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gatos fazendo gatices @gatinarios.bsky.social · 3h

isso é uma arte sobre tela… literalmente

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MLB Scores @mlbscores.bsky.social · 3h

Final: Braves 3 Dodgers 2

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 2h

This week’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, BnF Français 22531, f. 324r

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6h

Join us in supporting banned and challenged books this #BannedBooksWeek 📚 Use code BBW26 to get 15% off select banned and challenged titles now through October 18. See the full list: bookshop.org/info/banned-... Expires 10/18/26. Discount off list prices, excludes ebooks.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 7h

A painting of a bird beside the text "it's okay, thinking isn't for everybody"

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 6h

Two of my sister’s chickens, spilling all the tea.

A red chicken and a white chicken on a windowsill. They look like they’re talking to each other

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 8h

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 4h

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 4h

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

can I help you?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h

Salvation: God bounces in on a bubble, Christ's loincloth has a life of its own, and donor Wolfgang Graf von Salm is v. satisfied. By Wolf Huber.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 8h

I roast the hearts of your enemies. (OGC)

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 7h

📸 eeyoreandkinkin

Two curious cats peek from stacked green-and-white cardboard boxes in a storage room; a black-and-white cat raises a paw while an orange cat's head peeks beside it beneath a fluorescent ceiling light.

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 10h

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This larnax (or terracotta chest-shaped coffin) was found in a Minoan tomb. They were designed to look like domestic wooden storage containers, an echo of life in death. This one has painted decoration (albeit faded) but an octopus is clearly visible - a common Minoan motif. 🕰️1400-1200BC 🏛️BM 📷mine

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You might have heard me mention that 2027 is the European year of the Normans and @britishlibrary.bsky.social is now advertising its major exhibition for that. Think of it as the sequel to the excellent Anglo-Saxon ehibition several years ago. events.bl.uk/exhibitions/... #medievalsky 1/

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Conquest: The Making of Norman England | British Library

Beyond the battlefield lies a story of ambition, upheaval and reinvention. Spanning the generations before and after 1066, this exhibition traces the impac

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct: St Francis of #Assisi #Italy (d. 1226). Friar, deacon, philosopher, mystic, preacher! Founded men's Order of Friars Minor, women's Order of St Clare, Third Order of St Francis & Custody of the Holy Land 📷Askeaton Friary, Limerick, established 1389-1420. Statue cured toothache! #medievalsky

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 16h

MEDIEVAL CAMEL ALERT! Just stumbled across this delightful fourteenth- or fifteenth-century painting of Solomon receiving a camel from the Queen of Sheba by the choir of St Moriz’s Church in Rottenburg. #medievalsky #camel

Painting with King Solomon sat enthroned on the left and a somewhat dinky looking two-humped camel on the right bearing golden caskets. In the centre three angels and a priest admire the goodies.

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you round the corner at the Met, see some unmistakable pottery shapes, and shout Moche!! excitedly, you end up annoying and startling quite a few people. 🏺

Moche stirrup-spout bottle from the north coast of Peru, 200–500 CE, modeled as a squat toad. Reddish-brown ceramic slip defines its large eyes, limbs, and back against a lighter body; the stirrup spout rises behind its head.

Moche ceramic vessel from the north coast of Peru depicting three stylized human figures seated closely together, with two larger figures embracing and a smaller figure beside them. Cream and reddish-brown slip, with modeled faces and incised details.

Moche ceramic bottle from the north coast of Peru with a tall narrow neck and rounded body, painted in reddish-brown slip. A narrative scene wraps around the vessel, showing elaborately dressed figures facing one another and holding weapons or ceremonial objects.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Inside the Temple of Jupiter, Emperor Diocletian's personal shrine in his palace at Split, Croatia #RomanSiteSaturday It's now a Christian church - the statue is John the Baptist and carving is an 11th Century Croatian king Diocletian would have been utterly mortified! 😆 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology

Inside a low tight stone chamber with a bronze statue at the back and a large intricately carved baptismal font in the centre

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 03/10/2026

NEW Remains of a huge pottery kiln from the Chalcolithic (5th-4th millennia BC) settlement of Ursoaia, Romania. The largest known kiln of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, it points to an early shift towards craft specialisation in south-eastern Europe. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Rectangular pit containing the remains of three earthen channels, partially obscured by rubble.

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the #Stonehenge area, there is new imagery on Google Earth from August this year showing lots of #archaeology. Pits for missing stones at #Stonehenge plus the barrows just to the SW. Read this thread for more examples ... 1/8

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

4 Oct 1582: d. St. Teresa of Avila #Carmelite mystic & reformer at #Salamanca #otd on the night #Spain moved from 4 Oct to 15 Oct - her feast set by the change to the Gregorian calendar. Some regarded it as an extra miracle granted to avoid a clash with St Francis.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

El Greco's sublime 'St. Francis receives the stigmata' at the National Gallery of #Ireland #Dublin Look at that cowl/head line... amazing work. Today is Francis' feast day, 4 Oct.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

Francis of Assisi, feast #otd 4 Oct, c. 1615, Peter Paul Rubens (Art Institute Chicago) His crossed arms allude to the emblem of the order, patched habit to the Rule of 1223, crucifix to the San Damiano Cross, the stigmata are discreet, a nod to the seraph of La Verna.

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking about a post I saw where OP said audiobooks are popular because of the ongoing literacy crisis. It's 100% possible to understand we're in a literacy crisis but also accept that audiobooks are "real books."

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The Johnny Horror Fischer Show @johnthemod1.bsky.social · 10h

My church had a ceremony on St. Francis’ feast day where the priest would bless the congregation’s pets in the parking lot. We took our beagle Nora one year to be blessed, and she went on to live until she was 18-19 years old. I guess it worked.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21h

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators. 📷️ C. Bredfeldt 🏺

A full shot of the ruins of an ancient theatre, located on a hillside. The theatre's steep tiered seating structure is clearly visible, constructed of light gray stone blocks, weathering evident in various tones. The hillside surrounding the theatre is covered with grass, creating a contrast between the man-made stone structures and the natural landscape. Sections of crumbling stone walls and foundations are scattered throughout the grassy slopes.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you can’t share a divine selection of late #1930s Madame Grès gowns on your birthday then when even can you? Saturday birthdays are the best! #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A selection of four pleated evening dresses in white, peach and yellow, with pleated bodices in a variety of styles, all 1930s by Mme Gres

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CMA: Medieval Art @cmamedieval.bsky.social · 20h

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 249r clevelandart.org/art/1963.256.249.a

This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who painted the majority of the book's miniatures. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for the decoration of their borders, which typically feature a rich variety of realistically-painted flowers, birds, and butterflies. This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person-in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451-1504). Isabella's coat of arms embellishes the book's frontispiece. It is unlikely that the book was commissioned by the Queen herself; rather, she probably received it as a diplomatic gift from someone courting her patronage, perhaps Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. A Franciscan friar, Jimenez was dependent upon Isabella for his advancement, first to the post of Queen's confessor in 1492, and then to Archbishop of Toledo in 1495.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 20h

I am continuing my advocacy for autumn velvet with a sapphire blue gown trimmed with both golden sleeve baubles and sparkly beaded floral motifs. Lots to see and cosy cloth to boot. Dates to c1883, sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of the top half of a sapphire blue bustle dress with ruched skirt and a row of gold passementerie baubles running down the back of each arm

Side by side image of the side and front of the early 1880s blue velvet bustle dress which shows the large beaded floral motifs on the front of the skirt

A close up of the beaded sparkly blue flower with green leaves decorating the skirt of the blue velvet bustle dress

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CMA: Islamic Art @cmaislamic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Minai Beaker with Seated Princes clevelandart.org/art/1917.977

Minai enamel painting created true polychrome ceramic for the first time, combining blues, green, and purples with sharp black and red--the most difficult ceramic color of all--with precise control.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 20h

Remembering a few buried in unmarked public graves, who died on this day in: John Bourke, died in 1864, aged 5 months Clara Smith, died in 1869, aged 5 months John Nix, died in 1873, aged 2 years Emily Holt, died in 1875, aged 2 years and 10 months

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 17h

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16h

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. buff.ly/ZfRCR1q #ShareGoodNewsToo

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China’s air best on record, delivers $715 billion in health benefits: officials

More than a decade after China launched an aggressive campaign against the choking smog, the country’s air quality has reached its best level on record, with the cleanup generating an estimated 4.8…

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 16h

📸 Brianna Edmiston

A tiny grey kitten sitting inside a tiny walmart shopping trolley.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

A very early representation of Francis of Assisi, who died in 1226, probably made before 1250. His feast is #otd 4 Oct. (Musée du Louvre)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

On his feast day #otd 4 Oct, here St Francis receives the stigmata from the seraph. This image is from a 1653 choir book, part of a set made for the #Irish Franciscans of #Rome.

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