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Kim! It's... Kim
@nomikim.bsky.social
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Dork for history and art. She/her. Professional "fucking chaos demon." Profile pic by @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
nomikim.bsky.social
Given the scale problems, I like to believe that's a murderous baby hiding behind the couch.
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
nomikim.bsky.social
husband and I are doing a delayed and not-particularly-traditional Thanksgiving after deciding on the menu yesterday.

3 dishes and sauces have been made (pumpkin cookies; mushroom gravy; red wine cranberry sauce). The dishwasher is running for the 3rd gd time today.

3 dishes remain.

I'm a fool.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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rachelhands.com
this is quite the detail
screencap from the quoted WIRED article reads: “The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
CD in full caps followed by hyphen-ROM in small caps.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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sesmith.lol
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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kindofstrange.com
I think about this little guy all the damned time.

I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.

Art is fucking wonderful.

dia.org/collection/s...
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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hugobookclub.bsky.social
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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architecture.bsky.social
Stained glass window made from sliced agate at the famous Grossmünster Church in Zurich.
Stained glass window made from sliced agate at the famous Grossmünster Church in Zurich.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
*scrambling to get anything done at 4:30pm* hurry, please we must hurry, the darkness is upon us, the darkness takes all and ends all, it is coming, it is almost here. we can not fight it, we can not fight the ruinous dark.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
nomikim.bsky.social
God, I have muted so many words related to Nuzzi and *it is never enough*
kissane.myatproto.social Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15d
I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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jucikadaily.bsky.social
"Jucika's date in space" We're also hosting an emergency fundraiser to help us fund a kidney procedure, this account is ran by someone in the US and is currently uninsured and needs as much support as possible, any bit helps, please consider sharing or supporting, the link is in the post below
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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skeet.best
BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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trungles.com
Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
A black and white drawing of an old woman in her kitchen, blowing three kisses over a pot of pasta.
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
The side of an woman's effigy tomb showing the bottom of her dress and her feet (she lays on her back). The dress is depicted as many wiggled folds of fabric, and we can see the soles of her small shoes.
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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markpopham.bsky.social
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #nature #bugsky
Close-up of a delicate butterfly with transparent wings edged in orange and a single eyespot, perched on a green leaf against a softly blurred background.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
nomikim.bsky.social
Below, two screenshots from Wikipedia, presented with only the following context:

The first screenshot is the introduction to an article about an heiress-philanthropist, with some text highlighted. The second screenshot is the article headings for her 2nd husband.
A screenshot from Wikipedia: "Winnaretta Singer (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was an American-born heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life. Singer entered into two marriages that were unconsummated, and openly enjoyed many high-profile relationships with women. She was styled as Countess Louis de Scey-Montbéliard during her first marriage and as Princess Edmond de Polignac following her second marriage in 1893." The text "Singer entered into two marriages that were unconsummated, and openly enjoyed many high-profile relationships with women" is highlighted in yellow. A screenshot of a table of contents for a Wikipedia Article. It reads: "Cotnents (hide). Ancestry. Early life. Musical education. Artist circle. Male friendships. Winnaretta Singer. Death and legacy. References. External links." "Male friendships" is highlighted in yellow.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Find yourself something that makes you as happy as Edward Barlow's 'dolphin' was to 'swim in the sea'. #skystorians #earlymodern

(National Maritime Museum, Journal of Edward Barlow, JOD/4/197-210, 213-294)
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
THE SNOW QUEEN (1988)
Acrylic on Panel - 36” x 24”

Though the cover illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon on the first edition of The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge, was excellent, Warner Books decided to commission me to do a new one. 1/5
A queen in ornate headdress and white feathered cloak holds out two metal trinkets. One is reminiscent of a biohazard symbol. The other is a star chart with two crosses. The beak of her mask and contour around her eyes stand out in muted gold. Otherwise the painting is very cool in tone. An opal is set on her forehead, over more feathers the sweep outward. White braid fall around her delicate, pale face. Placid green-blue water extends behind her to a sailboat and a tiered city that rises like a lopsided pyramid. A sun emerges from behind the city with another smaller orb not far ahead of it in ascension. In the upper right, a fan shaped spacecraft glides the heavens.
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
nomikim.bsky.social
an article mentioned that Auden married Erika Mann (daughter of Thomas Mann) to get her British citizenship to flee the Nazis (after 'inspiration for Cabaret' Christopher Isherwood declined, but suggested Auden) and man

charting Erika Mann's love life would require a Pepe Silvio red-string board
a man is standing in front of a bulletin board that says carol on it
Alt: The character Charlie, a white man from the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, stands in front of a bulletin board covered in haphazardly placed papers, sharpie notes, and red strings connecting pieces of information. He creams "Carol... Carol!!!" while pointing at one piece of information on the bulletin board. His posture is hunched and tense.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Monkey Aryballos https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.50
Perfume flasks in the form of a monkey are numerous, but few are as well made and preserved as this one. The flask was worn suspended from the wrist by a cord. Its owner would take it to the communal baths and anoint himself with its contents afterward. Such flasks have been found throughout the Mediterranean and Egypt, but this vessel was likely made at a Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM