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@veratrine.bsky.social
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Historian, gardener, artist, and collector of uranium glass.

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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 20h
Lotta spiders this year!
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
At the Academy Museum—a great horror exhibit
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I have voted! Now can everyone please stop calling/texting? The die is cast! #vote
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
My sumi-e-style painting of Winston
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Just had the thought that if those Cornell frat boys had drugged and gang-raped a guy, they would not have been writing reflective essays as a consequence.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“H-E-A-T-H” ??? “S-O-R-R-Y…D-E-A-T-H” (He was dyslexic)
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That feeling of relief when you manage to back-arrow out of a site that keeps popping up windows
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
…and then the mouse ate HIM!
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Goddamnit, I typed ‘easy’ outdoor Halloween decor :(
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
By Noriyoshi Ohrai
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Darling, the vampire bat feeder’s empty!
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This year’s pumpkin awaits its carving on a throne of uranium glass (my beloved ‘gothic garden’ console bowl) #seasonaldecor
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise of Mesoamerican cultures started 4500 years ago with the domestication of corn. First was the great culture of the Olmecas in 1500 BCE, 3500 years ago, followed by the Zapotecs, Teotihuacan, the Maya’s and latest the Aztecs, with many smaller and regionally localized cultures in between.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I call this poem “Exiting the bathroom at 2 am” Careful! Darkness is cat-full. Do the stingray shuffle. ———- (If anyone needs a poet-laureate capable of addressing this and other similar vital themes, dm me ;)
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some very tasty Mexican food yesterday at Madre —the Elote-colada was like an an alcoholic corn-forward milkshake—yummy! #mexicanfood
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity (1882) by French painter, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor, lithographer, and drawer, Odilon Redon (1840-1916). Lithograph on chine collé 25 x 20 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This tomato’s stem looks bewitched and I, for one, like it #seasonaldecor
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A couple views of the yard. September is not its best season but there is still some color #garden
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m working on a joke about pi but it’s taking forever to finish it.
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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today’s Canadian painting is “A Tangled Garden” painted by JEH MacDonald in 1916.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Saturday morning coyote #coyote
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One-quarter side-flip with half extension—a challenging sleep-move, but Major demonstrates that he has mastered it #cat
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just moved my car out of the garage to the street so that it can benefit from the random tropical storm rolling over LA—“nature’s car wash” amirite?
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The right sunbeam has lit up the cabinet #uraniumglass
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hobo doing a blep with my painting’Yggdrasil’ #caturday
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In reality, Swan Lake was terrifying
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Also, importantly, it makes the Great Lakes mnemonic “Hames” which really doesn’t work
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one would play chicken anymore.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wait…human Jack loved vanilla too…
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Working on art (not done)
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m so sorry—it is always so very difficult
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gold Spider Nose Ornament gold c. 100 BCE to 200 CE Salinar culture Colombia #handmade #gold #nose #ornament #nariguera #spiders #ancientart #art #ancientjewelry #goldjewelry #jewelrydesign #ancientjewelrydesign #precolumbiangold #precolumbian #salinarculture #colombia #ancientgold #tumbaga #alloy
Modifications to the body have long been a human tradition across cultures worldwide, including the Pre-Columbian Americas. One of the materials they used to make adornments for the nose, ears and other areas of the body was gold. For the cultures of the Isthmo-Colombian area — which included eastern Honduras, Caribbean Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and northern Colombia — gold was often symbolic of the sun. The material itself was found throughout modern-day Colombia, richer in some regions more than others, and had numerous uses and symbolism throughout the various indigenous groups over time.
The promise of gold and its riches, not land, drew the attention of the Spanish Conquistadors and other Europeans in the 16th century. As Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) once replied to an official who offered land for settlement in Hispaniola, “But I came to get gold not to till the land like a peasant.” Yet they were dismayed and angry to find that once they melted down the plundered gold, it wasn’t pure. That’s due to the fact that many golden objects were created from a manmade gold alloy (gold layered on top of copper and/or silver) referred to as tumbaga. It made the material more malleable during production and more resistant to corrosion. The deception had not been intentional. It was a clash of cultures, as for many indigenous groups the gold held no value until it was molded into either something useful or aesthetically pleasing.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I had to checkk to make sure this was real thehill.com/policy/trans...
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FAA hires 2,000+ gamers to be air traffic controllers
Regardless of your age, chances are that you know at least one person in your life who loves video games, and a recent campaign by the U.S. Department of Transportation shows that those skills migh…
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After the ‘Pop!’ shocked silence ensued.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We often take the park-and-ride to the Bowl. Usually, thanks to etiquette plus the noise of the bus, you don’t have to hear much, but yesterday it was the intolerably dull, LOUD, word-vomit of fellow passengers BOTH ways. Next time I bring noise cancellation lest I be tempted to resort to violence.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mysteriously, the new claw was identical.
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Last evening at the Bowl for the summer—Mozart ❤️❤️❤️
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Whyche of our wonderes have moste claiymed thine mynde and thottes yf one may ynquire?
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Starting a new piece of art #art
A line sketch of an Aztec feathered serpent surrounded with plants
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Red powderpuff—I love these!
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I painted a picture. If you’re saying “gosh, R, that’s awfully cheerful and also not up to your usual standard…” you’re right on both counts and I intend to rectify this as soon as possible
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Tip from a friend in law enforcement: memorize your emergency contact’s number because if you get arrested, after they take your phone they’re not going to give it back so you can look at your contacts. #safety
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9b...
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tchaikovsky and Fireworks (❤️ both of their oeuvres)
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Random friend encounter!
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veratrine.bsky.social @veratrine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I wrote a couple in the 90s when I was a grad student. I haven’t written one since then—these days I’m pretty much only writing lesson plans :)
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