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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 1d

Classicstober day 9: Lampades 💃🏻🖤🔥

Art by flaroh illustration. Two nymphs running and dancing left holding torches in a green and red palette

oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 1d

Literally that entire season was so forced het romance that I actually lost all inspiration to finish the remaining 2 works I had for it. I can’t even suspend my own disbelief enough to finish my own work.

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 1d

RIP vigilmaker, John Cena loved you but season 2 did not.

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 2d

It’s actually difficult to articulate how sad bot/scam Ao3 comments make me. Comment culture is an afterthought now and for scam solicitation to be the only interaction a writer gets is genuinely kind of devastating. And this isn’t even about me, but just seeing one in the wild.

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 5d

I’m crawling out of the academia pit to attempt kinktober with the wizards. Updating daily here: archiveofourown.org/works/718644... #thunderweave

Thunderweave Kinktober 2025 - Chapter 1 - AccursedSpatula - Baldur's Gate (Video Games) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This striking gold necklace was made over 2,400 years ago. In ancient Greece, acorns were symbols of abundance and fertility, and used as decoration on gold objects.

The necklace was excavated over 150 years ago from the necropolis of Nymphaion in the Crimea, previously an ancient Greek colony.

A gold necklace with pendants in the shape of acorns hanging across the whole piece

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 6d

#OnThisDay the #Romans marked Mundus Patet — “the earth is open.” On Oct 5, the gateway to the underworld was said to open, letting spirits walk among the living. Like a Roman #Halloween, it was a sacred day: no battles, no business, no marriages. 🏛️👻

#RomanHistory 🏛️🌒

Mosaics representing skeletons and a sculptural relief of a sarcophagus representing the deceased at the gates of Hades

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 6d

So no, AI is not coming for film and tv. It’s spotted every time and the costs to fix AI made products exceed just making them manually every time. The same factors making your cost of living higher are making it more expensive to make film and tv - and so less is being made.

oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 6d

And if it were… the line would go the other way as AI would theoretically lessen the costs of production. But it’s not. Instead tariffs and inflation have skyrocketed production costs in an era with greatly diminished appetite for content and return on investment.

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 6d

As someone with 10+ years in studio finance, this is the worst take I have yet seen. Soundstage occupancy is at an all time low because studios are either driven to high budget miniseries or extremely cheap products. AI is not being used in any meaningful way in these programs.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 6d

#ClassicsTober Day 4: Shroud 💀🏺👻

Art by flaroh illustration. This illustration shows two hooded skeletons crowding around the burnt offerings to the spirits of the departed. It’s a loose take on the Romans’ offerings to the gods and manes (spirits)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d

If you are uncritically reporting on a new event, comedy festival, app, or virtual museum that notes that “Funding for the project was provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”—then you are not doing it right. They are laundering their reputation for killing journalists.

ARTnews
Visitors wear VR sets for exhibitions at the Wei and Jin Dynasties Ancient Tombs Site Museum in Kuqa City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 15, 2024.
XINHUA NEWS AGENCY VIA GETTY IMA
On Monday, UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, launched the world's first virtual museum of stolen cultural objects, which lists thousands of artifacts that can be viewed in 3D form.
The initiative was launched at UNESCO's World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development in Barcelona. The virtual museum was designed by the architect Francis Kéré in collaboration with the Ir'ernational Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). Funding for the project was provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 7d

KS doesn’t actually require fulfillment- you’re backing an “idea”. Aka that money is gone with no consequences. However, Andreea has a very public LinkedIn and Facebook… but everyone is better off doing chargebacks and reaching out to KS to get the project shut down and have her banned.

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 7d

A woman’s linen shroud from Roman Period Egypt is our pick today for #ClassicsTober25.

The artistry is phenomenal. The woman is surrounded by uraeus-cobras and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys depicted as red kites. At the bottom we see the woman led by Horus and Anubis into the afterlife.

Description adapted from The Met: “Placed over the supine mummy the naturalistic painted bust would lie over the face, and the panels of gods would have been draped along its sides. The woman’s rosy face and large eyes are striking. A long bone or ivory pin holds coils of her hair in place on top of her head, and she holds a small wreath in one hand. Over her abdomen Isis and Nephthys mourn, and over her lower body are placed the long strands of the late protective ornament as well as a net garment. Columns on either side of her head are invocations to the god Osiris, but her name is lost. The side panels are paired, showing the goddesses Isis and Nephthys as red kites (a bird related to the hawk); the four mummy-shaped “sons of Horus” associated with the bodily integrity; jackals associated with transit and cemetery; the Thoth-ibis and the Horus-falcon; and at the bottom scenes of the dead woman led by Horus and alternatively Anubis into the afterlife.“

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 7d

Measure Twice, Cut Once

xkcd.com/3149/

Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]

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Anabimelo @anabimelo.bsky.social · Sep 8

honesly, same
#vigilmaker #peacemaker #art #vigilante

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 9d

Hypnos 💤🪽 for #ClassicsTober Day 1!

Art by flaroh illustration. A portrait bust of the god Hypnos with red wings on either side of his head. Illustrated with a green and red and black palette

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BM: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Art (Bot) @bmegyptian.bsky.social · 9d

Date-Shaped Bottle https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/8774

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 9d

Hello hello hello 👀👀👀

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birds von bag @birdsbag.bsky.social · 9d

one foot in the grave

a drawing of a version of gale dekarios that has been greatly affected by the orb. he is thin and wearing lots of bandages, with lots of dark purple veins trailing from where the orb sits dark on his chest.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 10d

Because I know how much you guys love carpeted toilet accessories. Photo from my collection, 1972.

Color photo of a medium haired dilute tortie cat that seems to have Persian blood because it’s face is quite flat. It is looking up at the camera with its permanently, surprised expression. It’s sitting on top of the pink carpeted lid of a cream colored toilet. The tank of the toilet has a matching pink carpeted cover.

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oce @ocelittle.bsky.social · 10d

Stop framing current events as the fall of the Roman Empire (inaccurate anyway) and start framing them as the French Revolution.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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