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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 3m

Blossom Puzzle, October 10
Letters: A E I T L S Z
My score: 370 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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#MerriamWebster

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 14m

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 10, 2025

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My Score: 2040

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 18m

#Wordle 1,574 6/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Yikes! Almost blew a 225 game streak! 🤪

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 1d

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

An October Morning (1910)
🎨 Frank Alfred Bicknell

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay - 9 October - in 28 BC Augustus dedicated the Temple of Palatine Apollo. One of Augustus’ most important buildings, Velleius Paterculus (2.81.3) claims he “spared no expense”. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC Augustus 271; ANS 1947.2.412. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman denarius: Head of Apollo, laureate, right.

Reverse of a Roman denarius: Rostral column with prows of ships; on top, statue of Octavian.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵

#LatinForTheDay – 9 October #Ovid

“quid iuvat in nudis hamata retundere tela
ossibus? ossa mihi nuda relinquit amor.
tot sine amore viri, tot sunt sine amore puellae!—
hinc tibi cum magna laude triumphus eat.
Roma, nisi inmensum vires promosset in orbem,...

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

Blossom Puzzle, October 9
Letters: B D E A K R Y
My score: 300 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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#MerriamWebster

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 9, 2025

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 2500

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

#Wordle 1,573 3/6

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a new way of finding the harmonic mean?

youtu.be/KAYgByu9xCQ?...

Is this a new way of finding the harmonic mean???

YouTube video by Howie Hua

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 1d

"Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."
~ D.H. Lawrence

Autumn on Krestovsky Island
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

an orange jumpsuit

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 1d

www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt... Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine #origami #geometry #physics #particlephysics #amplituhedron #math #maths #mathematics #ITeachMath #MTBoS #MathSky

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Wow 👇

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

Not a Soybean Farmer: No bailouts. Live with the consequences of your votes.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 2d

Your Beautiful Mid-Week Word:

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 2d

Witness Augustus as you’ve never seem him, re-sculptured to look nothing like himself!

The scene is ostensibly Augustus driving a chariot of Tritons. The imagery includes Tritons holding a shield with an oak wreath (thought to be the clipeus virtutis) and Victoria.

#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome

Description from Kunsthistorisches Museum: “The cameo shows Augustus, clad in a toga – the heads of the figures are all modern – viewed from the front in a chariot being pulled through the sea by Tritons. The triumphant naval victor holds a branch in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. An oak wreath is attached to the parapet of the chariot, and a shell is attached to the end of the handle. While the two middle Tritons – one holding a horn in his right, the other a dolphin in his left – each raise an arm symmetrically as if pointing at Augustus, the two outer Tritons carry the symbols of his reign in front of him: the left holds a globe, on which a shield with an oak wreath (clipeus virtutis) flanked by two ibexes, and the right shows Victoria floating on the globe. The cameo was probably created soon after 27 BCE, when Augustus was awarded the oak wreath, which - together with the ibex - was also engraved on the back of the stone in the 16th century.”

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

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Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

Blossom Puzzle, October 8
Letters: A C E N G I S
My score: 367 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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#MerriamWebster

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 8, 2025

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My Score: 1960

Dawn Del Vecchio @dawndelvecchio.bsky.social · 2d

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