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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow arranged into a repeating pattern.

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Your Daily Homer @dailyhomer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Your day will be like... the bright autumnal star, shining brighter than any in the dark of night. Iliad 22.25-32

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s really just so demoralizing to watch how quickly and comprehensively higher ed has cleaved to AI 🥲

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

academic databases need to stop pushing those dumb AI article summary tools. a lot of articles already have that. it’s called the abstract

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sickorax @ripeteeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this 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

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

thank you orange ❤️❤️❤️ it really is so easy to continue with status quo and postpone Doing Something even if the something is ultimately beneficial!! rooting for you to do the thing that makes you feel best in your body

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

so very late in replying to this, but thank you for reading dear cair and i'm glad/saddened to hear that it resonated with you ❤️ something that has weirdly helped me is realizing that a lot of these ED thought patterns are not unique to me and instead are sort of symptomatic. we are in this together

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

every 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

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dido 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🏺

Detail from a fresco found in the House of Meleager (Pompeii VI.9.2) now held in the MAN Napoli, inv. 8898. First image shows Dido seated with two attendants. One holds a parasol over Dido’s head while the other holds what seems to be a piece of ivory. The second image shows a goddess who seems to be wearing an elephant head as part of her headdress suggesting she’s a representation of Africa.

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

wowww birthday week twins 👯💛 happy birthday i hope you had a wonderful day!!!

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

saw a car with the sticker I ❤️ LITIGATION on their back windshield. who are you? marcus tullius cicero?

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

❤️❤️❤️ i’m sorry you relate because it does indeed suck!!! thank you as always for reading 🫶

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i 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 disorders

deadlanguages.substack.com

on gilded cages

notes from eating disorder recovery

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

i actually took notes during session which i almost never do, so i may as well capitalize on it

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

fortunately because that is called progress. unfortunately because my eating disordered self does not want to make that kind of progress

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

fortunately 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

can 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

every day i wake up and my brain is like Hey I know exactly what you need. Three intrusive thoughts

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

it 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

bad news, i sprained my foot. good news, i did it by being cool and fashionable (wearing chunky clogs on a slippery museum floor)

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

this is not silly!! i believe the signs they send us are real. not even 2 weeks after b died i started taking walks by myself and saw a giant heart shaped cloud. they’re still with us :’)

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i know the absence is so loud and so crushing and i'm so so sorry 🫂 thinking of you!!

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

having 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

while driving home today i saw a guy walking along the sidewalk, unmasked, cigar hanging out of his mouth. sir the AQI is 350

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

i'm so so so sorry, liz (and tracey) 🫂💙 he was so loved and i know he was so happy to share his time on earth with you!! here if/whenever you want to talk

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

relatedly: something something about how even people at the top of the chain engage in the honored practice of Just Making It Up As You Go Along

Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willet, a stalwart at Fort Stanwix the previous summer, wrote that the commander in chief "had a spy-glass in his hand.... He seemed to observe and know everything." Washington actually knew little.

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

one 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

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 30/06/2026

one 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

oh it wasn't a letdown taste-wise, just the Mental Agonies that come with eating a fear food LOL

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

did i feel bad the entire time i was eating it, yes. did i feel bad the rest of the day, yes. do i still feel bad about it today... yes. it took me 16 years to build up to this so i'll see my next hot dog in 2042

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

yesterday 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

90F. which is actually a vast improvement over the 98F we had earlier in the week

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

can i say something. i am so sad that tvl the show completely cut the “brave, not stubborn” line from lestat’s turning ☹️

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

so 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

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

back 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

Although elated, Deane feared Congress would question the enlistment of a nineteen year-old major general who had yet to fire a shot in battle and could not even speak English to the troops he would command.

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“the problem with what?” Everything

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the problem is that barnes & noble doesn’t have those big squishy armchairs in their stores anymore

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

every time i see it now i will think (lestat voice) wor-chest-ester 🫤🤨

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A 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.

A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

guy who dared to ask: what if chipotle was pronounced like aristotle?

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

and another thing. lestat saying Chipotle took me out. i listened to it three times

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

(girl who doesn't know anything about massachusetts) i totally would have pronounced it worchester also so this scene delighted me LOL

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rachel @stonefruits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

the dog is now six months old and she was the most popular girl at lowe's tonight

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