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Imperial porphyry sarcophagi at Istanbul Archaeological Museums, originally at the Church of the Holy Apostles. In 1461, the remains of the Church of the Holy Apostles were demolished by the Ottomans to make way for the Fatih Mosque.
📸 me 🏺🗃️ #SarcophagusSaturday
Imperial porphyry sarcophagi at Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
June 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Everyone’s embarrassing Facebook uncle has now been succeeded by everyone’s embarrassing AI uncle, who believes everything spewed out by ChatGPT or Grok is true
May 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
Can't emphasize enough how much I appreciate @archive.org more and more as time passes. Increasingly rely on being able to go back and read things that have otherwise since rotted off the internet.
May 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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rachelahandley.com
Slowly becoming a gentle mist seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction to *gestures at world*.
February 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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robes-mistress.bsky.social
Mid 1930s, crimson silk evening gown.

#vintage #vintagestyle #vintagefashion #historicalfashion #historicaldress #historicalclothing #dresshistory #fashionhistory #historyoffashion #1930s #1930sfashion #vintagesilk #1930sdress #historyofdress
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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vickyhaddock.bsky.social
Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova was born #OnThisDay in 1881. She was photographed in India in 1922 wearing this woven purple and ivory striped silk gauze sari. Pavlova was fascinated by Indian culture and collaborated with dancer Uday Shankar. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #fashionhistory
February 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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literaryloves.bsky.social
So pretty! 😍 I even love the puffy organza shoulders. The whole dress design is stunning. The colours. The embroidery. The transparent, mesh sleeves. The beads on the hem. The bow waist. It's just early 1900s perfection. 🤩

#Fashion #Dresses #History #FashionHistory
February 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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rarefilmm.bsky.social
Yeah the old link for the Full Frame version of The AristoCats (1970) that I posted on twitter last year is no longer working so here's a new one:
gofile.io/d/0Nx4v4
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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andrewbertaina.bsky.social
W.S. Merwin
February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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sahuntbooks.com
"taking pleasure in the little things" like tasty food or a comfy cartoon as if I'm a raggedy post-apocalyptic wastelander crouched in the corner of a ruined basement, obsessively reading tattered paperbacks salvaged from a bombed-out Barnes & Noble by the light of a grey sun
February 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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selectric.space
one day i'll write a thesis on how Restorative Floor Time is different from lying in bed
February 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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barnesandnoble.com
Go read a book.
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
going back to Juliana Spahr, always
In the midst of this unsureness, we are trying to tell a personal story. This story, the story of we, is of our loss and our loving. It is the story between deeply sleeping, dreaming, and waking. It is the story of what is crooked and loving that crooked.
February 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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sophiamcdougall.bsky.social
Ahem
ROMAN HISTORIANS: And then we had YET ANOTHER batshit idiot monster manchild for an Emperor and every day was a living nightmare LATER HISTORIANS: Clearly an exaggeration. Bear in mind this was written by his enemies. 2016-2020: HI THERE.
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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oddletters.bsky.social
as a historian i gotta say

dont like living through history

feels bad
February 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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kbeninato.bsky.social
Every day I get closer to understanding how it must have felt when the incoming Senator was Caligula's horse.
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
An image showing what I describe
November 12, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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natesmith.dev
nothing left now but to form an alliance with the crows
November 6, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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alastairmeeks.bsky.social
I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.
Tintin strikes again.
November 6, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.
October 23, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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hexcraft.bsky.social
"ai is making it so everyone can make art"
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity
September 22, 2023 at 2:10 AM