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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 5m

haha! i've actually got a book SOMEWHERE on my computer, "How to Read the Mayan Glyphs" (?) will just have to buckle down and educate myself 🤭

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 11m

sadly i never did get around to learning to read Mayan glyphs — hey, i'm only 72, maybe there's still time 😜

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 11m

i would love to hear any ideas you might have on the scenario! i see a god or hero emerging from the back of a turtle/tortoise, being watered or offered some libation from a large jug by a priest to the right the legs of the turtle each emerge as a god of some kind the earth? the four directions?

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just released today! Could depression actually be adaptive—or have an evolutionary advantage? Last summer, I travelled to Winnipeg to ask Professor of Psychiatry Joseph Polimeni this and many other questions. #Depression #MentalHealth 🎥 youtu.be/NCRyowEFHME

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The Evolutionary Origins of Depression

YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychiatry

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1/2 Also just released today! Could industrialization have turned an ancestral feature into a clinical disorder? youtu.be/v-jFLzyaFuk?... #Evolution #Schizophrenia #Anthropology

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The Evolutionary Origins of Schizophrenia

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A Maya ceramic vessel with an expressive anthropomorphic face, very interesting facial features, and intricate incised decoration. #Maya #Archaeology

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 8h

Just released! I spoke with Professor Joseph Polimeni about the evolutionary origins of anxiety and John Price’s theory of escalation and de-escalation. Why do ancient survival mechanisms trigger so easily in modern social environments? #Evolution #Anxiety #Psychology youtu.be/g_KjBqX0KKw?...

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The Evolutionary Origins of Anxiety

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 46m

A Maya chocolate vessel. The inscription identifies its original owner, a lord of Acanseh, and records its use for drinking a specific type of cacao. #Maya #Archaeology

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 27m

forgive me for running your excellent photo through Ps to try and extract the details — "intricate" would be a kind understatement 🙀 someone with superior pen-and-brush skills need to reproduce this so everyone can appreciate what's going on here — keep up the sharing 👍 (view as large as possible!)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12h

A lovely little promo for a true Hollywood classic — released 76yrs ago today. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 9h

support my book kickstarter TOOAY 🔥 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 1h

when i was a kid, we told "blonde jokes" Why did the blonde cross the road? Because she was a stupid blonde cow. then we were told not tell these jokes because they were misogynist and discriminatory, and so we stopped. bring back the blonde jokes.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 2h

A fascinating little ring from the Punic necropolis on Ibiza. It depicts a bearded man in profile, but his hair and beard are composed of two birds (!), and his collar is a dolphin. 😮 The Punic inscription reads 'Belonging to Abdim'. 🏺 1/ 3rd-2nd c. BCE. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional 📸 me

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 1h

Jeff, we'd love to have you 👍

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Bill D @bildolak.bsky.social · 1h

NO PARKING Northside, Kalamazoo, Michigan #photography #newtopographics #kalamazoo #michigan

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2h

A Japan Air Lines press photo from the 1960s. Image via Blue Ruin 1 of Flickr

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

He has somehow retained the capacity to surprise me

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Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very sad news to report that Stephen Jones a longtime member of Severed Heads has passed away. Stephen was a huge part of Australian video history, building his own videosynthesiser and operating Heuristic Video in Syndey. He will be greatly missed. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OMG

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TRANNY ▶ FOR YOU ◀ @erin-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy “Columbus Day”!

An old painting of two young women with speech bubbles added. The woman on the right is saying “I’ll keep observing Columbus Day. Thanks.” To which the woman on the left retorts: “What do you do to ‘observe’ Columbus Day? Get lost in a grocery store looking for spices?”

The image is credited to “Memes of Art & Existential Dread” and bears the hashtags #IndigenousPeoplesDay and #LandBack.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️ The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a small, roughly square-shaped piece of limestone carved to depict a frontal face of an owl. The owl has large, rounded eyes and a long, pointed beak highlighted with fine diagonal incised lines. The face is outlined by two symmetrical fan-like feather patterns with a raised border around the eyes, cheeks, and beak. Dimensions: Height 10.3 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 2.5 cm This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph 'm'. The limestone plaque is displayed in a glass case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h

Lake Tahoe — 1959 📷 by Aaron Slims

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 6h

Why is Ottawa so hellbent on limiting access to MAID?Creating unreasonable barriers to medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is discriminatory. Leaving policies on advance requests to provinces is a cop-out, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: Why is Ottawa so hellbent on limiting access to MAID?

Creating barriers to medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is discrimination

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 5h

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 2h

omg, i remember "Bunny-Luv" like it was the day before yesterday www.youtube.com/shorts/RCiTo... but it was 40 years ago 🫣

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Who Invented Baby Carrots? The Real Story

YouTube video by real.food.living

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 2h

eat shit and die Jerry, eat shit and die.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 4h

Three panel comic. Panel 1: in an office break room, an excited man inspects a box of donuts. He says, “ooo… who brought donuts?” A coworker behind him says, “idk.” Panel 2: the man is holding tightly to the donut as it is suddenly and forcefully yanked out of frame, sending the table and several objects into the air. Panel 3: two fish are sitting in a canoe wish fishing gear. One grabs tightly to his fishing pole and exclaims, “I got one!”

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JJB @jjbjjbjjb.bsky.social · 13h

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpaque Newcastle Quayside 1980

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 3h

The Throne Room, Palace of Knossos, Crete

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 3h

cool! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ra...

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 5h

May I tempt you with something to read?

Self portrait of Bill Rauhauser at home, 1950s.

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 3h

well it sure as shit ain't human.

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 3h

a dear friend who is a) not stupid and b) reads the Guardian every day ffs, said of Hillary, heading into Trump's first "win" — "I wouldn't fuck her if you paid me" on Trump's second "victory," this same person said "well maybe he won't be so bad this time" humanity deserves to die 🫣

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5h

“Across this cloud-dappled sky skeins of wild geese are flying” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

a scene probably in East Anglia of flat fields, a distant windmill and farmworkers loading up root vegetables for the Winter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4h

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 of complications from cancer. Veteran Canadian journalist’s coverage was marked by clarity and nuance at times of crisis. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h... via @statnews.com #journalism

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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6h

'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett georgiapeskett.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Because I live in a rural village, the internet has been down most of the day. I am currently on public WiFi so this will be all you’ll get from me today.

A small ghost in a tiny glass jar. It’s glowing as it’s cradled in my hand.

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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 6h

Had something very similar growing up

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 5h

and what would i do without folks on Bluesky to teach me something new every day? 😜👍

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Giggie d'laMoutarde @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 8h

and i'm sorry — "hate Hillary"? who were all these people who hated her, and WHY? (remember, she won the popular vote in an election that was rigged against her)

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 11h

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 11h

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1854 mourning fashion plate showing a seated woman in full, albeit fashionable, mourning complete with black ruched bonnet and veil and a standing sympathizing friend in a grey half-mourning ensemble. Toilettes de deuil & demi deuil. id.rijksmuseum.nl/200525212

A colored fashion plate showing a seated woman on a red sofa wearing a tiered black mourning dress, bonnet, and veil. She holds a handkerchief in a gloved hand. Another woman, wearing a tiered grey dress with black embroidery and a blue-grey bonnet, and also holding a handkerchief, stands beside the deep mourner. Curtains and pictures form the background.

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