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Rayya 🪡🖌🏳️‍🌈📚
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Amateur historian and dabbler in many arts.
SCA: Rayya al-Ruqay'ya & Raedora de La Palma
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searambo.bsky.social
Good morning, kids.
Be safe out there.
Sunrise over mountains. Bright orange today. The lack of snow is stunning 😳
February 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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jessaj-arts.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Clouds

Some more clouds for the artshow🩶💙🤍
February 1, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Typical winter's day in this entry for #February in the Labors of the Months section from the Très Riches Heures (15th.c). Some peasants get warm by the fire, another chops wood + another leaves for market. Above, an arguably redundant Phoebus... publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
February 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:
A charter written by a drunken spider
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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swordcrossdzine.bsky.social
While we wait for our bannermen to amass, let's take a look at some historical knights! Today we're focusing on Usama ibn Munqidh.

Sword Cross'd is an invite only zine exploring the lives of knights in all forms! Our interest check and mod apps are running now until Feb. 16.

#zine #knights
Background is dark blue with a repeating medieval pattern in shades of pale blue. Historical Knights. Usama ibn Munqidh: Crusades. Usama was a poet, author, diplomat or courtier, and faris (knight) during the crusades. He served as an advisor to Saladin, whose military successes are some of the most remembered from this period. Usama's writings provide a rare perspective of Islamic life during the crusades, especially in documenting his interactions with the crusaders.
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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molly.wiki
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
A red knitted cap with a pointed crown with a braided tassel. It's titled "Melt the ICE Hat" and it's by YarnCultMN n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design. The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the LynLake community of businesses who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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404media.co
The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.
www.404media.co
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
January 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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goldenwren.bsky.social
I know I've done this before and I'm doing it again. I will never not be angry about bias in women's clothing sizes. Especially sewing patterns. A 🧵 (pun intended)
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
January 20, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
A squirrel on an old embroidered book binding.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
It ys ympossible to fathom just how manye completely obscure punnes have ALREADYE BEEN MADE upon the ynternette. (RIP my post about "tick talk")
January 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
very important thread, here. 1/x

One of the earliest written examples of the word "fuck" is this, Fuckebegger (1286/7), part of the last name of one of Edward I’s grooms:
olde english Fuckbeggar
January 18, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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sarusquilla.bsky.social
Medieval shoes studies, because I absolutely LOVE medieval shoes and it’s my niche 👠👠👠
January 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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artologica.net
The Anchoress life does have its attractions
So You've Decided To Become Dead To The World
on becoming an anchoress
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January 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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kelsijosilva.bsky.social
Might fuck around and have a Knights and ladies phase again.
A lady and a Knight. They are both girls.
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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fragboner.bsky.social
Snail helm is go
Snail helmet with the shell being the helm and snail being the face cover
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
it's the big day
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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alariko.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
🎆 Happy New Year Everyone! 🎆

2026 is the Year of the Horse 🐴, so here are some of my favourite archaeological horses for #RockArtThursday!

This is the stunning 'Panel of the Horses' in Chauvet Cave, France, painted ~30,000 years ago! 🐎

I hope everyone has a great year!

#archaeology 🏺
Cave paintings in black of four horse heads next to eachother in succession on a yellow wall, with the drawing of a rhino beneath
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.

A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!

📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...

#Archaeology
The image shows a small, rounded, purple glass vessel in the shape of a pomegranate fruit displayed against a light grey background. The display lighting enhances the translucent purple glass which replicates the colour of a ripe fruit. There is some encrustation dotted around the body of the vessel and around the calyx which has one lobe missing. Height 6.9 cm (2.7 in), Diameter 6.6 cm (2.5 in). Probably used as a container for perfumed oil.
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM