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Ritterton here and elsewhere!
@ritterton.bsky.social
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Enjoy history, archaeology, arts, and the crafting of heirloom items. Sharing as a middle-aged guy that has an open mind and a more liberal heart. Civics works
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chapps.bsky.social
One object at the #BritishMuseum that never fails to enthrall people is this Achaemenid Persian gold model chariot, part of the Oxus Treasure. I love the guy sitting sideways on a bench wearing a kandys coat. Zoom in for the details! 🏺 1/

5th-4th c. BCE, Tajikistan. 📸 me
Model of a gold chariot drawn by four horses abreast. At the front of the cab are two diagonal bracing struts with a head of the Egyptian god Bes at the intersection. The two large wheels each have nine spokes, and the running surfaces are studded with small pellets to represent the bulbous heads of large stud-like nails which in the full-size original would have secured a tyre and felloe-sheathing of bronze. The main human figure in the cab is seated on a bench; he wears a long robe reaching to the ankles, the sleeves of which appear to be empty like those of the kandys (a three-quarter length leather or thick wool Persian coat). On his head is a hood or cap, around the front of which is a flat strip of gold, resembling a fillet, and around his neck is a gold wire torc. The driver wears a similar cap without a fillet, a short girded tunic and a wire torc; his legs are also formed of wires. The two human figures are fixed to the chariot by wires. The chariot is pulled via a pair of draught-poles fixed to four horses under a single four-bay yoke. On the yoke, above each horse, is a large loop, representing the terrets, through which the wire reins pass; alternating with these loops were originally four crescentic fan-shaped yoke ornaments. The chariot is pulled via a pair of draught-poles fixed to four horses under a single four-bay yoke. On the yoke, above each horse, is a large loop, representing the terrets, through which the wire reins pass; alternating with these loops were originally four crescentic fan-shaped yoke ornaments. The bits have large rings at the sides as rein attachments, and each animal has duplicate representations of the neck-strap and backing-element, the former with a pendant tassel, punched into the metal. Only nine of the original sixteen legs of the horses survive.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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selenalarson.bsky.social
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:

- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating

This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this podcast Doc @simonelliott20.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Learned a lot from that one.

#HATM family, have a good week. Be thankful for what you can and note where you can help make it better for others.
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
So that is the inflationary rate on 30 pieces of silver...

A gas station and some cash.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Judas then left the scene.

Wow.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Ok, just going to say, Martin Sheen makes sense for this roll, but boy is it hard for me to swallow as I am just a giant West Wing fan.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
And we are only about 50% through this movie...wow.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Truly gut wrenching and chilling.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Well, that was pretty predictable as to the Chicago police department's response.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
So, wait, is she an informant? #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Oh, she is pregnant...

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Roy, Roy, you are so naive to believe that this is going to go well.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
That was one hell of a tension-filled scene in the church.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Well, points for calling out his extremely rude behavior.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Oh, I like her.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
Well, now we know how we get the title.

Wow, what a choice and working for the FBI - wow.

#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
And we are a go, #HATM #JudasandtheBlackMessiah tonight.

WoW, wow, Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover...wow. That was not what I expected.
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
ritterton.bsky.social
For my 2nd ##onehourread, its time for some needed inspiration with #WhatsNext and the inside look at the incredible #TheWestWing series.

Written by #MelissaFitzgerald and @marycmccormack.bsky.social and these two have a great style that makes this a delight!

Puppysitting the dau's dogs. Exhausted
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
ritterton.bsky.social
1st in my #onehourreads is ##BetweenTwoRivers by Doc @moudhy.bsky.social and this is a delightful way to start a morning where we are on the 7th morning of puppy sitting. Im beat lol.

Let's retreat into #AncientMesopotamia for a break.

#onehourread
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ritterton.bsky.social
Ok GenX #Hatm folk
Have you called the

Hall and Oates Emergency Music Hotline today?

Real..honest! Just tried it twice.

719-266-2837

When you need Music accompaniment to your 80s flashback!
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
On this stormy L.A. day, this ancient Roman blue glass olla (jar) brings me back to sunnier days and the beach. That effect is created by the application of large 'grains' of opaque yellow and green glass to the body of the jar. 😍 🏺 1/

From Pozzuoli, mid-1st c. CE. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
Stumpy urn-shaped transparent blue glass olla (jar) with a rim that folds out and downwards. On the body of the jar's tapering lower half are large grains of opaque yellow (with a few green) grains of glass. It gives the same effect as sand sticking to a wet glass at the beach. British Museum (1869,0624.30)
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's 19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had "determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky. The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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bottledinbond.bsky.social
In the 60s when Dolly Parton was fresh to Nashville and her record company at the time didn't know what to do with her yet, she released a few incredible girl group/pop/r&b tunes.

youtu.be/Zq6_el27aw8?...
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM