Marlene
@moliveiradev.bsky.social
Software developer, accidental researcher, #AnneListerCodeBreaker, and Head of Personal Pampering for Miss A-, the black lab. Might play with cameras and old papers, if left to my own devices.
https://www.packedwithpotential.org/
https://www.packedwithpotential.org/
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Built between 1725 and 1732 in the Palladian style, York Mansion House predates London's Mansion House. The design drew inspiration from architectural pattern books popular at the time. While the building no longer functions as the mayors official lived-in residence, it remains
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Built between 1725 and 1732 in the Palladian style, York Mansion House predates London's Mansion House. The design drew inspiration from architectural pattern books popular at the time. While the building no longer functions as the mayors official lived-in residence, it remains
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Gotta wonder what confused the airport scanner. Was it the sneaky Jelly Babies or was it the giant parkin that looks like a brick? 😅
One day Yorkshire will get me arrested! 😆
One day Yorkshire will get me arrested! 😆
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gotta wonder what confused the airport scanner. Was it the sneaky Jelly Babies or was it the giant parkin that looks like a brick? 😅
One day Yorkshire will get me arrested! 😆
One day Yorkshire will get me arrested! 😆
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Not very seasonal but a mixed media Cambridge May Week scene which I think sold at an exhibition (I'm forever sorting out and tidying up all the hundreds of photos of paintings on usb hard drives)
#art #mixedmedia
#art #mixedmedia
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Not very seasonal but a mixed media Cambridge May Week scene which I think sold at an exhibition (I'm forever sorting out and tidying up all the hundreds of photos of paintings on usb hard drives)
#art #mixedmedia
#art #mixedmedia
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Good Day!
Winter by Clive Madgwick (thought to be Suffolk)
Private Collection
Winter by Clive Madgwick (thought to be Suffolk)
Private Collection
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Good Day!
Winter by Clive Madgwick (thought to be Suffolk)
Private Collection
Winter by Clive Madgwick (thought to be Suffolk)
Private Collection
Her at the start of the trip re the antiquarian quiz: this is your year!
Me after fumbling the quiz and potentially also fumbling her, capping what has been an awful year altogether: this is evidently not my year
(Reader, I'm afraid of using the scratch card my friend gave me. It's that bad. 😬)
Me after fumbling the quiz and potentially also fumbling her, capping what has been an awful year altogether: this is evidently not my year
(Reader, I'm afraid of using the scratch card my friend gave me. It's that bad. 😬)
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Her at the start of the trip re the antiquarian quiz: this is your year!
Me after fumbling the quiz and potentially also fumbling her, capping what has been an awful year altogether: this is evidently not my year
(Reader, I'm afraid of using the scratch card my friend gave me. It's that bad. 😬)
Me after fumbling the quiz and potentially also fumbling her, capping what has been an awful year altogether: this is evidently not my year
(Reader, I'm afraid of using the scratch card my friend gave me. It's that bad. 😬)
Bless this library and how it remains super quiet whilst outside is full-on Xmas stuff and people everywhere 😅
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Bless this library and how it remains super quiet whilst outside is full-on Xmas stuff and people everywhere 😅
Sometimes all you need is an evening with a good rhubarb gin and Paddington in order to make sense of what the fuck happened during the day.
I never thought that trying to connect with someone could be so hard. 😬
I never thought that trying to connect with someone could be so hard. 😬
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sometimes all you need is an evening with a good rhubarb gin and Paddington in order to make sense of what the fuck happened during the day.
I never thought that trying to connect with someone could be so hard. 😬
I never thought that trying to connect with someone could be so hard. 😬
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I've just found this wonderful statement from an officer who was promoted from the ranks during the Peninsular War in 1810:
... During the war I had the honor of being four times wounded (though only once returned so, by my own desire Not willing to alarm my wife at home) ...
#JustAFleshWound
... During the war I had the honor of being four times wounded (though only once returned so, by my own desire Not willing to alarm my wife at home) ...
#JustAFleshWound
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I've just found this wonderful statement from an officer who was promoted from the ranks during the Peninsular War in 1810:
... During the war I had the honor of being four times wounded (though only once returned so, by my own desire Not willing to alarm my wife at home) ...
#JustAFleshWound
... During the war I had the honor of being four times wounded (though only once returned so, by my own desire Not willing to alarm my wife at home) ...
#JustAFleshWound
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🌄 Simple things. A bit of light and warmth to counteract the wet and dark days. I think this is my all time favourite photo that I've taken of Beverley Minster - soft and nuanced, mist over Westwood Common, a cuticle sunrise and a simple silhouette. #thread #ThrowbackThursday
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🌄 Simple things. A bit of light and warmth to counteract the wet and dark days. I think this is my all time favourite photo that I've taken of Beverley Minster - soft and nuanced, mist over Westwood Common, a cuticle sunrise and a simple silhouette. #thread #ThrowbackThursday
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Good Day!
Winter Twilight Near Albany by George Henry Boughton 1858 Oil on Linen
(New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
Winter Twilight Near Albany by George Henry Boughton 1858 Oil on Linen
(New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Good Day!
Winter Twilight Near Albany by George Henry Boughton 1858 Oil on Linen
(New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
Winter Twilight Near Albany by George Henry Boughton 1858 Oil on Linen
(New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
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From 23 January, Perth Museum will be showing one of the jewels in our collections – Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter 📜✒️
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From 23 January, Perth Museum will be showing one of the jewels in our collections – Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter 📜✒️
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We are used to images of Gibson Mill but much of the land around Hardcastle Crags also became a key industrial site, with three reservoirs built to supply a growing Halifax. These stood on the remote moorland above the Crags, reached by a temporary railway and workers’ settlement established in
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We are used to images of Gibson Mill but much of the land around Hardcastle Crags also became a key industrial site, with three reservoirs built to supply a growing Halifax. These stood on the remote moorland above the Crags, reached by a temporary railway and workers’ settlement established in
Didn't have epiphany on today's bingo card, but I guess I'll take it. 😅
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Didn't have epiphany on today's bingo card, but I guess I'll take it. 😅
And, as I suspected, there is totally a clear family connection between my Listers and the ones from Bradford. Somewhere in the late 17th or mid 18th century, someone married and I think moved there and basically originated the branch of the Listers of Manningham.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And, as I suspected, there is totally a clear family connection between my Listers and the ones from Bradford. Somewhere in the late 17th or mid 18th century, someone married and I think moved there and basically originated the branch of the Listers of Manningham.
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Snow in the North, painting by Emmanuel Levy, 1900-86 (Danum Gallery, Doncaster).
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Snow in the North, painting by Emmanuel Levy, 1900-86 (Danum Gallery, Doncaster).
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4th birthday for one of my fave drawings of Shambles, completed OTD 2021. York Ghost Merchants reside in a house of 1771, later made into a butcher's shop, rebuilt 1982.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
4th birthday for one of my fave drawings of Shambles, completed OTD 2021. York Ghost Merchants reside in a house of 1771, later made into a butcher's shop, rebuilt 1982.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
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Stoodley Pike Monument dominates the skyline above Todmorden, sitting at the summit of Stoodley Pike, a 1,300-foot (400 m) hill It was designed in 1854 by local architect James Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Stoodley Pike Monument dominates the skyline above Todmorden, sitting at the summit of Stoodley Pike, a 1,300-foot (400 m) hill It was designed in 1854 by local architect James Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.
As my friend very aptly put it, "nothing kills anxiety like a good walk up a hill". So, after Beacon Hill this morning, I'm certainly very relaxed but my back kind of hates me 😅
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As my friend very aptly put it, "nothing kills anxiety like a good walk up a hill". So, after Beacon Hill this morning, I'm certainly very relaxed but my back kind of hates me 😅
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Beneath the Sheets: Anatomy, Art and Power exhibition in Leeds, on the Victorian surgeon, artist and anatomist Joseph Maclise:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
#History #MedicalHistory
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
#History #MedicalHistory
Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body
The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Beneath the Sheets: Anatomy, Art and Power exhibition in Leeds, on the Victorian surgeon, artist and anatomist Joseph Maclise:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
#History #MedicalHistory
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
#History #MedicalHistory
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Good Day!
Winter, Artist’s Garden by Douglas Percy Bliss 1953
Oil on Canvas
Winter, Artist’s Garden by Douglas Percy Bliss 1953
Oil on Canvas
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good Day!
Winter, Artist’s Garden by Douglas Percy Bliss 1953
Oil on Canvas
Winter, Artist’s Garden by Douglas Percy Bliss 1953
Oil on Canvas
Words you never want to read in 19th century letters: "anus rubbed raw".
(No, it was nothing kinky. He was talking about a damn operation. 💀)
(No, it was nothing kinky. He was talking about a damn operation. 💀)
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Words you never want to read in 19th century letters: "anus rubbed raw".
(No, it was nothing kinky. He was talking about a damn operation. 💀)
(No, it was nothing kinky. He was talking about a damn operation. 💀)
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A splash of colour in Castor's angel roof.
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A splash of colour in Castor's angel roof.
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For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday,
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday,
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead