Marilie
@mariliej.bsky.social
Metalsmith, Archaeology & Museology, Bookworm
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https://www.etsy.com/shop/mariliejacob
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#DYK? Trilobites ruled the Earth longer than the dinosaurs! It took three major mass extinctions to end trilobites’ more than 250-milion year evolutionary lifespan. Join Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins to explore these arthropods through the Museum’s extensive collection of trilobite specimens.
The Most Successful Animals You've Never Seen (Spoiler: It's Trilobites)
YouTube video by American Museum of Natural History
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#DYK? Trilobites ruled the Earth longer than the dinosaurs! It took three major mass extinctions to end trilobites’ more than 250-milion year evolutionary lifespan. Join Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins to explore these arthropods through the Museum’s extensive collection of trilobite specimens.
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If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
January 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Lux Vivens 💕
listening to David Lynch's Hildegard of Bingen album (!) with Jocelyn Montgomery in preparation for tonight's medieval chant concert faroutmagazine.co.uk/lux-vivens-d...
David Lynch's esoteric ode to a 12th-century nun
David Lynch was an avid musician, and he once produced an album based on Hildegard von Bingen's 12th-century compositions with Jocelyn Montgomery.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lux Vivens 💕
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I think about the consistently misunderstood case of the Luddites. They were extremely advanced machine users (go try to use a spinning Jenny!), but they recognized a technological regime that displaced expertise (and payment) from the artisan to the tool.
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think about the consistently misunderstood case of the Luddites. They were extremely advanced machine users (go try to use a spinning Jenny!), but they recognized a technological regime that displaced expertise (and payment) from the artisan to the tool.
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar
Her Constant Companion
Her Constant Companion
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar
Her Constant Companion
Her Constant Companion
"Combien de faisceaux faudra-t-il encore pour ne plus détourner le regard ?"
Commémoration de l’attentat de Polytechnique | Se souvenir pour agir
Aux 14 faisceaux illuminant le ciel de Montréal tous les 6 décembre à la mémoire des victimes de l’attentat de Polytechnique, on a eu la bonne idée, l’an dernier, d’en ajouter un 15e.
www.lapresse.ca
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Combien de faisceaux faudra-t-il encore pour ne plus détourner le regard ?"
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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Some brilliant points here about illustration as a distinct art form, and its role in human storytelling. Love this!!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Informative, beautiful and deeply human: it’s time to cheer the underrated art of illustration | Oliver Jeffers
We do judge books by their covers. Illustrations spark young imaginations, solve problems, present information - and shape our world, says the children’s author on National Illustration Day
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some brilliant points here about illustration as a distinct art form, and its role in human storytelling. Love this!!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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This is like Universal Basic Income: everyone knows bike lanes and parking restrictions make cities more liveable for everyone, drivers included. But 99% of politicians are too short-term and too damn chicken-shit to actually do it.
Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is like Universal Basic Income: everyone knows bike lanes and parking restrictions make cities more liveable for everyone, drivers included. But 99% of politicians are too short-term and too damn chicken-shit to actually do it.
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Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.
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Increasingly believe that the only ways to be able to work full-time as an artist are either benefitting from the safety of familial wealth, being part of a dual-income household, or acquiring the patronage of a Florentine banking and political dynasty that ascended to power in the 15th century
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Increasingly believe that the only ways to be able to work full-time as an artist are either benefitting from the safety of familial wealth, being part of a dual-income household, or acquiring the patronage of a Florentine banking and political dynasty that ascended to power in the 15th century
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Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'.
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I like that the American convention of "old/rural = conservative" just doesn't hold up in large parts of Eastern Canada. You can hike deep into the forests of the Gaspé peninsula and meet septuagenarians with political views that would melt the tires clean off a Republican's car.
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I like that the American convention of "old/rural = conservative" just doesn't hold up in large parts of Eastern Canada. You can hike deep into the forests of the Gaspé peninsula and meet septuagenarians with political views that would melt the tires clean off a Republican's car.
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Merry Samhain from your resident Halloween grinch.
Witch. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, from 2019.
Witch. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, from 2019.
October 31, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Merry Samhain from your resident Halloween grinch.
Witch. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, from 2019.
Witch. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, from 2019.
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A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
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Just want the fbi to know I’m reskeeting this not as a threat but because I too watched all the extended editions bonus content and this made me laugh very hard
I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just want the fbi to know I’m reskeeting this not as a threat but because I too watched all the extended editions bonus content and this made me laugh very hard
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"