rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 3hacademic databases need to stop pushing those dumb AI article summary tools. a lot of articles already have that. it’s called the abstract 1110
Reposted by rachelsickorax @ripeteeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this might be a long shot but does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? asking for a friend 02711
Reposted by rachelWiltedMint🌱 @crocodeadline.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Affectionate eyes #fengqing #tgcf 7386140
Reposted by rachelJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made 242613610
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026hardly ever online anymore but i am churning out theeee most self-indulgent essay, so. stay tuned or whatever. if u want 0141
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 11/09/2026every time i travel to a beautiful, picturesque city i start thinking objectively insane thoughts like Well maybe I WOULD jog at 6:30am if I lived somewhere like this 0140
Reposted by rachelThe Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Dido with attendants and a goddess personifying Africa (suggested by the elephant headdress). In the distance there is a ship which suggests this scene depicts the moment Dido realises that Aeneas had unceremoniously dumped her to continue his quest to found Rome. #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺 719230
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 17/08/2026saw a car with the sticker I ❤️ LITIGATION on their back windshield. who are you? marcus tullius cicero? 0100
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026i was told that i "looked odd" while i was writing this and i guess that is what processing mental health woes via word salad will do to a person. obv, TW for eating disordersdeadlanguages.substack.comon gilded cagesnotes from eating disorder recovery 3111
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/08/2026fortunately or unfortunately, i had a productive nutritionist session last week. so i may finally confront my inner demons and write an essay about my eating disorder, a thing which in general i prefer to not intentionally think about at all 180
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 28/07/2026can i just say that the odyssey conversations are exhausting because everyone is acting as if everyone else is stupid. you’re pedantic and elitist if you didn’t like the film; you’re pedestrian and uninformed if you did. yes the arts have always sparked conversation and controversy but like. my god 1170
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 26/07/2026it is soooooo fun to feel like a fleeing prey animal literally all the time and to make things even better the predator is inside my brain 160
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bad news, i sprained my foot. good news, i did it by being cool and fashionable (wearing chunky clogs on a slippery museum floor) 1150
Reposted by rachelGetty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚 08129
Reposted by rachelUC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ancient Roman concrete survives for millennia by chemically self-healing its own cracks through carbonation. This discovery provides @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social a blueprint for designing highly durable, lower-carbon modern infrastructure. #CivilEngineering #Sustainability #MaterialsScienceengineering.berkeley.eduResearchers shed new light on ancient concrete’s extraordinary durability - Berkeley EngineeringNew findings reveal how carbonation could help explain Roman concrete’s longevity over thousands of years 10477137
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026having a puppy is aging me.…. in the past week she’s eaten one of my mom’s blood pressure pills, got spayed and tried zoomies and i thought she bust her stitches, ate plastic and had to go to the vet for induced vomiting.… i love her very much. but what a troublesome child 1140
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026while driving home today i saw a guy walking along the sidewalk, unmasked, cigar hanging out of his mouth. sir the AQI is 350 150
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 16/07/2026one thing i will say about the american revolutionary war: it has been inspiring to learn how many top guys on both sides were big time depressed. like, the entire time 1121
Reposted by rachelHenry Snow @henrys.now · 30/06/2026one of the original sins of The Founders™ is not believing enough in democracy. from the electoral college to the Senate, the constitutional mechanisms meant to protect against a tyranny of the majority have enabled a tyranny of the minority 416234
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 04/07/2026yesterday i ate a hot dog and it was my first hot dog in (i think) 16-17 years. freedom from eating disorder via hot dog is the most american thing i can do 1170
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/07/202690F. which is actually a vast improvement over the 98F we had earlier in the week 030
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026can i say something. i am so sad that tvl the show completely cut the “brave, not stubborn” line from lestat’s turning ☹️ 010
Reposted by rachelChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty that is freedom, from mystery that is freedom, from the freeing questions, from the free inner life that is (or should be!) always ours 19123
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026back on my bullshit unfortunately, but lafayette really is the ultimate poster boy for Don't Let Being Underqualified Stop You From Applying for the Job 040
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026the problem is that barnes & noble doesn’t have those big squishy armchairs in their stores anymore 1100
Reposted by rachelDr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text. 382499944
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026and another thing. lestat saying Chipotle took me out. i listened to it three times 170
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026the dog is now six months old and she was the most popular girl at lowe's tonight 0100
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026the most beautiful a man has ever looked but whatever 2.0 191
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026tonight i am thinking fondly and quite emotionally about propertius 2.7 (tl vincent katz) 020
Reposted by rachelPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Soft power is when you force the British to make 1776 brand cheddar cheese 301617245
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 27/06/2026italy reminiscing again: i was soooo excited to stand in the presence of bronzino's portrait of eleanor of toledo while in florence! this is one of my favorite paintings ever, and the details in her clothing & jewelry were incredible to see up close 090
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 26/06/2026played the vampire lestat in the car and my mom thought it was david bowie. so everyone can jot that down 0313
Reposted by rachelThe Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 26/06/2026🩵 Delightful Diana 🩵 This gorgeous fresco is from the Villa Arianna in ancient Stabiae. Diana holds a bow and arrow with billowing fabric out behind her. The yellow tones of her clothing are a striking accompaniment to the vibrant blue background. #FrescoFriday #Diana @chapps.bsky.social 510229
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 25/06/2026ok, my tvl takes so far - sam reid: incredible, absolute generational talent. we shook the book and lestat fell out - more louis please. more armand please - rolin soundbite about joseph potter being SO good as nicki that they could just give him fewer lines. that doesn’t make sense. i resent it 130
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 23/06/2026the most beautiful a man has ever looked but whatever 170
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 22/06/2026i was playing acnh this morning and gave coco some apples and in return she said “thanks! i want you to have my jester costume.” thanks indeed 040
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 22/06/2026thinking about how i spent the first five months of the year reading only revolutionary war adjacent nonfiction. maybe i am my own Father on this Day 1170
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 21/06/2026it honestly annoys me that there was an ancient greek guy named jason. i can't even take that seriously. jason is supposed to be the name of a high school boy in 1990 0150
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 20/06/2026there was a post a while ago about how you just never see a cybertruck in a library parking lot. and i think about that post every day 0181
Reposted by rachelSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Hello! 📕 This is not a drill: Save 25% on all Loeb Classical Library vol. through July 31, 2026, with code EPICS. This is in celebration of the new Odyssey, so don’t say that Christopher Nolan never did anything nice for you. A full Loeb set is around $20,000 btw. www.hup.harvard.edu/series/loeb-...hup.harvard.eduLoeb Classical Library — Harvard University PressThe only existing series that, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. 110662
Reposted by rachelJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026me, walking into the British museum 243240548
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 17/06/2026i still have the Do you want Henry Winter to regard you with chill distaste? sticky note on my work monitor and even though it gets in my way i can’t bring myself to remove it. it’s been so long now and he is like a friend to me 030
Reposted by rachelKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Wake up, babe. New imperial-style Roman villa just dropped! (It was discovered at Castel di Guido a few miles/km west of Rome, in an area called Lorium that was popular with the Antonine dynasty. And there's a cool photo gallery at the link as well!) 🏺🧪livescience.comLavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus AureliusThe villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was found in an area frequented two millennia ago by the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. 010030
Reposted by rachelever 🐥🔪 @evercelle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026how it started -> how it ended ❄️🐹 #moshang 16842362
Reposted by rachelThe Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 12/06/2026✨A bird’s paradise✨ This fresco detail includes a swallow (happy to stand corrected by folk with more bird knowledge!) and comes from the garden painting from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. 28417
rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026living out the mcdonald's drive-thru meme each time i take the puppy outside after it's rained and hear myself say "don't drink that. we have water at home" 160
Reposted by rachelNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 10691137