on the obverse which I would assume is for hanging it up (whatever it may be). I checked some places where I know there are bird cages, like the house of Livia frescoes, but no luck with bird houses so far even though they seem like a thing the Romans would have loved

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thanks! I guess I'm looking more for something you would hang in a tree for small birds, but this is a helpful comparandum anyway. I'll check some of the references from the article though!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I guess I could also be more specific, basically I'm wondering if there is any chance the symbol on this coin (RRC 384, s. 155) is a bird house. It looks a lot like a modern bird house but I do not think I've ever seen a bird house in Roman art...

Control mark on a Roman denarius that is a gourd shaped object with a loop at the top and seemingly an opening in one side with a slight ledge at the bottom.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Random 🏺Ancient Bluesky question: is anyone aware of depictions of bird houses in Roman art? Not bird cages, but houses where wild birds could live? A few internet searches didn't turn up anything helpful but if anyone has leads they would be greatly appreciated!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If this is a difficult season for you I want you to know that the band that had a hit with the blender song in 1998 thinks you're alright

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Me: Oh wow a dream job is open at an institution I’d love to work for! Also me: proceeds to send them a series of annoying emails pointing out errors in one of their online resources 🫥

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision

The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!

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Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo

Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025

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