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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · Aug 1

Chaque jour qui passe, l'actualité devient de plus en plus pénible, le monde semble devenir de plus en plus inhospitalier. Raison de plus pour toujours trouver le temps de se réfugier dans n'importe quelle petite bribe de beauté qui passerait à portée de main – ou plutôt d'œil...

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jul 30

Two little quail chicks carved on a limestone plaque over 2,000 years ago.

Look closely to see a third chick sketched in ink!

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

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#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

The photo shows a limestone plaque with two carved quail chicks and a sketch of a quail chick in black ink. It is displayed against a grey background.

Traces of ink occur on both carved chicks suggesting the limestone plaque shows three stages of an ancient Egyptian artisan’s work; the ink sketch at top left, the finished chick at upper right, and the almost finished chick at bottom left. Limestone plaque dimensions: H. 15 x W. 13.8 x D. 0.9 cm

Likely representing the quail chick hieroglyph for the sound ‘w’

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

An amazing miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms.

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On display at British Museum

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A green stone bust of a woman displayed in a museum. The sculpture features an elaborate hairdo and a solemn expression. The bust is mounted on a clear stand, with a blurred background showcasing other artifacts in the exhibition.

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 19h

"Conspiracy theory is now a primary mode of discourse, alongside a breakdown of any shared intellectual authority. Anxiety about identity has bred various reactionary nostalgias all over the West. Vanishingly few of us look ahead with hope." jacobin.com/2025/10/russ...

When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar...

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Le Point @lepoint.fr · 10d

Voyage cauchemardesque en naturopathie

Par @olivierhertel.bsky.social

Voyage cauchemardesque en naturopathie

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 1d

A #Roman glass cup, in amber glass with irregular blue, red, & white splodgy decoration #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

Quelle histoire incroyable.

Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, #Roman tombstones really do get around - this one was rediscovered in New Orleans, after being transported across the Atlantic by unknown persons in the chaotic aftermath of WW2...

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New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

"Like communism, neoliberalism was defeated by reality. The real world simply refused to behave the way that liberals thought it should." (via @brankomilan.bsky.social )
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Defeated by the real world

Why did neoliberalism, in its domestic and international components, fail?

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Au Louvre, j'aime @aulouvrejaime.bsky.social · 1d

Porte décorée d'oiseaux, d'un serpent (?), de rinceaux, de palmettes et d'entrelacs
Musée du Louvre

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

Ça commence à aller un peu mieux...

M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

Bonne comparaison. Il y a quelque chose dans la nature humaine qui pousse à peu près tout le monde à se prosterner sans discernement devant la dernière innovation technologique, sans s'attarder à penser aux conséquences. Comme un gamin tout enivré de son dernier joujou bsky.app/profile/nico...

Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 7d

L'IA aujourd'hui, c'est comme l'amiante hier. On en met partout, avec gourmandise. On consacrera demain des sommes folles et des efforts infinis pour dépolluer l'espace informationnel.

Claire Sécail @clairesecail.bsky.social · 7d

C'est quoi ces cours générés par IA qui citent ton nom en t'inventant des publis que tu n'as jamais écrites et t'attribuant des catégorisations qui ne sont pas de toi parce que tu es juste en train d'analyser leur usage courant (surtout pas de les valider comme catégorie).
Marre de ces conneries.

M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

Comme quoi, l'IA générative n'est que l'épisode le plus récent dans une longue histoire d'automatisations de tâches autrefois exclusivement manuelles. Évidemment, il y aura tout un processus collectif d'apprentissage, avec tout ce que cela comportera de tâtonnements et d'inévitables boulettes...

Chloé Woitier @chloew.bsky.social · 1d

Pendant ce temps, dans les cabinets d'avocats...

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 1d

Ce texte est un magnifique exemple de "discours mystificateur (...) qui tien[t] pour mensonger ce qui est vrai".

Conspiracy Watch @conspiration.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza : pourquoi le mot « génocide » pose problème ⬇️
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Gaza : pourquoi le mot « génocide » pose problème - Conspiracy Watch | L'Observatoire du conspirationnisme

L’invention de complots imaginaires d’une part et la dénégation de la réalité d’autre part ne sont que les deux faces d’une même pièce. C’est pourquoi, en tant qu’il relève d’une démarche fondamentale...

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.bsky.social · 1d

Pourquoi dire que le mot "génocide" pose problème pose problème : parce que pendant ce temps le massacre de la population civile continue et que contester l'usage du mot revient concrètement à nier ou à minimiser l'ampleur et la sytématicité de ce massacre 💀

Conspiracy Watch @conspiration.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza : pourquoi le mot « génocide » pose problème ⬇️
✍️ @rreichstadt.bsky.social

Gaza : pourquoi le mot « génocide » pose problème - Conspiracy Watch | L'Observatoire du conspirationnisme

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

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A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 6d

On this lovely weekend day, with my spine having given out (off to emergency care, I think - bleh), I want to be like this netsuke cat from Japan, without a care in the world. So here he is for #caturday.

ca. 1800-1850. #V&A
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The netsuke is a toggle. Japanese men used netsuke to suspend various pouches and containers from their sashes by a silk cord. Netsuke had to be small and not too heavy, yet bulky enough to do the job. They needed to be compact with no sharp protruding edges, yet also strong and hard-wearing. Above all, they had to have the means for attaching a cord. Netsuke were made in a variety of forms, the most widely appreciated being the <i>katabori</i> (shape carving), a three-dimensional carving, such as this one in the form of a cat dozing on an oval disc, with its tail curled over the back part of its body.

Cats were introduced into Japan in the late 9th century, and quickly became a favorite part of their culture, right into the modern era with pop culture phenomena like Hello Kitty and cat cafés.

Japan, ca. 1800-1850, carved and stained ivory.

V&A Museum (A.65-1915)

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 6d

This large red-figure terracotta astragalos (knucklebone) is thought to depict Aeolus - keeper of the winds - at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds. On the other sides of this vessel, groups of women float about on the winds. 🏺

Greek, Aegina, 470-450 BCE. #BritishMuseum
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Red-figured vessel in the form of a knucklebone (astragalos), showing a male figure, perhaps Aeolus - keeper of the winds - at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds.

A bearded man - Aeolus - beside the opening of the vase, with a mantle wrapped around his waist, gesticulates with both arms to a band of three girls who dance from the right towards him with joined hands. The foremost looks at him, the second looks back at the third, who is only half seen, her figure being cut off by the edge of the vase. Each has a long sleeved chiton; the two foremost wear a mantle fastened on the left shoulder, and a saccos, which in the case of the foremost is black.

Greek, Attic, made in Athens, 460-450 BCE, from Aegina. Attributed to the Sotades Painter.

British Museum, London (1860.1201.2)

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 4d

A #Roman dodecahedron, found in the Netherlands; they look so cool - now if only we knew for sure what they were for! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 10d

#EpigraphyTuesday – A pretty damn fabulous copper alloy 'tabula ansata' with an inscription for Mars Medocius, discovered in Camulodunum (Roman Colcehester): ca. AD 222-235. #Latin 🧵🏺

Image: British Museum (1892,0421.1). Link – britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 3d

Les nuages n'arrêtent pas de s'accumuler... legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

«Enshittification» : la nouvelle doctrine de l'Empire américain | Le Grand Continent

Le plan de l’administration Trump pour faire du reste du monde un vassal d’extrême droite — et les moyens pour le déjouer. Une pièce de doctrine signée Henry Farrell et Abraham Newman.

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 3d

L'alliance franco-ottomane oubliée lvsl.fr/lalliance-fr...

L’alliance franco-ottomane oubliée

Structurante du règne de François Iᵉʳ (1515-1547) au Directoire (1795-1799), l’alliance franco-ottomane fut l’une des plus longues de l’histoire de France. Sujette à un véritable oubli mémoriel, elle ...

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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 3d

Le fond du problème, c'est le refus buté de la classe politique française *dans son ensemble* de vouloir admettre que la "construction européenne", qu'elle a toujours soutenu sans mollir, et qui est, en fait, en grande partie son œuvre, a été une catastrophe pour le pays.
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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 3d

Je ne crois pas du tout à ceux qui soutiennent que la crise est le résultat de je ne sais quels calculs machiavéliques de sa part. Regardons les choses en face : il n'y a plus de pilote dans l'avion... 😬
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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 3d

Macron a complètement perdu la main. Il est dans la situation de quelqu'un qui est aux prises avec un bâton merdeux dont il ne sait pas comment se dépêtrer.
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M.B. @mjjbeaufils.bsky.social · 4d

Mais qu'est-ce qu'on a fait pour mériter une pareille bande de tocards. Franchement.

a baby is sitting on a couch and making a face

ALT: a baby is sitting on a couch and making a face

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6d

Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament viewed from the front against a grey background. The headband is made of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. A string would have threaded through the loops to fasten the band around the head at the back. The front of the band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, identified as the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica). The stag has two large antlers, large ears and a triangular-shaped head. It is flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. The gazelle heads have long ears and long curved horns which point outwards at the tip. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9, length of headband 49.5 cm.

Dated to the Second Intermediate period (c. 1648-1540 BC) when northern Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos from the ancient Near East. Said to be part of a group of objects found in the Eastern Delta near Avaris, the Hyksos capital. The headband shows a mix of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian artistic styles.

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