Dr Francesca Santoro
@phyllida.bsky.social
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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Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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This is Cayde: oh so very cute and baby as he is actively attacking me 😡
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is Cayde: oh so very cute and baby as he is actively attacking me 😡
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Connections
Puzzle #883
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Today's Connections was a bonanza for Latinists & Ancient Historians!😼🏛️
@lightacandle.bsky.social @marshacoupe.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social
Puzzle #883
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Today's Connections was a bonanza for Latinists & Ancient Historians!😼🏛️
@lightacandle.bsky.social @marshacoupe.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Connections
Puzzle #883
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Reverse 🌈!
Today's Connections was a bonanza for Latinists & Ancient Historians!😼🏛️
@lightacandle.bsky.social @marshacoupe.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social
Puzzle #883
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Reverse 🌈!
Today's Connections was a bonanza for Latinists & Ancient Historians!😼🏛️
@lightacandle.bsky.social @marshacoupe.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
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A must read. And a lot of what I suspected was going on. Time for a clear out, of you know who too!
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A must read. And a lot of what I suspected was going on. Time for a clear out, of you know who too!
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Remember when young working in BBC Newsroom, attending editorial meetings etc, usual media complained of left wing bias. So thought would focus on that & came to the conclusion there was no left wing bias, they were simply reporting the truth. It was the reporting of the truth they objected to!
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Remember when young working in BBC Newsroom, attending editorial meetings etc, usual media complained of left wing bias. So thought would focus on that & came to the conclusion there was no left wing bias, they were simply reporting the truth. It was the reporting of the truth they objected to!
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My ginger boy sitting in the autumn leaves looking up into a tree.
#OrangeInNature #PhotoADay #FMSPAD
Nov10 #MauiCruz21 #Photography
#OrangeInNature #PhotoADay #FMSPAD
Nov10 #MauiCruz21 #Photography
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My ginger boy sitting in the autumn leaves looking up into a tree.
#OrangeInNature #PhotoADay #FMSPAD
Nov10 #MauiCruz21 #Photography
#OrangeInNature #PhotoADay #FMSPAD
Nov10 #MauiCruz21 #Photography
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A Remembrance Day service will be held today at the Rome War Cemetery.
Remembrance Day ceremony in Rome
Remembrance Day 2025 to be marked at Rome War Cemetery. A Remembrance Day service will be held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the Testaccio area of Rome on Tuesday 11 November a...
www.wantedinrome.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A Remembrance Day service will be held today at the Rome War Cemetery.
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‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
That'll teach him!😼
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
That'll teach him!😼
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"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.
AOC on House Dem.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.
AOC on House Dem.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
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Lest we forget
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Lest we forget
They always form a cloud that eventually looks like a huge bird—head, wings, and tail.
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
They always form a cloud that eventually looks like a huge bird—head, wings, and tail.
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Tiger Lilly looks down on the world from atop the kitchen cabinets. #catsofbluesky #cats
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Tiger Lilly looks down on the world from atop the kitchen cabinets. #catsofbluesky #cats
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.