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Nat
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Optimistic pessimist.
RA & sjögren’s. 📖🧶🎮🐸
Knits a lot. But also not enough.
Spotted these three tonight, they were rather quieter - understandable with all the other fantastic spooky scary goings on in the bookshop (which gets better every year)!
During the set up for Halloween it appears some of the pumpkins may have taken on a life of their own!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Like a Goose!
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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It's May the 4th and that's all the excuse we need to re-post this classic. 🤩
🔊
May 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The original twelfth-century inspiration for the popular 1980’s video game ‘Frogger’ - 12th century, France, Bibliothèques d’Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 042v
March 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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#stpatricksday #minimuslatin
Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)
March 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Simple but powerful. The Symbol of Tanit, Chief Goddess of Carthage, on the floor of a house in Kerkouane, Tunisia.

It was possibly installed as an apotropaic symbol to ward off evil

#MosaicMonday 🏺
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Bluesky has not yet had any Rhombophryne testudo. Let’s fix that. I think it will do all of us some good. 🐸🟤
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Knitted mitts. Wore mitts. Remembered should photograph mitts. 🧶
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Great question
November 15, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Oooh, this feels like a small corner that might be nice to settle into, for a bit.
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 PM