Toad took his clothes out of the closet and put them on. Then he crossed out: Get Dressed.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Psychologist says: "Trump has the most severe personality disorder a person can have. Trump is both evil and demented."

Delighted to introduce the Sacral Mystic official website for art, design and astrology. You’ll find information about my creative & divinatory practices here along with a wealth of portfolio work in the gallery section 🌙💘 Take a look on mobile and desktop !! sacralmystic.com

I'm Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground Live 1969 (4K) youtu.be/XwgkhIkSZFo?...

Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Over 10 years old, still relevant today. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...

This one's a banger, and timely:

What’s the German word for when you cry in the shower until your Burger King crown falls apart

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 📚 This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen & Christopher Londa discuss enslaved readers & writers in Roman antiquity. Then, Venice & the Mongols, a podcast on Cahokia, ancient astrological practices, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.

How to speed up writing before the computer age. This suggestion of writing with 2 quills came from a schoolmaster and was formulated in 1692 Nuremberg, Germany. #skystorians

29 Mar 1652: A great solar eclipse, William Lilly's astrological predictions terrify many in #England #otd (eebo)

Are household spirits just legends or do they shape our lives? 🏠✨ The 16th Entangled Histories Seminar explores "invisible boundaries" and domestic spirits (agùrie) in #Apulia, #Italy 🇮🇹. With P. De Giosa (CNRS), L. Andriani (Uni Hamburg) & artist Marco “DEM” Barbieri. #Bari #Puglia #Anthropology

Amen! #BookSky

Book now at bit.ly/flaevents to grab a ticket for our online 2-day conference on witchcraft and magical history. All ticket holders get access to recordings, so you won’t miss anything even if you can’t be there for it all on the day :)

Whenever we pluck the fruit of creativity from the golden tree our other hand plucks the fruit of destruction. Our resistance to this insight is very high! We would love to have creativity without destruction, but that is not possible." ~Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow

Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.

It’s not law enforcement It’s ethnic cleansing

And if you’d like to know more about ancient astrology, I admit I 1. Have an astrologer-classicist, @translationoflight.bsky.social and 2. The brilliant Jason Nethercut wrote on it for us a few years ago: pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

And here is another Guidonian hand, this time in a manuscript of mid 13 century (Cod. D 75 inf, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan). The hand, the very BIG HAND of this monk, may be enlarged but the monk is still smiling!

Photographer Hannes Killian, one of Germany’s most significant mid-century photographers. Lore Glocker, 1950 #HannesKillian #Photography

teaching a Romanticism class in the fall again and keep thinking about how we're doing PBS's "England in 1819" as a checklist www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45118/...

#IdesofMarch Golden fronds from a Roman funerary wreath, 4th c. risdmuseum.org/art-design/c... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (GOODS-N-CENTER). RGB Filters: 444, 210, 182 PI: Naidu, Rohan, program 07404. CRVAL: 189.191735, 62.245903 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Not the sexiest deep space grab as most Nebula and Galaxies aren't good this time of year. But here is Betelgeus in all her glory. 560-650 light years away

Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies Vol. 11, No. 1 (2026) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

Hey #asheville Come to Hi-wire brewing tonight for the Dark Market. I made yokai tarot prayer candles for the event!

I don't think I've seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa got access to a time machine ;) Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant Etruscan 3rd–2nd century BCE www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

$15 billion dollars of meaningless death, destruction, and a whole world thrown into chaos. All at the expense of health care and essential programs that would have benefited their own citizens. Beyond reprehensible.

"20 years ago I participated in a war on terror. And today I'm having to come to terms with the realization that I was the terrorist." U.S. veteran

This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (J0823+2806-B). RGB Filters: 1800, 1130, 770 PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 125.977131, 28.101084 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vesta - Dawn - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/28NSyQP

Probably not gonna stay up for the Moon tonight so I'll post this instead, since I had to make a few minor changes. I'll tell you what though, staying up almost all night when you're 64, ain't the same as doing it at 24! #LunarEclipse #Totality #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara

“White-out” has been necessary for scribes for a long time, it seems. A page from the Book of the Dead penned by royal scribe, Ramose (1290-1278BCE) had a huntite and calcite mix to correct illustrations, say Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 12 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social#CoffeeWithACodexwill bring out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/47mgL0K

Good Afternoon✨ Avre Potabilis Chimice Preparat i- Arbol de la Vida (Alchemical Tree of Life - 17th century)

Apeiron Vol. 59, No. 1 (2026) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social

I want you all to appreciate this Attic kylix from the 470s BC depicting the scene where Jason is supposed to be killing the Colchian dragon that guards the Golden Fleece. Except for some reason, it’s either swallowing or barfing him while Athena checks in.

Relief plaque of cobra on a neb basket late Ptolemaic period. 400-30 BC Egypt, limestone

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/ 📸 me #MetMuseum

Rhea in Colour - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/5T2SY9