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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · Apr 8

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John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 1m

Merci Mayor Rob, et bonne chance pour la semaine à venir

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 5h

#SundaySentence

"This is no new thing: Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience."

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 15m

a man in a pirate hat is holding a picture of a castle

ALT: a man in a pirate hat is holding a picture of a castle

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 17m

It's the automated version of The Rules nonsense that was popular in certain quarters a few years ago

Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 20m

@hbomberguy.bsky.social is a hero

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 26m

Barbara Stanwyck for Ball of Fire (1941)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3h

N Cramer Roberts’ poster promoting the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, c1929

travel poster
a ship passing a light house

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 1h

“We are dead, a soul without a body.” 1 min in Gaza youtu.be/S0clzDvlEhw?...

'How many years before they build our homes?': Gaza City residents return to find total destruction

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 1h

Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.

Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 35m

I was thinking about a Mariachi band on continuous loop

This works as well🤣🤣

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 59m

❗️A 🇷🇺Russian diesel-electric submarine, B-261 "Novorossiysk", surfaced near the coast of Brittany, 🇫🇷France, reportedly due to serious technical issues.French Navy frigate monitored Russian submarine's actions

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 4h

The good folks at Sea Lion Press have published something perfect for #AlternateHistoween. 2020's Travellers in an Antique Land is a collection of thirteen (hah) stories of alternate history horror for some of the best writers the online alternate history community has to offer.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

Sit tibi terra levis - May the earth rest lightly on you

Diane Keaton 1946-2025

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 1d

This Hellenistic bronze depicts Herakles after his final Labor, holding the apples of the garden of the Hesperides. This may originally have represented a Hellenistic king in the guise of Herakles - the tree and snake behind him may be modern. 🏺 1/

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This bronze group depicts a well-muscled Herakles after accomplishing his final labor, heroically naked, standing contrapposto, and holding three of the golden apples in his left hand (which are guarded by a giant serpent hanging from a tree behind him). These apples were the source of the hero's eternal youth and Herakles' own passport to eternal life: the only hero to become a god.

Originally the figure might have represented a Hellenistic king in the guise of Herakles. The realistic facial features and thick sideburns were characteristics of royal portraiture and many Hellenistic dynasties claimed descent from Herakles to legitimise their authority. The tree with the serpents and the base are probably a modern addition.

Hellenistic, Byblos (historic Phoenicia), from a temple (which one?), Lebanon, ca. 250-230 BCE.

Height: 0.76 meters (2.49 feet)
Weight: 37 kg (81.6 lbs.)

British Museum, London (1805,0703.38)

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15h

A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay.
Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2

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Roman bronze fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back. The panther’s body features small enamel inlays, and the piece rests on display in a museum case.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello new followers and welcome! My focus is on #archaeology, you can expect posts from me covering a wide range of topics, e.g. objects, exhibitions, and latest discoveries, primarily from the European Paleolithic to the early medieval period.
I may also share posts about nature and Star Trek.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1h

So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 4h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 1h

Top marks for this diorama from The Fram Museum. it has a theodolite and huskies (two dogs are toppled, which merely hints at their fates).

diorama with a model of a ship stuck in ice with models of people and dogs, supplies, instruments etc around it.

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Ready Aye Ready - Royal Canadian Navy #RCN @ready-aye-ready.bsky.social · 1h

HMCS CH 15 ~ Submarine - H Class. Builder: Fore River Co., Quincy, Mass #RCN More: https://readyayeread...

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Stefano Porciello @steporciello.bsky.social · 1h

The EU found some courage. Let’s see for how long

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 5h

Brussels to back net-zero shipping deal despite Trump sanction threat

Trump administration threatens 'sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies'

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 1h

The Luftwaffe really were nonsense

Galland had his yellow nosed 109

With suitable cross referencing and possible info from slave labour, it's possible that the RAF had a fairly complete picture of who they were facing across the channel, even down to Galland's trouser size

Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 1h

Every time I listen to it properly, the song turns to shit and I remember that Carol T'Pau is a right old case

I prefer my artistic re-imagining

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2h

@richardlittler.bsky.social has reminded me that this is out there. Theme single to the now long lost R3. For added loveliness, the video background on this clip is telesnaps from the episode "Experiment In Depth". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rwx...

R3: Ministry of Research Centre No. 3 - BBC TV Theme - Ken Thorne - 1964

YouTube video by Funky1&2

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