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🏺Former archaeologist 🪴Houseplant enthusiast 📚Book lover

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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As well as producing beautiful botanical watercolours, she was an early advocate for lichen’s symbiotic relationship between fungi & algae but the Linnaean Society dismissed her work because she was a woman -the patriarchy is why she became a children’s writer and illustrator.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lepiota procera, 1894 watercolour by Beatrix Potter. Best known for her children's books. Potter also studied mycology, the scientific study of fungi and was a keen conservationist #WomensArt
Watercolour featuring a study of three mushrooms or toadstools of the same species against a cream background
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also if you’ve never listened to it whilst in the mountains (snowy for preference) you have missed out
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m not sure what you mean. When did ‘too many’ try to get in and what went very badly?
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hmm. I guess if you want to be pedantic then citizenship was granted rather than opted in for, but that doesn’t change the fact that anyone could become a Roman citizen regardless of their origin. This ability to assimilate people from different cultures was a strength, don’t you think?
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And before the edict of Caracalla there were several legal route to become a Roman citizen, so it was never that only people born to Roman parents could be Roman. Anyone could join the foederati or be a freed slave
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a bit more complicated than that but essentially the Roman Empire had various legal routes to citizenship so ‘barbarians’ could become Roman, identity wasn’t static in the way he’s describing in the past. He’s just appropriating this fictional dichotomy to justify his bigotry.
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think it meant ‘bearded’ (hence barber from the Latin) which the Romans were not (until Hadrian, later, at least), or that the Romans couldn’t understand them (their language sounded like ‘bar-bar-bar’ nonsense) and like you say became ‘uncivilised’ later
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Does he also identify with the concept in Ancient Rome that everyone could become Roman if they wanted, no matter where you came from or what you looked like? I expect not…
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published in a book #WomensArt
Image of a white poppy plant against a blue background
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Great Vowel Shift has a lot to answer for…
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not quite the same but my specialist physio did that to me once -they’d had a family bereavement. I imagine it’ll be because of something similar (surely not intentional). Hope they can reschedule asap
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fully behind this idea, USA should pay a *large* proportion of this having cut funding to research (thanks DOGE) which would have given early warning re glacial change -wouldn’t have prevented event but might have helped mitigate loss of life
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They’ll be lucky to have you! Could you share the recipe? 🫶🏼
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We went to a night-time opening of the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford once, and instead of a ticket you were loaned a torch… absolutely magical core-memory stuff 🌙🏺🔦
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Like Mr & Mrs Twit… coincidentally
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Despite having quite a delicate constitution when it comes to bodily fluids/animal parts, I like to think that my reward for getting past the fox poo bit was the rest of the book. I did really enjoy it 😂
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I absolutely love Underland. I’m not a designer/imaginator but as a former archaeologist it really resonated with that side of me
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And perhaps some sort of cashmere hooded cloak?
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I thoroughly enjoyed The Wolf That Chews Rocks. @russincheshire.bsky.social ‘s vivid descriptions of dog ownership were a little *too* intense at times, but it's an endearing look at the human-dog partnership and the science behind Baxter's chaotic behavior.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Remembering that time we catalogued a book about birds and found all the new insults we could ever need.
Entries from Collins Nature Guide to Birds. The entries are:
Gadwall, Great Crested Grebe, Little Bittern, Rough-legged Buzzard, Great Reed Warbler, Ferruginous Duck, Little Bustard, Red-necked Phalarope, Shoveler, Bearded Tit and Short-toed Treecreeper.
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/08/2026
Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
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Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Merry Maidens #StandingStoneSunday
Stone circle and dry grass
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The whole problem, in one post.
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Is this the mappa mundi that was the basis for the one in Tony Robinson’s historical novel “The House of Wolf”?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 from tbe Shared Skies Exhibition #WomensArt
Painting of a stylised constellation in dotted technique against a dark blue sky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Artwork by contemporary printmaker Diana Catchpole #WomensArt
Print in black and white with pink featuring a giant pigeon with three small.figures and a dog in silhouette standing on its back
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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wern Derys #StandingStoneSunday
An ancient standing stone in a field
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic
Two panel comic. Panel 1: an anglerfish is washed up on the ocean shore, laying in the tide. It thinks to itself, “it’s so beautiful.” Panel 2: wide shot of the beach, rocky cliffs, and sky at sunset, with the anglerfish still laying in place. The anglerfish continues thinking to itself, “I might have never known.”
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just when you think it can’t get any worse (better?) then Waitrose Tommy Robinson throws his hat in 😂😂😂
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There have been 65 Kings & Queens of all England since Aethelstan became the 1st recognised monarch in the year 927 (let the arguments begin 🤴) This tree hasn’t just witnessed all of them, it was born up to 2,000 years BEFORE Aethelstan The Linton Yew, Herefordshire
Massive yew tree
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was in the Linton Brownies in the early 90s & we often played tracker seek in Linton churchyard, where we’d sometimes hide inside that yew tree. I knew it was old but had no idea quite how ancient!
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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Merry Maidens 🌿🪨🌞
The merry maidens stone circle
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Know exactly what you mean -I wanted to empty my backpack and fill it with the stray cats of Rome
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The work of contemporary Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt #Monday
Painting featuring a number of birds flying in different colours against a grey background
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses." One star out of five.
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Someone’s read Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel…
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a chrysalis hangs from a branch in a tree. Panel 2: inside the chrysalis is a small room. A caterpillar is sitting on the floor looking exhausted and frustrated with its head in its hand. Scattered on the floor around the caterpillar are large parts of butterfly wings in boxes like pieces of furniture that require assembly, and an electric drill, and a beer.
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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Longstone of Minchinhampton #StandingStoneSunday
Holed standing stone
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive” —Charlotte Brontë 🌻🕊️
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #June1st #Summer
Painting of a black bird sitting on a thin branch with blossom against a gold background
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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ceremony atTthe Stones at the 1983 free festival 📷 Colin Kenworthy
Lots of people at Stonehenge
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
✨Dementia✨
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Observatory Crest by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band on Apple Music
Song · 1974 · Duration 3:32
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
His dysphagia and paraphasias are getting so bad! They’re keeping his public speaking appearances to a minimum because he’s a liability -and because he sounds decrepit
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Probably a Drain Cleaning Australia subscriber 👍🏼
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I think the combination of cozy white noise from the rain and the cocooning effect of being warm and dry whilst it’s pouring outside makes it an optimal reading environment. I’d volunteer to take part in future research studies into this 🌧️📚
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Carly @carlyhommel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Rainy afternoon well spent reading The House of Wolf by @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social Having grown up loving Blackadder and Time Team, this book feels long overdue. Already looking forward to hearing him at @chalkefestival.bsky.social next month!
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