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Maria dos Postais
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I love postcards, music & books. Also photography & history.
Dog-mom to Nina #SuperNina
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Maria dos Postais @mariadospostais.bsky.social · Dec 31
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
Postcard showing the city of Setúbal, in Portugal, in the 1960s or 1970s.
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antiquity.ac.uk
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
An excavated stone drainage channel that has had a terracotta channel added to it. The channel likely didn't work initially, so the channel was added to correct the error.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Nina’s glorious side-eye, for your delight.

#SideEye #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #Terrier #YorkshireTerrier
A blond fured Yorkshire Terrier-mix dog, laying wrapped in a white, yellow and pink blanket, gives her human mom the most massive, glorious side-eye.
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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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/
Roman Britain Mosaic Features Scenes Based on Lost Trojan War Tale
archaeology.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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... 👈
Big header text in bold over a yellow background reads: THE PAST DOES NOT HOLD US; IT'S THAT WE DO NOT LET IT GO Then regular text after that, which reads as follows: SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS is a Sword & Sorcery tale of raging against frontier injustice, of struggling with the bondage of bone-deep grudges... ...of seeking peace while swinging gore-soaked steel. As if Clint Eastwood's character from Unforgiven carried a sword, Hanlin is an educated & intelligent warrior of some years. When Hanlin was young he fought for the wealthy, pushing their "civilization" deeper into frontier lands that could make them wealthier still...if not for the "barbarians" who'd lived there for generations. Hailing from lands far North, Hanlin stands apart from both, alone. Twenty years later Hanlin is living a quieter, if unfulfilling life...when an old comrade tries to recruit him into a new war to push the frontier ever further at the expense of its Indigenous peoples. Feeling obligation to those peoples he'd once fought, thirsting for revenge against another he'd soldiered alongside lo those many years ago, and ultimately wondering if this could all open a door to a life where he is finally, truly at peace, Hanlin heads back to the frontier that made him who he is—to see who he'll become.
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Nina on her way to fetch grandma from the physical rehabilitation center, after a stroke. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
A blond-fured Yorkshire Terrier-mix, wearing a grey hoodie, sits on the backseat of a car, on a soft blue and white bed.
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Emotional support *piles*, but same!
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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
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You heard Patrick: go get it!
patricksamphire.bsky.social Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 27d
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
Promo image showing the cover of The Dead Man, A Mennik Thorn Prequel Novella, by Patrick Samphire. Image includes the text: The Dead Man. A Mennik Thorn prequel novella. Becoming a mage-for-hire hasn't quite turned out the way Nik Thorn hoped. Out now in ebook and paperback.
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Marge
Marge Simpson sits on the couch in the Simpsons family living room. She says "do you feel inert, like a spectator to your own life-" She begins to dissolve into smoke, as does the couch. "-a thing passing on rails outside your window as you sit there and watch?" Marge and the couch continue to fade away, half the couch is gone now, Marge's upper half fully gone. "You don't have to die to become a ghost." Marge's body and the couch are gone, but her face stares blankly out of the wall.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Me, every time I buy postcards or exit a bookshop. 🤦‍♀️
pastpostcard.bsky.social Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Oct 17
I disgraced myself.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Nina’s expressions never fail to do something to me. I love her to bits. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #puppylove
A blond-fured Yorkshire Terrier mix, laying on a light pink cushion, looks up to her human mom as she hears te word “walkies”. There is a hopeful look in her eyes.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Same, Steve. Same.
in-otter-news.bsky.social In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Nov 6
Steve is lacking motivation today…
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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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
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One of the greatest writers I’ve read.
dean.bsky.social Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 15
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
Three-quarter portrait of the author in a three-piece suit
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
"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
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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helengittos.bsky.social
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
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TIL bed burials existed. I’m pleasantly baffled (if there is such a thing).
helengittos.bsky.social Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Oct 9
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
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Nina excels at the art of head tilting
#SuperNina #TerrierTuesday #DogsofBluesky
A blond-fures Yorkshire Terrier-mix, sitting on a red blanket, tilts her head left, looking at her human mom inquisitively.
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Wave your hands in the air like you don’t care, glide by the people as they start to look and stare… 👸💃🎶
#tile #queen #spain #notamused
Green, black and white tile depicting a queen wearing a crown, with both hands held high.
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I’m very happy to be backer #219! There is still time to back, what are you waiting for?
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Very much lonely, as well.
pastpostcard.bsky.social Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Sep 20
I feel so dreadfully alone sometimes.
September 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Story time! Any similarity with actual humans and events *must* be coincidence… mustn’t it?
joannechocolat.bsky.social Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Sep 16
The animals of a certain farm complained against the farmer. “He steals our eggs,” said the hens in their coop. “He’s scarcely better than a fox!”
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Nina turned 9, but she’s still a baby, obviously. #SuperNina #DogsofBluesky #YorkshireTerrier #Terrier
A blond-fured Yorkshire Terrier mix, with a flower necklace, standing under a Happy Birthday garland and facing a yellow cake, shaped like a bone, smiles at the camera.
September 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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@jonnelledge.bsky.social they recommended ‘A History of the World in 47 Borders’ as one of the books of the week, on Portuguese TV. Around minute 50 something.
sicnoticias.pt/programas/le...
September 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Nina is mesmerized by a piece of ham.
#SuperNina #DogsofBluesky
Black and white photo of a Yorkshire Terrier-mix dog, sitting up straight, looking eagerly at a piece of ham her mom - the photographer-, is holding. Her hair is a mess but ham is life!
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM