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Sapinuwa

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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi there, welcome, I don't "follow back" people.🙋‍♀️

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1h

Yesterday I read that the right interrogative pronoun for a tree in Potawatomi (hope I spelled it right) is "who" and not "what". And there are just 1000 something people speaking this beautiful language as their first tongue. So this is how a total way of perceving the world is dying.

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2h

5.5 meter anthropomorphic sculptures hinting of "Humans shifting their perception of their roles in nature" in Neolithic. That's something worth thinking of. Our perception of our place within the universe, among natural forces, and even as compared with the concept of (a) god(s) is ever changing.

En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 21h

Great conversation with prehistorian & bskyer @jensnotroff.com on having worked at the super-ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkiye, the site which seemed to help establish the notion that pre-cultivation, pre-state civilizations could do large scale building.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAp...

Excavating Göbekli Tepe: An Interview with Archaeologist Jens Notroff

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 3h

This table has a cup holder but it was full of rainwater.

An erect column piece in Pessinus with a hole at the center. There is a plastic cup of coffee on the column

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Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · 5h

Thrilled to have five watercolours in the Society of Wildlife Artists Natural Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries. 16th- 25th October . Available to browse here

buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/swla-2025/?_...

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 6h

But but does he condemn Hamas

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 16h

Mosab Abu Toha—

"A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was held hostage.

"His youngest daughter was turning two years old on Oct 18, in five days.

"You will not see this story on CNN, BBC, NYT, WP, or other MSM outlets."

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 7h

In a recently published "response to critics" in J. Archaeol. Sci. 183, 2025 they now present new archaeological evidence and experimental validation:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Infographic titled “The Walking Moai Hypothesis” explains evidence that Easter Island’s moai statues were designed to be “walked” upright rather than dragged. It presents four main points:
• Morphological Evidence: Road moai have wide D-shaped bases, a 6–15° forward lean, and no carved eyes, indicating they were engineered for walking transport.
• Road Infrastructure: Roads about 4.5 m wide with concave cross-sections and prepared surfaces suggest they were made to guide walking statues.
• Experimental Validation: A 4.35 ton replica was successfully “walked” 100 m by 18 people using ropes, proving feasibility.
• Statistical Analysis: 62 road moai follow transport patterns, with most found within 2 km of the quarry.

The diagram shows a moai being moved upright along a road between the Rano Raraku quarry and an ahu platform, with teams pulling on both sides.
Key findings: Moai were intentionally engineered for upright walking transport and later modified for display, making this a sustainable and efficient method compared to dragging.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 19h

#MosaicMonday presents us with a #floor #mosaic from a #tomb of the "middling sort", which is the class below the rich but above the artisanate, a significant commissioner of funerary art in #Rome and the provinces. Here we are in a #necropolis along the ancient #viaPortuensis. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MOSAIC FLOOR, TOMB A, 130-170 CE. DRUGSTORE MUSEUM

This black and white mosaic pavement shows a broad black band around the exterior, then a frame of guilloches and two narrow black bands on either side against a white background. The mosaic is not especially sophisticated and the subject is familiar from other middle-class tombs of the C2 CE. Four kantharoi in the corners sprout grapevines, and four figures, one per side, are harvesting the grapes. The vines overlap a central circular frame containing a male figure with a double axe, about to hack at a separate vine. This is Lycurgus, king of Thrace, who is attacking what had been, a moment before, the nymph Ambrosia, but she had been compassionately turned into a vine by Dionysus and is about to wrap around the frustrated Lycurgus and trap him. This transformation represents the consoling rebirth of the natural world, and the circular frame evokes Aeon, god of cyclical time.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 18h

This is a device that was designed to be heard from up the moon down to the hell. Now, I wonder what kind of a dickhead MUTED this for what reason.
God I hate this place madly.

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 20h

Just to give an idea, this is my favorite snack🫣
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Maraş Çerezlik Tarhana (Tarhana Cipsi) 470g | Öz Natur

Çerezlik Tarhana Cipsi ist eine innovative Snack-Version des türkischen Tarhana, einem unverzichtbaren Bestandteil der türkischen Küche.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 21h

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 22h

I still keep the leaves of the trees that raised me. Even if they're gone more than 35 years I still remember them as "people", with a feeling that is a remnant of our childhood animism.
Noone I know irl knows this, and noone knows that from time to time, at age 45, I still mourn for them.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

I just found a virtual tour of Pompeii and I am just entrapped😍
www.pompeitralemani.it/virtual-tour/

Virtual Tour – Pompei Tra le mani

www.pompeitralemani.it

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

I accidentally pass *through* the walls when I want to see things closer, does this happen to ghosts too🥲
Anyway look at these adorable sea creatures🥲

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

You can visit other famous houses of Pompeii too, via
www.pompeitralemani.it/virtual-tour/ 🥲

Virtual Tour – Pompei Tra le mani

www.pompeitralemani.it

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

I love exploring such thingies🥲 Look at the beautiful floral frescoes🥲

A black wall with plant frescoes on the lower 50 cm segment, screenshot from the virtual tour above

The fresco group from which the villa took its modern name

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Wohoo I am at the "Villa dei Misteri" of Pompeii rn
(Er, virtually)
my.matterport.com/show/?m=PZBR...

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

#MosaicMonday 🫣

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Dionysos battling with indians (why?🤔).
📌 Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
#MosaicMonday🏺

Two dark skinned men, Dionysos with a leopard skin and a nereid. From Tuscolo, 4th century BC

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Dionysos battling with indians (why?🤔).
📌 Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
#MosaicMonday🏺

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Geology people @geohenning.bsky.social @pavementgeology.bsky.social ! What is in this rock? Some kind of a calcite? I came across it in the foundations of Pessinus temple in Eskişehir in Turkey today...

Shiny translucent sheetlike accumulations in arock

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

After Robin Williams' death and a couple of heartwrenching personal losses, watching Dead Poets Society feels more and more bitter... But we don't drop off what's ours just because they weigh heavy don't we.😢

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 2d

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting.
#fossils #shells #art #nature
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Watercolour painting of shells found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England; there is a modern oyster shell on the left, showing outside and inside, though it is very sea-worn. The remainder are fossils from the lower Jurassic period (c200mya) - Cardinia bivalves, a fragment of Ammonite and Gryphaea oysters.

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Anne van den Broek Art @annevandenbroekart.bsky.social · 1d

My latest oil painting of the Bearded reedlings. Love these birds.
#wildlifeart #birdart #birds #oilpainting

Oil painting showing two male bearded reedlings. Both are sitting on reed branches with seed plumes.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

The crows weren't much happy about our presence🙃

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

But the gaze of these figures are extraordinarily real

Same composition photographed from the side, a man and a woman are in eye contact

While the rest of the figures including a horse are looking to the right one man, with a romantic gaze, is looking left in the eyes of someone else