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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 8h

This Egyptologist clearly knows how to Egypt. 👏🏻

Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa Grog got the hots for chicks with huge five heads, and now I’ve got to obsess over weirdly specific things and hate bright lights like a Mogwai.

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Study implicates Neanderthal DNA in autism susceptibility

While people with autism don't have more Neanderthal DNA than those who do not, researchers discovered that some Neanderthal-derived variations are more common in people with autism than in the genera...

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 3d

If this is your doing, you’re a knob.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 9d

Do you know…the Muffin Man??

Castle Hill Club with Drury lane street sign visible on the side wall

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 13d

Oxfam book shops near universities are 🔥. Homeric hymns, Old and Middle English, and a history of Poland? Yes, please.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 18d

This photo was taken around this time of the year in 2023 at an open day at The Boy’s first choice for university. This week, he’ll be showing us around the city as a first year student. 🥺

Teenager with long mousy brown hair wearing a black denim jacket and red backpack facing away from the camera as he looks at a building in front of him

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 18d

3. That it is just the hierarchy and vassalage system rejigged for the Normans’ interests. So now I have to decide whether to keep ‘dumbing’ it down or risk overwhelming year 7s with more “stuff” when we only have them an hour a week now.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 18d

Friends, Normans, countrymen, lend me your ears so that I may tell you the woes of oversimplifying the KS3 history curriculum. I’m replanning Norman conquest lessons and I’m getting fed up with teaching that feudalism is both 1. A Norman concept, 2. Is a uniformly agreed concept and…

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 19d

Made an overnight booking to stay in a “haunted” inn in York with my husband. Do we believe in ghosts? No. Will we bring an EMF meter to satisfy our childhood obsessions with Ghostbusters? Absolutely.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 21d

Soooo…there’s a Classics-inspired perfume range, but it isn’t part of my tax bracket.

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ARGOS

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 29d

Love when a second-hand charity book shop speaks my language

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 29d

Her name is Trixie btw

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 29d

He’s just a guy with his cat in the Tower of London

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Oct 5

I cannot stress how much I hate that 2 factor authentication has been connected to our own personal devices.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 28

I said this when I got my citizenship just over a decade ago. I could see the writing on the wall then.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Sep 28

Tried to persuade my mum and sister to get their UK citizenship over lunch (both on settled status).
They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years.
Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously.
I think they should.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 27

I feel a bit weird asking people to give me their unwanted soot. I’m on a quest to make black ink and attempt to write with reeds to see if it’s viable for my students.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Sep 25

This blue-green Egyptian faience amulet was meant to protect its owner (apotropaic) and bring good luck. It was in the form of the head of the hero Hercules, identifiable by his beard and the Nemean lionskin - a symbol of power.

2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
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Amulets were meant to protect the owner from evil. This amulet takes the form of the head of Hercules, 3/4 view, one of the most famous heroes of Classical mythology. In Egypt during the Roman period (30 BC-AD 639), Hercules was a symbol of power as well as of protection during times of war.

The turquoise glaze on this amulet was popular in the pre-Islamic Middle East. In Egypt, turquoise was associated with good fortune as the colour of the life-giving River Nile. Under Islam, the lucky associations of the blue-green colour persisted in an informal way.

Romano-Egyptian, ca. 2nd-3rd century CE. From Karanis, Egypt. Molded faience ware.

V&A Museum, London (486-1891)

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 21

I just want to preemptively put this out there - my mother cannot take Tylenol. She wouldn’t have taken it while pregnant. Take from that what you will.

PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.

Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 21

Moment of silent reflection is still a thing apparently, and this was the sticker from Cobb Co (not my county)

www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/334...

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 21

Then there is the creepy pledge. My party trick is reciting it in Latin. Wild.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Sep 21

It seems like a fever dream, but I remember the following in Georgia public schools in the late 90s/early 00s:
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Currently wondering how it is I got roped into doing crafty things for The Boy’s D&D group.

Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Aug 30

I didn’t think it would be difficult to donate some of Bast’s stuff to the local animal sanctuary. I of course sobbed. It made me feel better when my son’s friends who volunteer there said they needed cat beds, so they now have two of her beds and lots of her toys amongst other things.

Bast-sherit bunny kicking a catnip stuffed fish plush

Bast-sherit in one of her bed/hiding spots

Bast-sherit looking out a window sitting on a pedestal on top of her bed/hiding spot

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Aug 29

After seeing how quickly dust settles in my house and what is collected in the vacuum, I’m absolutely certain the way that Vulcans are written to be repulsed by human smell is spot on.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m pretty sure I can definitively say I’m British. I keep getting misnamed, even by coworkers I’ve had for 8 years, and it’s too awkward to correct them.

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