Maria dos Postais
@mariadospostais.bsky.social
I love postcards, music & books. Also photography & history.
Dog-mom to Nina #SuperNina
Dog-mom to Nina #SuperNina
Pinned
I’m (finally!) going down the rabbit hole and starting an inventory of the postcards I’ve been collecting for 37 years.
I’ve set up a DB and forms to input data, but will still be working out the analytics as I go. I also have plans for a (new) map.
It’s a really daunting task, but I’m excited
I’ve set up a DB and forms to input data, but will still be working out the analytics as I go. I also have plans for a (new) map.
It’s a really daunting task, but I’m excited
124 years
My great grandmother would have turned 123 today. She passed away in 1999, and I was lucky enough I got to be with her 18 years. I ‘found’ her some years ago in a book, with her 2nd husband and my ‘real’ great grandfather, who past away when I was 5.
Here they are in 1954, Clarinda and Vitorino.
Here they are in 1954, Clarinda and Vitorino.
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM
124 years
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Issues 5 thru 7 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are now available in the Bodega! ⚔️
If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️
If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️
January 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Issues 5 thru 7 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are now available in the Bodega! ⚔️
If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️
If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️
Nina is slowly going back to her old self, and we’re very relieved. She’s even hungrier than before! #SuperNina #DogsOfBluesky
January 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Nina is slowly going back to her old self, and we’re very relieved. She’s even hungrier than before! #SuperNina #DogsOfBluesky
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Hé Bluesky, j'ai créé un petit jeu. Il s'appelle Fausse Commune, et il va mettre à l'épreuve ta connaissance des régions françaises.
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Hé Bluesky, j'ai créé un petit jeu. Il s'appelle Fausse Commune, et il va mettre à l'épreuve ta connaissance des régions françaises.
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
A great thread, filled with top notch recommendations!
I saw this with 1 like = 1 plan.
I'm not into plans, but how about:
1 like = 1 (fantasy) book recommendation?
Comments with specific requests welcome. 😉
I'm not into plans, but how about:
1 like = 1 (fantasy) book recommendation?
Comments with specific requests welcome. 😉
December 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A great thread, filled with top notch recommendations!
@patricksamphire.bsky.social some love for your book!
Book#25 💙
Sword and sorcery with an urban fantasy feel. Fast, chaotic, and fun. A stubborn, headstrong hero with dry humour, sharp banter, messy choices, and a city that feels alive. Murder mystery energy, momentum all the way, a wildly entertaining romp.
💙📚🪐 #FantasyFaction #SFFbookRecommenfation
Sword and sorcery with an urban fantasy feel. Fast, chaotic, and fun. A stubborn, headstrong hero with dry humour, sharp banter, messy choices, and a city that feels alive. Murder mystery energy, momentum all the way, a wildly entertaining romp.
💙📚🪐 #FantasyFaction #SFFbookRecommenfation
December 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@patricksamphire.bsky.social some love for your book!
Nina has been napping a lot so she can recover better and faster. The worse seems to be behind us now, but she gave us quite a scare. A week of meds to go and a lot of resting to do. Vet appointment later today, so fingers crossed. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nina has been napping a lot so she can recover better and faster. The worse seems to be behind us now, but she gave us quite a scare. A week of meds to go and a lot of resting to do. Vet appointment later today, so fingers crossed. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
Nina has been ill for a week now. After 2 prior appointments, they decided she needed to be hospitalized, on Xmas Day. She’s lost a kg already and today they told us she needs to stay longer. I don’t see her getting better, despite what they tell us. I don’t know what to do with myself anymore.
December 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Nina has been ill for a week now. After 2 prior appointments, they decided she needed to be hospitalized, on Xmas Day. She’s lost a kg already and today they told us she needs to stay longer. I don’t see her getting better, despite what they tell us. I don’t know what to do with myself anymore.
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To err is human, and people in the past made mistakes just as often as we do today. Why, then, are archaeologists often reluctant to consider failure as a driving factor when investigating unexpected findings? #WorldQualityDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
To err is human, and people in the past made mistakes just as often as we do today. Why, then, are archaeologists often reluctant to consider failure as a driving factor when investigating unexpected findings? #WorldQualityDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Nina’s glorious side-eye, for your delight.
#SideEye #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #Terrier #YorkshireTerrier
#SideEye #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #Terrier #YorkshireTerrier
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Nina’s glorious side-eye, for your delight.
#SideEye #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #Terrier #YorkshireTerrier
#SideEye #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #Terrier #YorkshireTerrier
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In 2020, a farmer in England discovered one of the most significant Roman mosaics in the country. Archaeologists believe it depicts scenes from the Trojan War—but NOT the version told in the Iliad.
archaeology.org/news/2025/12/08/roman-britain-mosaic-features-scenes-based-on-lost-trojan-war-tale/
archaeology.org/news/2025/12/08/roman-britain-mosaic-features-scenes-based-on-lost-trojan-war-tale/
Roman Britain Mosaic Features Scenes Based on Lost Trojan War Tale
archaeology.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In 2020, a farmer in England discovered one of the most significant Roman mosaics in the country. Archaeologists believe it depicts scenes from the Trojan War—but NOT the version told in the Iliad.
archaeology.org/news/2025/12/08/roman-britain-mosaic-features-scenes-based-on-lost-trojan-war-tale/
archaeology.org/news/2025/12/08/roman-britain-mosaic-features-scenes-based-on-lost-trojan-war-tale/
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⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
Nina on her way to fetch grandma from the physical rehabilitation center, after a stroke. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Nina on her way to fetch grandma from the physical rehabilitation center, after a stroke. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
Emotional support *piles*, but same!
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Emotional support *piles*, but same!
I absolutely must learn French. The sheer amount of books that are published in French, in lovely, quality editions at fairly accessible prices is mind-blowing. Both fiction and non-fiction. I can read at a basic level but bought 3 medieval history related books because I just could not resist then.
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I absolutely must learn French. The sheer amount of books that are published in French, in lovely, quality editions at fairly accessible prices is mind-blowing. Both fiction and non-fiction. I can read at a basic level but bought 3 medieval history related books because I just could not resist then.
You heard Patrick: go get it!
Today is the day!
The long-awaited Mennik Thorn prequel novella, The Dead Man, is out now. I promised this to readers quite a long time ago. It works well either as an introduction to the series or for those who've read the other books, so no excuses! Go get it. :)
books2read.com/thedeadman
The long-awaited Mennik Thorn prequel novella, The Dead Man, is out now. I promised this to readers quite a long time ago. It works well either as an introduction to the series or for those who've read the other books, so no excuses! Go get it. :)
books2read.com/thedeadman
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
You heard Patrick: go get it!
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Me, every time I buy postcards or exit a bookshop. 🤦♀️
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Me, every time I buy postcards or exit a bookshop. 🤦♀️
Nina’s expressions never fail to do something to me. I love her to bits. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #puppylove
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Nina’s expressions never fail to do something to me. I love her to bits. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #puppylove
Same, Steve. Same.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Same, Steve. Same.
I’m at that point in life when I keep wondering what the hell have I done with my life… I really just wanted to work at a library. Was it too much to ask?
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I’m at that point in life when I keep wondering what the hell have I done with my life… I really just wanted to work at a library. Was it too much to ask?
One of the greatest writers I’ve read.
Remembering Italo Calvino on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984
"Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov."
- Michael Wood
📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984
"Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov."
- Michael Wood
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
One of the greatest writers I’ve read.
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"The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."
Patricia McKillip
Patricia McKillip
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."
Patricia McKillip
Patricia McKillip
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And here's a useful map of the chronological - and spatial - distribution of early medieval bed burials from a recent article. A A Noterman, 'Sharing a bed but nothing else', European Journal of Archaeology 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
And here's a useful map of the chronological - and spatial - distribution of early medieval bed burials from a recent article. A A Noterman, 'Sharing a bed but nothing else', European Journal of Archaeology 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
TIL bed burials existed. I’m pleasantly baffled (if there is such a thing).
A bed found in the grave of a 30 year old man buried in Lauchhiem-Mittelhofen, southern Germany, dated to 704AD.
October 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
TIL bed burials existed. I’m pleasantly baffled (if there is such a thing).