@josieannewithane77
Just lurking...but a unionist primary school teacher with a love for history. I believe that every child should be taught by childless spinster cat ladies at least once in their life. Some days I'm Umbridge, others I'm Miss Honey.
Ashamed to say I'd never heard Dr Martin Luther King Jr's acceptance of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Such a contrast to discussions today about the award. So we played King's comments on-air.
Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204
Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nΔαΉ£ir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. πΊ
St John's church peeping through the mist.
Photo taken from Glastonbury Tor yesterday at sunrise.
A reminder of where we sit in the world!
πΆ There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down? πΆ
Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
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52 MILLION VIEWS β thatβs how many sets of eyeballs saw Itβs Not A Race content from January 1st to election day.
If you need to change the government in your country, reach out for a free brochure.
We have bowled Lithuania out for 125. Can we chase the target and secure our first ever T20 win over another nation?
Watch live! www.youtube.com/live/BDiwGmc...
Get ready for the big reveal! I'm excited to share the cover of Out of Time, available in hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats from the 9th of October. Check it out here: https://amzn.to/40atwbm
Calf
It took me a bit. Toe, Half, Knee, Shin
Happy #WorldMusicDay everyone!
You can hear the sound of a still shawm playing the traditional Tudor tune 'Les Bouffons' in the Museum, but our staff have heard it a thousand times so here's one that's a bit different...
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CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
I DREW THE ANGRY HOG
#art #statue #pig
Model of telegraph room with woman at desk. Cat in the middle of the floor.
Cats "helping" in dioramas at the Latvian Railway Museum. A thread.
In the telegraph room, telling the operator she's doing it wrong. /1
a meme titled "Why Do We Have Hands?" shows simple line drawings of hands and four reasons for their existence, each featuring a medieval cat plushie. the text reads: "pat the medieval cat" (a hand patting the cat) "hold the medieval cat" (a hand holding the cat) "cherish the medieval cat" (hands forming a heart around the cat) "forfeit all mortal possessions to medieval cat" (a hand holding money and the cat sitting on a bed)
medieval cat our beloved
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So, important question.
If they made yet another film about the court of Henry VIII, which Muppets should play which roles?
Pass it around, people !
Illustration of ghibli fanart from various series. Featured are Totoro and his little totos Jiji and lily with their kittens Catbus Haku in dragon form Kiki and jiji Calcifer No face Soot sprites Bath duck
Ghα»bli art drawn by me a human bean βοΈ
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Β© 2015 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Sketch of the Model Posing by Edvard Munch, 1893
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Erasmus after spending 10 minutes on LinkedIn
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Medieval Pacific City Abandoned Due to Climate Change 600 Years Ago https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/medieval-pacific-city-abandoned/ #History
Malta Miriana Conte βKantβ
Whoever is commentating for SBS this year better use the full ocker caaaaahhhhnt pronunciation when Malta takes the stage. Go full Graham Kennedy crow call with it or go home.
a doodle of a cat with a heart in its head
meow
#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social
"wow you blocked me just cuz I disagreed with you???" yes. Yes, exactly. This is a social media site. I come here to look at pictures of birds and shit post with my friends. This is not a town hall merging; I am not your elected official. I do not owe you my energy, my space, or my time. You and I are strangers that use the same website. I can block you for literally any reasons and that's okay. Take a deep breath. Block me too. You'll feel better.
Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:
