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martinesumner2025.bsky.social
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@martinesumner2025.bsky.social
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I prefer 📚 & source materials to memes
I’m bewildered by some on the.Left WHILE we’re living a climate 🌎 crisis AND the Far.right gains ascension
More HATE solves NOTHING…
(Just cuz I don’t follow you back does NOT mean i don’t ✅ in
-suffering from TMI‼️)
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martinesumner2025.bsky.social
💃 #Dance 🕺
DICK van DYKE #DickVanDyke

📺 1950s in 1960 youtu.be/0O9NCVNZ8aE?...

📺 60s youtu.be/lPj3SJcx0Wc?...

📺 #MaryTylerMoore
youtu.be/Fcso9ZCh0mI?...
AND youtu.be/MS9_iouqUD0?...

📽️ #MaryPoppins 1964
The Penguin Dance youtu.be/lfQnjiSvxMA?...
Dick Van Dyke salutes dance crazes of the 50's 1/29/60
YouTube video by Anthony DiFlorio
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
💃 #Dance 🕺
Only in Canada eh?
Bhangra in the Yukon winter!
gurdeep.ca Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 20h
When the mercury plummets to -40° (where Celsius and Fahrenheit finally agree), most sensible creatures burrow inward. But not in the Yukon. Here, in this land where exhaled breath crystallizes mid-air and exposed skin stings within seconds, I found myself moved to dance Bhangra.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
⚱️ Archaeology & War
www.fbi.gov/investigate/... #Archaeology #Crimea #Iraq #Russia #Ukraine #War #Archaeology
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
What I’m wearing
New Year’s Eve
- Gown bsky.app/profile/arch...
- Shoes bsky.app/profile/alis...
#archaeology ⚱️ #Egypt #archeology
https://bsky.app/profile/archaeohistories.bsky.social/post/3m7pjp7u7gc22 https://bsky.app/profile/alisonfisk.bsky.social/post/3m7prh6pta22b
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🗺️ MAP
Roads of the Roman Empire
#archaeology ⚱️
“new and far more comprehensive”
- NYT /GiftLink
#archeology #history www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
patrickwyman.bsky.social Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 4d
Gift link: A new and far more comprehensive archaeological effort to map the Roman Empire's road networks! I would've killed for this while I was doing my doctoral dissertation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🫎 Moose Crossing 🫎
jonathanslater.bsky.social Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 4d
The most beautiful traffic jam
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
😆 COMEDIANS➕🤔
Trae Crowder
#comedy #humour #USpol #USpoli #humor #TraeCrowder
thetraecrowder.bsky.social Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 4d
A banner week for tyrants, racists, and dummies (or banner decade, really)
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🎄 #Xmas #Holidays 🎁
Just opt OUT of
Materialist Consumerism
Fill a stocking with well thought out items*
& make donations to charities instead
* need not be expensive - more like “I’m paying attention”
“Things I know make you happy”
#shopping #gifts #giftListS #debt #Christmas
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🎨 #ART - #GLASS
Blown Glass
Glass Making
GlassWare
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6d
Watch modern glassmakers use ancient techniques to recreate Roman mould-blown glass objects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOD...
Roman Mold-Blown Glass
YouTube video by Corning Museum of Glass
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🎄This Holiday Season 🥂
I expect to encounter many
🆕 A.I. enthusiasts
These will be the same people who were last wild over
🪙 BitCoin (& possibly the same ones once blathering on about
📈 Dot.Coms)

I can’t wait

#Holiday #SeasonAL #AI #BitCoin #Dot.com #humour #Xmas #parties #tech
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
#Architecture
Frank Gehry
- BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
- LA Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #FrankGehry
Frank Gehry's most iconic work - in pictures
As one of architecture's most provocative and creative forces, Frank Gehry was behind intriguing buildings the world over.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🍽️ Menu Bloopers
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🖼️ #ART 📕 #BOOK
globalmuseum.bsky.social Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 11d
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🤶🏼 XMAS🎄 #CATs 🐱
sesmith.lol s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11d
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
📰 I loathe women
who don’t
Believe Women
bsky.app/profile/time... #BelieveWomen
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🖼️ #Art
pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social Pixels&AlchemyPhotography📸 @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 11d
Orange Leaves in Fog
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day1
#Sweetgum #Leaves outside my window on a foggy day in Jan 2025.
#PNW #Photography
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🖼️ #Art
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11d
'Morning Star' by contemporary Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski. An installation of 200 arrows. #WomensArt
Photo of a sculpture created with many arrows suspended to form a three dimensional circular shape, the sculpture is in a white room and a person is partly hidden standing behind the work
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🖼️ #ART
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11d
Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a polar bear facing forwards standing on sloped ice under a swirling blue sky and full moon
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🗿Easter Island ⚱️
(The term “aku-aku” translates to “spirit” or “guardian”)
📕 www.ebsco.com/research-sta... TY for this gift article!
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🖼️ #Art
bergamax.bsky.social BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 12d
"Tea for One," n.d.
Watercolor batik (watercolor and wax on special rice papers)

By Sarah L. Luginbill (American artist, b.1952).

#art #painting #illustration
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🔭 #Astronomy 2025 Dec
oldfarmersalmanac.bsky.social The Old Farmer's Almanac @oldfarmersalmanac.bsky.social · 12d
Oh my stars!! LOOK UP! ⭐️ December's night sky is nothing to sneeze at. . . from the Full Cold Supermoon on December 4 to the Ursid Meteor Shower on the Winter Solstice, the dark skies next month are really showing off! Visit Almanac.com/Night-Sky-December
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
❄️ How to Enjoy Shovelling Snow in Winter 2025/26
#humour #humor #snow #winter
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🇺🇸 True MAGA
mindcite.bsky.social Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · Oct 31
The only kind of bigot that will ever make America great.
#ShareGreatNotHate
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
🔭 Astronomy www.seestar.com/about
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
martinesumner2025.bsky.social
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #BambergSymphony 2021
martinesumner2025.bsky.social now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 17d
🎼 Prayer for Ukraine (1937)
Valentin Silvestrov:
Bamberg Symphony
This orchestra is composed of musicians from 20 nations including 🇺🇦 & 🇷🇺 “It is our mission…to offer a symphonic symbol of solidarity in these difficult times & to convey our message in support of peace” youtu.be/ZYUCv0vtbh4 #MusicSky
Bamberg Symphony — Prayer for Ukraine (Valentin Silvestrov, *1937)
YouTube video by Bamberger Symphoniker
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM