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Andrew Curry
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Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com .. more

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Andrew Curry is an Australian producer and actor who has appeared in many television drama and comedy series, and in feature films.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 8h
He was a Roman cavalry trooper! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...
Martin of Tours - Wikipedia
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 8h
That’s a lot.

67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”

Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 21h
Pretty sure Trump didn't follow "screwing" with "with"

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 1d
Good call. There are at least 4 people by this name on LinkedIn, I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to message them all. But I tried the most likely.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 1d
I found a French guy's credit card (French name, French online bank) on the sidewalk and picked it up to keep it out of trouble. No one around, businesses nearby were closed. I should just destroy it and assume he cancels it, right?

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
Different sides!

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
"Who Won the Civil War," about the contested effort to talk about slavery at national parks and Civil War battlefields, was one of my first cover stories for @usnews.com and remains surprisingly relevant almost 25 years later: medium.com/@spoke32/the...
The Better Angels
Why we are still fighting over who was right and who was wrong in the Civil War?
medium.com

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
I had this experience when I wrote about the US Civil War. No one I knew growing up in New York or California gave it a second thought, so I was surprised how many people see criticism of the South & its struggle to preserve slavery as a personal indictment, as if 15 years had passed, not 150+.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d
This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
On binary questions about Britain's colonial past, the median is Neither/Don't Know. (There are more constructive conversations than this which can unlock 75% common ground: teach it all, including the complexity and controversy)

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d
"Mit Kreditkarte, bitte."

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d
The recipe does call for garum! We used fish sauce. (No word on the authenticity of Megachef Premium Anchovy Sauce from Thailand.)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d
This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
On binary questions about Britain's colonial past, the median is Neither/Don't Know. (There are more constructive conversations than this which can unlock 75% common ground: teach it all, including the complexity and controversy)

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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 4d
That’s two in the first 20 day
Photo of median in road with the back end of a car and brake lights at night. The car has driven over the median and is stopped at the far end. The signs marking the median have been knocked over.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d
Yes, but they don't look very appetizing. Also the recipe calls for 200 ml of wine, which seems inappropriate for 6th graders.
Dried apricots in hot water

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d
I bet back in the Roman era German barbarians on the wrong side of the limes didn't have apricots out of season.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d
My kid's Latin teacher has assigned a dessert recipe from Apicius as "experimental archaeology." She says canned apricots are verboten, because ancient Romans didn't have cans. Meanwhile it is November in northern Germany, and fresh apricots are ... hard to come by. 🏺🍑
A Roman recipe for apricots, as starter or as dessert
This delicious combination of warm apricots with honey and mint is from Roman antiquity. You can serve it as first course or as dessert.
coquinaria.nl

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
Dude, that's in 5 days. Plenty of time to do it Monday night.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
Either @nytimes.com is doing some serious A/B testing or someone decided the initial "Did Women Ruin the Workplace" hed was over the line. Either way, yuck.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
I am sad to say I clicked just to see if it was really real, and now worry I am encouraging them to commission more awfulness like it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
And even if they hadn't, the responsible thing to do was buy time to figure out what we were dealing with.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
What I remember most – and I was lucky enough to not get really sick, or lose anyone close – was the months of uncertainty and fear, and all the things we didn't know. It's so unfair to judge these decisions in hindsight, and a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works.
nilsgilman.bsky.social Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 5d
It’s easy to say that we shouldn’t have had a shutdown at all, but the epidemiological danger was just radically unclear in March-April 2020. The pictures of mass graves in NYC & Italy were horrifying, and China set the policy pace in its reaction.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 5d
It’s easy to say that we shouldn’t have had a shutdown at all, but the epidemiological danger was just radically unclear in March-April 2020. The pictures of mass graves in NYC & Italy were horrifying, and China set the policy pace in its reaction.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
Original paper: bsky.app/profile/iosi...

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
This checks out -- I traveled to & from Zurich twice in October, as scheduled an 8.5 hour journey. Twice I was on time, once I was 30 minutes late, and once it took 12.5 hours.

I would still take DB over driving myself (in Germany or the US) any day. 🚄 🛤️
codendahl.bsky.social Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 6d
The German train company DB had its worst month ever, only 51.5% of its long-distance trains were on time.

I am sure by the end of the year, they can get this below 50%.

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Iosif Lazaridis @iosiflazaridis.bsky.social · 5d
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper led by Javier Maravall on a time transect from ancient Argentina.
Eight millennia of continuity of a previously unknown lineage in Argentina - Nature
A previously unsampled deep lineage in central Argentina was discovered that had distinctive genetic drift by 8,500 bp and persisted as the main Native American ancestry component in the reg...
www.nature.com

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
Ancient DNA studies usually link changes in lifestyle and language in the past to population movements. But not always! A new study in @nature.com reveals a South American ancestry that stayed steady for 8,500 years, despite major cultural and linguistic shifts. @science.org 🏺 🧬
Mystery group lived in central Argentina for millennia, ancient DNA reveals
New study fills major gap in genetic map of ancient human migrations
www.science.org

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d
Really glad Young Cardamom's rap career didn't work out. #mamdani

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iamkosmonaut @iamkosmonaut.bsky.social · 6d
Gotta love the fact the US Military is giving their soldiers/employees in Germany the advice to go to (German) food banks during the current government shutdown 👍🏻👌🏻 home.army.mil/bavaria/abou...

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Surlalune 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @carelris.bsky.social · 6d
Damn
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Young Cardamom, HAB - #1 Spice (From "Queen of Katwe")
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