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For #WorldArtDay some Paleolithic art, an #IceAge masterpiece from the Swabian Jura: a tiny (4.8 cm lenght) #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at Museum Universität Tübingen. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

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Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

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#RomanSiteSaturday Remains of Lucca's repurposed #Roman amphitheatre are obvious from within it, but when you go round the back, you can see pillars + arches surviving there too. In fact you're walking round the vomitorium, where spectators moved through the tunnel-like space to get to their seats.

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Fascinating world of early medieval glass! An absolutely gorgeous drinking horn made of blue glass, with white trailing around the body, length 23cm. Drinking horns made of glass were popular among the early medieval Germanic elite in various regions of Europe, they... 🧵 1/2 🏺

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Rep. Al Green’s response to a congressman saying God opposes trans rights: “You used God to enslave my foreparents!” #MomSky #Voices4Victory #TransRights

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Riding habit #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100355

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“Remember his name,” the wife of Kilmar Abrego García tells the world. The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump regime to "facilitate" the return to the United States of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, the Maryland man whom the U.S. government abducted and sent to a hell-hole, torture-laden…

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It’s a Party Pin. Designed after Stalin. Betting it becomes new fashion gear and not just for Cabinet members.

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Glass bracelets and beads found in the oppidum (#Celtic settlement) at Manching. Manching was a centre of Celtic glass industry. It was specialized on the production of seamless colourful glass bracelets from ca. 260 - 40 BC. The raw glass was imported from the eastern Mediterranean...🧵 1/2 🏺

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It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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Fascinating world of ancient glass: an amazing pitcher. The handle is terminating in an appliqué decorated with a head of a Bacchant, a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine. Such an appliqué is an appropriate decoration for a pitcher used to pour wine Dating ca 50-75 AD 📷 Corning Museum of Glass 🏺

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WOW, these baskets are about 9,500 years old! 🤯 Look like they were made yesterday rather than by hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic! Made of esparto grass, they were found inside the Cueva de Los Murciélagos (Cave of bats), Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #Archaeology

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What the hell has Donald Trump been up to? Yet more corruption, no doubt. Senator Adam Schiff is demanding a congressional investigation into the distinct possibility that Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused his sweeping tariffs — a move that sent…

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Anyone for a board game? This ancient Egyptian game of ‘Hounds and Jackals’ is almost 4,000 years old! Also known as the ‘Game of 58 holes’, it’s thought it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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The Roman shipwreck at Comacchio, Italy, is over 21 m long and 5.62 m wide. It was discovered in 1980 during the maintenance of a drainage canal. The vessel was loaded with amphorae, lead ingots, and boxwood logs. It dates to the 1st c. BC. 📷Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici Emilia Romagna 🏺

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Fantastic article! A must read.

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It’s only going to get worse, folks.

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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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We all need a timeline cleanse right now: A charming #Greek terracotta aryballos - a vessel used to hold oil - in the shape of a hedgehog 🦔. 6th century BC. On display at Antikensammlung München. 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Where are the Russian tariffs?

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No tariffs on Russia. Huh?

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An almost 6,000 years old wooden cup, found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad-Hörnle at the Lake Constance. The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

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