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Happy #IWD! In Italy, we gift mimosa flowers to women today. But why? The flower was chosen as a symbol by antifascist Rita Montagnana and Teresa Mattei, because it was the same flower partisan fighters gifted to the "staffette" - the women who delivered messages for the Resistance. A 🧵 about them!

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I'm fine 99.9% of the times then there are days like this one where my knees flare up with pain for no damn reason at all and it hurts so much I can barely walk

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Absolutely devastating situation in which I should outline the plot of my next Serious Writing Project but all I can think about is my rpg blorbo's backstory

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A beautiful portrait of Velia Velcha, as pictured on the right wall of The Tomb of Orcus I, a 4th-century BCE Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy. #FrescoFriday #archaeology #history #AncientBlueSky 📸 Campagnano e dintorni

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Post your most popular art from twitter From what I know, this porco rosso fanart I did for the last French legislative elections beat the record by far. Besides, I think it's still pretty relevant 🙃

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whistle #art (wallpapers below!)

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#MosaicMonday - Mosaic of the Indian Triumph of Dionysus from Setifis, Algeria. It shows Dionysus' return from India in a chariot pulled by tigers, accompanied by prisoners, maenads, satyrs, and exotic animals. Dated to the early 4th century AD. Archaeological Museum of Setif, Algeria.

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two months (and ten days) till my top surgery aaaaAAAAAaaAaaaAA

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Something lovely for the weekend! Marvellous Minoan cups known as Kamares Ware. They look so modern, yet they were made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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These days, in Italy, we celebrate Carnevale! The streets are flooded with colorful floats, people wearing all sort of costumes, and kids eating frittelle and chiacchiere. So here's a thread exploring the ancient roots of this heartfelt festivity, and some of its most interesting traditions 🧵

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Can someone watch this guy please he keeps scuttling around my house and I'm trying to get work done

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Hard to go past the newly revealed fresco from Pompeii this #FrescoFriday. The lifesize scene shows a procession of Dionysius and this photo glorious frames a dancing maenad between two columns. The stunning scene is a feast of red hues! #AncientBluesky🏺

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#FrescoFriday - The frescoes that once adorned the walls of the Tomb of the Diver, located in Paestum. They depict a symposium and a naked boy diving from a tower into a pool of water. Dating from the 5th century BC. Paestum Archaeological Museum.

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Ancient Mesoamerican cultures were undefeated at having ceramic vessels that were also just a little guy

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Exceptional new discovery in #Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo... 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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As well as a journalist and mission leader of NGO, "Mediterranea Saving Humans", operating to save migrants at sea, the chaplain of the same NGO also had his phone tapped by Italian Secret Services in February 2024, using the spyware Graphite produced by Israeli company Paragon.

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I made this for @moringon.bsky.social for her orc LARP group but it sure does speak for the entirety of orc LARP! #germanlarp #fckafd

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Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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lamb of tartary and rebirth [ #art ]

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So pumped to spend the weekend with my friends at a thermal bath place I can't stop thinking about the hotel breakfast (they serve vov they are insane)

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The spectacular ancient #Thrace exhibit had to close early at the #GettyVilla, so I'll continue to feature pieces on Bluesky. This gorgeous little gold jug from a man's grave - one of several in a tumulus - features two quadrigae with a Herakles knot handle. 🏺 #ancientbluesky ca. 350-300 BCE 📸 me

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AncientBlueSky🏺 Kamares crater banquet vessel with decorative lillies Phaistos. , South Central #Crete. Old-Palace period (1800-1700 BC) #ancient #pottery #artwork #Archaeology #art #History

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Unironically miss my days in the psych ward sometimes

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Post four perfect albums, 10/10, no notes:

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Since Oct 7, many guilt ridden Westerners ignored Gaza by playing bothsidism, claiming a “War between Hamas & Israel”. You saw all Gazans as “potential recruits” & fair targets. Now this’s become naked ethnic cleansing. If you ignore it, you ignore your own humanity. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. Among them, the Picenes, who thrived along the Middle Adriatic coast from the 9th to 3rd centuries BCE, have remained an enigmatic presence ...

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