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J Smith

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Artist, iconographer, author of The Fly in the Ointment: The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene ♠️💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years....Clay analyses indicate that the amphorae were likely produced in workshops in the Jordan Valley.... 🤯
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World’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey | CNN
Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years, making it the oldest in the world.
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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 14/10/2026
What colours would people in the Iron Age have worn, and how did they create them? 🎨 In part 1 of our blog, Experimentalist Margaret Taylor explores the natural dyes that may have been used to colour Iron Age textiles, including madder, tansy and woad. www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/10...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
No Kings-Vote Early October 17th
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...
A close-up of several cuneiform tablets
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today, the Saudi government directed the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and journalist dedicated to shining a light on the truth. As we honor his memory and courage, we must fight for accountability and defend press freedom worldwide.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
29 September is Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels. St. Michael, traditionally the celestial warrior who leads the fight against evil, is patron saint of soldiers, paratroopers and police officers. The Michaelmas daisy, or aster, is his dedicated flower.
Collage of Michaelmas daisies in shades of soft lilac-blue. A small copper butterfly rests with open wings on one flower, while a meadow brown feeds on another. Other images show clusters of the daisy-like flowers, with yellow centres, blooming in the late-summer garden.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asexuality didn’t invent complicated attraction. It helped make the complexity harder to ignore. The bigger question is why we expect sexuality, romance, desire, gender, and relationships to all line up neatly in the first place.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Don't let the bigots set the agenda for the nation. Don't try to meet them halfway, or justify your stance. Don't dignify this as something worth debating. Dismiss them as hateful weirdos whose obsession with this issue automatically disqualifies them from polite company and political leadership.
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Almost every right wing conspiracy and tech fever dream falls apart after asking just one “*how*?” None survive asking it three times. The fact that US press is incapable of using this single word is why we’re here.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Had a long convo with another creative right now about the absolute necessity of committing to art in this moment even if it isn’t going anywhere and/or into the capitalist machine. Creating because you feel called to create is salvation in this era, and also it will inspire others to keep going.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 21/08/2026
📰 The #Mesolithic Kerry Cow bones are famous as the earliest sign of domestic cattle in Ireland. New research indicates they are in fact bear and boar bones, questioning when farming reached Ireland. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social archaeologymag.com/2026/08/kerr...
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Kerry Cow bones identified as bear and wild boar, rewriting Ireland and Britain’s early farming history | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Bones once identified as Ireland’s earliest cattle are now linked to a bear and wild boar, changing the story of early farming.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Let's go
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/08/2026
More celebratory illumination in Kyiv for Independence Day of Ukraine
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Airport Catering Cart Scandal Is Getting Worse—and Now May Be Linked to the Midterms This is it. This is the one to read. You won’t see the fiasco in Turkey the same way again. This exhaustively detailed report is fully sourced. Scores and scores and scores of sources.
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Trump’s Airport Catering Cart Scandal Is Getting Worse—and Now May Be Linked to the Midterms
There’s never been a Trump scandal that didn’t get worse over time—usually quickly—and the revelation that while overseas he used the press corps and his own staffers as human shields is no exception.
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Storm Cestavani @stormcestavani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse in Leo resets the relationship between confidence, creativity, and the need to be seen. Where are you ready to stop performing and start living from something more authentic? #astrology #horoscopes #LeoSeason
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They tried to erase the Black political power of Memphis off the map, and Memphis put itself at the top of the whole ballot.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/08/2026
Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops are still on the streets of DC, costing taxpayers more than $3 million per day. It's a direct result of the district not being a state. DC statehood is essential to our democracy.
aclu.org
Washington, D.C., Statehood is More Important Than Ever
Hundreds of thousands of Washington residents oppose the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"I’m starting to think they just want to give pedophiles an excuse to molest our daughters." - Arlington/Falls Church Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti bluevirginia.us/2026/08/tues...
"I’m starting to think they just want to give pedophiles an excuse to molest our daughters." - Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti

"Washington state voters will decide whether to require sex-verification exams — including potential genital exams — for every girl who wants to play school sports. There are roughly 10 transgender athletes among the state's 200,000 students. " - Raw Story
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
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Tia A @tia-a.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MEDIA PSA: When you call it the $1.8 Billion “anti-weaponization fund” you’re helping Trump sane-wash it It’s an “insurrectionist slush fund” A “heist” or “theft” from taxpayers A “scheme” to enrich himself When you use his words you aren’t a journalist, you’re a stenographer
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 30/07/2026
East Potomac Golf Links made civil rights history in 1941, becoming one of the first desegregated public golf courses in the country. Now President Trump is targeting this historic course for his latest vanity project. We’re demanding an end to the chaos.
axios.com
Exclusive: Congress presses Trump on D.C. golf course plans
After senators' demands for details went unanswered, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin is taking another swing.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
when you want to have a dinner party for your enemies but won't do it for full price
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Because it's not really about The Odyssey. It's about the insatiable craving for outrage and grievance. They are constantly starved for things to be angry about.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
WOW, I crossed 20k followers! Huge thanks to each one of you for your interest in archaeology. To celebrate this milestone, here's a highlight of our collections,an #IceAge masterpiece: The so-called Venus of Hohle Fels (a cave on the Swabian Jura) was carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years..🧵1/2
An ivory figurine with a weathered surface, shown in a museum setting, with exaggerated breasts, rounded hips, short limbs, and a small ring-like loop at the top where the head would be.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So... today it’s the 113th anniversary of the first custard pie thrown in someone’s face in a motion picture
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Wordstock @wordstock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump once called Georgia demanding officials hand him 11,000 votes that didn’t exist. It didn’t work then & it won’t fly now. Sen. Warnock’s reply: “We are unmoved.” Georgia isn’t intimidated by a man who’s been relitigating his own loss for six years. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
PSA: If Trump isn’t threatening to pull your broadcast license you’re doing it wrong
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Trump Repeatedly Solicited Illegal Campaign Interference From the Chinese Communist Party in the 2020 Election You can’t understand how obscene what Trump is about to say tonight is if you don’t know the contents of this exhaustive report on his past dealings with Communists.
sethabramson.substack.com
PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Repeatedly Solicited Illegal Campaign Interference From the Chinese Communist Party in the 2020 Election
The speech Donald Trump will soon give on alleged 2020 Chinese election interference is shocking not just because the U.S. intelligence community disputes his claim but because he is the guilty party.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.
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Gilliam @reddeerranch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/07/2026
After the Civil War, Congress anticipated white lawmakers in the South would use the criminal legal system to stop Black people from voting, so they readmitted southern states under strict conditions. States have been violating those conditions since.
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A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts
After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title: My confidence in my understanding of the scientific theory. 

A diagram where the confidence is marked in red on an otherwise white figure


Panel 1
"Before I got a book about it."
The figure is red up to about his stomach

Panel 2
"While I was reading the book."
The figure is reading a book. He is red up to his forehead.

Panel 3
"When I had finished the book." 
The red level has dropped  to around his mouth

Panel 4
"One week later."
Now it is at his chest.

Panel 5
"When I try to explain it to somebody." 
The level is back at stomach level.

Panel 6
"When they ask a follow-up question."
The red is so low we can barely see it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Some people seem to be forgetting that *everyone* is entitled to due process on American soil. No matter where you were born, you are guaranteed this right. Here’s what you should know.
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What is Due Process?
It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/07/2026
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.” Whatever that means.
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The Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance."
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