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Flosshilde

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Works for the NHS. Geek. Likes history, politics, Palestine, cats, music, TV, films, ballet, wine, photography, PS5, science, astronomy, opera and books My pinterest page - https://uk.pinterest.com/moonbootica/

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 1d

Who she is and the skilled artist that painted her is unknown. She was living in Egypt during the #Roman period & her hairstyle dates her to cAD160-170. She is shown with a beautiful necklace (painted in gold leaf) and earrings - Fayum portrait - @British Museum

Image of an encaustic portrait of an Ancient Roman-Egyptian lady

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 8h

Emperor Claudius died #OTD 13 Oct AD54, at 63. Son of Drusus (son of Livia & brother of Tiberius) & Antonia (niece of Augustus). Proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard in AD41, he restored stability after Caligula's chaos, strengthened imperial administration & oversaw the conquest of Britain.

Busts of Claudius, statue of Claudius and cameo of Claudius

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 10h

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn in a studio portrait of Giselle
Jacob's Pillow, 1958
Photo by Jack Mitchell

Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 11h

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Romania's Saint Parascheva feast draws tens of thousands of pilgrims

Thousands of faithful braved the rain and bad weather on the first day of their pilgrimage in the capital of the Moldova region, lining up in queues that stretched for almost 2 kilometres.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 14h

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Firings of hundreds of CDC employees reportedly reversed

Department of Health and Human Services rescinds more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent, reports say

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 14h

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 14h

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‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 15h

Booked our flights and hotel for Florence next year!!!!!

Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 17h

BBC News - Mystery of necklace which disappeared from Paris catwalk 30 years ago - BBC News
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Mystery of necklace which disappeared from Paris catwalk 30 years ago

The piece was due to be used in a show by British designer Alexander McQueen - but then disappeared.

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 17h

The fucking shapes Theil needs to contort himself into to pretend he isn't always the villain in pop culture.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 17h

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The Ad Campaign for Capitalism

In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 18h

Can't believe I, personally, forced Netanyahu to be a genocidal tyrant. My bad, guys.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18h

With thanks to @pressfuturist for remembering that it was Littlejohn v Self, not Bushell v Self, a literary conversation of the ages.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 18h

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‘The universe has opened up for us’: meet the astro-ambassadors who welcome stargazers to the Himalayas

A tourism initiative in India’s first dark sky reserve has brought new hope to a community as employment means they can stay close to their roots and culture

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

The kings of the Gupta dynasty of Ancient India showed themselves on coins in various royal roles.

Here Chandra Gupta II is dramatically depicted slaying a lion, with a bow and arrow. Hunting was a royal privilege and its depiction implies bravery and power as well as the ideals of kingship.

A round Indian gold coin featuring a figure with a crossbow killing a lion.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 20h

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Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Artists of Philadelphia Ballet in ‘Carmen.’ - Photo by Alexander Iziliaev

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Mayara Pineiro and Arian Molina Soca with Artists of Philadelphia Ballet in ‘Carmen,’ choreography by Angel Corella - Photo by Alexander Iziliaev

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d

"The Little Witch" (c. 1916) by Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888 – 1960)

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Saint Louis Ballet in Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15

Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Saint Louis Ballet in Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Saint Louis Ballet in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments

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Saint Louis Ballet in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Crisp sunny mornings and crunchy golden leaves are here, so we’re celebrating with this wonderfully seasonal woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige.

🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine, and Linked Bridge, 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). EAX.4362

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