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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 8h

Researchers replicated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe from Bulgaria.
The ingredients include a handful of ants. The resulting yogurt tastes surprisingly normal, with a “slightly tangy taste with mild herbaceousness and pronounced flavors of grass-fed fat”

Scientists Team Up With Michelin Chefs to Recreate Ancient Yogurt—With Ants

According to an old Bulgarian tradition, some ants are the perfect, all-natural yogurt-making machines.

gizmodo.com

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 7h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 8h

Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee)
newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

260,000 volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to be digitized by Google Books

A new collaboration between the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Google Books initiative will make it possible for users worldwide to access works that are rare, out of print, or generally u...

newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 11h

Is there a dish from your childhood that you now know was badly cooked, but you love it that way anyway?

It used to be overdone chicken livers for me. (Though I now undercook them like a civilized person.) For @regulaysewijn.bsky.social it’s her mum’s terrible moussaka. What’s yours?

Regula Ysewijn @regulaysewijn.bsky.social · 13h

And yet… her moussaka is still my favourite food and I can’t replicate it.
Who else loves a dish their mother made that isn’t quite right but you crave it nonetheless

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 12d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 17h

The NHS covered her treatment with Soliris, one of the priciest drugs in existence. The lesson of this thread is if you or someone you know is tired and ghostly pale (and esp if dark red wee), ask your GP for an FBC and mention PNH and AA. Please share - it's rare but potentially devastating. 3/3

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 17h

s.w.a.f.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Lai Alice, lai hline deusporiante @marwaue.bsky.social · 19h

Rappel qu'on à en France, de manière bien documentée, notamment au Quai Branly ou à l'abbaye de Fontevraud, des exemplaires des ces bronzes du Benin pillés en 1897 par les britanniques.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 20h

GEN-ALPHA DICKENS: it was the skibidi of times, it was the toilet of times

BOOMER TOLKIEN: I did NOT spend decades inventing languages only for you to butcher this one. Just saying!

ZILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE: nah let him cook, brevity low-key the soul of wit fr fr

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk:

Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

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René Dings @rndngs.bsky.social · 1d

Er zijn in Nederland drie straten die _osterdstraat heten (met één letter op de plaats van de _). En heel bijzonder: ze beginnen alle drie met een andere letter, maar niet een ervan met een M. #straatnaamweetje

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social · 1d

The celestial Molyneux globe in a glass case in Middle Temple library

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 1d

It's been digitized and available online for over a decade. When you're looking for people to follow, maybe stick with the ones that don't keep recycling old news.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

www.openculture.com

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Old, but most recent general overview AFAIK: Louis-Marie MICHON. La reliure française. Paris, Larousse, 1951. The Bnf has a binding database with extensive bibliographic references, see eg. reliures.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...

Thomas Mahieu (entre 1515 et 1527-ap. 1588) - possesseur - Reliures de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Informations de la Bibliothèque nationale de France sur : Thomas Mahieu (entre 1515 et 1527-ap. 1588) (possesseur)

reliures.bnf.fr

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 2d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Dr.-Ing. Lea Schönberger (she/her) @leaschoenberger.bsky.social · 2d

Für meinen Podcast "Informatik für die moderne Hausfrau" bin ich auf der Suche nach neuen Gästinnen, also Frauen, die im weitesten Sinne mit Informatik zu tun haben. Wichtig: Ihr müsst nicht Informatik studiert haben, Entwicklerin sein o.Ä., ich möchte vielmehr Vielfalt abbilden.

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 2d

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 2d

An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message:

"Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..."

A long list followed.

"How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered.

Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five charre...

www.labrujulaverde.com

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