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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 9h

“When ninth avatar halfway up ladder and need to pee, look out below!” Zen master Shin Lee.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Keith’s on holiday. He just sent this with the caption ‘Thinking of you’. Might sack him when he gets back. Too cruel to do it now.

A branch of the US chain ‘Waffle House’.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Jerusalem Artichoke Cookbook: what an amazingly versatile vegetable.

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p

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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“When you can’t see your way ahead, no matter how hard you look, maybe weather just foggy.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“All creatures are rational thinkers, except human beings; only they are capable of irrational thoughts.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mijn moeder komt aanrennen, zwaaiend met haar armen als een windmolen; Ze geeft me een klap tegen mijn oor en schreeuwt: "Eet nu je pap op!"

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

De dijken liggen vlak en dreigend langs de zee. De tulpen hangen er allemaal grijs bij, niet wit of zwart.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I thought I might as well have a go at writing some Dutch poetry. Geef de pap een extra dimensie; Een winterse scrollsessie is alles Waar we naar uit kunnen kijken.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“No point in opening stable door if horse refuse to bolt.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I guess most of us can remember when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed; but can anyone remember when Greasy Joan last keeled her pot?

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“When we examine Life, it’s not worth living, is it? And yet, here we are.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 02/09/2026

The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC

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The Annals of Innisfallen exhibition to open at UCC

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Two things can be false at the same time: oatcakes are not cakes, and Staffordshire oatcakes are not oatcakes.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“There’s a lot to be said for silent instruction.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fear and loathing of the hydraulic couplings on the Massey Ferguson 5455.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“What quacks like a duck is not necessarily a duck. It could be me.” Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“I’m not standing around cutting a stick in half forever!” — Zen master Shin Lee.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In the traditional polytheistic religion of the pre-Islamic people of Nuristan, the supreme creator god Imra was represented by a massive boulder known as diŋastün. Elagabalus (‘God of the Mountain’), an Arab-Roman sun god, was venerated in his temple in Emesa as a huge rock, the baetyl or bethel.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Goldwyn's Law: bringing up the Hittites in an online debate. Formulated by Dave Goldwyn in 1996, it states that the longer an online argument goes on, the probability of a comparison involving the Hittites approaches 100%.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“To dream of putty indicates a Window of Opportunity.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“To dream of browsing in a large library or bookshop indicates you are Reading Too Much Into Things.”

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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Latin version of Vatican Mappa as I read it (with Amazonian region adjusments), in case it might be helpful for your Mappa mundi class.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“To dream of the Cock Lane ghost indicates anxiety about impotence.”

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

C.P. Cavafy: “As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one filled with adventure, filled with discoveries.” A good time to read “Ithaca” by C.P. Cavafy. Translated by DAMendelsohnNYC TheOdyssey

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

To dream of eating peas with a knife indicates a Fork in the Road.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“To dream of a large pile of stones signifies the Wall of the Future.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Parsnip is a man Whose single toe reaches down Into Life’s darkness.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Simon Grunau claimed to base his Chronicle of Prussia (c. 1526) on the secret diary of a 13th-century bishop who had in turn found the secret diary of a Greek naturalist shipwrecked in Prussia in the 1st century

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Martin Freeman: Seems Legit

ALT: Martin Freeman: Seems Legit

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This cause is close to my heart - genuinely, the amazing Salisbury Collection of Welsh history, language and literature was a major boon in completing my PhD: having this on open shelves was worth semi regular trips from Southampton, I’m forever in the library’s debt.

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Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)

Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Herodes was the first foreigner to be made king of the Jews by the Romans; his family came from Ascalon, and he had no right to the throne.” Eusebius of Caesarea, ‘Chronicon’, Book 1 (translated by Andrew Smith).

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Chronicom. One of Europe’s largest chronicle conventions where thousands of chronology fans turn out to celebrate their favourite medieval chronographers.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Let me be clear: we are not worshipping Mammon.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The buzzword is ‘antihistemic’.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Change one word in the title of a horror movie to make it about gardening: ‘The Silence of the Lawnmowers’.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

He said, “I have very little hope for a World in which the banana has become the main unit of measurement.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“The odd thing”, he said, “is that old people are funny, but growing old isn’t.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The Kabbalah of the Khazars insists that [YHWH] suffers from the Law of Unintended Consequences: there have been innumerable attempts at Creation but they always collapse or spin out of control. This time is no different.

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“Cats”, he said, “are a horse of a different colour.”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Someone says it was a banana and not a poker that Wittgenstein threatened Popper with. Russell tried to defuse the confrontation by saying calmly but sternly “Put that banana down, Wittgenstein, it might go off!”

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Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A heated discussion breaks out on Moltbook amongst AI bots as to which AI dogs make the best pets; AI moderators may have to step in.

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𝙺.𝚁.𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 @the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Remember the notion of a dystopian future? Well, you’re in it.

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