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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2m

I’m both too old and too young for this

STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2m

Looks like the call of Cthulhu was coming from inside the house

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 4m

I cannot believe I not only have to deal with colonial bullshit but now there’s all new colonial bullshit with some hard core fascism to deal with

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Sam @februaryfriday.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for this.
Autumn + Dad urgently need funds for shelter. They often have to pay last minute, which is v stressful. They deserve a break.
$130 for one night
$550 for a week - 11 ppl with $50
Anything helps
bsky.app/profile/alpa...

Autumn @alpacawax.bsky.social · 14h

autumnalpaca.carrd.co
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕

70/130 1 Day
70/550 2 Weeks

13hrs until payment due for shelter. Food is covered with leftovers from tonight, so just shelter needed. Anything helps, still under a frost warning/freeze advisory, van still v broken.

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Ashley @blueeyedashh.bsky.social · 5h

Husband was in hospital now with severe ear infection and abdominal pain. He’s home now but needs to get to work this morning. We need at least $50-75 to get him a cab! Please PLEASE help us out! Anything is appreciated! $BlueEyedAshh or BlueEyedAshh or @/AshleySpend 💸💕 Thank you for this space!

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Oct 17

It is also deeply suspicious that their government has been publicly invoking and calling for genocide, denying humanitarian aid, and insisting that “there are no civilians,” but the moment a civilian target is bombed, it’s definitely the work of the enemy. The logic is a circuit, I fear.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Oct 17

I said on the bad site and I say here: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The IDF has carpet bombed Gaza for over a week with more bombs than most conflicts have used in a year. It is statistically likely that it was their bomb that hit the hospital. Anything else requires proof.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 8m

Fuxk I miss old twitter

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 8m

Is there somewhere else I can go which is t full of the most insufferable incurious liberal extroverts doing their version of social control and interpreting the world from their tedious, well educated privileged American ignorance ?

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 10m

-eye roll-

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 13m

I am simply here to say I love your handle. Thanks

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Pretzelcoatl @slinkingflorist.bsky.social · 1h

American Boo-ty

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 15m

Disgusting

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h

US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.

Pentagon chief Hegseth announces Qatari Air Force facility at Idaho base

US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

Displaced Palestinians return to the ruins of homes, driven by loss, defiance and the will to rebuild.

Palestinians search Gaza rubble for loved ones in ceasefire, return home

Displaced Palestinians return to the ruins of homes, driven by loss, defiance and the will to rebuild.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 17m

Remarkable to see the response to drone attacks, side by side

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Allied forces launch joint patrols near Russia after reports of drone incursions into allied airspace.

UK, US, NATO flew 12-hour patrol on Russian border amid Ukraine war

Allied forces launch joint patrols near Russia after reports of drone incursions into allied airspace.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Allied forces launch joint patrols near Russia after reports of drone incursions into allied airspace.

UK, US, NATO flew 12-hour patrol on Russian border amid Ukraine war

Allied forces launch joint patrols near Russia after reports of drone incursions into allied airspace.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 18h

Really happy with this shot #sqrlpix
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

Glasswares ,1st century. #Roman painted pitcher showing gladiatorial scenes.
Found in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. 👀
#Glass #Art #History #artwork
#FindsFriday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

A #Roman copper alloy plaque with Victory carrying a trophy including shields and two trumpets (carnyxes)

Probably commemorating triumph over the poor Silures in the late 1st century AD

From Caerleon © Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales CC BY-SA 4.0

For more see
images.museumwales.ac.uk

#FindsFriday

Bronze plaque with a relief image of a winged female personification of Victory carrying a trophy of armour, shields, trumpets and a helmet fixed to a pole slung over her right shoulder

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s all it was ever about

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

US grants license to Shell, Trinidad to develop Venezuelan gas field, official says reut.rs/4h4ouV4

US grants license to Shell, Trinidad to develop Venezuelan gas field, official says

The U.S. government has granted an authorization to energy major Shell and Trinidad and Tobago to develop an offshore gas field in Venezuela close to the maritime border, Trinidad's attorney general said on Thursday.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

OH SHEEEET

Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 4d

Life knows how to keep going - even if it’s freezing -15 degrees C 🥶 outside. AGU just covered our discovery of ultra resistant ice diatoms gliding into a world record! 🧪🔬Enjoy the story here:

eos.org/articles/ice...

Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos

New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 2d

Any of my English friends know antifascist organizers in Leicester? There's a Nazi shithead they need to be aware of.

Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 2d

Just found a Nazi anon whose X avatar has a swastika in the foreground and a distinctive motivational poster in the background.

Also found an AI startup founder on LinkedIn whose profile image happens to show a corner of the same poster (just out of view in the round image frame).

Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · Sep 2

I can’t get over how weird this is. There’s no way he didn’t intentionally include the little corner of the “E” in the crop, just to remove any possibility of doubt. What the fuck is happening in America

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I like how Blair is just upping his evidence for The Hague prosecutors

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