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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 7h

Such an amazing story

Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 8h

8. Abebe Bikila 🏃🏿🇪🇹

🥇First Ethiopian to win an Olympic gold

Running barefoot, Bikila won the marathon at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and then became the first athlete ever to defend an Olympic marathon title, taking gold in Tokyo in 64

Oh and he broke the world record both times.
#blackhistorymonth

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 9h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 9h

Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!

Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 9h

Very excited to see you succeeding, Sofya! And looking forward to what your presidency will bring

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 1d

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu

colvet.eu

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

today I have a list of admin & emailing as long as my arm but I forced myself to leave it all til this afternoon and first spend 4 hours working on my book project while I'm still mentally fresh

trying to prioritise important even if not urgent over the urgent but very unimportant stuff!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 1d

tag yourself, I'm "sick foreigner"

list of poorly translated ways you could get a residency card in France

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting for no reason at all 🙃

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

“Keeping It Together: How Not to Get So Burned Out That You Walk Out in the Middle of Class” will now be a slideshow presented in the haunted auditorium by Jim “Flip” Philips, head coach of the varsity TP team.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

buff.ly

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 3d

It *could* be genius but unless I had loads of surplus fabric to hand I'd not want to cut into it and find out the hard way it doesn't work!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 3d

I would be a little concerned about how it would behave on the bias myself - it could work with a fine corduroy but with a thick grain it might be tricky?

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Including Mt Olympus, which would be pretty cool!

Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 3d

The full range from ancient archeology and Byzantine stuff through to FWW sites! Plus delicious food decently priced, big ships to look at for those who like that kind of thing and a lot of beautiful countryside all around for day trips

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely glorious sunny morning in Thessaloniki, little stalls out along the seafront and the mountains visible in the distance. A really great city, not too touristy but still with lots to do, would happily return

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

Chief superintendent of works!

There's a lot of white in the Thessaloniki street cats' gene pool, which is pretty but does rather show the dirt

A grey and white tabby sits alertly on a concrete block in front of a very rusty digger

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 4d

How it started. How it's going.

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

I agree it sometimes feels like that long

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

True, but the Orthodox stuff seems a little different!

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't buy any embroidered ecclesiastical fabric though and I think I deserve credit for that?

Gold embroidered ivory cope in a shop window: rolls of richly coloured brocades dimly visible through the glass

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

Have I discovered Thessaloniki's dedicated fabric and haberdashery quarter, computer with indoor market?

It was an accident, honest. The fabric just fell into my bag, I swear!

A small, old-fashioned looking fabric shop with rolls of cloth outside

Interior of an indoor market selling nothing but cloth and haberdashery

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4d

That should say complete, obviously! My autocomplete thing is unhelpful