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Ack, I’ve searched on here and can’t find the post I saw, and am off X completely these days. The gist was he has a new baby and was parodying the tech-bro-dads.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 5h

I believe it turned out that the original post was a joke…

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For the first time ever I am offering small art prints of a few of my paintings! These five are currently available as 8x10 prints in my etsy store. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Medieval Executions 🧵 Hi there. One of my areas of expertise is medieval crime and punishment. If you’re interested, here are some comments on medieval executions. Note that, just as today, practices and perceptions varied widely across medieval Europe... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Congratulations on the book launch! This sounds really interesting. 💙📚

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m pretty sure I tried on that shoe in Camper in the noughties, it’s uncanny!

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We have my great-grandma’s album but the pictures are undated and wildly out of order. This is probably one of my great-uncles circa 1919, and a particularly cherished ancestral houseplant. Label your photos, your descendants will thank you!

Sepia photo of a boy dressed in his Sunday best with a very stiff collar. He is posing in the garden with a potted aspidistra.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can’t remember who recommended this account but they said it cheered them up - and it really does cheer me up! I’m going to log off for the night immmediately so this is the last post that I see. 🚂

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 07/10/2026

Houses that survived the great fire of London in a photo of Wych Street from c. 1880. All demolished in 1901.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you! I see that the Higginson is set in North Wales and has megaliths. I read a lot of Alan Garner as a child so this is going to be right up my alley.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/10/2026

The graves of Jesus, who settled in Japan, married, had four kids and died at 106, and his brother who died at Golgotha for him. Very simple and rather lovely. The accompanying museum, however, is flamboyantly insane.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We once viewed a house that was a short walk from a Little Chef and I had visions of Olympic breakfasts for every hangover… but of course this also meant it was a short walk away from a massive A road, so alas, we did not move in.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ooh, you’re very thorough. Liked: Magnus Archives, Midsommar, Yellowjackets, Black Tapes. I actually have read very little horror in print. Bounced off Stephen King, twice, I suppose there had to be one person on earth who doesn’t enjoy him.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, I would not have expected to see that usage in the 19th century. It must have disappeared and been re-coined again, surely…

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I recommend Penance by Eliza Clark. Dark, gripping, mentions Tumblr a lot more than I expected.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely, go for it. I would say more spooky than splattery, for me!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice. Wool is a real page-turner. I can’t decide what I want to read next, either Proto by Laura Spinney or have a break from non-fiction and pick up a novel.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Read the final chapters of Heresy today. Highly recommended for anyone who lives in a Christian culture as a reminder that it wasn’t always the same. Catherine Nixey has a very good eye for the weird details of history. 💙📚

Front cover of Heresy by Catherine Nixey, subtitle Jesus Christ and the other sons of God.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not quite sure where they sit in terms of genre, but I will rec The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and The Just City by Jo Walton. Lots to think about and highly readable. And enjoy your travels!

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since your bio says cinephile, have you read Tom Hanks’s novel about the film-making experience? Lots of fun.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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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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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Old norse nerds! This is premiering at 6pm tonight uk time! (there will be subtitles tho not sure if in modern icelandic or what) youtu.be/8Sm5itntHV0?...

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HAMRAMMR - Icelandic Historical Short Film | Full Film

YouTube video by Northern Storm Pictures

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s been a while now, but I think there was a real wow moment.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson, is the book that instantly comes to mind.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s only anecdata, but the people I interact with do complain about and resent their taxes. A lot.I heard the phrase “politics of envy” in the wild quite recently about a change to car taxes.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious...

"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📚💙A new book, with beautiful DK design as always.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recently I found myself racing through Penance by Eliza Clark, wanting to see where it would end up. It’s intense with some dark themes, so it won’t suit everyone.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some life stories that I often recommend: Educated by Tara Westover (jaw dropping!) Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (very entertaining, definitely of its time) The Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s an oldie, but Behind the Scenes at the Museum is set in York if I remember correctly. It was Kate Atkinson’s debut novel of many.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re in the City of London today, Thames Festival month continues with a fabulous free mudlarking exhibition in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, 10-5pm today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept. I won’t be exhibiting this weekend but many fellow mudlarking friends will be showing their finds. Do come!

Flyer advertising our Hands on History mudlarking exhibition at St Paul’s Cathedral today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept (in the crypt) - free entry, 10-5pm.

Further detail of this weekend’s mudlarking exhibition, Saturday & Sunday, in St Paul’s Cathedral - 10-5pm, free entry, part of Thames Festival month.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you read the Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee? It’s fascinating. Biology, medicine, and some history in there too.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was just listening to the audio edition of this story. It’s a work of art! 💙📚

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK so this is interestingly dangerous; they're taking the masts off the sunken wreck of the S.S. Richard Montgomery today: unexploded.live/operation/

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Live webcam — UNEXPLODED

Look across the Thames Estuary at the Montgomery masts and the changing horizon.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

William Walker, who worked 6 hours a day from 1906 to 1911 in the dark, working in water up to 6 metres deep, to shore up Winchester Cathedral. There is a bust of him in the Cathedral, and another in the Cathedral Gardens with an inscription that reads: “He saved the cathedral with his own hands”

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What an amazing rendering of the skeleton.

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Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My TBR list has a Jo Walton subsection!

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