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Christopher Olive
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Most of my biscuits get eaten, but I hung on to this one.

The flavour is orange, cardamom, and vanilla, and the design was painted by hand onto royal icing using food colouring gels and vodka.
A hand holds up a biscuit with uneven edges against a cloudy sky. The biscuit has an egg-yellow background decorated with strong black lines. A man with curled hair and striking eyes features in the foreground of the design. Only his eyes, eyebrows, and forehead are visible; a jagged break line at the bottom of the biscuit shows where the design would continue.
May 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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tscuniversity13.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter debuts a new silver and white bodysuit full of red lipstick kisses at the #Manchester show. 💋
Sabrina on stage revealing a silver and white bodysuit full of red lipstick kiss marks all over and a silver garter.
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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tscuniversity13.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter in the yellow-gold three piece set for Short ‘n Sweet Manchester. 🌟
Sabrina Carpenter in a yellow-gold two piece outfit with silver boots holding her hand on her left leg Sabrina Carpenter standing on stage giggling in a yellow-gold two piece outfit at floor length with silver boots poking out. Sabrina Carpenter in a yellow-gold two piece outfit with silver boots sitting down on a white chair. A dancer is to her left (your right).
March 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social
"No Smoking allowed" in this anatomy class at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. Stamp out the cigarettes for good on #NoSmokingDay, or you may end up like that class exhibit sooner than you'd like!
Photograph of an anatomy class with a lecturer in a white coat and full skeleton on display behind him. There's a blackboard with the text 'No Smoking allowed'.
March 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
Saturday was International Women’s Day, so we're celebrating strong, supportive women - no need to climb the gritstone rocks at Burbage Moorlands like these friends though!

#IWD2025 #WomensHistoryMonth
Black and white photograph dating circa 1940s of two women climbing a rock face. One woman stands on top of the rock, facing the camera, and is holding a rope helping the second woman, who has her back to the camera, to climb the rock. They wear jumpers and trousers, thick socks and climbing boots. Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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antiapartheidlgcy.bsky.social
‘All Shall Be Afforded Dignity!' opening soon #Manchester

🗓️ 14 Mar-24 Apr
📍@ porticolibrary.bsky.social
🎟️ Free

Travelling show #NormanKaplan lino-print & political cartoons by @antiapartheidlgcy.bsky.social @actsa-uk.bsky.social & AAMArchives
Collab w/ @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

Info 🕸️
🙏🏽 NLHF
March 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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corvidlove.bsky.social
Bottoms up! #birds
November 29, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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corvidlove.bsky.social
Crow with a tiny clam #birds
November 30, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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eotarchive.org
Today @mark.bsky.social spoke with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org about our quadrennial effort to archive federal websites before, during, and after U.S. presidential administration changes.
Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure ...
www.democracynow.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
This exquisite example has to be the smallest Valentine card we have in our collection. It was sent to Thomas Crofts of Belper (1815-1904), a poet, by his wife Martha. A collection of his work was published in 1892 as 'A Castle in the Air and other Poems'.

#EYALove #ValentinesDay
Valentine card measuring 7.5cm by 4.5cm. Rectangular in shape the edges are finely pierced resembling lace. The center is a viola type flower in pale and dark pink with green leaves. One petal opens to reveal a message. Valentine card measuring 7.5cm by 4.5cm. Rectangular in shape the edges are finely pierced resembling lace. The center is a viola type flower in pale and dark pink with green leaves. The pale pink petal is opened to reveal the printed message "Ever True to Thee".
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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archive.org
🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠
Quote tile with white text on an orange background: “[Knitting punch cards] are also, in the age of seemingly-endless proprietary software and terms and conditions, refreshingly punk, in a minimal computing, open-source sort of way…” Nichole Misako Nomura Digital humanities scholar
February 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ljmu-sca.bsky.social
Combining #EYALove w/ #LGBTQ+ History Month to share 'life companions' Kathleen Henderson & Irené Mabel Marsh, the Vice Principal & Principal of I M Marsh College, w/ dogs Demon, Dodger, & Dock at their Abersoch holiday cottage, c.1920s 🧵1/6
#lgbthm #lgbtq #gayhistory #archives #history #queer #lgbt
LJMUH/IMM/4/6/4/8, sepia photograph album photo c.1900s-1930s p.9, showing life ‘companions’ Kathleen M Henderson (left) with Irené Mabel Marsh (right) and their small terrier dogs Demon, Dodger, and Dock sat on their laps at their holiday cottage ‘The Shanty’ in Abersoch, Wales.
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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unkarchives.bsky.social
This! Please please please include as much info as you can when labeling your photos. Full name + date is great; location is also helpful. We have so many photos with limited use because they are unlabeled.
cabhc.bsky.social Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Feb 12
How not to label your family photographs.
Front and back of a family photo: on the front, an older woman, sitting in a chair. On the back, the words "Mother's mother".
February 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
transacrhivist.bsky.social
Just one of the many amazing LGBT stories from the archive I work at! If you're local to Liverpool, pop along on the 27th February to visit and get your hands on our material (or book an appointment anytime!) ☺️🌈🌟
ljmu-sca.bsky.social LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social · Feb 6
Two notable figures in our collections are Fanny and Stella, known by their legal names Park and Boulton.
Although the pair performed theatrically as 'female impersonators,' Stella in particular also privately lived as a woman w/ her husband 🧵1/6
#lgbthm #lgbt #archives #transhistory #trans #lgbtq+
Scrapbook with sepia photographs of two women with the caption 'Female Impersonators' above, and 'Parke' and 'Boulton' written below the two images. Park is dressed in a long white dress with one arm resting on a chair, and the other at their head. Boulton is wearing a dark jacket over a long white skirt, a light-coloured hat, and is holding both hands together in an almost-prayer motion, leaning on the chair.
February 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
Last year, Sreya Chatterjee explored Shakti Khabar’s legacy as part of her placement with the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities.

One of the first UK newsletters by & for queer South Asians, it built a vital space for activism, support & connection.

#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerSouthAsianHistory
Shakti Khabar: Queer South Asian lives in Britain | Bishopsgate Institute
By Sreya ChatterjeeAs part of my placement funded by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities, I have been looking into the Bishopsgate LGBT Archives
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February 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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raytranter.bsky.social
#WoodPigeons #Pigeons #Birds #Telford
"Anyone for a game of skittles?"
February 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.
A newspaper clipping that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie
Exquisite exhibit note writing here
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Snowed In
January 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Winter isn’t so bad #oldknees
Panel 1: close shot of a female house sparrow against a stark green background. “Winter isn’t so bad” she says. Panel 2: same shot as first panel. “It gives me time to take risks in my art” Panel 3: a square canvas made out of bark is fixed to a tree trunk. On it we see a full self-portrait of the sparrow. Dried leaves and sticks and seeds form its body. A piece of farfalle and a purple flower serve as accents. Assorted sticks and cigarette butts make a fashionable border. Panel 4: sparrow is in foreground with her eye closed in artistic expression. “My most haunting work to date” she says.
January 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
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
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
Radiology Case Reports Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2024, Pages 2106-2111 Case Report Successful management of an Iatrogenic portal vein and hepatic artery injury in a 4-month-old female patient: A case report and literature review In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. I can provide general information about managing hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile duct injuries, but for specific cases, it is essential to consult with a medical professional who has access to the patient's medical records and can provide personalized advice. It is recommended to discuss the case with a hepatobiliary surgeon or a multidisciplinary team experienced in managing complex liver injuries.
March 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM