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silviaalexandra.bsky.social
@silviaalexandra.bsky.social
History, mysteries, swamp goth, truth telling, I WILL post pictures of an insect I saw. I work in conservation, heritage, natural history, museums, and libraries. Writing from Wonnarua Country.
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Barnbow Factory at Crossgates, Leeds. Many more were seriously injured. Between 1915-18, workers at Barnbow filled 24,750,000 shells. #remembrance #women
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I can't speak to the cultural stingyness of Britain, but I can very much speak to the incredible stingyness of anyone in politics deciding whether or not to spend money on preventive and interventive conservation of built heritage
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is both hilarious and maddening for anyone who knows even the most basic basics of New York history (and I don't count myself as one of those I've just...read some books and seen some films).
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Fix it today for 10k, or wait a few years and add a couple of zeros to that. The choice is so difficult ya know.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Commiserations on your shitty fortnight, may it be better on the other side of this week x
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I feel the sadness. I still look at all the favourite peeing trees on the walk with sadness. I wonder how much of her smell is still there for the other dogs that pass. It is so hard to lose a good friend I'm so sorry 💔
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Peter Harness adaptation is one that is on our Christmas rotation. If we were only on the other side of the equator this 16th...
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
After meeting all the individual plants in the garden beds, the truck, the family in the pool, I'm ready to move in
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I watched Beetlejuice once a day every day for a solid year. My poor parents. Still a solid love for me.
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I've just been reposting and reposting. So much good work coming out of the NMI and the Dead Zoo
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
My love to you and yours and may Molly run free forever ♥️
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Neat. Long live Trove!
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM