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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Mike McIntyre @mikemcintyrewpg.bsky.social · 14h

I hope Seattle and Detroit play until early Sunday morning. And it’s only decided when both teams have to bring in a position player to pitch because they’ve run out of arms.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 14h

I love this.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 20h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

“she placed the frogs under interdict” that’s a curse guys

she cursed them

you canonized a witch

a gay witch probably

this is my new favorite saint. team Ulphia forever. just a baby lesbian and her old man hermit bestie vibing in their French swamp

a portrait of two Saint weirdos standing on a swampy marshy riverbank with a bunch of frogs looking up at them. one is a very very old bald man in a brown robe with weirdly voluminous sleeves. the other is a young woman in a kind of sand beige gown with a white head scarf

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 13h

That's a beautiful fuzzy blanket you have there.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 13h

Hell, I've got H's, and I'm like, half that. Maybe with some serious push-ups. And padding. And possibly tape.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 14h

😯

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I'll be in my bunk.

Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 14h

I ~was~ doing okay until I was reminded that I don't have one of these either.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

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Biological Riley @biologicalriley.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sorry but no one should take fashion advice from a Michigan man wearing a cowboy costume

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 16h

Credit to @WolfeyNHLUtah on the other app

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16h

I just remembered that in uni I wrote a paper about cultural references in THE MATRIX and as an aside, I was like, "isn't it interesting how often Neo is compared to/evokes female characters (Alice, Dorothy, Sleeping Beauty)? Anyhoo, back to the real meanings of the references in this movie..."

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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Cat Care Network of Central Iowa @catcarenetworkiowa.bsky.social · 19h

Highly recommend holding hands with a snuggly kitty in These Trying Times 😻

A grey foster kitten named Sneffels sleeps with his face in the palm of his human’s hand. Both front paws are wrapped around the hand. Photo owned by CatCareNetwork.org

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 17h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 17h

Sigh.

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 17h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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GibbertiFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 18h

on the coast they're known informally as 'hula dancers'

Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 18h

🧵
A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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$The image shows a circumhorizon arc (or circumhorizontal arc), an optical phenomenon resembling a fiery rainbow. It forms in a clear sky with cirrus clouds made of flat, hexagonal ice crystals aligned horizontally. These crystals refract sunlight, creating a colorful arc parallel to the horizon. Vibrant colors shine brightly against the blue sky, captured near North Fork Mountain, West Virginia.$

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 18h

Obviously Canadian thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 18h

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

This guy has to have the sweetest gig ever. He's open 12 hours a week over two days, barely advertises, doesn't even have the name of the place on his building, and still manages to sell out of at least a few flavours every week.

Also I can't wait for my turkey dinner pie.

A single story building with a stone facade and a red roof. A large sign hangs over the sidewalk that just says PIE in white letters on red. A chalk sandwichboard is leaning up against a tree next to the road with an arrow pointing towards the business saying "Turkey Pies" in large friendly letters, and another arrow pointing towards the street labelled with sad letters reading "no turkey pies."

The same building from the other side. Instead of "PIE," the sign is advertising a previous occupant, Diner's Restaurant Chinese Food, with fast pickup and delivery. It's old enough that the phone number doesn't include an area code.

A row of unbaked turkey dinner pies just waiting for their tops. Each one is made of put a base of turkey at the bottom of the pie shell, then organic peas, roasted brussels sprouts, shredded sweet potato, and topped with fresh cranberries.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18h

Look, colour!!

North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

A man wearing a thigh-length red tunic beneath a cloak of a darker red, both richly embroidered, blue leggings and soft, tan-coloured shoes.

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 7d

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 21h

What a mess. www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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