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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 16h

New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 13h

Christmas should feel magical for all children.

And every child deserves to experience the joy of stories.

Will you help to share the #MagicOfBooks with the children who need it most? ✨

https://bit.ly/3LxZycG

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · Jun 6

*explaining to my son my idea of having a giant dog rescue where all the dogs are trained to sniff out various diseases and you can pay $100 to walk through and have a dog diagnose you by scent*

my son: you could call it “plague dogters”

me: I have given birth to a genius

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 18h

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

apnews.com

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 13h

A friend at uni used to make a kind of paste from instant coffee granules and spread it on toast. Apparently it tasted foul but it definitely kept her awake for essay-writing!

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13h

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙

Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 13h

Today I met the world's most spherical robin. #birds #nature #RoundRobin 😂

A British robin with a brown back, red breast and white feathers underneath. Its feathers are all fluffed up, making it look as though it's swallowed a ball. It's perched on the top of a chair, with a pile of pale terracotta pots out of focus in the background.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 13h

It's very peculiar!

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 1d

Flowers currently blooming in my garden include roses, dahlias, cosmos, bidens, stocks - and tulips. 🤨

Oh, and the strawberries are fruiting for the second time. 🍓

#gardening #plants #MixedUpSeasons

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.

No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · 3d

A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.

[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 1d

Cormorant?

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 2d

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

LEAP!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #reptile #animal #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing the final version of my Ceffyl Dwr for #FolkloreFriday. Absolutely loved making this needle felt creation and getting really into the wire frame modelling

Needle felt Ceffyl Dwr, white horse skull with green and blue mane and decorations on the face. Yellow background with wooden frame mirror

Needle felt Ceffyl Dwr, white horse skull with green and blue mane and decorations on the face. Yellow background with wooden frame mirror and green plant in pot.

Close up of needle felt Ceffyl Dwr, white horse skull with green and blue mane and decorations on the face. Yellow background

Needle felt Ceffyl Dwr, white horse skull with green and blue mane and decorations on the face.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Cat, that's fantastic!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a wrap for sandwich guy.

Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 3d

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 3d

Three new species of tree toads from Tanzania have been discovered. 🐸

These amphibians don’t lay frogspawn or have a tadpole phase like most other toads, but instead give birth to live young!

Find out how museum specimens helped scientists to discover these species. 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

New species of toads that give birth to live young discovered in Tanzania | Natural History Museum

Museum specimens have helped scientists discover three new species of tree-dwelling toads.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 3d

If not, I definitely need someone to invent it. <makes another cuppa>

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 3d

succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 3d

People who object to terms like "birthing person" think they're being used as synonyms for woman, but they're not - that's the whole point. A childfree woman like me would never be called a birthing person. A 12-year-old giving birth wouldn't be called a woman.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes we do.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a Scottish Highlands cottage during a pouring rain whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up

Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 3d

I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3d

'Notable reduction' in Bonfire Night disruption

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.

Which is your favourite?

From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
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#Archaeology

My photos show four ornate Visigothic bronze belt buckles arranged in a 2 x 2 grid. Each buckle has a rectangular plate decorated with colourful glass (red, blue, green) inlaid into metal cells using cloisonné technique, and a chunky curved metal loop and prong. They adorned leather belts which Visigothic women wore over a tunic (probably) as a status symbol. Excavated between 1942 and 1949 by Antonio Molinero from the necropolis of Duratón near Segovia, Spain. They are on display at the Casa del Sol Museum in Segovia.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 4d

Don't forget to show your support for antifa drag queens this remembrance sunday

Black and white photo of British soldiers in ww2, dressed in drag, loading a big fucking gun.

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