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Objects conservator in Bermuda, tolerates some things well enough.
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bdajen.bsky.social
My favourite thing about people selling rings online is when the rings are far too small for their fingers but they have a pop at it anyway.
Pretty little emerald in a gold and diamond setting. Ring does not fit on the seller’s finger so they are showing it on the middle phalanx of the index finger. The ring is on backwards- their palm would be facing up for this photo.
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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vicky.science
Why do bald eagles hate Nevada
Screenshot of a map of North America labeled “Bald Eagle range map by ABC” that shows bald eagle ranges for breeding, wintering, and residency. There’s a distinctive hole or gap exactly mirroring the borders of the U.S. state of Nevada
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Are you ready for the annual eBird/Clements taxonomy update? Happening as soon as tomorrow! Details at ebird.org and explore the species on Birds of the World (birdsoftheworld.org). The site will be open access from 29 Oct-7 Nov.

birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home
Birds of the World - Comprehensive life histories for all bird species and families
Species accounts for all the birds of the world.
birdsoftheworld.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
bdajen.bsky.social
Bring back beautiful fonts you cowards
Title of book “Glimpses of Bermuda” in very nice all caps font. I do not know what the font is, but its proportions bring me joy. Book is from 1930’s ish? There is no date that I can see.
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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kelatonin.bsky.social
i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”
September 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
It is now believed that there may be hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet
A list of the largest US ISPs from May 1996. The full table includes Subscribers, Signups/Week, PHone Nubmer, Home Page, Montly Fees, and cost per hour. The top ten are Netcom, Spry Net, PSINet, Global Network Nav, Concentric, EarthLink, IDT Corp, Internet America, TIAC, and Mindspring.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
bdajen.bsky.social
The year is 2025. Colours will not be invented for another 43 years.
Reddit post showing picture of a living room titled “What colour is missing?”. The floor is brown, the walls are cream, the sofa is beige, the carpet is beige, the coffee-table-type thing is beige, the tv stand is beige.
September 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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transitmap.net
Thanks for the shout-out, Karl! Not sure I ever expected this map to be a substitute for Strava :-)

For those that are interested, here's my project page for this diagram of Spokane's streetcars in 1912: transitmap.net/electric-rai...
August 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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theonion.com
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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jared-alexander.bsky.social
I live in California and somehow I still always think "why is the bear missing a head" when I see this flag.
A photo of Gavin Newsom's tweet that contains the California Republic flag.
August 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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boyleg.bsky.social
Job opportunity Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff , Closing date 29th August nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff | Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales iRecruit Careers Portal
To help in the delivery of your objectives you will manage a small team of archaeologists focused on collections care and public engagement, and work as part of a cross-departmental group ensuring best practice in collections care across disciplines.
nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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davidhingley.bsky.social
I would love a museum which is devoted to the museum interactives that were going to be amazing but didn’t quite work or were unreliable.. but here they are fixed and they do work and they deliver what we hoped for.

I suspect the maintenance team costs are high
darthbluesky.bsky.social darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 2
if u could open your own museum what would it be about what are u going to devote your life to curate
darthbluesky.bsky.social darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1
what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum
August 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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alyankovic.bsky.social
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Photo of Tom Lehrer
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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ianfortey.bsky.social
This is what haunts my bathroom. If you go to the bathroom and try to close the door, he appears.
An orange and white cat with yellow green eyes looking at the camera as if to say "I'm watching you in the bathroom."
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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sellingamirror.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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north0fnorth.tgirl.gay
recently found the city of chicago maintains a web page where you can put in any address and see a scanned copy of the original public land survey map for that area

gisapps.chicago.gov/KioskMap/?ma...
the survey for the northeast corner of the loop
July 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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fletcherdurant.bsky.social
#TapeIsEvil
May 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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mountsthelens1980.bsky.social
If you've just joined and need to catch up on this day-to-day look back, start here. 👍

If you want the full deep dive history, go back to January 1 😉
May 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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garius.bsky.social
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
January 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
7 Simple steps you can do right now for bird conservation:

Make Windows Safer, Day and Night. ...
Keep Cats Indoors. ...
Reduce Lawn, Plant Natives. ...
Avoid Pesticides. ...
Drink Coffee That's Good for Birds. ...
Protect Our Planet from Plastic. ...
Watch Birds, Share What You See (for science)
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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glaucomflecken.bsky.social
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”
May 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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xkcd.com
SawStart xkcd.com/3067
March 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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euan.bsky.social
look it hasn’t worked the last 15 times but maybe *this* time a round of cuts to essential public services will lead to economic growth and prosperity
March 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM