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Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 23h

Just a reminder that cash works better than food donations. Food donations take up volunteer time to make sure you're not donating something inedible (happens far too often) and also food banks get better discounts so their money can go farther than yours can

Skylar Sunday 🔞 Vees Era @skylarsunday.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of being poor, people please donate to local food banks, many of us on SNAP will not get funds for groceries next month because of the government shutdown. It’s absolutely ridiculous that families will starve because of the government having a temper tantrum.

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Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social · 1d

Two stills from Father Ted episode where he visits a WW2 memorabilia collector's house.

"You don't have any tattoos from the Allied side?"

"No, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all"

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 1d

Après le braquage…
#Louvre

Plasticine penguin (Feathers McGraw) disguised as a chicken escaping along Quai di Louvre sur un scooter électrique. Merci à Aardman.

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Doug-a-boo McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 1d

An enlightening answer on #askhistorians by @georgy-k-zhukov.bsky.social to a question about whether the Reichstag fire was a false flag. Zhukov concurs with the academic consensus that it was not.

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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This series has been an interesting run. It is quite long - 10 posts and 68,000 words.

A surprising number of people commenting that they think this is their favorite or one of my best, but its readership is solidly average.

One for the real fans, I guess.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.

How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.

acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles

This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️

I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!

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Click here to support Chance Bonar's story *AncientGazanLitTranslation

*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.

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Nick Hates This Freaking Rotator Cuff Injury @nickdeanscroggs.bsky.social · 22h

Donated platelets today at the Burbank Red Cross, 3 units plus 2 of plasma. It was chilly and made my arm twitch, but I'm glad I did it. And they're always looking for more, so please donate if you can. #burbank #RedCross #platelets

Bags of my platelets, before agitating. This stuff helps cancer patients but it's still weird to see.

Photo of myself with Red Cross name tag.

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, there's the crushing weight of Capitalism I was expecting.

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Sometimes Australia really lives up to its reputation!

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven’t read A Girl and Her Fed webcomic, now’s a good time. Read it for its writing, its philosophy, its weirdo characters that you can’t help but love. Even its evolving art style. Just read it—you’ll enjoy it.

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 2d

After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon.

www.agirlandherfed.com

#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics

Josh walks into the shining afterlife beside Coyote. Coyote has his arm across Josh's shoulder in a friendly gesture as Josh says, "Hedonists think too small."

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, you can come out of the tired 24/7 phase?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I had a simple answer for how to teach about power and economics in the European middle ages to middle schoolers without lying to them about feudalism. I don’t. I’m not smart enough. But it’s something our profession should keep working on.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

How every state in the US teaches about feudalism. A New post from me and @profgabriele.com, along with access to a slideshow and spreadsheet with more info.

24 states REQUIRE feudalism.
8 suggest feudalism.

Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).

Revisiting the Medieval "F-Word" (Feudalism)

How Every State Teaches (or doesn't) about Feudalism

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. When …

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.

How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.

acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles

This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …

acoup.blog

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 1d

It got to 38 degrees where I was delivering today, and is fortunately "only" 32 degrees where I live.

I think this summer is going to have a few 45-47 degree days.

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Evan Schultheis @evanschultheis.bsky.social · 1d

Today I helped take Sabrina, Loki, and Sterling from the Gwinnett County Shelter to the Franklin County Humane Society.

Sabrina needs significant medical care, so if you have it in your heart to donate here is the page of Franklin County Humane Society: www.plannedpethoodrockymount.com/donate

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly the problem is that they're not far enough to the Right. Clearly, if they just become One Nation they'll get the votes, right???!!!!!!!?

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S. A. Hunt @sahuntbooks.com · 1d

Bird flu? Oh you mean Corvid 19?

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Birgit Constant, Historische Romane @birgitconstant.bsky.social · 1d

🥳It's launch day!🎉

"For Lord and Liege", Book 2 of the Northumbria Trilogy, is out today.

If you fancy a gripping medieval thriller set in Norman England, go check out the book at www.birgitconstant.com/for-lord-and...

#BookSky #MedievalSky

Proud author, Birgit Constant, pointing to her new release, "For Lord and Liege", out today, 21 October 2025

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 3d

put my icon in a halloween costume. I wish I owned this in real life. I need to learn how to sew specifically to make a kermit the chaperon with fun liripipe

a medieval-style digital drawing of a person with purple hair and a pince-nez smiling and capering about jauntily. they’re wearing a bright green Kermit the Frog chaperon with eyes on top, a long liripipe, and bells along the edge, as well as matching bright green boots with frog toes. Their tunic is dark green with rainbow trim, and their trousers are a paler green. There is a small pumpkin in their left hand.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 2d

This was an incredible experience! I hope people enjoyed and continue to enjoy it!

History Symposium @historysymposium.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/live/3FrS8Z3...

The edited recording from yesterday's talk with Cassidy on corsets.

@mimicofmodes.com

Cassidy Percoco - Corsetry in the Early Nineteenth Century.

YouTube video by History Symposium

www.youtube.com

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 2d

And I am absolutely using this to tell you about my October payhip sale, which ends in less than two weeks! payhip.com/skyladawncam...

A digital painting of a spooky two-storey house at night with mist and the bare branches of trees in the background. There's a single light on in the attic. The text says "October Scares: stories of hauntings and horror on sale until October 31 including audio, print, and bundles"

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that what sleep is?

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 19d

Just a reminder I also write books, not just shit posts.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Nov 19

What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lovers Food Guide
For all of your food needs (for writers and readers who love to eat)

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Cover for what kings ate and wizards drank: a fantasy lover's food guide

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