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Maria Postema @mariapostema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hier is te weinig verontwaardiging over dus ik gooi hem er nog een keer in. De vuurwerkbranche wordt gecompenseerd (!) met 80 miljoen die voor spooronderhoud was bedoeld en 20 miljoen uit de klimaatpot. WTF. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PUMPKIN ENRICHMENT TIME

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026

Turned another old thread into an article for easier reading and because I just love this subject so much: Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900. You can read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/09/28/w... Or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/women-and-...

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Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900

Just reading old newspapers… as one does, when I found this gem from the Chicago Sunday Tribune from 1900.It’s about the weapons of offence and defence used by women in one year in Chic…

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

Updated this article by replacing my translation of texts with the proper English translation because I couldn't resist buying the English paper and digital copy of the Dutch book I already had because I'm an addict. fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/18/a...

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Age of marriage & giving birth in medieval Europe

A lot of people still believe that in medieval Europe everyone got married at a very young age, that child marriages were very common.This is not the case. Please note: this article is a work in pr…

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

Recently a group of history lovers went on a proper Medieval pilgrimage! They walked 21km, from Uppsala to Alsike! All in accurate clothing, with superb replica props, etc. Photos by Cajsa Lithell More here: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18/09/2026

Porte Veine (bringer of good luck). Unknown artist, posted in 1913.

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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I drew the new weird cat

Cutesy drawing of a Leopardus tilcayo loafing with its tongue poking out. A short phrase in spanish wraps around its back: un michi tilcayo! (a tilcayo kitty!)

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/09/2025

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm applying to professorships in both Fairy Tales, and Robotics Innovation.

"Now thats what I call *Interdisciplinarity*" album cover

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 14/09/2026

I'm one of those who went from "Oh yay I'm charmed by this magical British boarding school!" to being unwilling to touch this person or anything she makes with a poison-dipped pole, and I know I'm not alone.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13/08/2025

Norwich Castle has had quite the renovation and look, colours! This is a much more authentic depiction of what (many) medieval castles would have looked like than the bare cold walls you see in films/tv shows. Source pictures: www.facebook.com/NorfolkLibra...

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Max @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Discord did a dragon x fruit challenge. Banana dragon

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

capyberus

painting of a three-headed capybara with a spiked collar on a warm-colored background

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12/09/2026

I got an English copy of this book so I improved my old review & I've replaced screenshots with text so you can search through it, copy paste etc. Also made this fun little video. Read improved review here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/04/b... Or fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...

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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Them: Aliens 👽 built the pyramids. Science: Here is a computational framework for evaluating an edge-integrated, multi-ramp construction model of the Great Pyramid of Giza that shows Egyptians excelled at math & engineering. Them: But aliens? Science: Again, no. www.nature.com/articles/s40...

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npj Heritage Science - A computational framework for evaluating an edge-integrated, multi-ramp construction model of the Great Pyramid of Giza

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice

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Threads, steel & story @threadssteelnstory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There’s….wet stuff coming from the sky? (Thrilled it’s raining substantially for the first time in ages and at the temperature dropping below brain melting levels. Was starting to wonder if I had any Discworld trolls in my family tree😅)

Raindrops are beading up on barley/cat grass and other random plants. They’re in a slightly overgrown faux terra cotta planter.

Raindrops are beading up on strawberry leaves, moss and other random plants. They’re in a slightly messy faux terra cotta planter.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s that time again, friends. Time to share the greatest eclipse explainer ever.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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tichodroma @feathertrail.net · 17/07/2025

broad-tailed hummingbirds built a nest atop a tea light on a friend's front porch. one bird fledged yesterday, and one kiddo (who I saw flying, too) was hanging around for more food from mom #birds

tiny hummingbird nest made of detritus atop the bulb of a tea light. a juvenile broad-winged hummingbird is hunkered down in it

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Éowyn’s iconic ‘I am no man’ scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King instead with the caption ‘I am no stout man.’

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Megan Macmanus @meganmacmanus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I started my husband on romantasy (Paladin's Grace, actually!) and the discovery of fantasy + feels + open door sex was REVELATORY. "It's like everything I like about Tolkien but with girls in it!"

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Astraelogical | Commission Open @astraelogical.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hi everyone! Unfortunately, my sweet corgi Char needs to see a vet pretty urgently, so I'm trying to push my commissions! I do TTRPG/D&D, FFXIV, OCs, and many other characters! My prices start at $20 for sketches and $40 for colors! Shares and any support would be really appreciated! 💕

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

30 hours of sewing so far... lots and lots of French knots but some of the grass areas are now being filled too! If you didn't see the first post, this is an aerial embroidery inspired by moorlands. At this point I still can't estimate how long it'll take in full but I'm not half way yet 😊🌱

An embroidery hoop containing a work in progress of an aerial landscape. It has mid-green knot trees and light green areas of grass between. It has sketches of roads and trees for guiding future stitches.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A marine Cretaceous "turducken" from Queensland, Australia, where an ichthyosaur ate a pterosaur, then a giant pliosaur (Kronosaurus) ate the ichthyosaur. Extraordinary example of how gut contents can show us trophic relationships of ancient ecosystems. 🧪🪨⚒️

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KB nationale bibliotheek @kb.nl · 27/07/2026

Wij vinden het belangrijk dat iedereen zichzelf mag zijn. Daarom vaart de KB zaterdag mee in de Canal Parade. 🏳️‍🌈 (1/3)

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列科学艺术化石复原图》

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"I’m really proud to just be a tiny girl from Canada and to represent on this level"

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Publication day today for The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens! See this 🧵 for a chapter breakdown. Discount code & links in my bio.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

The new Euro bank notes really are a combination of mostly EU institutions on the back and nature on the front, I kind of love it?

A 5€ bank note with an EU building on the back

A 10€ bank note with an EU building on the back

A 20€ bank note with an EU building on the back

A 50€ bank note with an EU building on the back

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The wild turkey mob is growing so fast! When they're a bit older, more self sufficient and can be released, local wild moms adopt them. We can't let them try when chicks are younger since one mom can't take care of so many babies at once, but they're happy to take the teens and show them the ropes

A bunch of young wild turkey poults digging through straw under a branch perch in a rehabilitation enclosure

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" A simpleton looking peasant yells as they smash the wooden machine.

The standard narrative goes that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. (But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.)

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Helping. 📸 Rwnpv

A white and black cat sitting in a box of toy tools.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Please, I am begging you, bring color into the fashion of your world. Yes, vivid dyes existed well before aniline, they were just less colorfast. This redingote is Italian in make, quilted in the 1720/40s (prob. originally a coverlet!), but assembled in the 1780s. LOOK AT THAT DETAIL.

A woman's gown of yellow silk satin, quilted and corded in a design of interlaced ribbons, with flowers, leaves and scrolls. The gown is in the English (tight-back) style, open at the front. It has long, wrist-length sleeves, curved and cut in two pieces, with buttoned, turned-back cuffs. The gown is unlined. The bodice meets at the centre front, with lacing bands of coarse linen and 8 worked eyelets on either side. There is a round flat collar at the neckline, lined with coarse linen, and two shaped laps (tabs) at the lower edge of each bodice front. The pleats are stitched at the back. The skirts are made in 3 pieces and flat-pleated into the waist seam, which runs from the front opening to either side of the centre back pleats. The lower edge of the bodice, the sleeve cuffs and collar are edged with green silk ribbon.

The gown was probably made from a coverlet, with the front edges of the skirt and bodice fronts preserving the border decoration. The sleeves and collar are heavily pieced.

A Conservation lining of white crepeline has been added to protect the worn underside of the quilting.

Saffron yellow quilting up close. From the V&A: Quilting was a popular form of needlework in the 18th century. Both decorative and practical, it was used on clothing and furnishings such as bedcovers and hangings. Quilted furnishings were often remade into clothing, as in this particular gown. The pattern of the quilting indicates that it was done in the mid-18th century. The style of gown dates from the 1780s, which shows that it was refashioned into clothing some thirty years later. This would have added a warm, attractive winter gown to a woman’s wardrobe, without buying a new one.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.

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Echo @echo262.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We got the dog a new bed.

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