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‘Con Queste Armi Vinciamo la Tubercolosi’ (With These Weapons We Shall Defeat Tuberculosis) Tito Corbella, 1920 Lots more here archive.org/details/pict...

“Swords bearing the means to attack tuberculosis cause the foreboding figure of the disease to cower. Corbella’s skeletal image of the illness holds a sword that has been broken by the onslaught of the disease-fighting weapons — good hygiene, fresh air, sunshine, rest, temperance, proper food, cleanliness, and perseverance. Together those forces provide assurance that “we shall conquer tuberculosis.”

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StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 37m

PS on MPs taking oaths, MPs have been able to not to be Christians since the 1850s, when Rothschild won several elections and forced a change he could swear as a Jew. The affirmation was allowed for Quakers in 1832. Atheists have been able to affirm since 1880s. Can we grow up please? #ukpol

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

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The whole series is just this side of camp, but not quite…

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The coronation of Rodrigo Borgia as Alexander VI in “The Borgias” being accompanied by Handel’s “Zadok the priest”.

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Ben Coleman @chelfulhamben.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NHS must stop Palantir’s misleading claims. Palantir and its UK executive Lord (Tom) Watson need to stop claiming the company’s NHS software has delivered results. The truth is that nobody knows what impact it has had. (1/4)

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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

An ad for a ghost movie with the tagline "See it. Séance. Haunted."; a reference to the British Transport Police's long-running "See it. Say it. Sorted." ads encouraging the public to report anything vaguely suspicious.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 13/10/2026

Oh. Well this seems bad.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The bottom part, so gold and traditional. The top part, space like a miracle. JUST like a miracle, truly. That's Piero, with the polyptych of Saint Anthony in 1469.

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Iridescent Designs @designsiridescent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman." ~Gail Simone Wonder Woman: @inthelongrun.bsky.social Event: @costumeandcamera.bsky.social #wonderwoman #cosplay #cosplayphotography #photography

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's the truth anywhere. People who thirst for violence will take any flag of convenience. Hindutvas, TERFs, Christofascists, all their convictions are talon-shallow. All they want is license for murder.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Partial list of readers of my books

dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains , fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a brilliant thread. While there was a lot of violence in the Middle Ages, it is crucial to acknowledge that our contemporary attitudes - in their myriad varieties - are all born out of our own historical context. The abhorrent ones are not relict medieval sentiments, but equally modern.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10/10/2026

Blimey.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/10/2026

Once again having to explain my teenage self that inexplicably, we are fighting side by side with the Catholic Church

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What I love about Ann Leckie’s Radchaai (and others) universe is the way in which she weaves together very high concepts, complex manifestations of posthumanism and some truly alien cultures but makes them understandable and relatable without excessive exposition. That level of craft is unmatched.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friend got us tickets to the Bayeux Tapestry. It felt harder to get into than a sold out rock concert! If everyone who goes to see it takes one action help save Humanities in Higher Ed (letter/petition etc) I feel we would be okay for the next while #medievalsky

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Justin (seasonal) @justinskolnick.com · 09/10/2026

The proper category for “things made by human hands displaying qualities of sentience” is the demonic

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Sigourney Weaver

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 08/10/2026

And it smacks so badly of “my work requires real and complex expertise but those people’s work is probably just turn-handle stuff, how hard can (medicine / maths / translation / history / &c.) be really?

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

And you are teaching the baby that you care for them, that they deserve your time and attention, that you enjoy their company, that they are a person and not a series of tedious tasks and obligations

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excellent front page here

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live

Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026

Metaphometer reading: dial broken.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know what? I’m feeling generous today. This is Chapter 13 of Space Opera, justifying why in the world sentience would be determined via an interstellar battle of the bands.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman. Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC. It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years. 📷️ me

Painted Etruscan terracotta funerary urn lid showing a reclining woman in banquet pose, holding a fan, wearing draped chiton, gold jewelry, on museum display.

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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Frances Gearhart (1869-1959)

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So besides how you could build an entire course on gender + sexuality in Christian nationalist America around this clip- Fun fact: copious data show that near death experiences are always culturally appropriate – a Buddhist will never see Jesus, a Hasidic Jew will never see Vishnu etc.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You mean like, the things journalists used to do, and historians still do?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The Preacher and the Slave" from Joe Hill (1971) youtu.be/g3wF9ZqTta8?...

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"The Preacher and the Slave" from Joe Hill (1971)

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This entire thread and alllll the comments brought me great joy. Got on the b boards as soon as I got to university in the early nineties, coded a whole catalogue of rare books in html (nested tables, people) in my first ever job. Have loved what it can be and do always.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I always found it interesting, when I spent November in The USA, how little they could comprehend the shortness of our days in winter, and how amazed I was by their long hours of daylight, and it all came down to the fact that the UK is much much further north than people think.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday

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Lauren Redhead ☮️ @laurenredhead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Þæs ofereode, þisses sea mæg

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Mick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1/ In August 1969 a gang of loyalists, fresh from burning Catholic-owned pubs in Belfast, walked into my mum's bar and asked if the town had any. Her Protestant customers said no. Eight in ten were, ours included. They called the men a taxi. 🧵

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As someone who has a literary degree (among other degrees) and who has been teaching research writing courses—for so many years now, including to hundreds of applied and natural science students—this kind of realization perfectly fits with my long-bending pedagogical arc, I'm pleased to say.

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