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Lena Strid

@lenamstrid.bsky.social
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Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on the use of parchment in medieval Scandinavia (2026).

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 7h
do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6h
It’d be cool, when reporting on a blind visitor suing over lack of access to the Bayeaux Tapestry, the supposed journalist could make it clear that this isn’t at all a ridiculous request. In fact, it’s completely in line with Equality Act 2010. Museums have provided audio forever.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6h
From a discussion of updating a department website...
A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"
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Lorijn Zaadnoordijk @lorijn.bsky.social · 7h
My first PhD student started today. I'm both excited and nervous! If anyone has any tips for me as fresh Doktormutter, I'd be happy to hear them...
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 8h
Medieval Hunting Deaths: A Thread Hunting could be very dangerous (not just for animals) in the Middle Ages. Accidents happened and everyone from kings and earls to lowly peasants could be killed by a stray arrow, a hanging branch or a wild animal defending itself. 🧵7
A man in blue awkwardly holds a bow in front of him. He appears to have misfired the arrow, which is up near his face and facing the wrong way.
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 13h
Wow! Major new site discovered on Lismore, in the inner Hebrides. “The most exciting moment for me was when they were doing the post-excavation analysis and they found that they had been melting gold, copper, silver, and they were making jewellery on our little island in the seventh century.”
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time to join the Pheasants’ Revolt… DEFRA have launched a Call for Evidence on the environmental & animal welfare impacts of the gamebird industry. If you care about this, PLEASE submit evidence - this @wildjustice.bsky.social blog tells you how: wildjustice.org.uk/defras-call-...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird releases; what exactly is it asking for? – Wild Justice
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 10h
In einem Gastbeitrag für die @faznet.bsky.social zeigt Hermann Parzinger, dass die #ideologisch​e Vereinnahmung #archäologisch​er Forschung mitnichten ein allein historisches, sondern durchaus sehr aktuelles Problem ist: 🔐💶 www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Die AfD will uns zu Germanen machen
Freihändige Geschichtsdeutungen auf brauner Spur: Archäologie und historische Wissenschaft werden zum Tummelplatz der neuen Rechten in Deutschland. Die Nationalsozialisten haben es vorgemacht.
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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 11h
So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14h
'What the islanders discovered were extensive burial grounds, decorated stonework and early buildings – all the features belonging to a major sixth-century monastery, comparable to the much better known site of Iona a little to the south-west.'
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‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WallsOnWednesday 🏺 Quite a few sections of #Roman / #medieval wall survive in City of London - sometimes more than first appears. Along street called London Wall is view on left. But much more is to be seen behind in the rather hidden Salters Company garden - a view both impressive and evocative.
View looking down from walkway above London Wall on Roman, Medieval and later remains of London City wall. In front of the wall are chairs set out on a paved public garden area. Behind is modern Salters Hall.An oblique view along a substantial portion of the Roman, Medieval and later wall. The Roman stonework is visible at the bottom, with a red brick section at the top.
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Tyne and Wear @tyneandwear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donation extension in £30m bid for estate #TyneAndWear
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Rothbury Estate £30m fund donations deadline extended
Conservation groups say they will take a loan for any shortfall in funds to buy the Rothbury Estate.
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 20h
The report is up for Knot Club Month 1. We're learning how to tie a bowline in the first installment of this year-long zine project: www.patreon.com/LucyBellwood...
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Knot Club: Month 1 (w/ PDFs!) | Lucy Bellwood
We're off! It's time for KNOTS! Our first knot of the year is the bowline (pronounced bo-l'n). It's a classic for a reason, and chances are
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/09/2026
I have *been* saying that medieval style antisemitism has a major foothold in the left and the best thing allies can do is be aware of the dog whistles so you know when someone is gone off on one
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...
Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something to look forward to!
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well this is as good a way as any to remind people to vote in the National Trust AGM, to keep out the 'Restore Trust' anti-progressives. Vote for scones
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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A chest (c.1340) with its original painted decoration, belonging to Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham #woodensday, in Glasgow's Burrell Collection
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me
A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Best part: "'My wallet was stolen and my Italian ID was inside,' she said. With a looming holiday, she contacted the Italian embassy to ask what she needed to do, but to her frustration quickly realised that it would be faster to gain Belgian citizenship than to wait for a remade Italian ID."
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Why so many Italians are getting Belgian nationality
Belgium appears to be an easy place for Italians to come and be themselves. Many of those who do, love it and choose to formally become Belgian. But why?
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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Such a happy, tubby little winged fish man.... A very cheery carving on a 15thC misericord at St Michael's, Cambridge. #Woodensday
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the rarest birds ever to be seen in Britain was photographed in Aberdeenshire in mid-September, it has emerged:
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Extremely rare hybrid heron photographed in Scotland
An apparent Grey Heron × Great Egret hybrid was discovered in Aberdeenshire in September 2026. This appears to be the first-ever British record of what is an extremely rare hybrid pairing worldwide.
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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Or chip in via the match-fund page, to double your donation this month (only 1 day to go!). www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth... It all ends up supporting the main Wildlife Trusts Rothbury Estate appeal 🦦
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Rothbury Estate Match Appeal | The Wildlife Trusts
The Rothbury Estate is more than a beautiful place. It's 3,800 hectares of rivers, woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and open moorland, where wildlife still has the chance to thrive at a scale rarely seen in Britain today. Here, otters play in the River Coquet's tributaries. Merlins hunt across the open hills. Heath goldsmith beetles shimmer amongst the heather. Together, river, land and sky create a landscape rich in wildlife, history and potential. But we have one chance to secure it for nature. This August and September, every gift will be doubled, up to £700,000.
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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A huge £27.9 million raised in hope of securing the Rothbury Estate for #NatureRecovery, wildlife, heritage & public benefit. To stop it being broken up and sold off. Let’s hope philanthropic donor(s) help @northwildlife.bsky.social to close the final gap. ➡️ www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bonus vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 #HillfortsWednesday
Aerial photograph showing the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with trees, scrub and the stone foundations of a broch or Iron Age tower
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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At some point soon I will have finished recording this box of bone and will need to replace the lid. This will not be a popular move.
Black and white cat lying in the upturned lid of a cardboard box. The box is nearby, partially filled with bags of archaeological animal bone.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cheery reminder you can now watch visualised editions of You’re Dead To Me on YouTube outside the UK (and on BBC iPlayer in the UK) This episode on the history of underwear was one of my all-time faves, with amazing guests @vicmmic.bsky.social & Prof Serena Dyer youtu.be/T5X4LV46ZVA?...
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What People Wore BEFORE Underwear Existed | You're Dead To Me
YouTube video by BBC Podcasts
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The program of the Symposium on Animals and Power in the Ancient Near East, taking place on 28/10/2026 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is now available. Registration is open until 23 October 2026 using the link below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ICAZ #Zooarch
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 New co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now #online in #JAMT 💥 Read our study on 'Direct and Structural Violence in an Atypical Mortuary Dataset from Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia' HERE: 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1007/s108... #OpenAccess #Research #Article
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It lives! 30 years in the making, a year of writing, and my life for the next year. The Buildings Archaeologist finally exists in print. The book tour starts on 5 October and the official release date is on 8 October. For more info, orders & tickets: triskeleheritage.com/the-building...
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just gonna leave this here. For reasons.
A poem and a drawing. The poem starts at the top left of the page, is titled "Humanities" and is made up of a set of 6 haikus. The first and last ones are on the left side of the page, but haikus 2-5 are increasingly indented, The text of the poem reads:

Who needs history?
Literature? Languages? 
Art? Philosophy?

These can only help
    you to better understand
        our humanity.

Best to let machines
    read your books. And write your books.
        Do your art for you.

You will never need
    to think. Never need to learn.
       You’ll learn to like it.

And when the end comes
    you’ll have never burdened your
        soul with any growth.

Someone selling this
sees profit in destroying
your humanity.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

The drawing is at the top right. It's a black and white ink pen drawing made of abstract shapes and lines. It might look like a tree made of bird heads.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🏺🧪 🦣 Will absolutely be tuning in fo some of these excellent #HumanOrigins talks, hosted by one of my academic depts - online, open to all
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Laurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel privileged to have entered the chamber of the mighty Gavrinis tomb last week. A 6,000-year-old Neolithic passage tomb on a tiny island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, it's interior walls are covered in swirling megalithic art. It Similar in some ways to Newgrange in Ireland ##TombTuesday
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 29/09/2026
If you are a man, and you see another man being appalling to a woman, do at least this. Say to them "Hey, got a minute? I need some help with something." When you get them over to the side, say quietly and firmly "What the hell is wrong with you? Stop it NOW." I've done this and it works.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hello we're about to record a new episode of our podcast. and the category is: listener questions. send us something in the next 45 minutes and we'll try our best to answer!
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 29/09/2026
It's National Coffee Day? Hold our tea (sorry - we are from Yorkshire it's the law)... How about this fancy pants coffee pot made in York in 1799 for your morning brew?!
We are looking at a silver coffee pot in a vase form, reeded borders, engraved with foliate decoration and an initialled cartouche, hinged raised cover with a knop finial, on an oval foot, the underside inscribed.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is also an interesting example of how stories are told differently in different disciplines/ traditions, because I knew that Servetus was burned for heresy (he denied the Trinity), but not about his medical discoveries.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Together with historian Dr Anouska Lester, I’m trawling through documents like the ones biscuified here to show how integral tradespeople were to the early modern theatre industry. The project is titled ‘Shakespeare’s Makers’. Stay tuned for our findings!
A bullet-point list of the sources used to create this biscuit set. The text reads as follows:

The items depicted in this biscuit set include:

Top row (from left to right)
- The parish register for Saint Mary Magdalen, Milk Street (1559-1653)
- The Agas Map of London (1561)
- John Stow’s 'Survey of London' (1633)
- The Fishmongers’ Funeral Pall (c.1512-38), a richly embroidered textile piece used to adorn the coffins of members of the Fishmongers’ livery company

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- An anonymous 1809 engraving depicting Cheapside c.1547
- A receipt documenting the sale of clothing to Elizabethan theatre impresario Philip Henslowe 
- A portrait of Dame Barbara Stone (c.1605), wife of Sir William Stone, Clothworker
- The will of Jane Heath (1638), wife of Richard Heath, Mercer
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🦇 The next round of Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant applications are OPEN and will close at 10am, 26 October. We encourage any place of worship in England that needs assistance with their bat roost, such as managing a cleaning issue, to apply. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 29/09/2026
Scrolled too fast and thought this was fancy sandwiches 😂
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Cliff BOOoracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a very common phenomenon is people rejecting the conclusions of propaganda, but accepting the premises. you can passionately disagree about how the trans problem should be handled, and it will still keep you from asking "what do you mean, 'trans problem?'"
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data point on what's possible
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026
genuinely can’t remember for the first so Americans, without searching, what do you think these two things are
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