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Flosshilde
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Works for the NHS. Geek. Likes history, politics, Palestine, cats, music, TV, films, ballet, wine, photography, PS5, science, astronomy, opera and books My pinterest page - https://uk.pinterest.com/moonbootica/
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 2m
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ENB@75 Digital Celebration: Bringing together our Giselles | English National Ballet
YouTube video by English National Ballet
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 2m
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Italy deploys army ahead of Israel football match
Thousands of Italians protest Israel’s participation in World Cup qualifiers
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 18m
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Cardiff City defend pest control policy after rat halts Wales football match
Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 5h
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‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures
Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 5h
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Thousands of homes now need repairs after insulation fitted under government scheme
More than 30,000 homes face damp or mould due to ill-fitted insulation, with a handful facing immediate risks like fires, a government watchdog warned. The energy department said it had plans to fix t...
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 5h
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Human rights official urges UK to review laws after Palestine Action placard arrests
Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana Mahmood
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 17h
October was a very busy month in terms of Roman Festivals. Today we say Happy Fontinalia!

On 13th October, #Romans decorated fountains & wellheads with garlands to honour Fontus, god of wells & springs.

Votive altar dedicated to the Divine Fontes
Image of an altar dedicated to Fontus
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 8h
#worlddessertday

Tyropatinam: #Roman custard.

1/2 litre milk
2 or 3 tsp honey
5 eggs
black pepper

Melt honey in milk, whip eggs & add to milk. Bake in bain marie until creamy, stirring occasionally. Allow to cool & dress with black pepper.

Representation of custard on a fresco, #Pompeii
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 21h
I’m sorry you don’t like big breasts, that sounds like a you problem
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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 22h
Unfortunately, when you look closely, he’s a total loon.

How can anyone expect evidence-based policy from someone who once claimed he could hypnotise women into having bigger breasts?

It’s apparently very rare for a politician to have both a heart and a brain…
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 7h
Cause for canonization of the Theatine Andrea Avellino 18 Aug 1620. This is Luke Wadding’s working copy. Avellino who d. 10 Nov 1608 was beatified #otd 14 Oct 1624. Canonized 22 May 1712.

The massive 1029 folio dossier - ipad for scale.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 7h
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In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 7h
BBC News - Eurovision organisers postpone vote on Israel's inclusion in contest next year
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Eurovision organisers postpone vote on Israel's inclusion in contest next year
The European Broadcasting Union had previously announced it would hold a vote on Israel's participation in November.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 8h
Merry
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 1d
Who she is and the skilled artist that painted her is unknown. She was living in Egypt during the #Roman period & her hairstyle dates her to cAD160-170. She is shown with a beautiful necklace (painted in gold leaf) and earrings - Fayum portrait - @British Museum
Image of an encaustic portrait of an Ancient Roman-Egyptian lady
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 17h
Emperor Claudius died #OTD 13 Oct AD54, at 63. Son of Drusus (son of Livia & brother of Tiberius) & Antonia (niece of Augustus). Proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard in AD41, he restored stability after Caligula's chaos, strengthened imperial administration & oversaw the conquest of Britain.
Busts of Claudius, statue of Claudius and cameo of Claudius Busts of Claudius, statue of Claudius and cameo of Claudius Busts of Claudius, statue of Claudius and cameo of Claudius
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 18h
Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn in a studio portrait of Giselle
Jacob's Pillow, 1958
Photo by Jack Mitchell
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 20h
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Romania's Saint Parascheva feast draws tens of thousands of pilgrims
Thousands of faithful braved the rain and bad weather on the first day of their pilgrimage in the capital of the Moldova region, lining up in queues that stretched for almost 2 kilometres.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 22h
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Firings of hundreds of CDC employees reportedly reversed
Department of Health and Human Services rescinds more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent, reports say
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 23h
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 23h
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‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home
Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 23h
Booked our flights and hotel for Florence next year!!!!!
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d
BBC News - Mystery of necklace which disappeared from Paris catwalk 30 years ago - BBC News
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Mystery of necklace which disappeared from Paris catwalk 30 years ago
The piece was due to be used in a show by British designer Alexander McQueen - but then disappeared.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 1d
The fucking shapes Theil needs to contort himself into to pretend he isn't always the villain in pop culture.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 1d
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The Ad Campaign for Capitalism
In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 1d
Can't believe I, personally, forced Netanyahu to be a genocidal tyrant. My bad, guys.
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