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Jules Winter
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I love my friends and books and am a nerd for languages and their history. Also movies, photography, sports and Billie the Cat.
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cominsitu.bsky.social
solidarity to those who fight fascism everywhere
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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astridchristofori.bsky.social
Wenn Ihr französisch sprecht/versteht, sollt Ihr Euch diesen Beitrag anschauen/anhören - es geht um den Versuch der Einflußnahme von US-Diplomaten auf französische Richter*innen/Gerichtsverfahren (Marine Le Pen).
kuntavandenkinte.bsky.social Kunta van den Kinté @kuntavandenkinte.bsky.social · 8d
Trump veut faire élire Marine Le Pen ou Jordan Bardella !

On n’est plus dans de la fiction ou une théorie du complot, mais face à une réalité quand on entend, ce soir, le témoignage de la magistrate Magali Lafourcade. Et c'est flippant ! 😰
January 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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juliarosekraut.bsky.social
"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

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A Change Is Gonna Come
YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic
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January 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
roq11.bsky.social
I can’t wait to go inside!! (But need a quick coffee before.)
In front of The National Film Archive of Japan, a museum and archive for Japanese film history in Ginza, Tokyo Exhibition info for the Archive About a special Exhibition for the Japanese filmmakers and actors lost to us in 2023-2024 “In memory of film figures we lost in 2023-2024”
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨

A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago.

From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm.

Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a slightly ovoid-shaped tool knapped from yellow-tinged rock crystal. It is mounted for display against a grey background. Described as a scraper (racloir) by the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, it measures 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. It was recovered from a Mousterian (Neanderthal) level in the Abri Des Merveilles rockshelter in France. The rock shelter was excavated by the American School of Prehistoric Research for a number of seasons from 1924 onwards, led by George Grant MacCurdy who documented that this rock crystal tool (and six others) were excavated from the lower level of the shelter together with a lithic assemblage (flint handaxes, scrapers and points) identified as Mousterian i.e. associated with Neanderthals. He suggested the original source of the rock crystal was some 90 miles north of the Merveilles rockshelter “near to and beyond the headwaters of the Vézère in the direction of Limousin and Puy-de-Dome” He suggested the rock crystal was either brought to the cave, or was carried away from its source by the river Vézère and then picked up from the riverbed by neanderthals. The info label at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale reads: ‘Neanderthals were the first to show their interest in non-utilitarian objects: collection and transport of fossils and minerals, use of dyes such as ochre or haematite, choice of aesthetic raw materials for cut tools, such as rock crystal from Sergeac or opal jasper from Fontmaure’
January 17, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
The very big rocket that will be taking four humans on a journey that will be the furthest any humans have journeyed from everything on Earth in 54 years - incl. every living being that we know about, will be rolling out in ~12 hours from now.

It's slow TV.

But with a big rocket. 🚀
January 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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cairdiul.bsky.social
POLITE SOCIETY 📽️ debuts on British television on Wednesday night and don't miss it, it's hysterical intheirownleague.com/2023/01/29/p...
Polite Society: Sundance 2023 film review
Runtime: 103 minutes Director/Writer: Nida Manzoor Actors: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Shobu Kapoor, Nimra Bucha, Ella Bruccoleri, Seraphina Beh, Sally Ann, Akshay Khanna by Sarah Manvel “Polite Soci…
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January 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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readingtheend.bsky.social
this movie is by the absolute genius who made We Are Lady Parts, an actually perfect television program.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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tillraether.bsky.social
Mein nächstes Buch im Sonderangebot: Das eBook von "Meeresdunkel" kostet zur Zeit direkt bei Rowohlt nur 4,99 Euro und wird schon am 1. April 2026 ausgeliefert, zwei Wochen vor dem gedruckten Buch.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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kradke.bsky.social
Anja Niedringhaus - Die Fotografin und der Krieg

Eine ARD-Dokumentation zeigt Leben und Tod der außergewöhnlichen Kriegsfotografin Anja Niedringhaus, die 2014 in Afghanistan erschossen wurde.
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Dokumentation & Reportage: Anja Niedringhaus - Die Fotografin und der Krieg - hier anschauen
Die 2014 in Afghanistan ermordete Anja Niedringhaus zählte zu den herausragenden Fotoreporter:innen der Gegenwart. Ein Vierteljahrhundert lang berichtete sie an vorderster Front von den Kriegen der We...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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tinido.bsky.social
In Thetford haben Archäolog*innen zwei super spektakuläre Funde gemacht: die bisher am weitestgehenden erhaltene Carnyx und eine Standarte in Form eines Eberkopfs. Thetford liegt im Siedlungsgebiet der Iceni, die unter Boudica gegen das Imperium Romanum aufstanden. Zeitlich tät's ungefähr passen.
Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard - BBC News
The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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radzpandit.bsky.social
Ten excellent books on authoritarianism and resistance. A new post from me:
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
Authoritarianism & Resistance: Ten Excellent Books
Ten superb books that dwell on the themes of authoritarianism and resistance.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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coreypein.bsky.social
Nobel Peace Prize 🤝 FIFA Peace Prize
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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geraeuschbar.bsky.social
Es sind noch 11 Tage, das Quorum noch nicht erreicht.
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Screenshot der petitionsseite
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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coreyatad.com
so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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reneengel.bsky.social
„I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.“

SPD, Grüne, Linke: Take note.
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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rincewind.run
this is such an important thing to recognize and call out

the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25d
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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radzpandit.bsky.social
"Then Dame Cecilia began to have fits and to prophesy. This infuriated Richenda de Foley, to whom any talk of the end of the world after she had worked so hard and successfully to put the convent on a good footing for the next century seemed rank ingratitude." 😂
THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
January 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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BOOKS READ IN DECEMBER 2025
(BTW just mute this thread if it annoys you)
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography by Anika Burgess
The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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readjapaneseliterature.com
Check out RJL'sreading project for #JanuaryinJapan 2026. 31 days of free-to-read short stories or excerpts from novels, encompassing a short history of modern Japanese fiction. I'll post a new short story every day, and you're welcome to read along!
January in Japan 2026 - Read Japanese Literature
RJL presents a list of 31 translated Japanese short stories you can read on-line for free, organized into a brief history of modern Japanese literature.
readjapaneseliterature.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find!

An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea.

✨ Happy New Year all! ✨

National Museum of Denmark
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#Archaeology
My photo shows a small figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The bear is seen in profile facing right. The legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The figurine is displayed on a small metal stand. The display lighting shines on the bear’s head and neck enhancing the translucence of the orange amber. The neck of the bear has a polished groove indicating it was once suspended on a cord or string. Length 6.5cm. The Fanø bear was found in 1991 on a beach on the west coast of the Danish island of Fanø, located off the south-western coast of Jutland. In the Stone Age the Danish coastline was different from today. “Since then the coastline has been influenced by later changes to the sea level as well as the rising up of the land after the last Ice Age. This rising of the land is still going on today. North of a line on the map the land has risen up and south of the line the coast has become submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea level. Therefore a proportion of Stone Age settlements south of the “tilt line” now lie under water or at the edge of the beach. Thus objects can be washed out in the sea and later be found on the beach”. The Fanø bear is one of a small number of amber bear figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach Amber has many amazing properties: it’s warm to the touch, it’s a glossy translucent colour when polished, it gives off a fragrant scent when burnt, and when rubbed against fur or hair it can produce static electricity which ‘magically’ emits green sparks in the dark and can make hair stand on end.
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Ikkōsai Yoshimori 光斎芳盛 (Japan, 1830-1884)
Diptych: Female #Elephant from Central India (Tenjiku kudari daijōzō no zu), published by Otakuya Takichi, 1861
Yokohama woodblock-printed ōban diptych; ink & color on paper
H36.3 x W48.5 cm
Harvard Art Museums 2007.214.64.1-2
hvrd.art/o/318776
#JapaneseArt
diptych woodblock print (2 pages) depicting a large grey Asian elephant in side profile, munching on straw with more grasped in its trunk, rope tether visible on front right foot; with Japanese text along bottom left and under feet
December 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM