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Dr. Carly Maris
@vintagehistorian.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of World History at Wilmington College, researching ancient women in Rome, textiles and empires

Also known as Vintagehistorian
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Every ancient historian should read this article bc the implications 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Screen shot of article that says the following: logoMain content starts here Reference #1 BACK TO VOL. 11, NO. 39 OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH ARTICLE NEUROSCIENCE Share on Synchronization of women’s menstruation with the Moon has decreased but remains detectable when gravitational pull is strong CHARLOTTE HELFRICH-FÖRSTER HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-0859-9092, ESTHER D. DOMENIE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0009-0008-6630-6076, [...] , AND SARA MONTAGNESE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-2800-9923+5 authors Authors Info & Affiliations SCIENCE ADVANCES 24 Sep 2025 Vol 11, Issue 39 Screen shot from article that says “We conclude that humans are affected by the luminescence cycles and also the gravimetric cycles of the Moon, with the menstrual cycles aligning with the synodic month. Furthermore, we hypothesize that, in ancient times, human reproductive behavior was synchronous with the Moon, but that our modern lifestyle, particularly our increasing exposure to artificial light at night, has altered this relationship.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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It’s been a month and no one in our family has said anything about, what I think to be, the best prank ever.
A shot of the HBO who’s watching screen on their app and there are 5 different profiles, all of Guy Fieri’s face
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Someone write an academic paper on Heidi Klum’s Halloween costumes
It’s Heidi Klum’s Halloween costume but it’s so grotesque you can’t see it’s Heidi Klum’s. She’s Medusa and it’s truly amazing. She’s all green and scales, down her torso and arms. The snakes are all ta fled with hair on her head and her face is terrifying, with pointy serpentine teeth, and snake eye contact lenses. It’s movie-level makeup.
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Meet Greg!
Okay so it’s dark in the pic and there’s a blow up alien with a jack o lantern in front of him. But the alien (Greg) is super happy and cute. Also the alien is glowing against a dark brick wall behind him. It’s a bit fuzzy but that’s because it’s kinda hard to take pics at night because you have to hold your phone super still and honestly I’m not good at that. So it’s kinda fuzzy. But not bc it’s chat gpt. It’s bc I’m not good at holding still. Also Greg is so cute.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Immediately jumps on the bed I just made
A pug sitting on the foot of a bed, staring up at the camera. He is sitting in a beige blanket that has white and brown pumpkins on it. At the head of the bed is a white pumpkin pillow and another pillow that says hey pumpkin.
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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First paragraph and I’m hooked
Photo of R.F. Kang’s Katabasis, a novel
October 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Guess what our Halloween theme is this year!
A pug standing on a lawn in front of a 9 foot tall blow up flying saucer with an alien inside. The flying saucer looks like it’s flying because there’s a clear blow up part below
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Someone *loves* the new Superman
A pug standing on back legs front paws on tv stand looking at a tv that has Superman lying on the ground
September 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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New office is slowly coming together. Tapestry art of Palmyra by @flaroh.bsky.social
Picture of office. Wall facing viewer has a tapestry of ruins with camels in front of them, they’re in a bright artsy style. Beneath them is an office chair and file cabinet with Knick knacks on it. To the right is a blue couch with a snail pillow. To the left is a desk that is mostly out of shot and a coffee maker on a little shelf.
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Why yes, Microsoft Word, I absolutely wanted to format my images this way and not neatly stacked one on top of the other as it appears on my computer screen.
Photo of article that has four pictures of ancient sculpture/sculptural reliefs, all haphazardly layered over each other
September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hesiod seems suspiciously adamant about this advice
Screen shot of “Do not expose your genitals, splattered with semen, inside your house when you approach the fireplace. Avoid this.”
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Missed this guy
A pug sitting in a car seat. He’s panting and his head is cocked to the side like he’s asking about something.
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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If you’re ever like, “man I wish tv shows would go more into the politics and economics of pearl tribute during the Tang dynasty, but also lowkey had a love triangle,” do I have the C-drama rec for you!
Poster for C-drama the story of pearl girl, has a youthful man and woman in historical Chinese clothes and hairstyles looking at the camera, with an artsy historical-looking depiction of the sea behind them.
July 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The closing night of Einaudi at Westminster with the organ is my kryptonite. I am rendered powerless when this plays.
July 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Find the cat!
A person (me) sitting in a chair in a vets office. On my right you can just barely make out yellow cat eyes, but everything else around it is pitch black.
July 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I think my dog was a model for Italian Renaissance painters in a past life
A pug in a circular dog bed, lying down, his front paw resting on the edge of the bed
July 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Well excuuuuse me for having to record lecture for my online course and not play with you
The saddest pug on a red outdoors dog bed lifted from the brick ground, made of tent material. It looks like a little dog tent that’s open air. The dog is looking at the camera with the saddest eyes you’ve ever seen.
July 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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He’s mad that I have to work
A pug curled up in a little pink dog bed
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Let’s be clear, he dragged this decor pillow (that I hand sewed) into this position, and then climbed atop it like it’s some kind of throne or palanquin.

He has three dog beds.
A pug atop a pillow that is black with yellow flower decorations on it. He has a bleep tongue and is cute. The pillow is on a brown sofa.
July 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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It’s someone’s birthday!
A pug with a blep who is wearing a happy birthday hat but its cocked way to the side
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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They should remake Encino man but have the caveman fall in love with a woman who looks like this
It’s the Venus of willendorf statue, which is a prehistoric statuette of a very voluptuous woman
July 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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*tightening my corset made with whalebone of endangered species*

It’s a tool 😤. For posture.
Screenshot saying: I see Al as an essential programming tool. Al is a tool. Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad. The question is whether we are using those tools for good or for evil.
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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My mom just sent me this purse
Brown leather purse with Egyptian hieroglyphs in gold on it. There is also an image of a man in a chariot with a bow and arrow, which looks similar to one tomb painting I can recall. It’s pretty kitschy
June 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A pug looking cute and sleepy into the camera while he’s on his bed
June 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A pug with his tongue out and huge eyes, grabbing a blue tennis ball that a human hand is holding
June 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM