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magistra, mater, filia Teacher of Classics, History, RE in a secondary school on the south coast.

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Dr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Free ebook! (co-edited by my brother-in-law) 🎉
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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
They can even market it as 'Jane Austen's favourite novel! Before there was Mr Darcy, there was...SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.'
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I suspect a coyote did this.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.
Headline of New York Times story from May 2nd.

It reads:

Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to 'Loss of Life' 

The former agency directors say current employees will face an "impossible task" to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.
By Camille Baker
May 2, 2025
Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.
"N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services," they write in the letter, dated Friday. "Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life."
Hundreds of Weather Service employees, or about 10 percent of the agency's total staff, have been terminated or accepted buyout offers since President Trump began his second term, according to the letter.
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Look all I really want to see are rants by the cast members about the evils of roving Machiavelociraptors. #earlymodern #RenSoc25
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In other good news, Swift Press will also be publishing the paperback of 1983 in August (and the rest of my Unbound backlist shortly afterwards): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Benji is an imaginative eight-year-old boy, living with his parents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire amidst the spoil heaps and chip shops that characteri
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
If you wonder how life is in the second decade of a marriage, my husband and I just declared tomorrow Waffles&Weasels day, where we shall eat waffles and go look for some local elusive weasels in a park, and hopefully not get these goals confused
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace “Romae principis urbium dignatur suboles inter amabilis vatum ponere me choros, et iam dente minus mordeor invido. o, testudinis aureae dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas, o mutis quoque piscibus...
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Be the kind of person who supports your local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧿YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - 25/09/25👁️ An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations. by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
british fan chat
cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:

[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]

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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.

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TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.

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TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.

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TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,

and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.

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TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re 
thinking, lads:

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TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?

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TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...

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TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… 

TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate

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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.

By the time they remember, 
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.

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TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...

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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.

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[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA
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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Astonishing that this article has to spell out in detail how to use a fan to cool yourself down in summer
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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's called Microsoft Outlook
Headline: Scientists have discovered 'third state' between life and death
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Do you ever think about how smart phones are essentially a more cursed form of tamagotchi that we have to tend to and maintain daily
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I take my coffee like I take my books: shamelessly purchased for enough happy brain tingles to drag me through another day even though I already have plenty at home
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Pretty sure Carney turns and winks at Macron as the felon starts talking here.👌 You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back. (🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
An rainbow arrangement of garden flowers placed on white fabric
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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 08/06/2025
"ohhh snap, this book comes with a MAP": me, about to have a very good time
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Seriously. What else did you expect from us on #WorldBicycleDay?
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
At an alumni rally earlier the same day in support of Yale standing up to the Trump administration, there was a historic, unheard-of call-and-response cheer: "Who do we love?" "HARVARD!" "Who do we love?" "HARVARD!"
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
One more bookish set for good measure. These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
9 square biscuits decorated with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, including Reynard the Fox, a dog, a knight fighting a snail, a peacock, a hedgehog, a bat, and a fish. The set features shades of rich russet red, cobalt blue, gold, brown, turquoise, and green. Some biscuits include small sections of blackletter calligraphy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2025
‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco
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‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco
New book shines a light on the women who stole headlines on an F1 support bill 50 years ago, with Beckers going on to star at Le Mans and hold the Guinness World Record
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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Sam Neill is a guy who can convincingly act with a great sense of arrogance and pretension and cruelty and in real life is the world’s chillest nicest guy who spends every day drinking wine with his pigs
Sam Neill with his beloved pig 

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@TwoPaddocks
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Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But, for now cheer up. From us.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our students studying abroad at Harvard were told to transfer elsewhere this afternoon. Our Government is covering the costs of their new textbooks as they waddle into unknown territory.
La la la penguin walking around a city
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Menai @menai.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
blog.duolingo.com/what-are-rom...
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Which languages are "Romance languages"?
Which languages count as Romance languages? Learn how Romance languages evolved over time.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
One bucket-list site ticked off today for #RomanFortThursday 🥳 - the changing hall niches in the monumental bathhouse of Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall 😮🔥 Just incredible survival - plus hypocausts to walk in! 😬 #HypocaustGate
Toby grinning like an idiot after finally getting to see the Chesters bathhouse
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Maria Lalic @marialaliccymru.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you can be anything in the world, be someone who appreciates googly eyes! I didn't have any lead hanging about so he's got 2p pieces in his feet making sure he will always stand to attention.
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘St Michael’s Mount’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Colourful and slightly stylised view looking down on the Mount, surrounded by sunlit water.
Illustration comes from a railway poster produced by the artist in the 1960s
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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
To celebrate reaching 6000 followers, I am going to give away a free copy of my book The Road to Mons Graupius, which charts my journey along a Roman road through Scotland! To enter, follow me, then like and repost this post. I will choose a winner at random on Friday 16th May... #RomanSiteSaturday
My hand holding a copy of my book, the Road to Mons Graupius
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Apparently today is #NationalPackagingDay and it reminds us of that day we opened a book and found this paper bag and it was like we'd travelled back in time.
An old white paper bag with a repeated design of the text WH Smith in brown and cubes made up of the letters WHS in orange.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When do the Cardinals get to go over to Casa Amour
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
As anarchists we defy all laws of church and state. But we are still subject to the law of "if you see the Tom Holland Rihanna video, you must watch and repost the Tom Holland Rihanna video." We're only human goddamnit.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/05/2025
its a brutal time for young men. Living up to the famous names you were given. Always have to roam around in the sewer. Your teacher is a literal rat. Can’t even say cowabunga anymore.
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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Slooooooow progress on my Mont St Michel embroidery based on image and stitches from the Bayeux Tapestry
Partially completed embroidery of a building with arched doorways/windows perched on a rocky outcrop. Neutral browns and greys contrast with organic red and blue. The outline of the incompleted areas are marked in black pen on a white evenweave fabric
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Someone should write a book about all the various professions through history that were done primarily by women because they were looked down on as unglamorous and unfulfilling until men figured out there was power and money in these professions and pushed women out.
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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is true; I am from Beverley, and our town crest is a beaver annoyed that you've asked it to do something during its lunch break.
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Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It should be illegal for the Conclave to overlap with the Eurovision Song Contest. Following one confusing European voting system, with clandestine politics, opaque transparency, no independent election monitoring, and no clear end-time, is difficult enough. But two, simultaneously... No.
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Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For International Sculpture Day, here's my favourite piece of ancient Greek sculpture: it's Athena but is she thinking, reading a list if Athenian dead, or something else? 🏛 Acropolis Museum #Ancientbluesky 🏺
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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
One billion dollars.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
y'all girl scout troup #1005 from Rowlett Texas will be uncovering our time capsule tomorrow morning at Dorsey Elementary. The troup of second graders there now will put their own back in the ground! EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of my former troop members are coming.
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Now in Herculaneum and Tauryen is back on it… 😆
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/04/2025
update: we at least have one silver lining to the whole thing, which is that this guy’s day got ruined
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This one seems to making the rounds here again for some reason
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