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Things I want more than Greenland as an American: •Affordable Housing •Universal Healthcare •Ability to travel and explore •Chance to pursue passions not money •To make a difference in other people’s lives So I want #StarTrek The future Gene Roddenberry envisioned

The new carnyx from Norfolk is the most complete ever found, & I can’t wait for the first reproduction to appear & be played. But it wasn’t alone! Also incredibly rare boar standard & shield bosses were deposited with it! 5/.. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

For a belated #MosaicMonday, a detail from the ceiling #mosaic of #SantaCostanza in #Rome, 340-345 CE. Here we have a grape harvest with tiny blue children climbing along the vines with a hooked staff, in competition with birds to get the fruit. Below, a child drives a tiny cart. #AncientBluesky 🏺

This well preserved Roman bronze cavalry 'sports' mask has some beautiful details. Thought to have been used for parades or tournaments - part of maintaining morale and fighting effectiveness - these masks may also have been used in battle. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky 2nd c. CE, #MetMuseum loan.

The waterlogged, anaerobic environment within prehistoric pile dwellings provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials like wood. This bucket-like vessel made of oak wood and two smaller bowls (maple and ash wood) were found in In Reute Schorrenried. Dating 3900-3500 BC. 🏺

An aryballos in the shape of Medusa's head. The vessel was used to hold perfumes oil. Medusa was a mythical creature whose sight turned everyone to stone. Her head was a popular motif and used to ward off any evil. From Vulci, 6th c. BC. On display at British Museum. 📷 me

WOW!!! 🤩 “An ‘extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet that may have links to the Celtic tribe led by Boudicca in the period they were battling the invading Roman army has been discovered by archaeologists in Norfolk”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #Archaeology

Who ran the first #marathon in space? #NationalTriviaDay Sunita Williams, American astronaut, on April 16, 2007. She was listed as an entrant for the 2007 Boston Marathon and completed the distance in 4 hours 24 minutes. #WomenInSTEM #running #trivia

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Fascinating!

New Jersey Fibershed is an affiliate of a global movement that supports creating more sustainable clothing and fabrics from the wool of local sheep, alpacas and goats.

Something lovely for the weekend! The Dorestad Brooch, c. AD 800. This beautiful Carolingian brooch was found at the bottom of a well in the Netherlands in 1969! Gold inlaid with almandines, pearls, glass, and enamel. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden 📷 AlexanderVanLoon www.rmo.nl/en/collectio...

I think we all need a timeline cleanse right now…. An adorable #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #cow's head. Vessels such as this one were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 460 BC. 🧵1/2 🏺

A wonderful tour through medieval life!

#1950s #History #NewYork #NewJersey #Trains Erie 2524 a K-1 Pacific in Spring Valley NY, This was on the NY&NJ railroad now NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line and steam ended in March 1954 shortly after this was taken

An adorable Egyptian figurine: a resting hippo, painted with Nile flora in black lines, evoking the lush riverbanks where hippos lived. In Egyptian culture, hippos were generally associated with life, fertility, and rebirth. Dating around 1900 BC.🧵1/2 📷 me

On display at Antikensammlung München

‘The human origin story is complex. So why not join us in our latest YouTube livestream as we explore how homo sapiens ended up colonising the planet and reveal our distant relatives’ youtube.com/live/QmCBmWf...

showing off this absolute beaut today - 16th-century in the binding made for the el elector palatinate, containing vitae of Burchard of Worms and Gall (by Walahfrid), and Paulus Diaconus' Historia Longobardorum!

Today, let's celebrate a drawn and illuminated crane that functions as a pointing gesture to a new paragraph (in a fourteenth century manuscript). It looks like he is walking into the text, right? #bookhistory

This message hits hard.

Wonderful thread for the book lover in all of us.

This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄ It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #History

California high school football team places orange roses at the feet of a cheerleader battling leukemia. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Bee-autifully crafted gold ornament in the form of a little bee 🐝 ❤️ Length 1.90 cm. From Minoan Crete, circa 1700-1600 BC. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

La plus ancienne barque pharaonique va être restaurée en public au Grand Musée égyptien. #Archéologie www.franceinfo.fr/culture/patr...

It's Monday, Latin dies Lunae - day of Luna, goddess of the #Moon. Therefore, for #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic from the #Roman villa at Orbe-Boscéaz, Yverdon-les-Bains region, Switzerland, depicting Luna in a two-horse chariot. Happy Monday to all of you!

#GVerse SNL completely DESTROYED #Shit4Brains for hiding the Epstein files. This is amazing. Check it out!

A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! The days are getting longer from today 🌞 #Winter #WinterSolstice

Happy Winter Solstice! On midwinter’s day, the sun sets between the pair of stones that form the largest trilithon at #Stonehenge Farewell to the shortest day of the year, as we look forward to lighter days ahead! ☀️ #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

Ahead of Christmas, it feels fitting to share this Roman fibula - a decorative pin once used to fasten garments - shaped like a stag. In my Christmas-influenced imagination, it looks rather reindeerish! 🎄 Is it Dasher, Dancer, or maybe Rudolph? 🎅 From the Roman Villa at Borg, 2nd c. AD 📷Villa Borg

Stunning new discovery in Italy: Thousands of dinosaur footprints were discovered more than 2,000 meters above sea level, providing new insights into life 200 million years ago. www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/itali...

🧵 Ever wonder what the baby universe looked like—just 800 million years after the Big Bang? JWST has given us an amazing glimpse via a galaxy called Virgil, hidden in the iconic Hubble eXtreme Deep Field. ➡️ news.arizona.edu/news/monster... 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #cosmology #JWST 1/11

We can no longer afford the rich. They know it, and that’s why they are pushing fascism everywhere. - Blogwart www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her. This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.

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“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a stunning Egyptian glass vessel in the shape of a #fish, it was probably used to hold ointments. Found in El-Amarna, #Egypt, 14th century BC. 📷 British Museum

Happy Monday! Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Roman villa floor mosaic. Terme of S. Felice, #Volterra #Italy Discovered in 1884 Another example of the high standard of decoration in Volterra in the Roman period. Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra. #MosaicMonday #Roman

#MosaicMonday brings us a detail from a breathtaking #mosaic from #Roman #Carthage, c. 375 CE, which has a complex design showing the months and the seasons in dazzling #acanthus and ribbon #frames. #LateAntiquity in North Africa was prosperous, as this floor from a #domus shows. #AncientBluesky 🏺