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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 23h

Yesterday on Radio Sonia*: -Takedown (KPDH) - Goodnight my Someone (The Music Man) - Why do we build the wall? (Hadestown) - Valhalla Calling Me (Beka Gagnidze) - Ain‘t never had a friend (Aladdin) + more I can‘t remember 😁 *aka the background music of my #ADHD brain

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.

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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

Pencil sketch of a doormouse in medieval garn playing a harp

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your humble social media gryphon must sleep - but Flights of Foundry does NOT! Enjoy round the clock programming and let us know what sessions you enjoyed while some of us slackers were snoozing. <3 Don't forget to register if you haven't yet! flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

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Registration – Flights of Foundry

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And now I‘m gonna be charged 130€ for a passport.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I‘m in here! You can Ask an Archaeologist (me) Anything or check out the Fairytale Retellings panel (I‘m moderating) or hear me expound on Infrastructure in Worldbuilding and Using the Fun Tidbits when doing historical research. Hope to see you there!

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I remembered! I am an officially registered Squawk.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Arrest him?

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hi #Egyptology peeps! Anyone know the logic behind translating „mfk3t“ as „Turquoise“? Is Hathor Lady of Turquoise bc it was briefly popular (when?!? Early Dyn or something?) or bc Some Guy™️ in the 19th c. arbitrarily decided mfk3t was turquoise & not, IDK, malachite or something actually common.

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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Next day was Grasse, where we did 3 museums in a race against the parking meter. First up, the Musée d‘Art et d‘Histoire where I found my favourite type of artefact: highly-specialised food tools! Featured: sugar crusher, chickpea mill, apple baking tray & vase tower for keeping table grapes fresh.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh, FFS. US online voter registration basically just gives me something to print out and mail. You know what France did? Let me vote from the comfort of my computer. Two-tier verification on each step through email & phone #, but I didn’t have to pay however much in postage to vote.

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am excited to announce that I am collaborating with the NDGS to investigate Dakota the dino mummy for color patterning and cellular preservation! but we need your help to continue this research🫵. Check the link in replies 🦕🔬

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I did it! I did not spontaneously combust. They apologised. Life goes on.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why am I having a panic attack at the thought of gently (and hopefully respectfully) telling someone how they talked to me yesterday was Not Okay?

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Deep breaths. I deserve to stand up for myself, I deserve to stand up for myself, I deserve to stand up for myself…

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Next day was another medieval village, Mougins, which has been taken over by artists! Tiny little galleries & weird little guy statues everywhere. + an old communal oven - rather than an oven in each home (lots of fuel), you‘d subscribe to the communal oven & bring your loaves over on baking day.

A stone public fountain, very low and gabled with a red tiled backsplah. Beside it, a smaller stone basin below a hitching ring for a donkey or dog.

A sloping street with a peach-coloured house next to a stone house. In the foreground, a single garden table and chair - even if you don’t have a front lawn, you can make an outdoor space for yourself.

Inside a communal baking oven. Stone walls hung with old photographs of the village. On the left wall, the entrance to the oven.

Bronze statue of a naked man standing bent at the waist with a paper „dunce‘s cap“ on his head.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you see this post something pink

Pink corrugated iron double door set into a arched entrance to a medieval house in Saint-Guilhelm-le-Désert. Between arch and the top of the door, a sign in arrow shape saying „Sabotier“ (clog-maker)

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

PAID GIG: I'm looking for someone who knows Spanish Sign Language. I'm going to be translating a graphic novel where SSL is featured (hooray for d/Deaf rep!!) and I want to be sure that I get the text aligned with the signs in the artwork. This should be happening at some point this year. #xl8

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We also went to the little town of Vallebonne. Like many towns in the area, it was founded as a workman‘s village to attract farmers to work monastery lands. Unlike many of the hilltop villages in the area, it was built on a grid system! (Bonus cat, who was chilling in front of a little art gallery)

A stone house with szairs leading to a small portico with a profusion of red flowers. Before it. A small urn-like fountain and a big bathtub-like drinking trough.

A straight cobblestone street, somewhat convex to allow water to drain, flanked by stone houses with shutters snd flowers and plants next to the doors. In the distance, one house in white with green shutters spans the street, with an arch to let people pass under.

In front of a stall, a canvas on an easel with a view in bright paint of a seaside city with two tall yellow towers among the smaller houses and boats moored in the foreground. On the white table the easel rests on, a black cat is sleeping soundly.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First day was the Museum of Illusions in Nice. Lots of fun!

Illusion box where my husband - 6 foot 2, wearing black cargo shorts, black t-shirt abd an australian hat - looks tiny beside me - 5 foot 2, blue straw hat and floral dress.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Back from holidays to see family in southern France. @seananmcguire.bsky.social : on our first day we found a praying mantis molt on the side of the road. A little over a week later, the real thing was chilling on the wall of my cousin‘s house! More posts to come… though not of mantises.

On a brown background, the slightly translucent white exoskeleton molt of a praying mantis.

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Clockwork Creature @clockworkcreature.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

URGENT! We just got a tip - someone saw a person carrying what looked very much like Tierney's head. The person boarded the 54 bus Southbound in Baltimore City. PLEASE boost this post! We might have any chance of recovering her if this post gets seen enough!

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Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NYC area friends, can you repost this for more reach? Two cats who are bonded and need a new home now; their human has just passed, and their temporary home is not the right fit long-term for them.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On holiday, visiting a cousin. These are her cats.

Small grey tabby with a small head and huge eyes standing on a black tiled floor.

Black, exceedingly regal feline made entirely of fluff with a leonine head and an air of boredon lounging at the top pf a staircase.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Had to take the kids to work today. K1 drew two pictures for me: of my pyramid full of treasure & a temple to me, a goddess. K2 drew a picture for my cobra plushie. Its dad, a 3-headed hydra. I „had“ to hang it up where the cobra plush could see it. 😂😂😂

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KlayrG @klayrg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The EU will be destroying micro businesses and soon you will only be able to buy slop from mega corporations who can easily handle the fees. Please sign and share and help EU artists to fight for their future c.org/fnKCQqNSGD #epr #euwhathell

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Bookstore Romance Day @bookstoreromanceday.org · 09/08/2026

It's up to 998 stores now. I would love to wake up to a full 1k If I do, I'm braving the Sunday crowds at Ken's for a fancy pastry or two. I'll also do a giveaway of some kind.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

These are both cool & horrifying. Cool because wheely wheely. Horrifying because these books deserve to be coddled in homes of oak or mahogany (preferably with their genre in gold lettering above them), decked out for all to see and discover. Not a soulless metal book sardine can. But wheely wheely.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SIX days left, and we need your help to fund another year!

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have never used it? At all? Right now I‘m elbows-deep in researching magical gems & copper production in Ancient Egypt & this is my happy place. You will take hunting down obscure articles in non-Egyptology journals out of my cold, mummified hands.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

LOOK AT WHAT MY LITTLE FREE LIBRARY GAVE MEEEE!!! AND IN ENGLISH TOO!

On a crocheted blanket, eight books from James S. A. Corey‘s sci-fi series „The Expanse“.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Two sharks both alike in dignity…

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Look, I left the States at 13 skipping with joy & singing the Ode to Joy at the top of my lungs, but damn, sometimes I‘m really proud to be a New Yorker.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ADHD moment: When your morning routine is disrupted & you lock your door & reslise you forgot your hat, go back inside & realise you had also forgotten your ruddy SHOES. 😂

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We only have 8 days left everyone!! We would really like to make this anthology the best it can possibly be, + ensure the novella makes it in! Back today to unlock digital content and choose your reward tier! kck.st/4wtYJ6X

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ADHD moment: When your morning routine is disrupted & you lock your door & reslise you forgot your hat, go back inside & realise you had also forgotten your ruddy SHOES. 😂

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don’t make me tap the chart

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My museum has a mummy of a 4-year-old boy. A coffin & cartonnage for tiny babies, one siggesting her mother died with her. Tons of amulets from infant burials. I came home depressed after working on those artefacts & had to squeeze my kids real tight. They‘re in our database sammlung.smaek.de/en

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SMÄK | Collection Online

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Everybody wants to know about that one medival story where the guy turns into a werewolf by taking off his human skin, right? Right? RIGHT?

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today on Radio Sonia*: -Spanish Ladies (Traditional) - Ba ba black sheep *** - Hadestown - Devil Went Down to Georgia - something from Pirates of Penzance (don’t know the title) * songs playing in my head** ** that I was consciously aware of ***yeah, I don’t know either

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My mom‘s would have been Carrie Fisher*. My dad would be Zero Mostel. Me? One of the more ADHD Doctors, probably. David Tennant or Jodie Whittaker (Ncuta would be awesome but maybe less my vibes). * I like to imagine they‘re sitting together on a cloud somewhere, glass of wine in hand & bitching

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 24/07/2026

We're still pushing away at our goal of giving our entire team a raise in celebration of our 20th anniversary issue in October. Each subscription takes us one step closer. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ There isn't a better way to thank them for their part in the last 20 and the next 20.

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Various glow-ups to our furniture we have gotten for free on Kleinanzeigen (German Craigslist): 1. Actually not from Kleinanzeigen; our neighbours moved out & left this. Little magazine stand cum table on wheels, replaces an ugly white tea wagon as our living room table. Comes with storage!

Little table on wheels with 1980s style cream-coloured tiles, three of which have little flowers on them. Charming 1980s, not brown 1980s. Sitting on it is a tea-for-one set with strawberry pattern for scale.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not work-related, but my dad, who‘s an actor & does all sorts of accents, needed my mom (French) or me to translate what our hostesse on the Island of Skye was saying.

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