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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

600,000 voter registrations affected by a "glitch"? Let's just call it what it is - election interference. Fucking slimy Rapepublicans doing what they do best...cheating.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 10h

Don't threaten us with a good time...

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 10h

Safe travels and happy landing IN the plane!

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Kelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 13h

Getting IN the plane! LAX here I come.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This poignant fresco shows Hermes leading little children into a flowering meadow in the Underworld. It looks beautiful and no doubt provided comfort to the parents of 8 year old Octavia Paulina, in whose tomb the fresco was found. 🕰️C3rdAD 🏛️Museo Nazionale Romano 📷 mine #FrescoFriday

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18h

I love spotting fingerprints on terracottas, the physical marks of the ancient artisan. A votive terracotta head like this one was mold-made, but the details were added by hand to individualize each piece. Zoom in to see all of the fingerprints on the brow and chin! 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Closeup of a terracotta votive head of a beardless male youth with locks of curly hair. His head is tilted to his right, and his lips are slightly parted, revealing his perfect teeth (almost impossible to see unless you look very closely). The terracotta surface is pitted and stained, and some of the hair has broken off, but it's mostly whole.

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Kelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 13h

Had a lovely week in Sedona guiding 5 women through some cool shit that I hope the’ll apply so they can do their Life-ing with more joy, oomph and meaning. Some pics the last night from up on the mesa.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 11h

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 11h

#Wordle 1,945 3/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 11h

Blossom Puzzle, October 16 Letters: E G H N I L W My score: 300 points My longest word: 10 letters 🌼 💐 🌻 💮 🌷 🌺 🌸 🌹 🏵 🌼

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 11h

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Oct. 16, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2250 💯

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Two of the Lewis Chessmen currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Discovered in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the chessmen date to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Breathing in... • Wendell Berry •

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18h

A knockout archaeological discovery! 🥊 Rare Roman leather boxing gloves used for sparring, so remarkably preserved that a boxer’s knuckle imprint is still visible in the smaller glove! Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a white mannequin, upper torso only, with raised arms wearing Roman dark-brown leather sparring gloves which fit over the knuckles rather than the entire hand. Both arms are bent at the elbow and raised in a boxing stance, with one fist held high in front of the face and the other lower, in front of the chest. The ancient leather sparring gloves were excavated in 2017 at Vindolanda Roman fort, and are displayed in a glass case at the onsite museum.

Here is the information from the museum signage:

These two unassuming but remarkable objects have been identified as a sparring or practise form of caestus, ancient boxing 'gloves' depicted on mosaics and sculptures for the Roman period. These gloves were cut from a single piece of leather and folded into a 'pouch' configuration tapering to extending leather 'arms' which were slotted into one another forming an oval shape with inner hole into which a hand can still be easily inserted. The pouch of the larger glove is stuffed with shock absorbing grasses and bracken while the smaller glove has an insert of hard coiled leather. Both gloves have a flattened lower edge forming a hard ridge of leather acting as a blade designed to cause damage to an opponent. The gloves were probably owned by a soldier who took part in Roman army fitness, practice and competition activities.

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 16h

“Winter sunrises would happen after 8am, in some places closer to 9am… We already tried this and hated it so much Congress reversed course within a year…”

New Jersey Monitor
Part of States Newsroom

Making daylight saving time permanent is a bad idea
Terrence T. McDonald
October 16, 2026 11:16 am

A measure state lawmakers advanced on Thursday is an example of what I’m calling the Trenton Trifecta.

It’s dumb. It’s bad. And it’s pointless.

We very often get bills that are one of those, but it’s rare for them to qualify for all three.

I’m talking about the bill to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress authorizes states to do so.

Look, I get it. Changing clocks twice a year can be annoying. But there are more annoying chores I have to do far more often; it would not occur to me to seek a change in state law so I can avoid doing them.

Dark afternoons are also a bummer. But we would not gain any sunlight by making daylight saving time permanent, because we cannot command the sun to give us more daylight. Yes, our afternoons would stay brighter longer but our mornings would stay darker later. Winter sunrises would largely…

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"He who masters the grey everyday is a hero." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky Golden Birches in Autumn 🎨 Arkady Rylov

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Pause for a moment, and read...

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Daylight Saving Time is a trick to make us set morning alarms an hour earlier than Standard Time. Standard Time is the more honest clock, set by the sun. #DitchDST

“Giga-Chad” meme (monotone photography of confident bodybuilder). Caption: “You want it lighter later? Start your own day earlier! Let clocks stay on Standard”

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1,900 year-old Roman birthday invitation! 🎉 🥳 From Claudia Severa to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina, it’s one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman! Found at Vindolanda fort, it gives a glimpse of social life on Rome’s northern frontier! 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman wooden writing tablet (Vindolanda tablet no. 291) with a birthday invitation written in ink. The invitation is from Claudia Severa, wife of Aelius Brocchus, to Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Flavius Cerealis, the commander at Vindolanda fort on the northern frontier of Britannia. The writing tablet is made up of two square, wafer thin, pieces of wood, displayed side by side. Each piece is now somewhat fragmentary, with pieces of wood missing in places. The wood is mid-brown in colour with dark text, and is displayed on a cream mount. The text is written in cursive Latin. Most of the text was written by a scribe, but Claudia adds in her own hand “I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail” making this one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman. Dimensions: Width 22.3 cm × Height 9.6 cm. Dated c. 97 - 103 AD. From Vindolanda Fort, Northumberland. Now in the British Museum collections.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Blossom Puzzle, October 15 Letters: D E N R T U W My score: 323 points My longest word: 10 letters 🌺 🌼 🌹 💮 🌷 💐 🌸 🌻 🏵 🌺

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Oct. 15, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2450 💯

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New Jersey, tell your state senators to oppose S3236 (permanent Daylight Saving Time). Its months of post-8am sunrises cost lives and business when last tried. Tell them to support S293 (permanent Standard Time) instead, for safety and economy!

Photos comparing mornings on EST vs EDT, and news clippings from NJ in 1974.

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New Jersey, tell state legislators to oppose S3236 in State Government tomorrow. Permanent Daylight Saving Time’s dark mornings cost lives and business when tried. Tell them to support S293 instead, for permanent Standard Time’s natural light and safety!

News articles from New Jersey during permanent Daylight Saving Time, plus two photos comparing winter morning in NJ on EST vs EDT.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Blossom Puzzle, October 14 Letters: A G I T L N V My score: 416 points My longest word: 12 letters 💮 🌺 🌹 🌼 🌻 🏵 💐 🌸 🌷 💮 🌺 🌹

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Oct. 14, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2170 💯

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Always enchanted by... • T.E. Hulme •

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey

Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, an alluring rainstorm, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones?

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Patrollers wondered why the legislation does not propose permanent Standard Time, which would protect people heading to work and school…”

The Colorado Sun

Ski resort industry urges lawmakers to reject daylight saving legislation that would “lock the clock”

The Sunshine Protection Act would have economic and safety impacts for ski areas and mountain towns, ski resorts say

Jason Blevins

Sep 21, 2026

The ski resort industry is urging U.S. senators to reject a plan that would end twice-a-year clock changing with a permanent daylight saving time, arguing the loss of an hour of sunshine on winter mornings could endanger resort workers prepping ski areas and delay opening times.

“Operating safely in alpine environments requires adequate morning sunlight,” reads a Sept. 10 letter sent from five resort trade groups and two resort companies representing 115 ski areas in 10 states to 19 U.S. senators, urging opposition to the Sunshine Protection Act of 2026.

The House passed the bill July 14 in a 308-117 vote, with some of the 36 sponsoring lawmakers — 33 Republicans and three Democrats — citing an October 2025 poll of…

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Surviving Bronze Age timbers which are preserved at Flag Fen Archaeology Park in Cambridgeshire. The timbers formed part of a remarkable 1km causeway which was built across marshy ground. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #FlagFen #BronzeAge #Archaeology

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A fascinating little ring from the Punic necropolis on Ibiza. It depicts a bearded man in profile, but his hair and beard are composed of two birds (!), and his collar is a dolphin. 😮 The Punic inscription reads 'Belonging to Abdim'. 🏺 1/ 3rd-2nd c. BCE. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional 📸 me

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face." ~ John Donne

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

✨Cave Canem✨ We’re not saying this excellent doggo is particularly dangerous, but they are guarding the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii, so best be careful! Also this doggo comes with a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear! #MosaicMonday #AncientRome

This mosaic comes from the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii. The mosaic depicts a black dog with a red collar chained to a pillar. Also depicted are what look like a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just some beautiful #Roman mosaic flowers for #MosaicMonday 🌺 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY. IF WE ALL VOTE. 🗳️ #AccountabilityIsComing11/3/26

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This statue of the Greek goddess Artemis is from Cyprus. Whilst she is portrayed typically in the garb of a huntress, she also sports a Parthian cap which shows the eastern influence in Cypriot sculpture (also seen in the style of the statue). 🕰️c450-50BC 🏛️BM 📷mine

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Glorious 🤌🏼✨️ "It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins." ~ P. G. Wodehouse 'Jeeves and the Old School Chum'

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026

🚨 Our DC Chief Scott MacFarlane was INSIDE the courtroom as federal Judge Ana Reyes erupted at Trump's DOJ lawyers. “I've never seen anything like that before.” Scott describes the judge screaming at the top of her lungs after the gov cut down hundreds of trees despite assurances to the court

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It is Life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies." ~ Marcel Proust Autumn on Krestovsky Island 🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Centurial stone which was found near Brunton Turret on Hadrian’s Wall recording work by the Century of Paulius Aper of the Ninth Cohort. Now part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“A new report echoes a chorus of scientific research saying that permanent Standard Time is the best solution for eliminating twice-yearly clock change.”

USA Today

A clock change dilemma pits science vs. politics

Some politicians want permanent daylight saving time, but a chorus of scientists say that's the wrong way to fix the seasonal time change problem.

Doyle Rice & Jeanine Santucci

Updated Oct. 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m. ET

Daylight is already fading, and soon Americans will set back the clocks too. But this year political support is building for doing away with seasonal time changes by switching to permanent daylight saving time.

That would be a mistake, scientists say.

A new report echoes a chorus of scientific research saying that permanent standard time is the best solution for eliminating the dreaded twice-yearly clock change.

You might enjoy daylight saving time for its later sunsets throughout the year. But standard time's earlier sunrises are more in line with our body clocks, leading to better sleep and mood, authors of the report say.

For now, most of the nation is scheduled to set the clocks back Nov. 1, ending…

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anthropeum.com · Oct 13 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟦🟩🟦 84,621 · top 2% of players today! Need to improve on my South American identifications!

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Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#OnThisDay - 13 October - in AD 54 the Emperor Claudius died. Tacitus (Annals 12.67.1) reports the popular version that he was poisoned by his fourth wife Agrippina with a dish of mushrooms. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Claudius 80; ANS 1954.256.6. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Blossom Puzzle, October 13 Letters: A C I L P T Y My score: 391 points My longest word: 13 letters 💮 🌺 💐 🌻 🌸 🌷 🏵 🌹 🌼 💮 🌺 💐 🌻

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