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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/09/2026

Unabridged: The etymology of 'bucket list'

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something something strange bedfellows

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think those cog-looking keys look kind of cool. I’m sure they have a name. @oldenoughtosay.com you probably know what those things are called? I assume the spiky/scalloped edge is just aesthetics.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gray’s Elegy is always quoted for the “mute inglorious Milton” bit but the opening is also a lot of fun

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this day in 1647, a child was born near Edinburgh with two heads, each one with a single eye in the middle of its face, donkey ears, a tree-trunk-like body, arms sticking out all over, talons, male and female ‘secret parts’, and the legs and feet of oxen. Yes, IT’S ALL TRUE

A 1647 pamphlet: Strange Nevves from SCOTLAND,
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A ſtrange Relation of a terrible and prodigious Monſter, borne to the amazement of all thoſe that were ſpectators, in the Kingdome of Scotland, in a Village neere Edenborough, call’d Hadensworth, Septem. 24. 1647. and the words the faid Monfter ſpake at its birth:
Printed according the Originall Relation ſent overto a great Divine hereafter mentioned.
Illustration shows the creature pretty much as described. It appears to have a forearm protruding from each knee.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 22/09/2026

Love this little drawing Michelangelo did on a poem full of complaints about how much he hated painting the Sistine chapel and how it made him hurt all over.

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real.”🎃🍂

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

POV: you are a silverfish caught in a glue trap

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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think it is really rude that my husband's 10th great grandmother is also Benjamin Franklin's grandmother and that she was mentioned in Moby Dick and that he doesn't really care lolol I would love to have this mess of weirdoes in my family line

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026

Summer’s over so as is traditional I will be moving from my beach body to my bog body

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12/09/2026

Posting my porn on main. www.etsy.com/listing/4429...

A massive antique drawer unit with 370 (THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY!!!!) drawers standing alone.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you think I'm going to tell his story, then you don't know me at all. Because his victim was far more interesting. And her story starts in Leatherhead in 1808, with a wedding.

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I like Boston, truly. Half my family is from the area, it has seasons, every other person is an academic and therefore jaded in ways that I understand, etc. But the fact that it takes me over an hour to commute 7 miles on transit (with multiple transfers!) is absurd.

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This episode is proof positive that the center of the serious scholar + public intellectual venn diagram is being funny

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today, I connected the rise of the printing press to the 1688-89 Revolution by way of the warming pan scandal, and I could see at least two or three students’ eyes go wide when I circled back to the start of the lecture—it was such a great moment

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

On Aug. 29, 1907, the under construction Quebec Bridge suddenly collapsed into the St. Lawrence River and killed 75 workers. There is a lot more to the disaster, and a persistent myth related to the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. This is the story. 📸 LAC 🧵 1/14

A black-and-white photo showing the wreckage of a collapsed bridge, with twisted metal and wooden debris scattered across the site. A stone pillar remains partially standing amid the ruins, and a few small figures can be seen near the debris. The caption at the bottom reads "Wreckage of old bridge, August 29th, 1907." The background is a light, hazy sky.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this is so important it needed its own clip actually

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/08/2026

TODAY ON TGS: The incredible @sarannmcd.bsky.social joins me for a This Gal Rocked episode. In it, she tells me the story of Jehanne, a medieval survivor of sexual assault whose quest for justice challenges nearly every modern assumption about medieval women's lives. I'm really proud of this one.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In Termessos, a wealthy lady named Rhodope interred her little dog Stephanos in a small tomb like a human. She was later laid to rest nearby. As far as I can research, we don’t know when they lived, or much about their lives, except that Rhodope wanted us to know how much Stephanos meant to her🧡

Photo of the tomb and an example of melitan breed dog from antiquity

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Who now, of all the inspired Race, Shall take Orinda's Place? Or who the Hero's Fame shall raise? Who now shall fill the Vacant Throne? The bright Astrea's gone

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John Ryan @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, etc etc

My ink-stained hand, some pliers, and the successfully assembled Farpie (fountain sharpie)

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Or, hear me out, From Hampton Court to Hampton Inn: a Call for a New Method of Capital Location Modeled on Royal Court Movements

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just got around to listening to this one. My favorite bit is when @jonathanhealey.bsky.social gives a passionate defense for understanding historical subjects in their own terms: “really listening to the people and reading their words until you can really hear them.” Great episode all around.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Historian: Cups are actually much more complicated than that.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Philosopher: can 'emptiness' be said to 'fill' a cup? Is 'fullness' something that can exist 'halfway'?

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Historian: the cup needs context

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Psychoanalyst: the cup structures what it holds and what it does not hold

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When I say that the seventeenth century persists into today, this is not what I have in mind.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just got back from a trip to Alaska, where I purchased possibly my favorite souvenir of all time: the Bottercelli

Art print of a parody of Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus, but the people are otters. Otter Venus stands in a shell, covering herself with paws and a strand of kelp. Otter Zephyrus and Aura with wings and cloaks float at her side.

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”

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A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I love shit like this. I love that humans are compelled to make Shapes and Guys across time and space

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nature is so fake looking sometimes istg

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Without context this is extremely funny.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“Daily” pic no. 199

One of the recently restored dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park. Big, green, lumbering, almost entirely inaccurate. It’s set in gravel and planted beds with some small ornamental trees and, in the background, some actual big trees.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When I say the past was vivid, this is what I fucking mean. LOOK AT THIS CARACO. We are talking VERY end of the 18th century, 1785-95. The tabs are also called languettes (little tongues), and the style is known as a pierrot. Taffeta silk! That raspberry hue is probably from bugs (cochineal).

Caraco (short jacket/bodice), short form, fitted, wide rounded neckline, double-breasted closure with 2×4 round covered buttons, 2 buttons missing, peplum/basque at the waist cut into tabs, long tight-fitting sleeves in 2 parts closed by 2×9 small round covered buttons, back with 3 central seams, tabs forming a small tail

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tomb of Willem the Silent, drawing patriotic tourists to the Nieuwekerk In Delft, 1651. By Gerard Houckgeest, whose day is today.

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Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can only provide personal experience, but I’m in a book club for the first time in years. And, of course, my book club is encapsulated by the following meme:

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Saladin in 1189:

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