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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nota bene, Ms Rollins: Lying to the people who pay your salary is not a good look,especially when they are stupid lies. Thank you, Mr Lieu for the fact check.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Middel Englisshe Verb Tyme: The verbe 'to haven' yn Middle Englisshe • Ich have • Thou hast • Thei {sing} / He / She / It hath • Ye have(n), han • We have(n), han • Thei {plur.} have(n), han Fun note: Ne (negatif) + hath kan be combyned: She nath quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rereading Equal Rites by STP and found this: "They're pathetic, really...They've got no life or shape themselves but what they can steal... And they're just bright enough to hate us because we're alive." (Equal Rites) #terrypratchettwasprescient

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

reposted because Latin... and gerund

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

ancient bodye buried wyth a fragment of the 'catalog of shippes' from *The Iliad* othirs may have their theories, but Ich am 100% sure it was to helpe the soul fall asleepe by readinge it

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Citizens do not exist to benefit the state States are meant to benefit citizens I think we’ve gotten this twisted

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Amras, Scéal Faoladh θ∆ @amras.me · 25/05/2026

You are “allowed” to not like things… kinks, scenes, music, art, individuals even! What you are not “allowed” to do is call a holy war on said thing(s) you dislike; nor are you permitted to try to make others feel bad for liking said thing(s) you dislike. Why? Because you’re not the main character!

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hope he doesn't trash talk pious Aeneas next.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

People who thynke Christopher Nolan ys changinge *The Odyssey* arounde are goinge to go absolutelye bonkeres when thei discover *The Aeneid*

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

For May 4th? An important reception of the Laocoön. Quartus vobiscum, y’all.

The Laocoon Group. With stormtroopers. Courtesy of EmpireStripsBack.

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Today is better punning through history day and this is how I found out!

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Dee 🦋🦋 @do60een.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

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Astrid @dastardlyastrid.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The government should be well aware that I am a citizen. I should not have to prove it to vote. If the government thinks I am not a citizen, the onus should be on them to prove it. Not on me. #VoterSuppression #RightToVote

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It was brought to my attention by a friend that that there is a Burmese python 🐍 at the San Diego Zoo named Julius Squeezer and this is delightful. youtu.be/eiDfdc_MlzI?...

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Zoo Day | Meet the Burmese python

YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy (?) Ides of March to all those who celebrate. It was on this date in 44 BCE that several members of the Roman senate objected to Julius Caesar having declared himself Dictator perpetuo (‘Dictator in perpetuity’) in the strongest possible terms (*stab, stab*). 🔪 🏺 1/ #IdesofMarch 📸 me

The so-called 'Green Caesar' portrait. There are no surviving portrait statues of Julius Caesar created during his lifetime (100-44 BC), although coins bearing his likeness provide reliable evidence for his appearance. All extant sculptures are posthumous, dating from the time of the Julio-Claudian emperors who honored him as the founder of the dynasty. This extraordinary. over-life-size example is carved from graywacke, a hard sandstone that was quarried at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and was long used for Egyptian sculptures.

Romano-Egyptian, probably made in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 30 BCE - 25 CE. Graywacke.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, SK 342

The Ides of March denarius, issued by Marcus Junius Brutus, is one of the most famous and historic coins ever minted. It commemorates the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BCE, an event that later inspired many works of art, literature, opera, and film. Caesar had declared himself "perpetual dictator" at the beginning of that year, thereby directly prompting the assassination plot by Brutus and a group of other senators who feared for the survival of the Republic under his tyrannical rule. The reverse of the coin shown here not only bears the inscription naming the day of the murder but also depicts two daggers representing the weapons used to stab Caesar to death, as well as a cap usually worn by slaves who had earned their freedom, symbolizing here the liberation of Rome.

Inscription: BRVT IMP L PLAET CEST (Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus), head of Brutus, EID MAR (Ides of March), pileus (felt cap symbolizing liberty), and two pugio-style daggers, which were associated with the Roman military.

Rome, 43-42 BCE.

Met Museum (L.2012.74, (ANS 1001.1.24742 Private collection, on loan to the American Numismatic Society)

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

#IdesofMarch A bronze Roman larva convivialis 199 BCE-500CE--a type of memento mori displayed at a banquet or feast to remind the revelers of their own mortality. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co90.... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Greenish metal articulated skeleton figure.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sic semper tyrannis.

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Stephen Abram @sabram.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happy Pi Day

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God @thegodshow.com · 13/03/2026

Quick note for evangelicals: war in the Middle East doesn't trigger the second coming. Jesus isn’t Beetlejuice.

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🐝 “Bee” 🐝 @bee990.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Because it can’t be said enough, I promise that I will both Like and Repost the following EVERY time I see it here in BlueSky: “It shouldn’t be harder for a woman to register to vote than a man…”

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

February 9, 71 CE: A Roman military diploma notes: Liccaius, veteran of the Classis Misenensis (“Fleet of Misenum“) received citizenship, along w/ land, right to marriage, & citizenship for his children & wife. 5% of American troops are foreign born. They’re not guaranteed citizenship (RMD IV 204)

Roman military diploma from Slavonski Brod,ancient Roman town Marsunnia.Issued on February 9th, 71AD. [1080x723]

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 18/01/2026

I've just realised that the Smurfs all wear Phrygian caps – is the Smurf village intended to be an idealised Revolutionary France, with Gargamel representing the reactionary forces of the ancien régime?

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/01/2026

They think the American people are stupid. It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video. Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality. Not another dime to this lawless operation.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/01/2026

The killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti show Trump's DHS culture is rotten to its core. Trump, Vance, Noem, & Miller have made these agents feel immune from the consequences of their actions. That must change. Everyone involved in these operations must be held accountable.

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Because extortion is the mafia's modus operandi...

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Or is this an alternate universe where it's Saturnalia every day? Io optime dierum!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Pretty amazing that they want us to believe they care about fraud when it has basically been Trump’s entire business model for 5 decades.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 14/01/2026

Scrūta is a Latin word that means 'old discarded stuff' or simply 'trash'. From scrūta emerged the verb scrūtārī, meaning 'to search/examine thoroughly', I guess derived from the notion of searching even through rubbish. This verb is consequently behind English's words 'scrutinise' and 'scrutiny'.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

As someone who needs students to reach the shade on my door for me, I concur. "though (it) be little, yet (it) is fierce" AMND

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 06/01/2026

Throughout the Middle Ages, Iberia (now Spain and Portugal) had a distinctive system of counting years, with a start date of 38 BC. The period after 38 BC was known the Aera Hispanica, apparently named after bronze counters – aera in Latin. It's from this system that we seem to get the word 'era'.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“If a white cat is seen in a man’s house, hardship will afflict the land. “If a black cat is seen in a man’s house, that land will experience good fortune.” - Shumma Ālu, which is a collection of omens recorded on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 02/12/2025

Hairy cats are the likely derivation of the English word 'caterpillar' – coming from Old Norman *catepelose, itself from Latin catta 'cat' and pilōsa 'hairy'. Meanwhile, it was little dogs that were the inspiration for the Modern French equivalent word for the bug (chenille).

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night. So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days. 📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet covered in cuneiform script. The tablet is a beige colour and broken at the top

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 27/11/2025

Sat down between prep (turkey in the oven; soon to do the mashed potatoes), and the 11yo comes into the living room: Her: “20 more minutes until noon” 8yo: “what’s at noon?” 11yo: “Alice’s Restaurant, duhhhh”

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 27/11/2025

I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid. … and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 19/11/2025

That Latin word consobrīnus there (perhaps literally 'with-sister's-son' or 'with-mother's-sister's-son') is the ancestor of English's word 'cousin', only put through the linguistic meat grinder of early medieval France.

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magistrah @magistrah.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

bread for the billionaires. I guess the Epstein ballroom is the circuses part

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