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At the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, if you run over your time, you are literally forced to exit, pursued by a bear. The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.

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Today’s #medievalmood is this owl, who has seen things. I feel you, friend. I feel you. From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46

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Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... #Archaeology

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Accidentally created a masterpiece of German Expressionism.

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A young male Resplendent Quetzal at San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica. He's still working on his tail here. #birds #costarica

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When You Stop Caring: Justice Bath's clerk in the year 1250 The clerk finished recording an entry and began a new one. Suddenly, more information surfaced about the case but there wasn't enough space to write it. What should he do? 🧵1/3

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1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Get ready for #fashionhistory – it’s been a while, but I'm back. Today’s topic is All That Glitters – we’re talking about fashioning fabric with gold and metal, but especially real gold. Below, 1610-1620 - Dress of Electress Magdalena Syblla of Saxony.

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Beleaf in yourself 📷 Katie Emberley

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I’m in ur sink, questioning ur decor choices. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

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And here’s a detail of #embroidery on the vamp of each shoe #19C #dresshistory

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That’s fair

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#MosaicMonday - A dapper wee parrot from the Altar Room of Palace V, Pergamon: ca. Mid-2nd Century BC. #Bird #AncientBluesky 🏺 Or, to quote Ovid (Amores 2.6.1)... 'Parrot, winged mimic from the dawn-lit east' Image: Berlin Antikensammlung (Mos. 71). Link - recherche.smb.museum/detail/69712...

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An #Archaeology flamingo thread in 16 skeets One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos? Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would… /1

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Timeline cleanse- I don’t have any pets right now, unfortunately, but I do have this pretty rad lizard sculpture.

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The earliest European representation of a capybara from "A Relation of a voyage" (1698) - a reminder of my fellowship this summer @marshslibrary.bsky.social

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So obsessed with this circa 1660 embroidered eggshell! You can see it on display at Witney Antiques' free exhibition, open until 23 November. We determined it's made by drilling holes in the shell, using a long needle to create a network of lines, then creating patterns with needlelace stitches

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Today’s daily doodle

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Henry VIII’s wives, ranked in order of personal preference: 1) Catherine of Aragon 2) Catherine Parr 3) Anne Boleyn 4) Anne of Cleves 5) Catherine Howard 6) Jane Seymour #Tudors

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Alexandre-Isidore Leroy de Barde, Selection of Shells Arranged on Shelves, watercolor and gouache on paper, c. 1803-1810, 125 x 90 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

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Haven’t felt much like posting, what with… everything. I don’t think I have any particularly useful politics takes, so I’m leaving those to more-informed, wiser BlueSkyers. Personally speaking, we (my parents and I) did make it to and from my cousin’s wedding on Saturday. (1/x)

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Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me reads the news out loud Spider depressed holy shit

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Ex-voto painting commissioned by a man who survived being hit on the head by a falling flower pot in Rome, 1890 (Wellcome Collection)

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In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則. It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

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A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers 🧵

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Costume the DIY idea costume

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Pop-up headline jump scare, courtesy Smithsonian Magazine: “Pesto, the beloved juvenile king penguin at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Melbourne-“ Me: NOOOOOOO! “-is starting to lose his baby feathers.” Me: Oh. Ok then.

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Lmao

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HIS TIME HAS COME

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Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀 1/

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We are once again offering "candy and/or a potato" this Halloween, and I'm VERY pleased to report that one mom just asked her kid, "Is this the potato house you were looking for?!"

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Here’s our jack o’lantern for the cats this year: The Dreaded Cone!

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And my final #sciart pumpkin (also my most viral post ever) Jupiter in IR

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This year’s jack-o-lantern is a tribute to everyone’s favourite baby pigmy hippo and internet darling Moo Deng! #jackolantern #halloween #pigmyHippo #hippo #MooDeng #pumpkin

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A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).

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Okay, here it is. The greatest scientific debate of our age. @maggiek.bsky.social and @itsthebrandi.bsky.social arguing over whether pandas are or are not "the fuckbois of the bear community"

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Anyway I've been gone all evening carving the pumpkins, including this anglerfish my kid wanted. She's making the lure tomorrow

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