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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 9h

This is the so-called Lely Venus. Originally owned by the Gonzaga dukes of Mantua, it was purchased by Charles I in 1631 & valued at the staggering sum of 6,000 ecus (around £25-35m now). Venus is seen startled at her bath and covers herself modestly. The Crown has permanently loaned to the BM 📷mine

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone stop for a second and look at this Capybara Original post

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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huge loss of an amazing woman 💔 The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This clay Maya figurine from Jaina Island, Campeche, dates from 600 to 900 CE. It portrays an ancestor or the old god Pawahtun emerging from a flower, symbolizing rebirth in the afterlife. The artifact operates as a functional whistle, creating sound when air passes through its hollow stem.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h

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Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vera, former kindergarten teacher, current high school librarian, and #penguinclassroompartner is sharing the stunning new picture book NIGHT RIDE by #caldecotthonor winner Christopher Myers! This wordless book in the medium of stained glass is one you don’t want to miss 🚲🗽🐧 #ad

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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Monday! It's a new week! We had overcast skies this morning so here's another shot from yesterday's sunrise after the sun had broken through the horizon. Tap for full size, particularly since it's a vertical. I hope you have a great day!

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

Los medios de comunicacion estan comprados y dan muy poco lugar a publicidad de otros partidos. Hay que compensar esa falta de espacio televisivo; con videos, o avisos via WhatsApp, emails, correo postal, visitas, org events como conciertos etc

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

Globalmente, es un discurso basado en explotar extremadamente los miedos ya existentes en la gente hasta convertir el miedo en odio. Se separa a la sociedad, y se busca chivos expiatorios, sean inmigrantes, etnia dif, religion, partido politico, lgtbq, Ejemplo Sos pobre por culpa de los inmigrantes

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🇦🇷Chino arg. @chinojoh56.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Entender TODO EL RETROCESO que este tipo de gobiernos como los de MILEI, BOLSONARO, FUYI MORI le imponen a los pueblos de la región para poder asimilar la "amplitud" de consensos de los FRENTES que se les oponga. Las organizaciones opositoras tienen muchas dificultades para imponerse solas

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 19h

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 09/10/2026

There is a reason the U.S. MSM isn't covering this: France, India, Chile, Spain...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has.

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shade of an Orange Tree. Leiko Tar

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 16h

2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose career has been deeply defined by her landmark legal actions against apartheid, genocide, her advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty, declared mass rape genocide, & advocated for human rights. Defended Nelson Mandela www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

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South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 18h

#Poetry #Painting #Sunset As a late autumn's sun began to set, a glaze of golden orange cast violet shadows upon the desolate beach. With the falling sun, she rose, her faith renewed by nature's beauty in a spectacular autumn sunset. - Jamie Cortland 🎨 Kevin Kia

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19h

Babylonian alabaster statue of Ishtar, dating from 350 B. C.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Congratulations to Navi Pillay! She was awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize this morning. The South African #HumanRights rights lawyer & jurist won "for her efforts to promote peace & international law." A life-long dedication to ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted.

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to South African human rights pioneer Navi Pillay | CNN

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay led the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he deserves to win. Fo...

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Face Hacha carved stone, pigments c. 550-950 CE Veracruz culture Veracruz, Mexico From the estate of William Spratling, Taxco. #handmade #carved #stone #pigment #cinnabar #face #hacha #Veracruz #culture #Mexico #Mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientart #art #sculpture #precolumbianart

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are two examples of the 30 existing Ain Ghazal sculptures. Discovered in Jordan, they are c.9,000 years old & are the first known example of large scale production of human forms. They are made of lime plaster & reed making their survival all the more remarkable 🏛️📷Amman Museum (L), Louvre (R)

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Poetry #Painting #LostWords A Lament for Lost Words To graceful names and lovely woods farewell To acorn, adder, ash, to beech and bluebell, Farewell old friends I name you in my sonnet - Robert McFarland 🎨 Richard Lorenz

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A small Maya clay censer featuring a sculpted face, black painted patterns, and geometric details. #Maya #Archaeology

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Ali khaliq @khaliqali.bsky.social · 19h

In The Pacific Northwest A touch of fall colour at Tumalo Falls. www.facebook.com/share/p/1cSF...

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mesoamerican Ballplayer Rattle ceramic c. 600-750 CE Nopiloa culture Veracruz, Mexico See ALT for historical info... #handmade #ceramic #rattle #accompaniment #ballplayer #Mesoamerican #BallGame #lifeordeath #Nopiloa #culture #Veracruz #Mexico #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientart #art #sculpture

Originating around 1500 B.C. among the Olmec, the Mesoamerican ballgame was the first team sport in human history. While there were localized variations in the game that was played from New Mexico to Honduras to the Caribbean, there were also many consistent features. Players' hands were only used to put the ball into play, after which it was deflected with the hips, knees, elbows, feet, and head. At the end of the game, players from the losing team were sometimes sacrificed in accordance with the belief that human bloodletting and sacrifice were essential practices for maintaining agricultural fertility and cosmic order. This rattle in the form of ballplayer from Veracruz (Gulf Coast of Mexico) wears typical ballgame equipment including a u-shaped yoke around his hips, a kneepad (yugito), and a helmet with a harpy eagle crest on top. Carnivorous birds like eagles were commonly associated with the ballgame because of their predatory nature - a desirable trait for a successful player in this life or death sport. Rattles like this one, as well as ceramic whistles, conch shell horns and drums provided accompaniment during the ballgame.

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c. 600-750 CE
Nopiloa culture
Veracruz, Mexico

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. #WorldSightDay #WomenInSTEM

A low-angle, close-up portrait of renowned Ghanaian ophthalmologist and public health pioneer Dr. Agatha Aboe. Celebrated for leading the historic medical campaign that made Ghana the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma in 2018, she is captured looking upward and to the left with an optimistic, serene smile. Her black hair is neatly styled with shaved, patterned sides. She wears distinctive semi-translucent, light-blue-framed glasses and bright orange, teardrop-shaped beaded earrings that offer a vibrant color contrast. Her top is a simple, high-collared bright blue shirt. The background features a soft-focus, minimalist golden-yellow architectural column under warm, natural sunlight. The tight composition and uplifting lighting establish an empowering, visionary mood, symbolizing her historical significance as a leading global voice for Women in STEM who now exports eye-health roadmaps to other endemic nations

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 19h

#Poetry #Painting #Autumn I started to think about my day Whatever challenges came before me I would conquer them For tomorrow I have to walk my dog. Hector Gonzales 🎨 Jane Newland

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 21h

Three Maya faces stacked one above another. These sculptural forms recall the stacked masks of Chaac, the Maya rain god, commonly used to decorate temples and palaces in the Puuc architectural tradition of the Yucatán Peninsula. #Maya #Archaeology

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Carl Bork (b.1980, USA) "October Walk" 2013. Oil on canvas. #Autumn 🍂

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A Maya censer featuring a deity figure. I haven’t been able to identify which deity is represented, but the sculptural details are fascinating. #Maya #Archaeology

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Double Headed Lizard with a snake in its mouth pendant cast gold c. 700-1530 CE Diquis culture Costa Rica #handmade #cast #gold #doubleheaded #bicephalous #lizard #snake #battle #Diquis #culture #Panama #CostaRica #zoomorphic #pendant #jewelry #ancientart #art #precolumbian #precolumbiangold

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has approved the election of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, often called the “Asian Francis,” as dean of the College of Cardinals, the first Asian to hold the post. The announcement came on what would have been John Lennon’s 86th birthday.

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“The Asian Francis” — Tagle Elected Dean of the College of Cardinals

The progressive favorite of the 2025 conclave, smeared by the online right for singing “Imagine,” now holds the most senior post among the cardinals. The Vatican announced it on John Lennon’s birthday

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 17h

A Late Classic Maya ceramic brazier (cazuela), dating to 600–800 CE, from Xcajipé. Interesting intricate geometric decorations. #Maya #Archaeology

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21h

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 20h

There is nothing worst than"fixing" facial features related to own ethnicity. If a person was born blonde/red-haired/light brown hair using some type of very dark tint on eyebrow looks unnatural Enlarging thin lips (common White people) will shorten the distance between lips & nose looking unnatural

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 21h

It is OK. We all misread or confuse other texts on BS because the space to write is too small. It is not easy to write clear so we share the exact meaning so the reader understands it without effort.

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 21h

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☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙 @mariaoconnor.bsky.social · 22h

There is nothing worst than "fixing" facial features related to own ethnicity. If a person is blonde/red-haired/light brown hair using some type of very dark tint on eyebrow looks unnatural Enlarging thin lips (common White people) will shorten the distance between lips & nose looking unnatural

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Groups whose folktales cast nature as an agent express more support for environmental conservation today, and the places they live have better environmental conditions.

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