Ever wondered how St Mark's in Venice looks in the fog? Wonder no more! #venice #caigo #fog

The Provveditori e Sopraprovveditori sopra Banchi were, in 1524, charged with overseeing the banks operating in Venice, around the markets at Rialto. Since the Middle Ages, noble families had operated banking activities around the Rialto with insufficient oversight. #Banking #Venice #SkyStorians

Hope we can all find something in life we love as much as Brigitte Bardot loved getting convicted and fined for inciting racial hatred by a French court.

“A Musk, Zuckerberg e compagnia: in Europa abbiamo un mercato di milioni di utenti che fanno guadagnare un sacco di soldi alle vostre aziende. Ma noi amiamo anche proteggere i nostri cittadini e le nostre democrazie legiferando”, ha detto l’europarlamentare Laura Ballarin

In Venice, there's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance. Yet another saint, one presumes, walking on towards St Mark's. Well, no! That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer & physician, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies for syphilis.

A member of the Pregadi — the Venetian senate — dressed in the traditional toga of important magistrates, with a black stola as a sign of mourning. The Republic of Venice had special rules about how magistrates could dress, even in periods of mourning. #SkyStorians #Venezia #Venice

This painting depicts a shoemaker specialised in calcagnette and zoccoli. There were calegheri, calzolari, scarpéri, zavatteri, zoccolai, pianellai, and scarperut. All these categories of shoemakers were organised in a single guild, the Scuola dei Calegheri in the Campo San Tomà. #skystorians

As if Nixon was enough, the US government wants cheaper dicks.

The well-known image of the plague doctor with the beaked mask doesn’t really have a lot of support in our sources. Did he even exist? And if he did, was he Venetian? #Venice #Podcast #Skystorians #PlagueDoctor

#OwnYourData For the hard of hearing: #OWNYOURDATA hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Ukrainian Special Forces operator at the battlefield of Ukraine. It's devastating to see such destruction, especially realizing it's someone's home. Used to be.

E ai travagliati di sinistra che continuano a difenderli in nome della libertà di espressione invece di disprezzarli in nome dei diritti umani dico solo andate a nascondervi. Qui si tratta di difendere le nostre democrazie.

The Piazzetta is the part of the Piazza San Marco closest to the lagoon, around the two columns. Commonly seen there, in the early 1700s, were a prison ship, a street brawl and noblemen in the broglio, engaging in the less noble side of Venetian politics. #skystorians #Venezia #Venice

Zelensky a Roma, @EuropaNow è davanti a Palazzo Chigi ad accoglierlo con le bandiere europee e quella ucraina. L’Ucraina è Europa, è il baluardo che difende l’Europa dalla Russia del ricercato criminale Putin

Satellite image of the ruins of Chasiv Yar. Not a single building in the city remains intact. Russia brings death and ruin everywhere it goes.

It was about time! Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has been fined €120m (£105m) after it was found in breach of new EU digital laws, in a ruling likely to put the European Commission on a collision course with the US billionaire and potentially Donald Trump.

I’m sitting on a bench in SS Giovanni e Paolo. The conversation behind me is fascinating; it sounds like a tour guide who really knows his stuff. He’s so good, I decide to tell him so. I walk up to him & glance at his name tag. “I know you!” It was René Seindal of @historywalksvenice.com in action!

Nessuna democrazia è immune dalla corruzione. La differenza la fanno appunto gli anticorpi. In ogni caso che gli italiani stiano facendo gli indignati quando non muovono il culo manco quando gli viene smantellato a favore di privati il sistema sanitario nazionale fa veramente sbellicare dal ridere.

Did the Venetian nobility play rugby in the early 1600s? Well, kinda. #Skystorians #Sports #Venezia #Venice

Non perdonerò *mai* la parte (tutt'altro che marginale) di sinistra che si è venduta l'anima a Putin e alla retorica nazionalista dei regimi, strumentalizzando e manipolando perfino il concetto di pace. Tra le tante vergogne della nostra epoca, questa è una delle più disperanti.

The Most Sacred Heart of Venice? What's in the cover illustration of the fourth volume of an 18th century trilogy? #venice #venezia #skystorians

Spent the night in the bomb shelter cause the peace negotiations were exploding over Kyiv just so damn loud

The position of Procuratore di San Marco was one of the highest honorifics of the Republic of Venice, ranking just below the Doge. They were, as all other high-ranking magistrates of the Republic of Venice, dressed in the traditional toga or vesta. #skystorians #venice #venezia

The stole was an important part of the dress of Venetian state officials, as a sign of dignity, but also used to indicate supplication, and even as a way of having informal votes. #skystorians #venezia #venice

Russia has killed Natalia Khodemchuk,the widow of Valerii Khodemchuk -the first victim of the Chornobyl disaster -during the attack on Kyiv on November 14 Natalia was hospitalized with burns covering 45% of her body She passed away in the hospital this morning. Deepest condolences.

One of the many tasks Venetian noblemen could be charged with, was presiding over the state-run auctions of the unredeemed pawned goods of debtors, called the 'incanto'. Taverns and inns also served as pawn shops, to ensure common people too had access to credit. #Venezia #Venice #SkyStorians

How did the debut of young noblemen into political society work? It involved togas, stoles, wine and cakes. "Compari alla Malvasia" (Malvasia Companions) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal. #VenetianNobility #Venezia #Venice #Malvasia

1/ In Rome the youth wing of Brothers of Italy commemorated a 17-year-old far-right activist killed in 1975 by the Red Brigades with the “chiamata del presente”, a ritual used by Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

During the 1400s, Venice had created defences against the recurring outbreaks of the plague, and they kept Venice mostly safe for the following centuries. Mostly safe. [Audio] [Original post on venetianstories.com]

Nobles at the Café Ever wondered how a barista in the Florian looked in the mid-1750? Wonder no more! "Nobles at the Café" from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal. #Coffee #VenetianNobility #Venezia #Venice #Grevembroch

If you can't work anyways, why not read up a bit of the history of Venice? historywalksvenice.com

None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.

Giogio Vasari on Sanmichele and the Sant'Andrea fortress. Extract of Vasari, "Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori" (1568), related to Michele Sanmicheli and the Fortress of Sant'Andrea. #Venezia #Venice historywalksvenice.com/translation/...

This isn’t just hypocrisy — it’s the collapse of every principle the UN was built on.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

For the sake of lasting peace in Europe, russia must be defeated.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

As a teenager, I read one of Jane Goodall's early books, and it changed my view of nature, animals and humanity, for the better. Thanks, Dr. Goodall.

An image of a Venice which no longer exists. Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — Veduta delle due Chiese di S. Nicolò e S. Giuseppe di Castello, published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717. #Venezia #Venice #VeniceLost #SkyStorians

A lexicographer's lament. "There, fleeing Austrian bullets, hunger, anarchy and the many other calamities that afflicted the illustrious and unfortunate Venice, in a few hours, by cholera, on the twentyfirst day of August of the year 1849," …

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Art 🧵 The Nuremberg house books are an amazing source for those interested in daily life in Medieval & early modern Europe. They contain depictions of regular local folk doing their work. I'm going to share some of my favourites, you can see them all here; online-service.nuernberg.de/viewer/hausb...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

In Italy we have no qualms about calling out fascism because we know what it is and how to recognise it. In Britain fascism has always been seen as something that could only happen elsewhere. Well, now the fascists are among you, openly, proudly even. It's time to wake up and push back.

Today Venice remembered the victims of the tornado of September 11th, 1970. #Venice #Remembrance

"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Matthew 26:52

I unconditionally condemn the murder of anyone, including of misogynist homophobic racist hate-mongering white supremacists.

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