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Happy World Penguin Day to all penguins, but especially Nils, who didn’t let living in Edinburgh (or being a penguin) stop him from becoming The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He’s also been knighted. His official title is Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III and here he is looking regal af

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that sound you can hear is historians sharpening their knives

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these are a few of my favourite things...

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Cornelis Dusart (#BTD 1660) appreciated that peasants too liked a good book! Hope you're enjoying one today too. #BookSky

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Thanks all for a great rural themed #OnlineArtExchange 🌳🐄 Next week's theme is the colour orange, see you there! 'Shorthorn Heifer' by Alfred Maxime Gauci (c.1837–1888) 📷 @themerl.bsky.social

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Perhaps I should put "loves sausage and mash" in my bio. For posterity.

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What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

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Hybrid symposium at Sheffield 1 May on history of crime and historical criminology. www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...

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If this sounds intriguing, & learning how women historians helped shape the study and writing of history in the early 20th century is interesting, come along to @ihr.bsky.social on 15 May to hear the wonderful @amalexathorn.bsky.social explore some of the many stories about these remarkable women. 🗃️

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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is rural, for Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/cepiqFk 🌳🏡 'Cumbrian Landscape', 1968, designed by Jovan Nicholson, made by Florence Williams. Private Collection. 📸 Stuart Walker

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📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an 18.5% reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

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The post here focuses on the rude bits, but they're a small minority; the article has a detailed breakdown of various types of less fun but more important "informal" (rejected) ballots, and where they tend to cluster.

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Across the country, there are a decent handful of seats where the margin is smaller than the amount of informal votes cast last election. We can expect just as many this time around. Could they seal Peter Dutton's fate? @jasemurphy.bsky.social writes.

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So. I started working on this #DigitalHumanities data blog for the Skin and Bone project two years ago, and funding for the project finished in October? 2023. I got... distracted... by other things. At least you could never accuse me of being hasty. 😂 skin-and-bone-in-london-1760-1901.github.io

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This was a bad day for petitions. [Yes I do think about other things than petitions sometimes.]

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Antoine Vollon was born on this date in 1833, and he is not a very well known painter, but his Mound of Butter, 1875/1885, is beloved by bakers worldwide:

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‘Umbrellas in the rain’ by Maurice B. Prendergast, 1899. Details here via @mfaboston.bsky.social collections.mfa.org/objects/3649...

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Morning at Plymouth, England: town, harbor, & brand new Royal Citadel. All beautifully painted in 1673 by Hendrick Danckerts, whose day is today.

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"did not approve" is an understatement. 😆

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Something I've been wondering for the last few days, succinctly answered.

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Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Clavis Artis, Zoroaster.

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Great news: in England it is #NationalTeaDay Meaning it's time for Pieter van Roestraten, a Dutch painter working in England. And, by a wonderful coincidence, he was born on this day in 1630.

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Or as Chris Wood puts it in his modern classic, named for the bullets used to shoot Menedez seven times in the head: 'they gave him no instruction that an innocent man would’ve understood'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7sY...

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Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp of Dordrecht. Painter of portraits, animal and human. Here, his own jolly twin daughters, in their little chairs & holding their teethers.

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Evolution of a splooooosh 1/5

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Oh dear, he doesn't like Welsh cheese at all. 😢

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🧀 explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-coll...

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BABY HERONS!!!!!

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Happy Easter 🐣🐣 A festive hen and chicks for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange 🖼 Easter Design for Fortnum & Mason by Edward Bawden. From the collection of Fry Art Gallery.

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We've gone with lambs for today's #Easter #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social - because how cute are these?! 🥰 Featured are George and Elizabeth Fleming in Coniston ( 📸 Lakeland Arts) and Mr W Calvert in Thorns, Swaledale, looking ever so excited about their new born lambs 🐑 Too cute.

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I wrote a Your Guide to Farscape story a few years ago and I'm always so happy to see folks get into the show, which I love a lot. Talked to Brian Henson of Jim Henson Company for this as well. This was such a labor of love: www.ign.com/articles/201...

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Painted in 1943, Ruskin Spear's highly atmospheric: 'Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift,' was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) as part of the ‘Recording Britain’ scheme sponsored by the Pilgrim Trust during WW2.

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I found the most incredible graph on the other site

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If you’re a word nerd and you don’t follow the endlessly entertaining Adam C. Sharp, then I question all your life choices.

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I am absolutely here for the AI bros spending wild amounts of money to fight each other in performative and pointless battles.

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This remains totally outrageous. The National Library of Australia ought to be totally ashamed. And every Australian librarian should be writing to them in protest. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/u...

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