thisdude4.bsky.social
@thisdude4.bsky.social
Culinary student and amateur history enthusiast
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If #bluesky is an echo chamber, then let it be filled with the weirdest, nerdiest content!

The mummified hand of an executed criminal holding a candle made from human fat was once believed to render a person who carried it invisible. It was called the “Hand of Glory.” This one's from Whitby Museum.
November 22, 2024 at 10:03 PM
A good time to remember that "The Carol of the Bells", a classic song of this holiday season, originated from traditional Ukrainian New Year songs. Best wishes to Ukrainians everywhere doing their best to preserve their culture in the face of the Russian state once again trying to assimilate them.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Dec 26
In the Transcarpathia region, some locals embrace a traditional lifestyle and cultural identity. After surviving Soviet threats, now they fear President Vladimir Putin seeks to erase their culture.
Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture
In the Transcarpathia region, some locals embrace a traditional lifestyle and cultural identity. After surviving Soviet threats, now they fear President Vladimir Putin seeks to erase their culture.
www.npr.org
December 26, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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“Christopher Nolan will make the plot of The Odyssey comprehensible to people who haven’t read it.” Sir, have you ever seen a Christopher Nolan movie
December 24, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
theonion.com/cat-clinging...
December 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400
December 23, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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🌟 IO SATURNALIA!

🎁 Originating from archaic agricultural rituals, the festival came to include lots of gift-giving, gambling and role-reversals, with slaves enjoying the freedoms of ordinary citizens.

#Saturnalia #Christmas #WinterSolstice #RomanHistory
December 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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To the “high road” Democratic leaders who say Biden should pardon Trump, knock it off. What the hell kind of a message do you think that would send? We need to fight autocracy, not flirt with it.
December 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Counterpoint: Do
December 9, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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What if, and like hear me out right, universities *didn’t* run like businesses which need to turn a profit.
a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
Alt: a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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deeply depressing watching the six unelected rulers of America debate how many of my friends’ rights to take away because none of them believe my friends are real people

trans rights are human rights
December 4, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
December 1, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Coming to the big city to make money and immediately losing it to a fast talking stranger. truly a tale as old as time
November 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, @flintdibble.bsky.social! Here's a tom turkey excavated from a Mimbres pueblo by me in 2016. Note the spur in the lower left. Impromptu cell photo (taken on discovery, no scale bar added yet!).
November 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.
November 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Honestly guys, not really looking forward to this whole theocratic autocracy thing.
November 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙

Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

#Archaeology
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰
November 21, 2024 at 7:48 AM