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Did you know? Coral reefs can soak up most incoming wave energy, sometimes cutting it by as much as 97 percent. #TiltedTimes #History #DidYouKnow

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The Historian’s Hut @thehistorianshut.bsky.social · 3h

“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.” -Thucydides (c. 460-404 BCE) thehistorianshut.com/2017/11/23/t... #history #quotes

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Thucydides - The Historian's Hut

Thucydides (Athenian general and historian, c. 460-404 BCE) “My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.” History of the Pelopon...

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 3h

A soba deliveryman in Tokyo, 1935, carrying a tall stack of trays and noodle bowls by bicycle. Deliveries like this were part of Japan’s food delivery tradition, known as demae, bringing meals from restaurants to customers’ homes and workplaces. 📸 Mainichi Shimbun. #History #HistoryMatters

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 3h

An Edinburgh antiques dealer purchased this small chess piece and passed it down through his family. Carved from walrus ivory and dated to the 13th century, the figure represents a “warder”—the medieval equivalent of a rook. Bought for £5 in 1964. Sold for nearly $1 million in 2019 #History

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 2h

6 October 1914 Officers of the right half, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards on board SS Lake Michigan troopship. The officer looking towards the camera is Captain the Hon. D.A. Kinnaird, who was killed on 24 October 1914. 📸IWM 57127 #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 1h

On Oct 6, 1976, China arrested the Gang of Four, led by Mao’s widow Jiang Qing. This coup ended the Cultural Revolution, power shifted to moderates, and Deng Xiaoping launched historic market reforms that transformed China from an isolated state into a global economic superpower. #history #politics

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 17h

6 Oct: Feast Ss "vigorous" Baíthéne, Diurén, "wise" Áed Eolach & Colmán. Little-known saints in martyrologies. Quotes MartG. >120 Irish St Colmáns; "little dove"; appropriate name - symbol of the Holy Spirit & peace! 📷Muiredach's Cross (right), Monasterboice, Co. Louth ©myirishjeweler #medievalsky

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 17h

6 Oct: St Lugaid. A bishop, of Bennchor in Lurg, Co. #Fermanagh & Ráith Maige Tuascirt/ #Ratoo #Kerry. "the bright-coloured". 📷Ratoo round tower, near Ballyduff, Co. Kerry. 10/early 11th C. 28m tall. Used to be on raised causeway in a swamp, but drained. #medievalsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8v2...

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 17h

The first recorded British sea battle took place #OTD in 719. Donnchad Becc, king of Cenn Tíre (Kintyre), brought to a halt the ascendancy of the Lorn king of Dál Riata, Selbach mac Ferchair. The standard Dál Riatan naval ship was the ‘seven-bencher’. 📸Gary Sutherland

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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 7h

The Apostle Paul (detail) www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaic…

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 6h

Say hello to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art): basiraproject.org #medievalsky --------------- Video by Emily Brooks Music by J.D. Porter Narration by Iris Péron-Ames

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10h

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Rev Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social · 2h

"Midterm surpise" means another Elon election results hack.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 7h

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5h

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 17h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway. Please enjoy this DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE NARROW BOAT!!!! (You probably can’t see* it, it’s centre frame) (*or at least accurately torpedo it)

A narrow boat in the distinctive abstract black and white WWI “dazzle” camouflage.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 15h

It's a bit greedy and selfish for Gina to control THREE Australian political parties. #auspol #Liberals #Nationals #OneNation

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maraviglia.bsky.social @maraviglia.bsky.social · 14h

Finished the horses and driver (finally) for an idea for What a cowboy chases. Just have to get that written up now! Also did a test base for the Zulu war in Death in the dark continent. Not done a great job on it but the armies should look decent.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 14h

🇺🇦👀 62% of Ukrainians are ready to endure the war as long as necessary, — KIIS ‼️ Also, 79% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will win the war.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NASA astronaut & biochemistry researcher Peggy Whitson holds the US space endurance record. Cumulatively, she spent 695 days in #space--the equivalent of a hypothetical round trip to Mars. First woman NASA Chief Astronaut, 2009. #WomenInSTEM #WorldSpaceDay 🚀

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NinaLang @ninawasaballerina.bsky.social · 23h

I trust Micheal West Media very much more than the ABC which is now run by former Murdoch sewerage sleuths.

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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 23h

Japan & China are making money from Australian gas, while in Australia, we can’t even get governments to agree on a gas reservation policy, let alone adopt a gas tax that would not only ease some of the revenue woes of Treasury, it would give space for cost-of-living relief. #25%GasTaxNow #auspol

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h

Trump suggested tonight that Iran could "take out" American cities: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let it, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 22h

The government needs to get its fiscal house in order — quickly. And defence spending is the area most out of control, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/06/a...

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With the budget in disrepair, bloated defence spending is an indulgence we can't afford

Defence spending blew out by more than any other area of government spending last year. But will the government cut our most wasteful area of expenditure? Unlikely.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21h

CORRECTION: Serial child molestor and pedophile GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert, who only got 15 months prison for his pedophilia, dead at 84. Leave it to Fox News to whitewash pedophiles. Smh no wonder they’re protecting Trump and the Epstein Files.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Bakker, the TV preacher brought down by sex and financial scandals, has died at 86. He and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, built a televangelism empire that ended in a spectacular collapse of greed, scandal, and excess.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19h

"For enterprises, the challenge is no longer simply deciding whether to invest in AI. It is working out how much individual agents are costing, what they are doing with that expenditure and whether the resulting productivity, security or other business benefits justify the investment."

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The Big Short - Fuck me

ALT: The Big Short - Fuck me

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19h

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the Blog’s forum on the conceptual history of technology, Tianyi Ding traces zero’s emergence through a series of material practices, from bookkeeping in Renaissance Italy and weaving in eighteenth-century France to the 1890 US census and birth of IBM.

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How Nothing Came to Matter: Zero as a Technique of Absence

"Zero" exists only in the apparatuses and techniques that produce it....

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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Attend: Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Winter 2026/2027, University of Warsaw and Zoom, Thursdays 4:45 pm (Warsaw). First event of the series on October 8 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/warsaw-...

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Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Winter 2026/2027 | Mary Jaharis Center

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Brooks Barber @rollplusfun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Check this one out! Gene is awesome and his games are fascinating.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reform Councillor and group leader Ryan Coogan has been arrested for making false statements on nomination papers. It’s a mystery why a party whose leadership are under investigation by the police, NCA and Parliamentary Commissioner seems to attract so many dodgy characters...

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only ‘no go zones’ in Britain are gated communities, country estates full of, or owned by rich, largely white folk. And don’t get me started on the villages they’ve basically ‘enclosed’ on the north Norfolk coast.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/10/2026

The thing is, Trump also promised to end the war in Ukraine (in 24 hours). So the fact that this war is still going on is also his failure.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beware of the dog! The Cave Canem entranceway from #Pompeii is such a timeless #Roman mosaic; the dog still symbolically protects his owner's house, nearly 2000 years after it was destroyed when Mt Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 🐶 #Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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