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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc.

@drususclaudius.bsky.social
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Manhattan-based magistrate, concerned with (& quite worried about) the res publica.

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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Finally, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, erected at astonishing Depression-era speed -- 18 days to assemble the above-ground steel towers -- to ease the way to 1939 World's Fair. (Similar design to Tacoma Narrows disaster bridge and massively reinforced.) NYC Visitors: the ferries are low-cost tours!
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and engine was turning paddlewheel , pulling bow-jumpers back. Vast majority of passengers were moms & kids on a 1904 holiday ride. Some were saved by staff of island's TB hospital. Horrifying. Not legal to land on island, but more for proximity to channel, LGA, and Rikers Island jail complex.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Further, North Brother Island, where ill-fated "General Slocum" paddlewheeler was beached after fire broke out. Nearly 1000 dead from corporate "cost controls". This view about same as bow crew's. I did not realize beaching did little, as ship was engulfed, stern was still deep for petticoats & kids
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Germanicus & I, disguised as humble local denizens, travelled Ocean to scout crossings of the so-called East River, nearly 10 miles past our usual crossings. (Surprise, always, is the key to victory.) Here, the bridge at Hell Gate, built to hold 3 fully-loaded freight trains simultaneously.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dr McCabe reminds me of Antonia's mom Octavia, who, at similar years, would tell doctors she "sometimes had difficulty recalling the name of the junior senator from [square state]" if they seemed to be testing. (She was gaming it, of course. Back in the day, she had to remember all 300 or so.)
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Old School East 42nd Street, from an era when one might have a practical need to compare the distance to Dublin, Providence and Boston, not to mention the trans-Rhenish/Danubian provincial towns.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another reason why 1971 was so much better than today. Cool errors rather than calculated abominations from the US Mint.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I, Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, COS, etc., etc., am apparently not quite old enough for "free" admission to the "Free Public Baths" of the City. And, as luck would have it, I haven't a quadrans in the purse today.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perhaps a centurian's share of the sack of a medium-sized town of the Britons.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looks like you managed to get a few runs through the queue for manubiae!
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He also apparently had a head as large as his torso. Never met the guy, can't confirm.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside of a dog, your best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. IMHO, I'd go with Groucho and get a dog. Also, Groucho didn't say much about pigs.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, the Mets season is over, Howie Rose called his last game, we did not get an easy dinner reservation despite holiday as Claudius is covering Herod's shift, so... I must turn to the simple skills I learned in marching camp to keep the troops happy... I hope there's some meat here someplace...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A rather over-long image of what it is like to be me going homeward whilst facing Brooklyn.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The East River is peaceful tonight. No sign of crossing attempts by hordes of the unkempt people with rather small cattle. I remain on diligent alert on the western bank, just in case. Perhaps Wednesdays are their days of rest.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Haven't been here in ages and ages, glad they are still around. A suitable venue for me. Still just off Fifth, though 2 other locations closed over the decades.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As much as I enjoy taking the NYC East River ferry in lieu of a litter, it frosts my greaves that the electonic announcements are rather inept. "Pee-air 11" and "Stooy-evescent" among other butchery. I give you a view from (under) the bridge.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ah, the simple, repetitive pleasure of getting to LGA in half the usual time, getting through TSA in seconds, and then having to watch flying machines land on a swamp every III minutes for that "saved" hour.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tell that F'ing Guy that you're on probe from the Staties for rippin' the last F'ing Guy wicked good for crowding you on Comm. [Admittedly, a bit difficult to get out with one full breath, but, with practice...] Bonus points if you salute a good driver by spitting to your right while nodding.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
William of the Met would like a word... www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nicely re-imagined! Germanicus and Claudius each have one of the Seikos that Dad wore, c. '65 & '72. Nearly indestructible keepsakes.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you, sir. I sent my man of business to retrieve a copy, although I fear, at that price, the ending is not very good...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well, from my perspective, I find it overly discriminatory.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Grandmother took her Cork countryside with her, riding in Central Park and Prospect Park from then-common stables, despite a 1905 governess's stipend.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well, Ogilvy was far too old for the role, almost 33! And to close in age to Sian and Brian. And not quite really good-looking enough, in the dusk, with the light behind him, as all agree. But other than that...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Do some of Tiberius' empty quadriga Sests have an Eagle? RIC 66 etc. Very hard to tell among all the worn/tooled specimens quickly seached online.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A silver medal accompanies the aureus, reinterpeting the scene dynamically. (Hudson & Campbell, desgn.) Much more successful than the other parallel issues, in this ex-magistrate's opinion.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The first year 1916 "SLQ" was re-issued (as an aureus) in 2026 as part of a series combining the US Mint's "best" designs with a tiny Liberty Bell for 250th.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Among the detritus, the US 2017 "Standing Liberty" Quarter "Type 1". The 2nd year of this type, Liberty is guarding a wall of domestic peace. A few weeks later, to be remodeled to wear a cuirass, as "the clouds of war" presage US entry into the Great War, from her... ummm... nuturing depiction here.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A line of rain headed (unusual for summer) from "New" England to NYC leaves me to confront "Box of Coins that do not fit in Designated Boxes" (3/4ths are of the Republic) and "Box of Coins that the Money-Changers of Pittsburgh will demur on at the ANA show in August".
Two row box of about 150 coins in clear flips.A row of coins in a box, looking a bit shabby.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I have attended, with Germanicus, the picture-show of the Greek poem about the sneaky fellow. We agreed American accents were best retained for freshness, 'tho we both are sure that O clearly said "wicked" when not referring to supernatural events.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
100% agree 📚 📜
a sticker showing a dragon sitting on a stack of books. text reads it's not hoarding if it's books.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
But without tax-tinkering,we'd lose changes to issue coins declaring we had tax-tinkered! (Not one from my cigar-box, I'm out on the mean streets of Manhattan today.)
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hispania, a distant province, and refuge for the poor and humble...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When they fall in and peek out sheepishly, it's always a laugh.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Raspberries of Rome" might be my bespoke form of the Elysian Fields. www.reddit.com/r/Friendlys_...
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My fave is a few yards away. (New Balance slip ons.... Antonia, however, was wearing Fluevogs nearby.)
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The sky in Manhattan has a "Tiber patina" for 3rd day in a row.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...
Screencap from a "Chasseur de Trésor et Fouilles Illégales: Genève au Cœur d’un Trafic d’Antiquités,” RTS, February 12, 2023, www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/13760278-chasseur-de-tresor-et-fouilles-illegales-geneve-au-cur-dun-trafic-dantiquites.html
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Antonia would call that a SelfBirk, and there would be no plausible claim of happenstance.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Selfeet: (noun) an accidental selfie of one's own feet in museum photos. A frequent danger for academics visiting sites or museums and attempting to avoid glare by taking pictures from above. (My Birkenstocked feet and an inscribed lead pipe of Theodosius, 5th c. CE, Crypta Balbi, Rome).
(My Birkenstocked feet and an inscribed lead pipe of Theodosius, 5th c. CE, Crypta Balbi, Rome).
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Claudius and his adherents, possessed of Antonia's seats at NY Mets this evening, have seen more runs tonight than she & I saw during a typical week during our most recent childhoods.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wish it to be known, land & sea, that I, Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Cos, etc, received no less than 20 communications re imminent arrival of this product. More than the Chauci & Chatti combined. Yet Ettore are the best brass Italian-American window-washing squeegees, refreshed only ~10 years.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not now, structurally failing extended height ex-Pfizer Corp HQ on 42nd Street, not now. (In some ways, rather ironic.)
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Indeed, when I swore out of my magistracy several weeks ago, "Enduring Liberty" (also business strike) was the donativum to my devoted (and a few non-devoted) people. I have reserved a score for lovers of the Republic who may lunch in the New Year.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
On this gentle heat dome afternoon in Manhattan, the Julio-Claudian chariot shows 100F and +6 psi in the tires, in the shade.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I think the half is the most successful of the "Semi-Q" designs, although the dime is also quite good and will also get a bit of circulation. In silver they are particularly effective. Most of the quarters were replacement designs, overruling the CCAC, including the inane Mayflower.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Phew, I was getting concerned that Visibility would be sub-optimal here in Manhattan.
Screenshot of weather app showing "Good" Visibility but 105F "feels like" temperature and UV Index "very high"; "Very Humid"
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The shop clerk, "Gift of God", was struck by divine insight that I, Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, should be adlected to the Collegium of Seniors, without waiting the full time ordained by the customs of the City. (The coffee ice cream is of course sportula, merely for distribution to clients ...)
Grocery receipt listing milk and Espresso Chip icecream, with phrase Senior Enrollment Benefit below, and Senior Discount $1.40.
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Nero Claudius Drusus, etc. @drususclaudius.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Being able to spring up into a statue niche and hold a pose for hours is an underrated skill set. The attendant needs to be started, though, poor form.
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