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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bill Maxwell (Robert Culp) is proud of you!

Robert Culp as Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero eating Dog Treats in Ralph's (William Catt) living room.

ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Story time! I was once at an SCA demo where a fellow SCAdian earnestly told some poor hapless parent that the reason shirts of chain armor were missing parts under the arms had nothing to do with the reaction of iron to sweat. No. They would put GOLD rings there! 1/n

The Rule of Cool is also hugely important here. For instance, in Iliad 6.230–236, the Akhaian hero Diomedes and the Trojan hero Glaukos trade their armors as a sign of guest-friendship, and the armor that Glaukos gives to Diomedes is made of solid gold. No one in human history has ever actually gone to battle wearing solid gold armor, because gold is an absurdly impractical material to make armor out of; it is extremely rare and expensive, it’s extremely heavy, so it would make the wearer less mobile, and it’s very soft and malleable, so it wouldn’t provide the wearer very effective protection. But none of that matters, because solid gold armor sounds cool.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I figure it's as close as they can get to corn bread sticks.

Photo of a cast iron corn bread stick pan. The kind where you pour the batter into corn shaped hollows.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I've emptied a plastic wheeled cart with drawers and put all Wife's and my daily pills in there so it looks tidier than the random bags on the floor. Nota bene: Ask the pharmacy to put pills in the SHORT bottles. cont

Wheeled cart with two shallow drawers and two deeper drawers. All plastic. Drawers are translucent. Less than a meter high.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hats off to all the folks in Britain moving clocks forward today!

A truck and trailer moving a megalith from the Avebury stone circle to re-set clocks for Summertime.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

(American) football playoff snowpocalypse English muffin pizzas. With Coke Zero (me) and Pepsi Zero (Wife). From the sounds Wife is making, the Broncos are doing well so far.

Six small round pizzas with sausage and six with mushrooms and pepperoni on a cookie sheet ready to go in the oven

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is just the Skittles analogy in a different but still inhuman form. elibosnick.com/all-the-skit...

ALL THE SKITTLES

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Roman spoon? Or small scale model of the Enterprise?

Silver replica of a roman spoon with a bowl that looks like the Enterprise primary hull and a handle that looks like the propulsion units.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Vikings called women with generous proportions "ship breasted". And he certainly has that vibe!

A head-on view of the Gokstad ship prow with the strakes of the ship all converging at the prow and beautiful proportions.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Anglo Saxon. Too modern for you.

A hand with a reproduction of an Anglo Saxon spiral silver ring.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. This is one of my very favorite series. Rowan is a fantastic character and her friendship with Bel is one of the very best in fiction.

Cover of The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein with a map of the inner lands, a silver ring in the shape of a mobius strip and a fragment of a blue gem with silver lines running through it.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

A marginalia illustration from a medieval manuscript with an orange snail with a bearded human face being ridden by a grey rabbit with a blue shield that has a bird with its wings spread on it. The rabbit has a lance.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here you go, John. A very super bowl. 2000 year old blue glass fluted bowl from Rome found in the Netherlands.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sabertooth tiger kitten toe beans!!! www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/s...

Black and white photographs of a mummified sabertooth tiger kitten foot with fur, claws, and TOE BEANS!
The first two photos highlight the claws. The second two show toe beans. One a raw photo with a lot of fur and the other looks a bit cleaned up to show the toe beans more clearly.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

You can set up your account to require ALT TEXT before you post a picture. Settings-->Accessibility Settings--> toggle the "Require alt text before posting" to blue. That way you won't forget!

A screen shot of the accessibility settings showing how to require alt text before posting.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

STOP THIS IS A CUTE ANIMAL PIC CHECKPOINT. PLEASE SHARE A MINIMUM OF ONE (1) CUTE ANIMAL PIC BEFORE PROCEEDING. THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THIS SITE. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

A slightly sleepy looking Blue Point Siamese cat sitting on a bed.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

I am (very belatedly) ordering eclipse glasses for next Monday. I was a bit unsure if these ones were really ISO certified or fakes. I'm going with real based on these (one star!) reviews. Eclipse glasses that are all black! Who'd-a-thunk-it??!

First review: Blacked out lens
Can not see through the lens. They are like blackout lens.

Second review: These are useless
I am very disappointed in these. I bought 3 of them and they don't work. All you see is black. You cant see anything through them.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

bsky’s open, quote one picture of your cat to promote your cat.

Blue point siamese cat in a yellow blanket with his paw over his eyes and his tongue out.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Pretty sure they didn't. Viruses are tiny. They don't weigh much.

Since COVID-19 is transmitted through contact with respiratory fluids carrying the infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus, a person can be exposed by an infected person coughing or speaking near them. They can also be exposed by inhaling aerosol particles that are spreading away from the infected person. Transmission of COVID-19 from inhalation of virus in the air can occur at distances greater than six feet. Particles from an infected person can move throughout an entire room or indoor space. The particles can also linger in the air after a person has left the room – they can remain airborne for hours in some cases. Someone can also be exposed via splashes and sprays of respiratory fluids directly onto their mucous membranes. Spread may also sometimes occur through contact with contaminated surfaces, though this route is now considered less likely.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

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Twitter is the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.

You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?”

No bitch, that’s a whole new sentence wtf is you talkin bout

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

The margins of the Bayeux "Tapestry" (actually an embroidery) are full of birds and animals such as these. Other parts of the embroidery have dead aand looted soldiers under the battle scenes. 6/6

A bird and two large cats in the top margin of the Bayeux tapestry.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

More oddities. and Some normalities.

A dog or wolf with a duck in its mouth. The word "queck" with next to the duck's open mouth.

A dog bishop giving a sermon to various birds--raptors, geese, cranes, ducks.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Medieval artists were definately not prudish. 4/n

Two different versions of women, perhaps nuns, picking penises off of a tree. A naked woman riding a penis. A naked man pooping into one jug and peeing into another. A scrotum with a penis blowing into a trumpet. A scrotum and penis in a basket. Another woman picking penises off a tree, with a woman and man (nun and priest?) kissing on the facing page.

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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Rabbits were popular motifs. 3/n

A rabbit hauling home a human man on a pole, preceded by a rabbit blowing a trumpet. A dog mounted on a rabbit jousting with a rabbit mounted on a snail. A rabbit blowing a trumpet. Two rabbits, armed with sword and mace, one is holding a dead human. A rabbit beheading a human on he knees. A rabbit riding a dog. Two rabbits, one beating a human with a branch.

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