Cecilia
@gaiacecilia.bsky.social
Professional history geek and all round textiles nerd who probably should be working on her PhD right now. (She/her)
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just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.
BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.
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@dreadships.bsky.social stuck ship. Detroit river. Live stream.
Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen share.google/AITgu9T0T9iu...
Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen share.google/AITgu9T0T9iu...
Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen
Watch a live stream of the freighter that's stuck in the Detroit River.
share.google
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
@dreadships.bsky.social stuck ship. Detroit river. Live stream.
Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen share.google/AITgu9T0T9iu...
Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen share.google/AITgu9T0T9iu...
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Lots of universities are starting to resemble football clubs that have no academy - some other unnamed institution will do all the professional training, won’t they?
The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.
The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lots of universities are starting to resemble football clubs that have no academy - some other unnamed institution will do all the professional training, won’t they?
The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.
The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.
Spotted in an English bookstore for the first. @tkingfisher.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Spotted in an English bookstore for the first. @tkingfisher.com
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The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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Realistic depiction of Louvre security.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Realistic depiction of Louvre security.
Onto the Hollow Places inmy October @tkingfisher.com horror binge. Hopefully this time I won't be dealing with the probably unintentional horror of over-accurately describing exactly why I left academia.
Let's see if it gets a WYF URSULA out of me?
Let's see if it gets a WYF URSULA out of me?
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Onto the Hollow Places inmy October @tkingfisher.com horror binge. Hopefully this time I won't be dealing with the probably unintentional horror of over-accurately describing exactly why I left academia.
Let's see if it gets a WYF URSULA out of me?
Let's see if it gets a WYF URSULA out of me?
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
Have started reading @tkingfisher.com a house with good bones and so far going slowly cos I keep reading out the archaeology bit to my wife, who is an archaeologist who grew up in the US South and trained there. So far I am informed, it is very accurate.
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Have started reading @tkingfisher.com a house with good bones and so far going slowly cos I keep reading out the archaeology bit to my wife, who is an archaeologist who grew up in the US South and trained there. So far I am informed, it is very accurate.
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Sir Gilbert Scott. It’s always gonna be Gilbert Scott. Fuck that guy.
October 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sir Gilbert Scott. It’s always gonna be Gilbert Scott. Fuck that guy.
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This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/
Just got @tkingfisher.com's new book today. Its no.3 in the Alex Easton series and thus horror and having devoured it in one session, All I can say is URSULA, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just got @tkingfisher.com's new book today. Its no.3 in the Alex Easton series and thus horror and having devoured it in one session, All I can say is URSULA, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
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Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism.
Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.
Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.
People are trapped, so we must fight for them.
Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.
Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.
People are trapped, so we must fight for them.
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism.
Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.
Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.
People are trapped, so we must fight for them.
Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have.
Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare.
People are trapped, so we must fight for them.
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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One of my favourite Doctor Who facts is that the 5th Doctor opened a restaurant.
Not just that, but spent many years turning it into something recognized as one of the best places to eat in the history of the known universe.
A timelord gotta have hobbies.
Not just that, but spent many years turning it into something recognized as one of the best places to eat in the history of the known universe.
A timelord gotta have hobbies.
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
One of my favourite Doctor Who facts is that the 5th Doctor opened a restaurant.
Not just that, but spent many years turning it into something recognized as one of the best places to eat in the history of the known universe.
A timelord gotta have hobbies.
Not just that, but spent many years turning it into something recognized as one of the best places to eat in the history of the known universe.
A timelord gotta have hobbies.
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I interrupt your day to bring you Lil Guy, the chinchilla timeline cleanser. Repost as required
September 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I interrupt your day to bring you Lil Guy, the chinchilla timeline cleanser. Repost as required
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If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
August 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
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This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.
August 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
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I am always impressed with the number of photographs I took before the twentieth century had dawned. Quite with it, I was, and (though I say it myself) impressively precocious too.
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I am always impressed with the number of photographs I took before the twentieth century had dawned. Quite with it, I was, and (though I say it myself) impressively precocious too.
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There’s a crowdfunding page to support the shop’s rebuild here www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-ge...
Donate to Rebuild Get Ready Comics!, organized by Lauren Evans
On the 26th of August 2025, Get Ready Comics suffered a devastating arson attack that left thei… Lauren Evans needs your support for Rebuild Get Ready Comics!
www.gofundme.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There’s a crowdfunding page to support the shop’s rebuild here www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-ge...
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"Officials with the Wyoming Department of Health are searching for hundreds of tourists who may have been infected with rabies, after a hotel in Grand Teton National Park was revealed to house a bat colony"
Look just stop going to visit the wilderness.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
Look just stop going to visit the wilderness.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
Hundreds of Grand Teton National Park Visitors Were Possibly Exposed to Rabies
Officials believe at least 200 people may have been exposed to rabies while visiting a hotel in Grand Teton National Park.
www.outsideonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Officials with the Wyoming Department of Health are searching for hundreds of tourists who may have been infected with rabies, after a hotel in Grand Teton National Park was revealed to house a bat colony"
Look just stop going to visit the wilderness.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
Look just stop going to visit the wilderness.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
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Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
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The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.
This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists.
We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!
Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!
Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.
www.skypeascientist.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.