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I told everyone to get in the car. We were going to the beach. We got some pumpkins on the way home. It was a good day.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#TilesOnTuesday Despite echoing Temple Church's medieval origins, Minton tiles from Victorian restoration not always appreciated. After WWII London bombing, Inner Temple's treasurer said: "To have got rid of their.... hideous encaustic tiles.... will be almost a blessing in disguise." ALT for more

Temple district in London was bombed 10 May 1941. Damage across the area was horrific and repairs to Temple Church took 17 years to complete. Probably much to dismay of Inner Temple treasurer, hundreds of Victorian Minton tiles were retained, but they were installed up in the less public clerestory gallery of the Round - the original early medieval structure.
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"Sir Frank MacKinnon (Treasurer of Inner Temple in 1945) compiled a report in 1944 which reveals how far and fast taste had changed since the nineteenth-century refurbishments. For my own part, seeing how dreadfully the Church had been despoiled by its pretended friends a century before, I do not grieve so very acutely for the havoc now wrought by its avowed enemies …. If the Church is now once again truly restored, it can hardly fail to be far more beautiful than the Victorian vandals made it for us. To have got rid of their awful stained glass windows, their ghastly pulpit, their hideous encaustic tiles, their abominable pews and seats (on which alone they spent over £10,000), will be almost a blessing in disguise. An ancient text about the first Temple may even, I hope, be apposite. ‘The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of Hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.’

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I generally like Steinbeck's books. He could not write women characters very well. I see it in a lot of male authors. It is like they think we have different emotions. Do you know of a male author who does a good job?

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have a fun mythic (random based D&D). Most of the players are women. They handle a lot of the adventure with diplomacy. The menfolk seem to be really confused as to how to play that.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The cops in France know the people can and will kill the elite. They are going to be ok.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have never heard it limited to goats.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No. I have a lot more faith in Smith. Garland was far too self-interested.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please keep this for your collection.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The other thing to do is to lay on your back, and put your legs up against a wall. Get your butt as close to the wall as possible, and put up your legs. Then push your lower back down into the floor so you can feel it. This stretch builds more strength. try to hold that 10 minutes and work up to 20

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, and it does work. It makes you keep your feet on the floor & balancing evenly. That means you engage the point when your pelvis and femur meet. (Horse back riders call it seat bones, if you know that term.) It make the lower back work. Start slow, and set a timer, start at 10 minutes & work up

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happiest of birthdays and may you have a wonderful year!

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a distraction. He is doing something really bad.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Request a mail-in ballot. Do not mail it in. I know it is wrong, but walk-in your mail-in ballot. Hand carry it to a secured voter drop off instead of mail-in. Elon was able to fudge things because he made up as many as we mailed in. He made up counties. He neutralized the mail in ballot.

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A zoomorphic vessel depicting a deer, dating to the Late Classic period (1000–1350 CE). The vessel combines the shape of the animal with incised decoration on its body. #Maya #Archaeology

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally have a hoodie from the Crossness Pumping Station. It is one of the best tourist places in Europe.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For this #MosaicMonday we look up into the spectacular presbytery vault of San Vitale in #Ravenna. To me, the Ravenna #mosaics are an astonishing collection, the last magnificent product of late antiquity. But whose empire does this shimmering C6 CE ceiling actually represent? #AncientBluesky 🏺

PRESBYTERY VAULT MOSAICS, C. 547 CE. BASILICA OF SAN VITALE, RAVENNA

A view looking straight up into the vaulted ceiling of the presbytery. At the apex within a starry medallion is the Lamb of God. The central wreath is supported by four white robed angels, a visual inheritance from classical winged Victories. They stand upon blue globes, an ancient symbol of cosmic dominion. The vault sections are filled with a lush paradise of acanthus vines and birds, echoing Augustan imagery of abundance. This shared classical vocabulary reflects the complex political reality of C6 CE Ravenna. The basilica was begun under Ostrogothic rule, a regime using Roman art to present themselves as theoretically still part of the empire. When Justinian consecrated the church in c. 547 CE he did not have to replace the Ostrogothic aesthetic. The Gothic kings' official style was already Roman, allowing this final flowering of late antiquity to bridge two competing empires.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You are really fast. This is so pretty.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fly Agaric in three stages of growth.

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Author Alice Henderson @authorhenderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So much sphagnum moss! I love to photograph lichen, and this is the perfect kind of forest to go looking for it. #sphagnummoss #forestfloor

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder if I am a conspiracy theorist. I think aliens know there is a plant with life here, but haven't bothered to stop by. I think Elon stole the election, because his kid told us. I think most billionaires are sociopaths. I think Epstein might be alive.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I stopped in town to get a blood test, and found they had the drive through flu shots available. I love that they kept the drive through from covid. I was due for a covid shot so I got that too.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He will do anything to steal someone's valor. He tried Kennedy. He is deliberately altering the line of sight from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington cemetery. Also, snipers do not need a position in the traffic circle.

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Abby Normal @abbynormal58.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only those of a “certain age” will get this.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Greediest man on earth is extremely gross. Will not fuck, because bile would rise in my throat.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Greediest man on the planet thinks we care about his opinions.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Made up 'news'. The pair insisted on becoming non-working royals and the AP made up a story that they are surprised by a clarification letter. Notice how they used a picture where the pair look sad? Were the two interviewed? Did they even care? This is for clicks. #clickbait #fakenews #royalbait

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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is Batzorig Vaanchig, Mongolian throat singer. Original post

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

All of us should be filling out a complaint against him.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I do not know of any published ones. I know raw data was collected at a few here. Let me see if I can find out who has the data.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am sorry, but wtf are they doing laying off the most valuable workers during a worker shortage?

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are you looking for raw data, or a published piece. I know of digs, but not papers.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have seen a lot of culinary school people wash out during their first few huge services. The same thing happens is most professions. The reality doesn't match, and it doesn't mean the kitchen is awful. It is more about your expectation matching what you will do.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is such a critical comment for the AIP community. Those of us who are forced to cut nightshades from our diet depend on mustard, wasabi, and horseradish for heat in our food. Adding hot peppers contaminates them with allergens. Let us have something, please. You do not need yet anther hot sauce

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is she suggesting that people catch a disability??

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why does Jerad Golden hate whales? #whales #JaredGolden #democrats #Maine #mainers #RightWhalesWrongBill #RightWhales #CriticallyEndangered Call your senators. Ask them to vote no on the SPEED act. Modernization shouldn't mean running over whales.

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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That is a lot of progress in one week. Needlework goes at your pace. You are doing fine.

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