Jenna Hollan
@jennahollan.bsky.social
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Is minic a bhí cú mall sona. Sí/í/iad Interested in books, history, physics, psychology, Gaeilge, LC/MECFS, ND, disability, feminism, mosses, ferns, bad puns, and everyone trying to lift others up 💜.
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If you want to make your garden more beautiful and wildlife friendly, but don’t know where to start just ask…
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Conservation of Hagia Sophia mosaics, Istanbul, 1931-1964. Study of Light, 1948

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light streaming in from the openings on the dome of a huge mosque
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…. and them making the resultant trauma everyone else's problem 🎯🎯🎯.

Look, I’m sure that there are a few people out there who are just deeply unpleasant but I would guess that your suggestion explains a startling number of interactions.
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fluffycyborgii.bsky.social
Maybe all of these Twitter weirdos are secretly trying to get adopted as someone's underage child?
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I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if a considerable number of them are searching for reparenting to fix unacknowledged emotional wounds resulting from inadequate early attachment experiences.
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It’s a real abuser narrative: “I can be as unpleasant as I want, but it’s your responsibility to stay here and endure, because it’s your moral responsibility to fix my behaviour.” It’s delusional. Unless they happen to be my underage child, that is not my responsibility at all.
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Honestly, do yourself a favour. This hilarious thread is jampacked with information that you never knew that you needed to know.
nome.bsky.social
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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batemanhornecenter.bsky.social
A new study sheds light on why people with ME/CFS feel worse after activity.
Findings reveal an immune system on edge, energy production that falters, and gut barrier leaks fueling inflammation.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q3i8sV
#MECFS #PEM #Research
When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off
Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), where the body seems…
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nome.bsky.social
On the anesthetic point - immune is too strong a word, but 'anesthesia is only rarely sufficient to enable surgery to be undertaken' is close enough for me.

What's wild is that their response to anesthesia might be rooted in how they process oxygen when deprived for long periods underwater.
The big sleep: How do you anesthetize a hippopotamus?
It may rank fairly low in most lists of pressing problems to be solved but an increasing number of zoos and wildlife collections as well as gamekeepers nevertheless need to come up with an answer:  Ho...
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
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
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.

They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
Montage showing coloured illustrations of moths and the envelope in which they’re kept. There is blue handwriting on the envelope, which might read: ‘Frohawk’s drawings [o]f Melan[istic] Leps’.
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mousketeer.bsky.social
Catherine Connolly stepped out when she should have stepped in again. Completely ruining Lanigan's Ball.
#SmearTheBejazuz #SpéirGhorm
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stephanenny.bsky.social
Driver pulled over to give way for Catherine Connolly on rural road and Connolly did *not* give awkward little wave of acknowledgement
izzyfox.bsky.social
Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!
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Awesome!! If that were me, I would have it chiselled into my tombstone!
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I don’t know: it sounds like he understood Godot perfectly!

In passing, I had no idea that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were playing Didi and Gogo, but now I do, I would love to see this.
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TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
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That makes perfect sense. I thought there would have to be. It was just so striking in this day & age not to see the balance. But look, a 15s clip is hardly going to be indicative of a whole complex organisation.
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Destroying children while wearing heels no less 🤣. That’s just adding insult to injury.
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That’s very good to hear, thanks Eilish!
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Fair play to ye. It’s great work to be doing. But it’s a bit weird that there were no women in the video. Maybe it’s a short clip from a longer piece.
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That is beautifully said 💜.
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto.
#ToriiTuesday #Shinto #kitsune #Japan
Moss covered stone steps leading to Astone torii with stone foxes wearing red bibs either side.
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artinsociety.bsky.social
From ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC)
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
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I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.
Small votive dedication to Hades showing a man in a chariot and, sorry, a chicken. With greek inscription.