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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So did I! I got the gif I used & several quoting the Fairytale episode of Strange New Worlds… Curiouser and curiouser…

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What search words did you use?!?

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Note: why is this the only gif I could find? What about „Get it? Got it! Good.“ or „The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true?“)

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Danny Kaye in The Court Jester: Shoot and Toot

ALT: Danny Kaye in The Court Jester: Shoot and Toot

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good Thoth! How many of them can we squeeze hieroglyphs into? 😁

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is this the one? Where the doors of heaven open?

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 20/09/2026

My eldest is almost there 😂 (Ok, it’s not that hard, I‘m maybe 1m59 post-op).

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

It’s possible part of the Bronze Age Collapse goes back to Akhnaten not answering his e-mails, so…

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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 · 19/09/2026

There will be sooo many holes in the records, especially with so much happening on digital media. So much context will be missing. What is miette? Why is a breadcrumb being kicked like a ball game? Was this really an incarcerable offense?

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

I‘m so glad you enjoyed it! Sorry for the tech difficulties 😂

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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

Maybe! The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor, which featured a giant snake & a mysteriously disappearing island, was a bestseller back in his day…

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

I love the name Shesheshen - we have one in my museum! Or almost (one „h“ missing). This is Sesheshen, priest of Selket!

A seated Egyptian statue of dark stone. It is a man wearing a kilt & with a naked torso. One hand is flat on his lap, the other curled in a fist. He is wearing a shoulder-length wig. His seat is covered in horizontal lines of hieroglyphs.

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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

What‘s the oldest known find of an apple cultivar?

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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 · 08/09/2026

Apparently lending out extraneous family members was fairly common, especially since adoption laws were weird. So if you didn‘t have a direct male heir, bringing up the extra boy/grandson/2nd cousin once removed and making him heir by testament was an approved option.

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Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

L‘intention doit bien compter pour quelque chose - a priori, d‘un point de vue égyptologique, une oie, un bélier, un faucon ou même un coléoptère peuvent être un symbole religieux…

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

Nooooooo! Not cuneiform!!! Learn hieroglyphs instead. We have little pictures!

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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 · 02/09/2026

Alas, we don’t know who sent it or to whom, but the recipient is invited to come celebrate the birthday of the sender‘s son, Sarapion, in the Fayum. It also asks the recipient to greet various family members & to send goods to the sender. It was sent from Alexandria.

Page from the catalogue „Kindheit am Nil“ showing a papyrus with a Coptic invitation to a birthday party & the relevant catalogue text (paraphrased in the post).

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

Very chill, too! Let us get really close & was still there after our visit.

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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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