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blasting,
blazing
stars exploding
a cosmic war,
raging in the sky
blazing
stars exploding
a cosmic war,
raging in the sky
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
blasting,
blazing
stars exploding
a cosmic war,
raging in the sky
blazing
stars exploding
a cosmic war,
raging in the sky
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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Да что ж ты будешь делать опять
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Да что ж ты будешь делать опять
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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#EpigraphyTuesday - Legionary insignia of Legio X Fretensis and tabula ansata with inscription dedicated to Hadrian. From the High Level Aqueduct of Caesarea at Beit Hananya (Israel). The Tenth legion took part in the building of the new aqueduct commissioned by Hadrian in AD 130.
![Legionary insignia
Imperatori) Tr(aia)n(o)
Hadr(iano)
vex(illatio) leg(ionis)
X [F]rete(nsis
Detachment of the legio X Fretensis to Imperator Traianus Hadrianus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a35zqekikgeljvwfjfettv2a/bafkreig7os54kwp6kgty6cajpj3q3hgiwkibwsoj75jfvwsmbtzdcbepue@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday - Legionary insignia of Legio X Fretensis and tabula ansata with inscription dedicated to Hadrian. From the High Level Aqueduct of Caesarea at Beit Hananya (Israel). The Tenth legion took part in the building of the new aqueduct commissioned by Hadrian in AD 130.
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Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
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Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
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This has me picturing a miniature gallows for moths
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This has me picturing a miniature gallows for moths
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Came across this youngster today
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Came across this youngster today
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This evening, some psychedelic megaliths (psychedeliths?)
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This evening, some psychedelic megaliths (psychedeliths?)
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4. The patterns
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
4. The patterns
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A little light lenticular action for you all.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A little light lenticular action for you all.
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Ainos (modern Enez/Edirne) was a fortified city on the Hebros (Maritsa/Meriç) River near the Aegean coast. Alexios I used it as his headquarters during his wars against the Pechenegs. After the Ottoman conquest of Morea (Peloponnese), Ainos was granted to the deposed despotes Demetrios Palaiologos.
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ainos (modern Enez/Edirne) was a fortified city on the Hebros (Maritsa/Meriç) River near the Aegean coast. Alexios I used it as his headquarters during his wars against the Pechenegs. After the Ottoman conquest of Morea (Peloponnese), Ainos was granted to the deposed despotes Demetrios Palaiologos.
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Features of a nuclear blast (1.6Mt) that you don't normally see in archive films: shockwave from 40 miles away knocking people to the ground and shattering windows... as well as the enormous dust and ash cloud long after.
This is one of the more unique nuclear test films I've ever seen.
This is one of the more unique nuclear test films I've ever seen.
Here is an impressive, declassified Soviet film of the RDS-37 test, including a scene showing four men in Kurchatov, the administrative secret city about 40 miles east of the test site, being knocked to the ground by the explosion’s powerful, rapidly-moving shockwave (which also shattered windows).
RDS-37 Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1955)
YouTube video by atomicarchive
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Features of a nuclear blast (1.6Mt) that you don't normally see in archive films: shockwave from 40 miles away knocking people to the ground and shattering windows... as well as the enormous dust and ash cloud long after.
This is one of the more unique nuclear test films I've ever seen.
This is one of the more unique nuclear test films I've ever seen.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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One of my favourite photos from the Thames Foreshore this year, view from Wapping Old Stairs across the river to Rotherhithe. Taken on a gloomy weather day just like today, an eerie Thames mist took us by surprise as it appeared from nowhere and rolled silently upstream, shrouding the landscape.
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One of my favourite photos from the Thames Foreshore this year, view from Wapping Old Stairs across the river to Rotherhithe. Taken on a gloomy weather day just like today, an eerie Thames mist took us by surprise as it appeared from nowhere and rolled silently upstream, shrouding the landscape.
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Since the 'blessing' of holy water is actually not a blessing but a minor exorcism, an acolyte who is implicitly an exorcist could potentially claim to be able to perform it
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Since the 'blessing' of holy water is actually not a blessing but a minor exorcism, an acolyte who is implicitly an exorcist could potentially claim to be able to perform it
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Going even deeper into this rabbithole, it's arguable that even an instituted acolyte (that's a properly authorised acolyte, not just a rando performing the role of acolyte) can make holy water, since the order of acolyte is above that of exorcist in old minor orders, and thus implicitly contains it
In fact you don't even need a priest - deacons can make holy water too. And you can bypass even that requirement by getting holy water from a shrine such as the well at Walsingham or St Winefrid's Well; some churches even have a whole cistern of holy water you can fill up from, too
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Going even deeper into this rabbithole, it's arguable that even an instituted acolyte (that's a properly authorised acolyte, not just a rando performing the role of acolyte) can make holy water, since the order of acolyte is above that of exorcist in old minor orders, and thus implicitly contains it
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Manuscript
I'd
Like to
Foliate
I'd
Like to
Foliate
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Manuscript
I'd
Like to
Foliate
I'd
Like to
Foliate
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My most woke opinion is that if Fabian, Cassian and Damian are legit male names, Lesbian should be a male name too
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My most woke opinion is that if Fabian, Cassian and Damian are legit male names, Lesbian should be a male name too
а менору когда?
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
а менору когда?
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#RomanSiteSaturday - The well-preserved late Roman defensive walls in Le Mans, France, are among the best examples of their kind after those in Rome and Constantinople. Originally, the walls encircled the city for a total length of 1,300 meters, and today, more than 500 meters remain intact.
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday - The well-preserved late Roman defensive walls in Le Mans, France, are among the best examples of their kind after those in Rome and Constantinople. Originally, the walls encircled the city for a total length of 1,300 meters, and today, more than 500 meters remain intact.
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Cross and decorative mosaics from the narthex of Hagia Sophia
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Cross and decorative mosaics from the narthex of Hagia Sophia