Anne Robbins
@hincmariana.bsky.social
Once a historian, always a historian. But also a knitter, gardener, allotmenteer, petition signer, listener, reader.
Currently binge-watching Foyle’s War on Net***x and it’s marvellous. Come for classic plotting, stay for glimpses of young James McEvoy, David Tennant, and erm Lozza Fox as a dim impulsive Nazi fanatic. anthonyhorowitz.com/television/s...
Foyle’s War | Television | Anthony Horowitz
The final episode of Foyle's War - the much loved British detective drama - was broadcast on 18th January 2015 after 9 series and 28 episodes. Set during WWII, as the battle rages across the…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Currently binge-watching Foyle’s War on Net***x and it’s marvellous. Come for classic plotting, stay for glimpses of young James McEvoy, David Tennant, and erm Lozza Fox as a dim impulsive Nazi fanatic. anthonyhorowitz.com/television/s...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Hilarious FT Alphaville post on Cleancore, the loss of about $32 million and shitcoin…..https://on.ft.com/4o1X9oo
Stuff happens in market
Clean-up in aisle doge
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November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hilarious FT Alphaville post on Cleancore, the loss of about $32 million and shitcoin…..https://on.ft.com/4o1X9oo
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Red clover, Herb Robert,Red campion & Ragged Robin. #wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Red clover, Herb Robert,Red campion & Ragged Robin. #wildflowerhour
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How do we engineer the situation where Noah Smith has to change lines at Bank? Imagine the fun we could have
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
How do we engineer the situation where Noah Smith has to change lines at Bank? Imagine the fun we could have
Double corduroy. Don’t @ me, fashion police.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Double corduroy. Don’t @ me, fashion police.
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Today’s fun tax tip…
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.
YouTube video by Oli Frost
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November 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today’s fun tax tip…
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
But with delays after cutbacks for flight spaces due to the Republicans’ government shutdown.
Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
But with delays after cutbacks for flight spaces due to the Republicans’ government shutdown.
Wine marketing gone crazy: at my allotment, chard is a good thing & not a crime.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Wine marketing gone crazy: at my allotment, chard is a good thing & not a crime.
Feeling seen, here…
Grappa
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Feeling seen, here…
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A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm.
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm.
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.
Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
🏺 #archaeology
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And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.
And leave X.
And leave X.
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.
And leave X.
And leave X.
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Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
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👆This collection of Victorian ink bottle kits in my Etsy shop includes some beautiful cobalt blues,a little embossed Windsor & Newton ink bottle & very collectible 'jelly' ink bottles.
It would be *so* great if you could RT my post above about my mental health kits.-they make really great gifts for🌲
It would be *so* great if you could RT my post above about my mental health kits.-they make really great gifts for🌲
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
👆This collection of Victorian ink bottle kits in my Etsy shop includes some beautiful cobalt blues,a little embossed Windsor & Newton ink bottle & very collectible 'jelly' ink bottles.
It would be *so* great if you could RT my post above about my mental health kits.-they make really great gifts for🌲
It would be *so* great if you could RT my post above about my mental health kits.-they make really great gifts for🌲
The last of this year’s allotment cosmos, I suspect, but there will be seed to collect. It might not grow true white next year, there was pink cosmos nearby, but it’s something to look forward to.
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The last of this year’s allotment cosmos, I suspect, but there will be seed to collect. It might not grow true white next year, there was pink cosmos nearby, but it’s something to look forward to.
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We saw you from across the allotment and we liked your vibe
The heyday of exchanging halloween postcards was between 1900 and 1920 and the bizarre images often had a folkloric tale to tell.
These anthropomorphic cabbages allude to divination recorded in Scotland and Ireland where the shape of a pulled cabbage stalk denoted the figure of your future love!
These anthropomorphic cabbages allude to divination recorded in Scotland and Ireland where the shape of a pulled cabbage stalk denoted the figure of your future love!
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We saw you from across the allotment and we liked your vibe
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
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So this little post is my own reminder to myself: the essence of complex adaptive systems is that they ACT under uncertainty.
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So this little post is my own reminder to myself: the essence of complex adaptive systems is that they ACT under uncertainty.
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🟣 “We have such a big, lovely knitting community in Portland, that’s how a lot of my friends know each other, and we thought you need to have fun protesting, and that’s how we have fun,” [one knitter] said. “Also, I think it makes fascists look stupid.”
!!! 🧶
!!! 🧶
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🟣 “We have such a big, lovely knitting community in Portland, that’s how a lot of my friends know each other, and we thought you need to have fun protesting, and that’s how we have fun,” [one knitter] said. “Also, I think it makes fascists look stupid.”
!!! 🧶
!!! 🧶
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