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the reluctant optimist
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the reluctant optimist @ansatsusha.bsky.social · Oct 17
I want to be where the wild things are.
ansatsusha.bsky.social
'Courage, patience, and the willingness to love even where light seems absent.'
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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colors.bsky.social
#DE638C
a square filled in with deep purplish pink color #de638c.
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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kasumin.shelter.moe.ap.brid.gy
KAGUYA-SAMA LOVE IS WAR - THE FIRST KISS THAT NEVER ENDS
KAGUYA-SAMA LOVE IS WAR - THE FIRST KISS THAT NEVER ENDS
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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kasumin.shelter.moe.ap.brid.gy
VINLAND SAGA SAISON 2
VINLAND SAGA SAISON 2
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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colors.bsky.social
#077270
a square filled in with strong bluish green color #077270.
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
An idea for your Christmas tree this year - stacks of Celtic gold torcs! Known as the Ipswitch Torcs after the location where their hoard was found, the terminals are decorated in the swirly La Tène style (Tène II), save the top one which is unadorned. 🎄🏺 1/

150-50 BCE. 📸 me
#BritishMuseum
A stack of five gold torcs against a green background. All were made from two twisted solid bars, with loop terminals cast on. Four (1969,0103.2-5) have cast terminals ornamented in high relief with Tène II style curvilinear motifs of bosses and scrolls, within a border of two corded bands lying slightly apart; they can be paired but their patterns are not identical. The fifth - at top (1969,0103.1) - has plain terminals. These torcs were probably deposited together as a hoard around 75 BCE.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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colors.bsky.social
#91AB93
a square filled in with pale green color #91ab93.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
November is depicted in this mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, with a priest in the guise of Hermanubis with two pterophoroi. It commemorates the Inventio Osiridis, a week-long reenactment of the death of Osiris and the quest of Isis to recover his body, held in the month of Khoiak (Oct-Nov). 🏺 1/
Part of a large Roman mosaic from El Jem, Tunisia (in the Sousse Archaeological Museum), depicting a square with the month of November, clearly written in black tesserae. On the left is a priest of Isis wearing a jackal mask and carrying a caduceus, playing the part of the syncretic Greco-Egyptian god Hermanubis (Hermes+Anubis), with two pterophoroi (priest-scribes), so named because of their feathered headdresses. Photo: Ad Meskens
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
A gorgeous early Iron Age round-based pottery bowl from Howe broch #Orkney

The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩

On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall

#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

📷 Aug 2024
A repaired, round bottomed prehistoric pottery bowl with irregular rim and surface lugs in a museum case
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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janeaustenlit.bsky.social
Do not pretend, with your sweet temper, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go its own way.
#JaneAusten #Emma
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ansatsusha.bsky.social
I like it when people know how to wait patiently + quietly.
It's a skill, in a way.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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colors.bsky.social
#BFA8AD
a square filled in with grayish pink color #bfa8ad.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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valymonahan.bsky.social
First big snow day of the winter, so I made stock from kitchen scraps I didn't want to cook up when it was warmer. #food 🍜
View into a stock pot of veggie and meat scraps in water, about to be made into stock. You can see onion, carrot, mushroom and some thyme twigs.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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soniajairath.bsky.social
Slurped my way through a delicious bowl of Silverlake Ramen noodles 🍜
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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colors.bsky.social
#2F5A69
a square filled in with dark greenish blue color #2f5a69.
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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petermcgladdery.bsky.social
Entering an era of information constriction and restriction
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
ansatsusha.bsky.social
Operating on an invitation-only basis will keep you out of spaces you're not meant to be in (complimentary)
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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merryrobin.bsky.social
A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites
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merryrobin.bsky.social Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Jan 5
Sheouak Petaulassie was an Inuk artist.
Her art can be found at the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Glenbow Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the U. of Michigan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, & the Art Gallery of Windsor.
"Sheouak Petaulassie drawing beside her child in a tent, Cape Dorset, Nunavut", photo by Rosemary Gilliat. She is seated at a table, wearing a traditional Inuit outfit trimmed with fur. She is holding a pencil, looking at the camera mid-drawing, as if just interrupted. Her child is playing next to the table, but we can only see a little bit of them. There is a sewing machine behind her, it looks like a creative environment. An elegant stencil print titled "Three Walrus" by Sheouak Petaulassie, 1960. It features three abstracted walruses set against a plain white background. They are depicted in a minimalistic way that captures a lively social moment between them. Half of their bodies is submerged in water.
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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colors.bsky.social
#D67A00
a square filled in with vivid orange color #d67a00.
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk

Marigold - 📷 25.10.2025

#elevensestime
Giant golden yellow flower head.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ansatsusha.bsky.social
A fantastic thread👌🏾
wendyqualls.bsky.social Wendy Qualls @wendyqualls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Happy first day of bullshit Sexy [insert concrete noun here] Costume Month, everyone! Let’s kick things off with that old classic, “sexy squirrel!”
photo of a model in a short gray dress and heels, with a squirrel tail and ears and an acorn purse. She is unsuccessfully trying to act like she’s not dying inside.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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colors.bsky.social
#CF8F9E
a square filled in with moderate purplish pink color #cf8f9e.
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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jlukeroberts.bsky.social
I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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nwanu.bsky.social
That little AI blurb in Google searches will confidently tell you lies. Add -ai to any search to exclude it. The blind reliance on it is troubling.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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colors.bsky.social
#FECF55
a square filled in with brilliant yellow color #fecf55.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM