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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 7h
shout out to baking a complete flop. nothing to keep you humble like defeat at the hands of wheat
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
klepon time
Handmade klepon
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
can you believe the same ingredient gets you pakoras and shiro wat?
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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...
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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer
A major war is imminent in East Africa.
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
neolithic era Saharan calls into a local radio show and complaints that he’s come across rhinoceroses five times at the spot where the rhino crossing stone is, and he wants them to move the stone so the rhinos will cross somewhere else
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the great chancla of Aphrodite
Satyr getting his jaw broke with a marble chancla
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
imagine a casino operator kicking out the biggest losers in the name of profitability
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You accept my Syrian, Afghan and Senegalese brothers AND me, or I don't want your acceptance. Fuck you.
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
we may not know how we'll kick you in the balls. you certainly don't know how we'll kick you in the balls. but rest assured, whatever happens, we *will* kick you in the balls. that's the Ryanair Promise
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lmao
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
met the man, the legend today
Cycladic hedgehog taking a sip
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
birthday time
Buttermilk pancakes
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
made an orange-almond cake with niter kibbeh buttercream frosting, please clap
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pokémon Wayang might as well have been made in a lab for me
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Dans la solitude, j'ai ressenti la liberté dont vous parliez. Mais j'ai senti aussi que vous me manquiez."
study of a shot from french movie Portrait of a lady on fire, close shot of the two character on the shore, ocean behind them, Héloïse looking angrily at Marianne, who's viewed from behind
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
you know if your company's telling you it's all about velocity, not speed, your ass is grass
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A computer game where you are a 19th century romantic nationalist whose job is to awaken a long dormant oppressed people through book smuggling
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
mold on the injera ferment why lord. can't get any teff in the country now this
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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Going forward, before posting any takes about financial markets, the economy, capitalism, corporate finance, or geopolitics, you will first be presented with a series of CAPTCHA questions based entirely on the material in this book.
Fabozzi on fixed income
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
hoping "this task is non-negotiable" will be heard as what it is (you are not pulling your weight and need to step up) rather than "feel free not to do it if your week gets busy"
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
extremely funny to go from "that building is ugly as sin" when watching a film to "wait i got married there"
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 05/09/2026
something about me is I WILL force you to come to a specialty grocery store with me but you WILL have the time of your fuckin life there
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
man what if Madagascar was in ASEAN
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
honorary Marylander in the 2nd pic
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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
With autumn on the doorstep, I remember this beautifully sad ballad by Uzbek singer-songwriter Akbarali Ochilov appropriately called Xazonrezgi (falling leaves). An incredibly talented poet and musician who fell onto hard times in the 1990s, but has since been rediscovered in Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(3rd picture) dudes rock
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The "lolviathan" where the Leviathan plate of hobbes has people replaced by laughing faces and the caption reads "IS YOU TAKING NOTES ON A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?"
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week. www.youtube.com/@studioheart...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Frog and Toad, all bundled up, put the finishing touches on a snowman. Er. Snowfrog.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Menelik II really doesn't get half the credit or blame he deserves
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"what about tibs?" "you've already had it." "yes, but what about special tibs?"
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if we get new game plus i'm asking God to not put postpartum psychosis in it
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Having a bat in the galleries is a bit like the solar eclipse. It's a rare experience. It brings everyone together. Except rather than special glasses, or a colander, you will need a net, infinite patience, and extremely long arms.
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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
I ain't never gon feel ashamed bout my age. This shit ain't guaranteed
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five commas a pound, can't say fairer @commamonger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"I brought him the Encyclopaedia Britannica and he asked 'what year?' I said 'I think it's 1911'...'Oh, the best year for that Encyclopaedia. Give it to me!' And he takes it and starts licking the book and the little old librarian says 'you must not lick the book, sir. You must not lick the books'."
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Borges and Me: New film tells story of writer's 1970s tour of Scotland
A film about the great Argentinian author's trip around Scotland in 1971 has premiered in Edinburgh.
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the Odyssey: you'll believe in team leads that kill their entire group by accident somehow beloved by the gods
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
man it's fucked that Sancho Panza, delightful little man of the people, considers become a slave trader as a get-rich-quick scheme
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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You folks want to see how the Greek Civil War which turned into the Colonels' junta which turned into the era of N17 which turned into the financial crisis which turned into the Tempe disaster? Well too bad, that's what you're getting. Greece, 1940-2026.
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
imagine being scurvy Joao, clambering on the shores of Yorubaland and immediately getting roasted as the flayed man
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hi their BOO! @mikemay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
eclipse picture but with the majora's mask countdown to the end of the world at the bottom with 11 minutes and 15 seconds left
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
yeah we out here aligned with three celestial bodies
Eclipse time
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There was Peter. We called him the Rockman, because he was the foundation of everything else was built. Big Jim and Little Jim. "Doubting" Thomas.
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
got those matching outfits on lockdown
the most beautiful love story i read as a kid
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 07/08/2026
Fake album cover i made with a generator

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 4'33" OF TOTAL SILENCE
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
has any other poet pulled off the "i'll have you hicks clapping like circus seals for your own demise" like Robert Frost?
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Pavo @loquepasara.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Majapahit and Choseon both emerging from the aftermath of the Mongol Empire is uh wild
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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Giving a plenary talk at the Big Byzantinist Bash aka ICBS in Vienna later this month — the article version of my talk has just been published Open Access! What was Byzantium to 15th-century Solomonic Ethiopian kings? TLDR Version: not a real place, but an idea. ➡️ doi.org/10.14220/978...
Screenshot of the title page: 

Verena Krebs
All Roads Lead to Ethiopia: Byzantium in the Solomonic Imagination
Abstract
Despite the prominent role assigned to "Rome" in the Kəbrä Nägäśt, the founding epic of he Solomonic Dynasty of Christian Ethiopia, not a single Solomonic embassy was ad dressed to the rulers of Byzantium-even as close to a dozen missions were dispatched tc the courts of Latin Europe between 1400 and 1530 CE. This article examines how "Rome" functioned in the Solomonic royal imagination of the fifteenth century by looking at texts connected to the Tä 'ammərä Maryam, the Ethiopian Miracles of Mary, translated into Gə`əz around 1400, and at writings composed under King Zär' a Ya'ogob (r. 1434-1468). In these sources, Rome and Constantinople blur into a single miraculous geography; a dream- Byzantine craftsman is conjured to serve an Ethiopian king; and a True Cross relic obtained from Venice is recast as a gift of gratitude from "New Rome." The article argues that Byzantium, as "Rome," was instrumental to Solomonic sovereignty precisely because it existed as a concept rather than a real place--a malleable Christian elsewhere to be drawn upon for local political purposes, precluding the need for any engagement with the con- temporary polity.
Keywords: Ethiopia; Byzantium; Solomonic Dynasty; Dawit Il; Zär' a Ya'əqob; Kəbrä Nä- gäśt; Tä` ammərä Maryam; Ga'az literature; diplomacy; royal ideology; relics
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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Getting on the cover of Viziers monthly so the subtler viziers will discount me as a fool and overlook my even more devious machinations.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh this is a great piece from @add-hawk.bsky.social making the case that play and games are the meaning of life, drawing on The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits www.ft.com/content/7b95...
Imagine, says Suits, utopia - some future paradise where technology has solved all our practical problems. We have perfect medicine, unlimited energy and boundless resources. What would we do with our time?
We would play games, says Suits, or we would be bored out of our minds. And if playing games is all we do in utopia, then games must be the meaning of life.
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