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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Dark Crystal introduced two-year-old me to the uncanny valley, and it still haunts me to this day.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can do this at Morristown, except with a fife instead of panpipes.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 03/10/2026

sign, xanadu foam house of tomorrow, route 13, wisconsin dells, wisconsin, 1988

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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have been blessed by the friend onion :).

A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Before the France - Italy Nations League match La Marseillaise started with the instrumental over the speakers, but faded away to allow just the fans belting out the anthem until the end.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here is my personal/official prompt list for Drawtober. Everyone is welcome to use it however they like!

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They just keep coming. There. Is. No. End. To. The. Ducks.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello. Look at all these microfilms. I am not using any of them. Thank you!

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While not as large, the restroom at the American Philosophical Society is definitely on par with Buc-ee's. Clean and very nice air freshener. Recommend. 10/10.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Medieval Food With Jennie @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A Saturday afternoon spent experimenting with medieval food dyes... medievalfoodwithjennie.substack.com/p/colours-of...

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Colours of the Medieval Kitchen

The surprising range of natural food dyes available to the medieval cook

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cryptic 🦇 pollinator @magicscience.info · 28/08/2026

good news

ad mockup for new Barilla "One Single Brick-Sized Noodle" (Al Dente Perfection in 38-40 minutes) with image of cooked brick-sized noodle on a plate with sauce and grated parmesan.

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for some light lunch reading? Rachel Rich and I wrote a bit about how 18th c British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful. theconversation.com/british-food... #HistFood @uclpress.bsky.social +

theconversation.com

British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think

The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In which I share a photograph of the underside of a recent slice of pizza.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 10/09/2026

Ikea has released a Skyrim mod where players are accompanied by a Kallax shelving unit voiced by Matt Berry. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ikea-ha...

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Ikea has released a Skyrim mod where players are accompanied by a Kallax shelving unit voiced by Matt Berry | VGC

“Your inventory woes end here,” the Kallax Storageborn mod promises…

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For a historian, there is one thing worse than not finding the archive you need. It's finding it as an unsearchable scanned microfilm in handwriting with 23,321 pages.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New evidence reveals that the ill-fated French detachment commanded by Ensign de Joumonville was actually at the rocky glen on a photo shoot for a Mountain Dew ad campaign. The few shots that made it back to Québec were locked away never to be seen again... until now.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is one of those skills that we expect graduate students to pick up but rarely teach explicitly. But basically, most (all?) academics learn to read in a way that lets you extract what you need from a text as quickly as possible, because we have to process a lot of text as part of our jobs.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TOOT TOOT TODAY PEOPLE FOR IT IS AGAIN ONCE AGAIN THAT DAY ON WHICH TO TOOT THE TUNE

Sheet music for the fife tune "The First of September."

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The 10th century Norwegian skald Eyvindr Finnsson used "eel heaven" (álhimins) as a kenning for ice, describing people from Iceland as álhimins lendingar (eel-heaven's-landers). So: as you wander through the world, remember that we are angels to eels. Act accordingly. 🧪🗃️

Meme. Photograph of a person standing on the ice of a frozen lake, under a purple sky. The sun seems to be either setting or rising in the distance, behind the trees. The figure is standing still, looking away from the camera with their hands in their pockets. There is a worrisome area of lighter ice just beneath them, where their weight is registering in the ice. There are also several fault lines in the ice, including one running between the figure's feet. This picture makes me slightly uneasy for the figure's safety.

Why is this person standing alone, in peril, on the ice? The answer is unknown, but I like to think that this isn't a person at all, but rather is the personification of Night. They are walking out into the frozen world to challenge the rising sun to a battle of wits, with the winner to control the space of the day. I assume this happens every morning and evening; an endless game of riddles between two ancient foes.

Meme text reads:
"Everyone needs
a guardian angeel"

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was hard to tell if their chowdah wasn't just Campbell's chunky. Really disappointing.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/08/2026

i swear to god, asking: “what is the problem you are trying to solve? followed by: “what information or data do you need to solve this problem?” are like, some of the single most important questions you need to ask a stakeholder on all kinds of projects, and so many people skip it

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Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

my friend Nick Bull used 4 cameras over 4 nights to capture the Perseid meteor shower over Stonehenge. He took 8 hours stitching all the frames together to create this stunning work!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/08/2026

We should send our neighbors nice fish more often.

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Domino's Spaghetti Sauce (1990-1992): A line of jarred tomato sauce from the iconic pizza chain. Available in Plain, Mushroom, and Meat-flavored. It was made by Prestige Foods, Inc of Farmington Hills, MI

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

Welsh Language dub of Star Wars to air on S4C

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Unlike in P.D.Q. Bach's c.1990 "Classical Rap, S. 1-2-3," Zabar's was not out of chocolate croissants.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nice to see the Admiral this morning...

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Incredible

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/04/2024

remembering the greatest interview of all time

An interview with the guy who yells MORTAL KOMBAT in the theme for Mortal Kombat

interviewer: I see. will you do it over the phone?
guy: would i do it over the phone? absolutely.
interviewer: let's hear it.
guy: Mortal Kombat!

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

More like seven hundred. youtu.be/uslm-Jh1qKE?...

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kren @kren.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

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Ko-tutankhamun @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh) He and Enkindu sure did mesh (He did the mesh) He ripped off tons of flesh (He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just rewatched it again. The whole thing is amongst the greatest sequences ever put to film.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Oh, there's another car chase. The one at the end. So incredible.

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Jason R. Wickersty @jasonrwickersty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What happens to their car in the climactic car chase is the best part.

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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