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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 49m

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.

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Callmeike @callmeike.bsky.social · 56m

If I manage to keep any kind of hope over the next 3 years, it will be because of @adapalmer.bsky.social. "Inventing the Renaissance" is, perhaps, the most mind-bending book I've read since Godel, Escher, Bach and SO optimistic. You must read it!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 49m

Wow! 😳 That’s incredibly high praise, thank you! I did try hard to pull the book together into hope; I think history gives us that, when we zoom out

You may also enjoy (as I do) the weekly free FixTheNews newsletter, which rounds up underreported good news of progress & hope. It’s helping me a lot

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1h

Old Norse had a special word for the blue-black color ravens are: bloð (pronounced bloth with a voiced th like this or with).

It’s also the color Odin wears, and the color Hel is on the dark half of her body. In sagas it’s the color you wear when heading out to die on a vengeance quest.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 23h

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Carol Jeanine (she/they) @caroljeanine.bsky.social · 4h

💜💜💜💯💯💯🎉🎉🎉🎉

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 2h

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11h

gaseous cloud collapses, gathers into itself - heats up - remaining material thinly spread outward - only rock nearish, gas/ice farther still. Solar system is forming... Panels 10/30...
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

10 panels from a comics page in progress - in two rows of 5 each. Top row, panel one a gaseous cloud. 2-4 - supernova, its shockwaves colliding with that cloud. 5th panel see the cloud collapsing beginning to turn. Second tier - first panel - spinning gases, center warming. Panel 2 - great cloud of gas spinning and partly obscuring proto star within, panels 3-5, other side of protostar seen in prior panel - it's later in the solar system's evolution, we see no gas near the star, then a thin layer of rock and farther out gas - a differentiated disk swirling around the star...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve had consistent success with the “PMS Brownies” recipe from the cook book “Extreme Brownies” which I think you can get used cheap these days.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3h

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 3h

Intellectual History & Friends (@tomaashby.bsky.social)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3h

Can I be in this one, please? Lucretius, atheism, Ficino, Pico, Theurgic soul projection.

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 3h

Early Modern Women Starter Pack (@emwjournal.bsky.social)

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 3h

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.

The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 10h

That's an interesting point. Does "BUMP!" count (bottom middle panel)?

Mutt and Jeff full-page comic episode, in one panel a character crashes to the ground with the word "BUMP!" next to him.

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Sam P-F @smhwpf.bsky.social · 6h

Forza Firenze!

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18h

Within Italy, individual historic city states are recognizing Palestine; I was there for the Florentine Republic recognizing it this September, announced from the Palazzo Vecchio. Powerful seeing the old granular polities still using their strength. Cities are REAL in a powerful way. (See Alt Text)

Photo of Florence’s historic Palazzo Vecchio, seat of the republic. You can see Michelangelo’s David standing in front of it. Gathered in front are people in the historic red & white livery of the city, and many men in the red T-shirts of the “Republic of 1530” the organization that runs our city Florence’s historic festivals, named for the last pre-ducal/conquest iteration of Florence’s republic. I wish I had a pic with the Mayor and the pro-Palestine banner they hung on the balcony but I don’t. I forget if the Archbishop was there in person or just some priests, but the solidarity was big. I think the Parte Guelfa was there too.

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 3h

🎊It's October, it's getting dark outside, and the Wyrd Revels are on their way from 21-25th!
😈Doctor Faustus (two different versions!)
The Wise-woman of Hogston
🧙‍♀️The Witch of Edmonton! & Thyestes!
Book now! #drama #horror
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

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Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social · 4h

Very excited to be teaming up once again with my editors at Smithsonian Magazine on a story about a brave young woman who broke a barrier for all women who became published writers. This one will be out next year!

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social #women #herstory

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe with the "To Cogitate and to Solve" shield on the front, and the back reading THE FOLLOWING IS A FIB, BUT IT'S SHORT

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Rouroboros @rouroboros.bsky.social · 16h

I'd go with "The names are made up, but the problems are real."

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 19h

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan.
Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!
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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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