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The battle of Hoth got the momentum going on this, my favorite #starwars rollercoaster: #theempirestrikesback ❤️🎥❤️

This is excellent to see: Brussels orders #X to hand over documents on #algorithm www.irishtimes.com/business/202... #farright #elonmusk

Who’s into Vikings? The University of Oslo is doing a survey to gauge what the public thinks of the Vikings. Maybe people think of them more often than the Roman Empire? 🤷‍♀️ You can take part here: nettskjema.no/a/viking#/pa...

Live look at President-elect Donald Trump in his D.C. hotel room, practicing his inauguration speech.

Finally decided to drink it (was a birthday pressie to myself). A very happy belated birthday to me! 😁 *hic

Incredible sky just now! 😍

'Sup peeps! I just added 31 more accounts to my block list. Click subscribe, block and then share! There are hundreds on there now! bsky.app/profile/anti...

Handstand raccoon. Those who saw me on the other place may remember I've recorded this behavior before though it's quite rare for me. It could be just something they do or could be an injury to paw though I got video of this raccoon walking fine on all 4's no problems seen. #mammals 🦊

Suffice to say I was pretty fecked off last night. I could see them through my eyelids! 😵‍💫

Fabulous 👌 @virtualastro.bsky.social

The 1930s plasterwork in here is amazing! Reminds me of an ice-cream parlour 🍨 #StocktonGlobe

Found a nice stained glass window inside the Stockton Globe theatre.

This is my 6666th BlueSky post and to celebrate here is one of my all time favourite pictures, Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus. Taken 17th May 2018. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Well this seems bad.

It'll be dead soon. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Ginkgo Leaf Drop Day - the few days when all the ginkgo trees in an area turn color and drop their leaves - has arrived in the Bluegrass about 2 weeks late. This modifies my previous observation that daylength was the controlling factor to say that daylength plus temperature are factors. Happy GLDD!

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

Good morning from chilly London. I woke to find a splendid Moon high in the southern sky. It's now on the wane, 57% illuminated #astronomy #astrophotography

Over the years I've kept jpegs of bands in various set-ups in case I ever want to recreate one for a shot with my own band. I'm posting them as a #BandPhotos series. Here is BAND ON STAIRCASE

[Thread] I have good news and bad news and good news. 😁 Good: The Expanse team has reformed to create a media company, Expanding Universe. Bad: They haven't announced a sequel to The Expanse. Good: They're adapting James S.A. Corey's new sci-fi trilogy into a TV series for Amazon MGM Studios! 1/7

You can often spot a snow cloud; they'll come with pastel pink.

Celebrating #FindsFriday with an incredible pair of rare Iron Age divination spoons 🧙 These are modern replicas of the Ffynogion spoons unearthed near Ruthin, north Wales, during C19th railway construction Here they are held by artist Olivia Hicks RA. Amazing things! 🤩 📷 My own

Snow day in the ancient past ❄️ There's something so magic about seeing this place change through the seasons...

‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: Scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space 🏺🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2023... ‘Grand gesture’ condemned as unethical publicity stunt that risked loss of 2m-year-old human remains Commentary by @chrisbstringer.bsky.social @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social

Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 mya, and may be oldest in Europe East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4 million years ago 🏺🧪 R. Garba, A.I.R. Herries @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social , et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The floor of Acheulian artefacts we are getting close to lifting from Amanzi Springs Area 7 in South Africa. They are older than 400,000 years old.

A fragment of #Roman terracotta pottery, into the surface of which someone a incised a sketch portrait of a man, some 1900+ years ago - a very round-headed bald man, with a big nose & bushy eyebrows. This is one of my favourite pieces of ancient graffiti! 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

In today's episode of "Your Victorian Pharmacist is Trying to Kill You"👇 Heroin was first synthesized in 1874. Bayer commercialized the drug & began mass producing it in 1898. The drug was promoted as a cough suppressant as well as a better and safer substitute for morphine and codeine.

That's beautiful 😍

Lots of helpful hints to the happy place this is 👍

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There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

Oh I love a bit of bumgravy 😂 This🧵 is wonderful 🤭

Queen Mary University of London UCU is running a live page listing known cuts and redundancies at UK Universities. If you have information about such threats impacting on archaeology and history courses please let thePipeLine know in confidence.

We have a great opportunity for a trainee community reporter to join the famous @liverpoolecho.co.uk You don't need any qualifications & can work in our newsroom as you learn on the job. A great chance to get a foot in the industry. Details here 👇 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Magdalen went full Narnia yesterday

The hedgehog, once common throughout Scotland, has been updated from “least concern to near threatened” in the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species Story by me for @theferret.scot theferret.scot/hedgehogs-ne...

Once again for the new folks.

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Nasty case of cat bum eye 😬😯

🚨 IM IN A PUB! 🚨 😁

Due to unpopular demand I’ve made prints of my most hated painting (currently), it's received 8,000 angry hate replies and two private messages that have warned me I'm now on a ‘whack list’. There’s a lot of right whackers out there. wefail.art

This account is well worth following for its analysis of inauthentic accounts.

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

Wow!