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Dr Francesca Santoro
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Greek & Roman history, politics, art history, literature. Music: Mahler, DSCH, opera, chamber music. Have lived in Rome & Amsterdam. Love languages, theatre, museums in general, Shakespeare, London, the House of Commons, Rowson cartoons, in particular.😊
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"In winter’s tedious nights sit by the fire
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
Of woeful ages long ago betid;  

(Richard II, V.1)

🎨 Alfred Bestall

#shakespearesunday
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

#ShakespeareSunday
Headline - photo of Trump with bikini clad women missing from Epstein files release
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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#SarcophagusSaturday for this week presents us with the marvellous terracotta #sarcophagus of an #Etruscan lady, Seinanti Hanunia Tlesnasa, from 150-130 BCE. Now in the #BritishMuseum, this was found with its occupant still inside, or at least her #skeleton. She died at about 50. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SARCOPHAGUS OF SEINANTI HANUNIA TLESNASA, 150-130 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This superlative terracotta coffin was found near the Etruscan city of Clevsin, Clusium to the Romans and Chiusi to the Italians. The magnificent effigy of the deceased shows her stretched out comfortably on a kline, leaning on her left elbow atop a red pillow, a folding mirror in her left hand. She's splendidly dressed and holding her mantle with her right hand, covering a kind of crown. She wears plenty of jewelry. The sarcophagus below the lid is divided by abacus and flower decorations, with plenty of remaining polychromy all over the effigy and the box. The folds of her high-waisted tunic and cloak are completely convincing, a masterpiece of terracotta modelling. The bones of the deceased show her to have been about 50 when she died. She seems to us a kind of goddess, transcending death itself with her beauty.
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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HAPPY BOXING DAY!!
One of our cats in a box.
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#caturday
Gray striped kitten sleeping on a gray couch.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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double #rainbow during a thunderstorm in #potokaki #samos #greece
photo Ingrid Simons
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Today's #Caturday post features Puffin, the coolest and best Tux Cat of all time. I miss her terribly, it's been a year since her Mom and I split. Should I have gone for joint custody? Lol On a good note, she texts me Puffin Pix anytime she does something really cool... which is often!
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
Screenshot of a tweet by James Tate reading, “An educated populace is a threat to power.” The tweet includes a quoted graphic stating that ICE is offering a $45,000 signing bonus and $100,000 starting salary, compared to a teacher earning $55,000 in their eighth year with a master’s degree, arguing that education has been intentionally defunded.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I get it, Kitara, she’s a
prosecutor and as President, she sure as shit would not have pardoned your fucked up, felonious ass.
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Decodex 2025-12-26
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Or a castle built on the crumbling edge of a cliff.😼🏰🙀
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December 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Little baby cat
A calico is comfortably sleeping on a flannel sheet
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Northern lights could be visible on Christmas Eve in these states - ABC News

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Northern lights could be visible on Christmas Eve in these states — ABC News
More space weather activity is making possibility of auroras likely.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Okay these stayed cute after baking, I’m proud
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
A selfie of Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff on Christmas 2025.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Decodex 2025-12-25

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1 of Oscar's less humorous days 🤔?

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December 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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To paraphrase something Lawrence O'Donnell once said:

People wouldn't make jokes about the president if the president himself wasn't such a joke.
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Onward!
The Resistance Is Winning: Supreme Court Hands Trump A Massive Loss, Lawsuit Filed To Erase His Name From Kennedy Center, and Fired-Up Ohioans Blast Techno Music To Drive ICE Out
Onward!
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December 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Funny how that works, huh? [Cartoon by Joe Heller]
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM