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M.B.
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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · Aug 1
Chaque jour qui passe, l'actualité devient de plus en plus pénible, le monde semble devenir de plus en plus inhospitalier. Raison de plus pour toujours trouver le temps de se réfugier dans n'importe quelle petite bribe de beauté qui passerait à portée de main – ou plutôt d'œil...
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jul 30
Two little quail chicks carved on a limestone plaque over 2,000 years ago.

Look closely to see a third chick sketched in ink!

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

📷 Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
The photo shows a limestone plaque with two carved quail chicks and a sketch of a quail chick in black ink. It is displayed against a grey background. Traces of ink occur on both carved chicks suggesting the limestone plaque shows three stages of an ancient Egyptian artisan’s work; the ink sketch at top left, the finished chick at upper right, and the almost finished chick at bottom left. Limestone plaque dimensions: H. 15 x W. 13.8 x D. 0.9 cm Likely representing the quail chick hieroglyph for the sound ‘w’
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Je me sens vide...
Je suis tellement fatigué...
a black and white drawing of a person with the words `` no thoughts head empty '' written on it .
ALT: a black and white drawing of a person with the words `` no thoughts head empty '' written on it .
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December 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Article extrêmement instructif. Je ne serais pas surpris que l'on assiste au même phénomène en France d'ici quelques années (via @inthesetimes.com) inthesetimes.com/article/mult...
Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right
Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.
inthesetimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Ça faisait longtemps, vraiment longtemps, que je ne m'étais pas senti à ce point épuisé.
a r2d2 robot is laying in the dirt next to a rock
ALT: a r2d2 robot is laying in the dirt next to a rock
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December 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Pas mal vu.

Addiction au smartphone | "Life Smartphone" - Court-métrage de Chenglin Xie | Student Academy Award

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1jf...
Phone addiction today | "Life Smartphone" - Short Film by Chenglin Xie | Student Academy Award
YouTube video by KIS KIS - keep it short
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December 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
Dear Santa - I've been a good boy this year (mostly) and think I deserve a replica of this gorgeous 4th c. CE cobalt blue glass head flask.

Remarkable to see the typical Late Roman/Byzantine features - large almond shaped eyes and flowing locks of hair - rendered in glass. 🏺

#MetMuseum 📸 me
Tall translucent intense cobalt blue 'head flask', facing towards the camera. The head portrays a youth with long hair arranged in wavy locks at the back, reaching to the nape of the neck and behind the ears, with a fringe of straight locks on his forehead. The head has prominent ears, almond-shaped eyes with inset pupils, and a protruding, thick upper lip, pointed nose, and small chin. The hairstyle and large eyes are typical of Late Roman/Byzantine portraiture. The head forms the body of the vessel, with a tall flared neck and rim emerging from the top. A single handle attached at the back - the top is attached halfway up the neck, and the bottom (which has ridges) attaches to the back of the head, running down to the bottom, which is a round tiered base. Side view of the flask, showing the long flowing hair of the head, and the handle attaching to the back.
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Pourquoi "Vivas feliciter" (au subjonctif), alors qu'on aurait attendu "Vive feliciter" (à l'impératif), a priori plus correct du point de vue grammatical ? en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vivo#Co...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
Non seulement il s'agit d'un artefact exceptionnel, mais son contenu l'était tout autant : www.inrap.fr/l-exceptionn...
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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trimontiumtrust.bsky.social
Fancy a #grasshoppers on a ring? The #Romans did.
Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.
A grasshopper driving a chariot; credits:https://bertolamifineart.bidinside.com/en/lot/158949/a-roman-carnelian-intaglio-grasshopper-/ A grasshopper driving a chariot; credits:https://bertolamifineart.bidinside.com/en/lot/158949/a-roman-carnelian-intaglio-grasshopper-/ A grasshopper driving a chariot; credits:https://bertolamifineart.bidinside.com/en/lot/158949/a-roman-carnelian-intaglio-grasshopper-/
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a stunning Egyptian glass vessel in the shape of a #fish, it was probably used to hold ointments.
Found in El-Amarna, #Egypt, 14th century BC.

📷 British Museum
Colorful ancient glass vessel in the shape of a fish, shown in profile on a neutral gray background, with wavy blue, white, and yellow stripes forming its scales, fins, and tail, and a small round eye and protruding lips at the right end.
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of (broken) ancient #glass: some fragments of #Hellenistic and #Roman mosaic glass vessels.

Sherds - archaeologists' joy!

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Seven brightly colored ancient glass sherds arranged on a white background, each fragment showing vivid marbled and wavy bands of yellow, brown, white, blue, and black that create an agate-like pattern.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
A #Roman rock crystal ring decorated with a crescent and stars inlaid with gold foil - it looks like an emoji 🤩, but for the Romans this wasn’t just decoration. The motif was associated with death: crescent and stars were symbols for eternity and afterlife.
Rock crystal was valued...🧵1/2

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Rock crystal ring featuring an inlaid design of a crescent moon flanked by two stars within an oval frame.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
For #ReliefWednesday we're looking at perhaps the most celebrated piece of ancient #Roman #cameo #glass, the #PortlandVase in the #BritishMuseum. Made in #Rome between 15 BCE and 25 CE, it shows two scenes, whose meaning is still obscure, but whose beauty is undisputed. #AncientBluesky 🏺
THE PORTLAND VASE, 15 BCE - 25 CE. BRITISH MUSEUM Of all the pieces of ancient Roman glass that have survived to us, none is more celebrated than this vase, which was said to have been found in an ancient sarcophagus (either the one in the tomb of Monte del Grano or in the one called "of Cecilia Metella" now in the courtyard of palazzo Farnese). It emerges into history first in the collection of Cardinal del Monte, then in the Barberini collection until the 1770s when Cornelia Costanza Barberini had to sell it to pay off some ruinous gambling debts. It belonged to the duke of Portland and was bought by the BM in 1945. It has two scenes, in white cut glass atop a dark blue background, and they have been interpreted in many ways. The scene on this side shows a woman languishing beneath a tree, with a man seated at left looking back at her, and another woman at right, looking at her. The iconography is unusual. It might be mythological or a piece of complex Augustan propaganda.
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️

Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC.

Photo Getty Museum: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
A Getty Museum photo showing the reverse of an ancient Greek silver tetradrachm coin, depicting an owl standing in profile with head on the right, tilted slightly forwards and turned towards the viewer. Its wing and three tail feathers are delineated in detail. There is a two-leafed olive sprig in the top left corner and a crescent shape, possibly a waning moon, above the owl's wing. At bottom right is an inscription, AOE which is an abbreviation of ATHENAION, "of the Athenians." The owl is struck in high relief and framed on all four sides by the square shape of the die. Athenian "Owls” were minted in Athens for over 400 years, beginning in the 510s BC. This coin is one of ten Athenian tetradrachms found in a hoard of coins, ingots, and jewellery discovered in 1967 on the Jordanian-Syrian border in the region of Hauran (near the ancient city of Bostra). The hoard contained coins from over twenty mints, the majority from four areas: Athens (31), Cyprus (21), southwest Asia Minor (15) and the Thrace-Macedonian area (13). The distribution and style of the Athenian coins date the hoard's burial to around 445 BC.
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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drjeball.bsky.social
A delicate #Roman glass bird, in a lovely shade of cobalt blue: it would originally have held perfume
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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simonbralee.com
A weary look that says he’s seen it all. I have a similar energy, as I head into my Saturnalia and Christmas holidays.
Small marble statuette of Thoth sitting on a pillar from the Roman period Egypt. Now held in the Allard Pierson🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
A marble statue of a baboon. On his head a round lunar crown containing a snake. He gives a weary look. He holds a scroll in his hand.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"Russell and Moore reacted, in their early period, to Hegelianism and they promoted atomism and individualism in ontology and in epistemology. This is unacceptable for Hegelians and Marxists, who subscribe to a holistic conception of the world and of society,
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December 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
C'est l'heure d'un petit moment de relaxation à base de tisane. Indispensable à l'approche du solstice et des fêtes.
Une théière, un pot à lait, une coupe remplie de tisane, une cuillère, le tout sur un petit plateau à motif de dragon blanc sur fond bleu. Le tout posé sur un canapé recouvert d'une couverture rouge.
December 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Je recommande !
soleneflore.bsky.social So @soleneflore.bsky.social · 3d
Dernières heures pour commander en ligne. Tout ce qui sera commandé aujourd'hui et demain arrivera à temps pour Noël. J'ai tellement besoin de finir ce mois positivement! Mes tisanes sont le fruit d'une année de travail dans les champs et en atelier.
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soleneflore.bsky.social So @soleneflore.bsky.social · 22d
Si vous cherchez des idées de cadeaux et voulez soutenir une petite ferme florale/herboristerie bretonne, je cultive en agroecologie et f sécher mes plantes à basse tC°. Je suis certifié en herboristerie par l'Ecole d'Herboristerie de Bretagne et ai 15 ans d'exp commande.kuupanda.com/producteur/3...
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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soleneflore.bsky.social
Dernières heures pour commander en ligne. Tout ce qui sera commandé aujourd'hui et demain arrivera à temps pour Noël. J'ai tellement besoin de finir ce mois positivement! Mes tisanes sont le fruit d'une année de travail dans les champs et en atelier.
commande.kuupanda.com/producteur/3...
soleneflore.bsky.social So @soleneflore.bsky.social · 22d
Si vous cherchez des idées de cadeaux et voulez soutenir une petite ferme florale/herboristerie bretonne, je cultive en agroecologie et f sécher mes plantes à basse tC°. Je suis certifié en herboristerie par l'Ecole d'Herboristerie de Bretagne et ai 15 ans d'exp commande.kuupanda.com/producteur/3...
Mes tisanes et sachets de cataires prêts à être expédiés avec la Bon sang!, la Maldetête, l'Embellie et la Douce Nuit Mes paquets de tisane: Rouge-Gorge, Bon sang!, Appel de la nature, Gambettes...
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait."
Un ou plusieurs, et parfois, comme ici, un véritable crescendo de crimes, inexorable et tourbillonnant, qui mène fatalement à la chute inévitable.
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Honor%C...
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"A vision of the future of evangelical Christianity formed in my mind. Jesus, with His lefty egalitarianism and woke calls for acceptance and forgiveness, was out; Yahweh, the vengeful and ethnocentric deity, was back in." (via @currentaffairs.bsky.social) www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Looking for Jesus at the D.C. Bible Museum
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. (...)
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December 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn't mean Chomsky was part of the 'Epstein class'." (via @thenation.com) www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
www.thenation.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
Plein de gens déclarent aujourd’hui que l’écrit c’est mort, c’est fini, ça sert plus à rien, les gens ne savent plus lire, faites des vidéos à la place, mais comme c’est un discours que j’entends depuis 40 ans à peu près, je reste un peu sceptique.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
mjjbeaufils.bsky.social
"The real threat posed by postliberalism isn't the possibility that it will be institutionalized in any coherent or sustainable way. It's that the postliberals are contributing to an atmosphere of illiberalism in Western democracies." (via @theunpopulist.net) www.theunpopulist.net/p/patrick-de...
Patrick Deneen's Bullshit Case Against Liberalism
He distorts everything about this governing system and offers a scary 'aristopopulist' authoritarianism as an alternative
www.theunpopulist.net
December 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM