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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? An ancient lump of beeswax of unknown purpose.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It was Lattimore's 1967 translation, I think this edition. But I also have Emily Wilson's translation as an eBook. www.amazon.com/dp/039309787...

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Amazon.com

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Loot drop after defeating me: - ~15 fountain pens & mechanical pencils - 1/2 filled Moleskine/Rhodia notebook - ~20 misc cables/adaptors - Ziploc bag of pretzels/nuts - 3 sets of earbuds - At least 5 electronic devices - Multiple expired loyalty cards - WIP crochet project - Paperback book

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I had a joke about the Ship of Theseus but it has been told so many times it isn’t really original anymore.

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now there’s a monster that hardly gets any airtime.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Finally watching Midnight Diner, which has sat on my "to watch" list for years. It's great: so sweet and poignant.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I'm sorry, that's a Telemundo. A Telmud is a flat-floored beverage container usually made of plastic, glass or stainless steel.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/05/2026

'The original stuffed animals owned by Christopher Robin Milne, which inspired his father, A.A. Milne, to create the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.' www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Recent debate here on BluSky. The very idea that it's unreasonable to be expected to check every citation in a paper. 😠 I have three degrees and earn my living writing. It was drummed into me that you never cite anything that you haven't read and verified as relevant to your topic.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Artists, if you see this post a bird. 🪶 Any art form; no-AI Digital, hand-drawn in Procreate.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

A cat peering over the edge of a rooftop.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

People are posting their all-time favourite tweets. Here's mine.

Torso shot of a woman holding a sick rabbit (giant snail).

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I sometimes think about the fact that if people like Elon Musk retained only 0.001% of their net worth, they would still be richer than most people. Imagine. You could put 100,000 people on the same footing as you and still never have to work a day. And. You. Just. Don't.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

So I got suspended on Twitter. Was it the obviously AI headshot, the blank background picture, or that I haven't posted since Nov 2024? I've appealed, but I really don't care. Passive read-only engagement is what I have been doing on Twitter for the last year, anyway.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Why can't we have nice things like airships anymore? Based on the range and speed of the Graf Zeppelin as of 1928, the airship journey from Perth to Sydney, Australia would take ~two days. That's faster than the train. And it would be like this. ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/10...

Airships like the Graf Zeppelin featured luxurious public spaces and allowed smoking despite the presence of flammable hydrogen nearby (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"Your Word document is on version 27 with track changes on. It is 160 MB and 600+ pages long. Why DO YOU THINK you are having trouble editing it?"

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Today's Georgiana rabbit-hole - In Feb 1874, the Christian Spiritualist declined to publish her letter #22 on Spirit Photographs "for reasons we have explained to the writer in a private letter" after publishing the previous 21. She never published in that mag again. WHY???

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Been thinking a bit lately about that time in 1839 when the East India Company were chasing regime change in Afghanistan.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today's AI research fail. I asked an AI for a list of all Georgiana's letters to two spiritualist mags btw 1859 and 1884. AI came back and said it couldn't give me a list because the mags were not available online. These mags are online, OCR, searchable by Google and regularly trawled by AI. 🤷‍♀️

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This week's rabbit holes for my book on Georgiana Houghton: * William Henry Fox Talbot's correspondence with Isambard Kingdom Brunel * The Barbary Wars (1803-1815) * When did Teneriffe join the global telegraph network * How long did it take to travel from the Canary Islands to London in 1884

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Can we encourage original (non-AI) art on BlueSky? Here is my latest watercolour - four lumpen figures.

A watercolour drawing of four lumpen figures.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Just watched Queer with Daniel Craig. Without context, it's a beautiful film. With context (I wrote my honours dissertation on William Burroughs and read most everything he ever wrote), it's still a beautiful film.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Fiction or non-fiction? Fiction: I'm a private detective or a police officer (two main characters who switch PoV) - last two books Non-Fiction: I'm a palaeontologist/palaeoanthropologist - last five books (I'm on a run)

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This week's rabbit holes for my book on Georgiana Houghton: * British merchants in the Canary Islands and Honduras; * 19thC palaeoarchaeology; & * Cremation in Britain: how it became legal and popular. Special shout-out to @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for Ancestors. Loved it. Also very helpful.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Why is every successive Conjuring film worse than the one before?

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Even as an articulate person who roughly identifies as English, I'm not sure it is possible to put into words the incandescent rage that lies beneath "I'm feeling a bit upset about this.".

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

19. I never had an AOL account.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

media.tenor.com

a woman holds a basketball in a dark room

Alt: Sigourney Weaver makes the perfect shot

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Things I have researched today in service to my book: 1. Ancient Ligurian tribes. 2. How did Napoleon die. 3. When did Stamford Raffles become the governor of Singapore (he didn't).

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Name three legendary movies that you have never seen. I'll go first: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Fight Club 3. Back to the Future (all of them)

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Cannot overestimate the weekend loveliness of turning off the alarm clock and just waking up when you are awake.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Spoilers, but the perfect, perfect opportunity in S4 E8 of Morning Wars to quote the first two sentences of L'Etranger (in French), was missed. Missed!

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Why am I watching Morning Wars again (S4)? It's just so terrible. Why does everyone wear stilettos? Why is everything sage and beige? Why are there so many ugly mid-calf leather skirts?

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

So I just watched a video of a Portland, OR coffee shop that fund-raised for SNAP recipients, and had amazing support. Kudos to them, and boo to the legislators wilfully withholding SNAP funding. But where are the deep-pocketed and massively profitable Walmart, Trader Joe's, etc? Do they care?

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Zohran Mamdani "caught lying" when he asserted that "la plume de ma tante est dans le jardin", when, in fact, she was not his biological aunt, it was a biro, and it was in the dining room with Colonel Mustard.🕵️

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“I maintain that New Order are the superior band”, said Ms Ley.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I have been thinking lately, if you had billionaire money, i.e., more money than you could ever spend on yourself, what would you spend it on? I have thoughts. They don't involve Mars.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

10 months later, another cover, same vibe.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Forgot this one from the weekend.

A dead tree in a meadow next to a walk track.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline.

A multicolour ballpoint resting on a spiral notebook on a wooden table.

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Index cards. It is literally index cards in a nice box. With instructions. This is the best thing since Juicero.🧃

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Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The best photographs you take are the ones you take in your head, in the moment, when you don't have the right tools to hand to capture with a camera.

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