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These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15h

If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyways Americans thinking mongrel=bad is kind of, in my view, another point in favour of my "many Americans don't really believe you can be bi/multiracial" take

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also I'm fairly sure it was the Dutch who conquered the world for spices. We did it for tea, and we're not exactly known for not drinking it. (Incidentally, Indonesian food seems to be to the Netherlands what Indian food is to Britain.)

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I don't want growth" is, unfortunately, the political equivalent of being annoyed that an eight year old might one day be fifteen.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We keep telling them that everyone in the UK has eaten British Indian food even the smallest towns and they’re like “haha they’re not British” and they were calling this latest viral take “comedy genius”

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is quite possible that Labour and the LibDems will need to work together after the next GE. It would be a huge mistake for Davey to allow (very) short-term political advantage to make that much harder than it should be.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 30/09/2026

In addition to exhibits, Out Museum in San Francisco Chinatown also has books! "Queering Chinese Historical Archive" is fully translated in English and Chinese and covers over 2000 years of LGBTQ history! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 949 Clay St, San Francisco outmuseum.org

Book "中国酷儿化的历史档案 Traces: Queering Chinese Historical Archive"

Alfred inside a gallery that has a variety of artwork, including installation pieces and paintings

Book open to page BC770 - 618 From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period to the Sui Dynasty 从春秋战国时期至隋朝

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re: niches and bubbles. VTuber stuff is something I rarely post on Bsky as there was never really a critical mass migration from Xitter the way there was for academia, so all my VTuber posting goes on Reddit, Discord, and one or two forums.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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Tom Hill @tomhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To me, the thing that's happened is that the Working and Middle classes have effectively switched parties, and neither Party really knows what to do with it. An over simplification but the cause of that is probably threefold: i) The Tories tying themselves to a generational cohort (the Boomers)...

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s the 51st anniversary of the first day of the unlikely-sounding Spaghetti House Siege, when three armed robbers went into the Knightsbridge branch of an Italian restaurant chain, staff hid the money from them under a table, police surrounded the building, and they were stuck in there five days

A London street with a bus going down it. On the other side of the road, police vans and a crowd of people

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really wish the movie had ended on a “where are they now?” montage. Which would have fit the Adam Curtis aesthetic to a tee and also would have been far more brutal verdict on the characters than the previous 100 minutes

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Conspo @conspo.obviously.moe · 28/09/2026

Back to VTubers, I have a substack where I ocasionally write articles on VTuber history. I've been a fan of japanese vtubers since 2017, so I'm at least a little qualified :p conspo.substack.com

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Conspo’s VTuber Archive | Substack

Writings and musings about early VTubing history. Click to read Conspo’s VTuber Archive, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Taiping Rashōmon episode I came across last night, surrounding the death of one Adrien Tardif de Moidrey. On 19 February 1863, the Franco-Chinese Corps of Zhejiang, also known as the Ever-Triumphant Army, besieged Shaoxing, supported by the Royal Navy and some Qing imperial troops.

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Labour needs to say the march can’t go ahead. I worry that this will escalate into violence and the last time that happened with this particular march three people died.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026

“I can’t let this kind of rhetoric dominate the whole conversation. There has to be a way of talking about this issue without denying people’s humanity” @natashawalter.bsky.social meets Rachel Marsh, who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm, pictured being interviewed for Newsnight

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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 27/09/2026

The era of the CRT almost feels like a fever dream in retrospect. "We have put enough lightning into a gun to kill you and it shoots tiny images at you impossibly fast" feels like a Rube Goldberg solution compared to "tiny crystals change color" until you understand the materials science challenges

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

he's right though

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vanagonfan 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇬🇱 @vanagonfan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People acting like Mamdani hasn't won doing exactly what Obama is saying here is amazing

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somewhere in Italy..1944-45 #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/09/2026

M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social

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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food

One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"This isn't a conspiracy you just weren't paying attention"

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Relatedly: More could be done under existing legislation against platforms that host videos of criminal activity and individuals or organisations who profit from posting videos of crimes they & their members commit. This is also relevant to curbing stuff like dangerous driving video content.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They shouldn't go back. At the very least, not without a lot more guarantees.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As the Americans wake up, my controversial hot take to kickstart some different Discourse is that part of the reason I dislike Bolt Action is that I genuinely, unironically think that banning pre-measurement is, if not outright ableist, at least discriminating based on an arbitrary skill.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Beyond parody. But then 'sustainability' was always a crock.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow, this exceeds Hong Kong public signage levels of cum.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay having just realised in a flash that Rees-Mogg was deliberately quoted Daniel Defoes' explict attack on anti-immigrant politics from 1701 I feel like people should shut up now.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the most appalling part of this is that even the liberal/left opposition seems genuinely incapable of a hard hitting attack on the government here

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

Are any Labour MPs going to have the nerve to say so publicly? If a Conservative Home Secretary had issued the statement Shabana Mahmood has put out today they'd be able to find their voices. So why not now?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every once in a while I am reminded of the hill I absolutely will die on, possibly literally: The word 'dragoon' does not mean 'mounted infantry' in any kind of unambiguous way. Someone only familiar with 19th century history will not understand 'dragoon' as a synonym of 'mounted infantry'.

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i live in an european country with a significantly weaker tradition of democracy and a lot more developed hybrid regime and when we voted hard enough they gave up and ran away. modern democratic backsliding doesnt work like the movies

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My attempt to resurrect Qing discourse based on something else that came up in my feed: It's a little odd that 'The Taiping War resulted in ~20 million deaths' so often elides down to 'the Taiping killed ~20 million people' as though the Qing didn't do at least 50% of that.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of this stuff is important when you remember most people do, like or lump it, just imagine the UK as a white nation. They just do.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The only possible conclusion to draw here is that Sunderland’s Reform council leadership are absolutely fine with racism in football. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Sunderland's Reform Council ends Show Racism the Red Card support

Reform ends Sunderland Council support for Show Racism the Red Card in a row with the charity's head.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To return to the subject of my earlier posting today, it does appear that much of the UK's comparative advantage in the 2020s lies in supplying English-language services at cheaper labour cost than what the US can do

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Four show-stopping performances, frankly. Proof that Trek is at its best when it let character actors excel.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 22/09/2026

Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey secured a second gold for the city at the Asian Games in Japan on Monday. Her victory in the Women's 200m Freestyle event brings the team's current tally to two gold, three silver, and three bronze medals as of Monday. Photo: SF&OC.

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Mr. Miso Paste, Rockall Irredentist @meatraffle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sun Yat-Sen should be the picture listed in the dictionary under the word "scoundrel"

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