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andrewteale.me.uk
A nice video from Durham, Smith Galer reflecting on her experiences with Christmas UC. A lot of this chimes with my own quiz experience (including taking home my name sticker, which is permanently displayed on my wall).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-N1...
What you don't see when you watch University Challenge (and reflections on my languages degree)
YouTube video by The Glottal Stop
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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kbneal.bsky.social
Shall we collect a thread of top cricket burns?
Aggers: "Jacks has dropped a chance there that you'd toss to your granny in the back yard." #Ashes
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
This week on @ppfideas.bsky.social, we're exploring "Home Rule for Ireland!"

Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.

In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
A selection of pro-Home Rule posters.
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
dgj2026.bsky.social
Rather a fun distraction, although this did reveal a rather large gap in basketball knowledge...

Quizicle #51 4/5

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Quizicle
The daily machine-learning powered quiz/puzzle game. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
quizicledaily.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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jewelknightjess.com
I finished the Tau Empire Darkstrider today!

This was one of my Xmas gifts from @lenalavey.bsky.social (how has it been a WEEK since Xmas already??)

#WarhammerCommunity #PaintSlam25 #TauEmpire #tau #darkstrider
A Tau, a blue alien, bending down and releasing a group of small white drones.
December 31, 2025 at 6:49 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
📷 by me

#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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columnist.bsky.social
Turbot charging
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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oculusimperia.bsky.social
Back in 2011 I visited Warhammer World, and they were showing these absolutely wonderful Blanche Necron concepts.
December 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
pour one out to an icon

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Nonidi the 9th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate saltpeter.#JacobinDay

More information on saltpeter
An old time-y illustration of a Saltpeter.
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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chrisbrooke.bsky.social
Bringing this energy into 2026.
December 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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ninjaweasel.bsky.social
The full advent collection! #MiniaturePainting #ReaperaMiniatures
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘When Suleyman is not busy “bashing unbelievers” in The Golden Throne, he is sacking people for rudeness or watching prisoners be trampled by elephants.’

Helen Pfeifer on Suleyman the Magnificent.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Pfeifer · Turn around and run: Suleyman the Magnificent
There is murder, sex, duplicity and betrayal, all taking place at the court of one of the richest and most powerful...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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chrisbrooke.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits.
Marat (played by Antonin Artaud), Danton & Robespierre, in Napoléon vu par Abel Gance.
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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royalsociety.org
Happy birthday to Sir Isaac Newton PRS, born on Christmas Day, 1642. One of the most influential scientific minds in history, his work spanned optics, colour theory, planetary motion and gravitation, calculus and classical mechanics, as well as more archaic fields such as alchemy. #OnThisDay
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
🎄CHRISTMAS BLOG POST!🎄

A silly gift for you all: I dug through The National Archive wills looking for Christmassy names. There were a lot, inc:

Mr 🎅
Christopher 🍮
❄️ Green
Thomas 🦃
Theophilia 🛷

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

📜 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
Woodcut showing three men. Two are dressed in 17th century clothesm the one in the centre is in a long robe with a fun hat. The man on the left says 'Keep out, you come not here', the one on the right says 'Old Christmas welcome, no not fear'. The man in the centre says 'O Sir I bring good cheere'.
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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gonders.bsky.social
I was betrayed at Calth but uncle Vulkan got me this neat armour for candlemas.

#warhammercommunity #nerdlings #saturnine
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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gonders.bsky.social
Ho ho ho.

#warhammercommunity #warhammer #nerdlings
December 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Octidi the 8th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay

More information on honey
An old time-y illustration of a Honey.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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bryonycoombs.bsky.social
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m
Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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northernmailman.bsky.social
Monday
Patti Smith saying: I just liked Patti Smith saying: To be with my books
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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kathke.com
I heard from a colleague who led their students in an exercise of what you would have to do in order to use AI responsibly.

In the end the students asked if they *had* to use AI or if they could make life easier for themselves and just do things the old fashioned way.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
I feel lucky to live in a place where I can witness this beauty on a random Thursday
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM