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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The A896 heading east from Shieldaig Village yesterday. The temperate rain forest on the north side of Ben Shieldaig (seen here) only gets direct sunlight for about two months of the year.

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Lasse Marhaug @lassemarhaug.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yesterday’s hike.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Though Saeta and FIFA have not said publicly said what design element in the men’s official World Cup soccer kits prompted FIFA’s, a source told the Miami Herald that it’s the illustration of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières with the Haitian flag embedded on the jerseys, which the team wore during their two warmup matches in South Florida last week.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ah yes the good old classic longue durée lighter – as used at every Annales School barbeque 🙃 🗃️

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Overlooking the ocean, 12 massive sculptures by Galician artist Manolo Paz were created in 1994. The granite sculptures were inspired by the Neolithic menhirs that are found throughout the Iberian Peninsula. They are called Menhirs for Peace and are popular at sun set. #StandingStoneSunday

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

the interior spiral staircase of the Torre dei Lamberti in Verona, Italy

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...

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Alyn Smith: Dependency on oil is ludicrous when Scotland won the green energy jackpot

An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Notes for String Theory by artist Candace Hicks.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).

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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Ceramic Jug Norman Carling 1930 A snake is attacked by a dragon, its claws tightly gripping the prey. Note - wings! Norman Carling (1902–1971) was an English designer/modeller in ceramics. He also worked for A.J. Wilkinson & later Maling pottery. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle #Art #Ceramics

A upright glazed jug with entwined dragon & snake. The dragon forms the handle.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...

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Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family

Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I think the thing that bothers me most is seeing this mountain of email evidence across the Epstein network of the absolutely solid existence of a two tier system of (self invested) power, and the total disregard for those outside the tent. We are seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/ 4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

This thymiaterion has five individually hand-made women sitting on the edge of a red-painted wellhead, with one sitting in her own high-baked chair. All are brightly painted, and each woman has a 'hat' with a cup on top for the burning of the incense. All painted slightly differently - three with orange-yellow tunics, two with red tunics; two red himatia (cloaks), two purple-black himatia, and one yellow himation. They each once carried an attribute in each hand, but several are missing. In this photo, one woman carries a yellow (meant to be gold) phiale, an offering plate, and a pomegranate; the other woman facing us carries a spindle with wool.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

May I please share this with you, from over on FB?

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Tips on coping from the Renaissance Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

"In this whimsical maiolica sculpture, a well-dressed man leans forward in his seat with his head in a covered pot set above a fiery hearth. The vessel beside the hearth almost certainly held ink. The man’s actions are explained by an inscription on the chair: "I distill my brain and am totally happy." Thus the task of the writer is equated with distillation—the process through which a liquid is purified by heating and cooling, extracting its essence." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188899

Detail of inkstand showing damaged inscription

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Le Cartographe 🗺️🍷 @lecartographe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Self portrait - Edward Hopper, 1925-30. Source : Whitney Museum, New York 🇺🇸

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A pilot just flew through one of the strongest aurora storms in years — and saw the sky explode in color. From the cockpit of a Boeing 787, pilot Matt Melnyk had a view like no one else. Flying at 37,000 feet over Manitoba, he watched as the auroras filled the entire sky.

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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

C'est le weekend, je vous emmène sur Mars !

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2026

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Chess Piece of a Queen Spanish 12th century Walrus ivory, which was cheaper than the elephant kind. (Walters Art Museum)

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

A biography of Jane Austen with an illustration of Jane on the cover. Googly eyes have been added to the image.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Imagine being a 12 yo newly landed in an Anglophone country and learning most of your English from reading Sir Walter Scott.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle Final line of the Inferno.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

Round glass bead with a green base color, featuring a portrait of a woman with a necklace framed in red on a blue background.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Look at this absolute queen

When someone asked "Why would you as a business choose to piss off 1/2 of your potential customers? Just curious what sense that makes." the bakery responded with "I don't want those customers."

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Archer-Butler Luck Stone Originally owned by the Butler family of Garnavilla, near Cahir, Co. Tipperary & used to protect cattle from disease. Dipped in drinking water or hung from the neck of a cow. The crystal ball is 200g, frame ?17th century. (Hunt Museum, #Limerick)

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC

A hooded garment with long sleeves, made of strips of material stitched in horizontal rows with decorative embroidery around the hem and cuffs.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

WOW! This late Roman blue glass cup made an epic 12,000 km journey! Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯 Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a short cylindrical translucent blue glass cup which flares outwards towards the rim. The glass is darker near the rim and lighter toward the base where the display light passes through. The rim is slightly irregular and worn at the back. The glass surface is textured with vertical ridges running down the upper half, while the lower half has a texture which resembles loosely shaped hexagon and pentagon shapes, some larger than others, clustered together like cells of an irregular honeycomb. The glass cup sits on a white surface against a light grey background. The display lighting creates circular shadows and glowing blue reflections around the base of the glass.

This glass cup was excavated in 1973 from the richly-furnished Cheonmachong Tomb, also known as the Tomb of the Heavenly Horse. The tomb belonged to a royal male from the ancient Silla Kingdom of the Korean peninsula.

I saw this cup on display at the British Museum’s ‘Silk Roads’ exhibition in 2024, on loan from the Gyeongju National Museum in South Korea. It is an example of ancient trading of Roman goods through the Steppe Route, the original Silk Road over the Eurasian plains stretching to Far East Asia. The British Museum label reads:

“This glass cup was discovered in the tomb of a royal male, alongside an ornate gold crown and other precious objects. It is of a late Roman type found across the eastern Mediterranean region. Scientific analysis indicates it was probably made in Egypt, which had a major centre of glassmaking in Alexandria. The presence of Mediterranean glass objects in tombs as far as the Korean peninsula and Japanese archipelago reflects their valued status as luxury items in the ancient world. Probably made in Egypt; excavated from Cheonmachong Tomb, Gyeongju, Korea. Early AD 500s”.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Before Monsanto bred out the seeds with F1s

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

'Poetry from concrete: Scotland’s fascinating historic concrete and brutalist architecture'

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration… But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL

Someone spray painted Renee Good and abolish ICE on a wall by the highway. I-94 and Wilson.

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In Suturing Wounds, Egyptian artist Sara Sallam presents a series of self-portraits wearing a tunic of antique textile fragments, bearing witness to the 19th-century practice of excavating Byzantine-era cemeteries in Egypt & tearing garments from the dead. On display until 25 Jan. bit.ly/3L6QX0n

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Maybe big roof energy is just what we need right now

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@alisonphipps.bsky.social did you really make this brilliant thing yourself? And did you know they’ll be opening up the excavations again next July for a few weeks?

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

JOB VACANCY We are recruiting for an Event Assistant to help deliver a busy programme of commercial, internal & public engagement events in our unique venue. Grade 4: £28,437-£32,108. Full-time (36.5 hours). Closing date: 19 Jan 2026. More info & application details at: prm.ox.ac.uk/event-assist...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/01/2026

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

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Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?

PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/01/2026

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

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