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Starting the day with good news! Amazon just emailed me that Cassandra Gannon has a new book out today. Heart of the Light Kingdom. I recommend reading the earlier books in the series first (I mean, why miss out?) Original and quirky contemporary fantasy romance. amzn.asia/d/0gSGNM7i #booksky

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Enter the world of the political elite. It's murder! "Stars Die" #kindle #fantasy #scifi Also available in paperback & from your library via Libby or Hoopla (by request).

Reading is My Happy Place

Alt: Reading is My Happy Place sticker with a cartoon bunny reading

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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Friday flower Spinifex is in flower following recent rains in the region. Spinifex, or tjanpi, has many traditional uses. The seeds can be milled to make seedcakes, the fibres are used for weaving, and the resin is a powerful adhesive used in spear making. #wildoz #nativeflora

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When I stop to think about it, so many cultures use feathers in costume and ritual that this was an obvious gap in protection/magic customs.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15h

Is it lying if you're manifesting your reality? (and yes, that was sarcasm)

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1,900 year-old Roman birthday invitation! 🎉 🥳 From Claudia Severa to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina, it’s one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman! Found at Vindolanda fort, it gives a glimpse of social life on Rome’s northern frontier! 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman wooden writing tablet (Vindolanda tablet no. 291) with a birthday invitation written in ink. The invitation is from Claudia Severa, wife of Aelius Brocchus, to Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Flavius Cerealis, the commander at Vindolanda fort on the northern frontier of Britannia. The writing tablet is made up of two square, wafer thin, pieces of wood, displayed side by side. Each piece is now somewhat fragmentary, with pieces of wood missing in places. The wood is mid-brown in colour with dark text, and is displayed on a cream mount. The text is written in cursive Latin. Most of the text was written by a scribe, but Claudia adds in her own hand “I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail” making this one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman. Dimensions: Width 22.3 cm × Height 9.6 cm. Dated c. 97 - 103 AD. From Vindolanda Fort, Northumberland. Now in the British Museum collections.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 12h

I had never heard of feathered cords! Fascinating

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It could be a sci fi movie costume but it is in fact a late #1930s evening ensemble by Ukrainian born designer Valentina. Made from wood ale grey silk chiffon, the fine pleats are caught together by a broad silver leather belt #ChicagoMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A long pale grey pleated chiffon evening dress worn with a wide silver leather belt. Over the top is a matching pleated grey chiffon cape

A partial view of the late 1930s grey chiffon evening dress worn without the cape to show the pleated bodice and the wide silver leather belt

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

::wry grin:: I'm waiting for my House too 🏠💖

Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Avoiding the argument-starter of "whose turn is it to clean the loo?" this space-traveling castle is self-cleaning. Truly a #fantasy house ✨️ Uncertain Sanctuary, the trilogy. Read in KU. Listen in Audible. a.co/d/05WruWqm There is a goblin cat 🐈

Cat Plays with Toilet Paper

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Me too! I should have typed airbnb OWNERS.

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If airbnb had to clean their own rentals...it'd be more effective than taxing them!

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I assumed that the clubhouse chats were happening solely in private groups these days and that my favourite activity (lurking) no longer garnered interesting news. Is there a turn back to public, everyone welcome convo? Do people still want to expand networks rather than retreat?

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Matt Dixon @mattdixonart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'Night Shift' From my 2027 robot art calendar. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Neanderthals living in a rock shelter in Spain left behind quite a few wooden tools more than 40,000 years ago, including two spears, a club, and some shallow bowls (possibly). They decayed—but left impressions. archaeology.org/news/2026/10/12/impressions-of-wooden-neanderthal-tools-found-in-spain/

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have this whole rant about how the prosperity gospel normalised wealth inequality and canonised the rich.

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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Love doing a skewed perspective of this Edinburgh street with Barclay Viewforth church at the end. #Edinburgh

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy belated #indigenouspeoplesday. #Ootd is this 1950s dress by Lloyd Kiva New. He was a Cherokee fashion designer and cofounder of the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. He made designs using the fashion silhouette of the day combined with imagery and materials

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Stars Die (a mystery set in a magical, interstellar parliament) inspired by the realization that people love to peek behind the scenes (eg restaurant kitchens) and where better to explore chaos than in a parliament house? a.co/d/05MQRIe5 Yes, chef! #mystery #politics #kindle

Gordon Ramsay Yelling in Kitchen

Alt: Gordon Ramsay Yelling in Kitchen

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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I shoulda been a dog lawyer.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m not in the market for an #1880s evening dolman style evening mantle but if I were then how about this? The fabric is mesmerising and the trim effusive, a blend of grass blades and black lace in dizzying proximity. Compagnie Russe sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Bodice detail of an 1880s blue patterned evening mantle. This image shows the complexity of the grass blade pattern on ombré blue silk with black lace infill at the neckline

Full length view of the 1880s shaded blue evening mantle with patterned blue silk and deep black lace trim at the neck, cuffs and centre front

Side view of the 1880s blue patterned evening mantle showing the fashionable bustle style silhouette

Part of the back of the 1880s blue patterned evening mantle showing how the black lace is arranged centre back

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I admit, I laughed hysterically at the idea of chatgpt explaining mygov to my mum 🤪

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Looney tunes but lethal. I could scream!

Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah. I cannot believe we spent so much effort fighting big tobacco for this bozo to just dismiss the risk. I very much doubt he smokes.

Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's magical thinking with a tech gloss: "I'm going to do this stupid, stupid thing, but the tech fairy will save me from the consequences of my actions." No, bro, it won't.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️ The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a small, roughly square-shaped piece of limestone carved to depict a frontal face of an owl. The owl has large, rounded eyes and a long, pointed beak highlighted with fine diagonal incised lines. The face is outlined by two symmetrical fan-like feather patterns with a raised border around the eyes, cheeks, and beak. Dimensions: Height 10.3 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 2.5 cm This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph 'm'. The limestone plaque is displayed in a glass case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ROMAN MOSAIC EMBLEMA OF A LEOPARD FROM FALERIO PICENUS, MID-LATE C2 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

A Roman mosaic panel featuring a leopard walking left, depicted with brown and ochre tesserae, framed by a guilloche border. Falerio Picenus was a pristine Roman town until 1777, when Pope Pius VI's excavators arrived to furnish the Museo Pio-Clementino. Stripped from a private domus and cemented into the Scala Simonetti as spolia, this emblema invites reflection. Devoid of Dionysian symbols, the leopard is pure physical threat. Yet, frozen in mosaic, it is utterly tamed. For the Roman diners reclining above it, this apex predator was a conversational set-piece about empire, bringing the wild safely into the domestic sphere. Ultimately, the true predator was not the leopard, but the papal excavators. The homeowners were safe from the beast beneath their feet, but Falerio Picenus had no protection from the C18 diggers who tore the town apart to feed the Vatican collections.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The very earliest coins ever minted in Britain (pre-Roman) held images of wolves and other creatures.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

227 years ago, on the 12th of October 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse) was the first woman to parachute. She was an apprentice (and later wife) of pioneer balloonist Jacques Garnerin. She first ascended to an altidude of 900 metres in a gondala attached to a balloon. #otd #history🗃️

Monsieur and Madame Garnerin (Christoph Haller von Hallerstein [de], c. 1803)

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Eucalypt Australia @eucalyptaus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We're batty about Flying-foxes, and you should be too! Nomadic pollinators and seed dispersers, these Grey-headed Flying-foxes can transfer pollen 100s of kms, keeping eucalypt populations connected and genetically diverse. #LoveAGum #OurEucalyptHome

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I love this example of refashioning. Whilst the chopping of an 18th century man’s waistcoat might not be quite the thing today, it is a beautiful reimagining of a garment that retains its original details but wholly in the style of #1950s womenswear #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Three quarter view of a cream silk waistcoat covered with floral embroidery. It has pocket flaps and covered buttons consistent with an 18th century man’s waistcoat but has been tailored for a woman in the 1950s

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Space Deputy - exiled to the Saloon Sector for the crime of beating the elite at their own game, Thelma Bach is out for revenge! a.co/d/0bcztJ4d #SpaceOpera #kindle

Cartoon Woman and Alien on UFO

Alt: Cartoon Woman and Alien on UFO

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thinking of this week's to do list. Hands down, the writing is the best bit 😍

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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have to admit, not top of my list 😄