Göbekli Tepe (Turkey), 10th mill. BC

Phone doodle: Hank #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart @hankgreen.bsky.social ;-)

Phone doodle: stellar #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

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And haven't for quite a while

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Phone doodle: creamy #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: framed #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

At 1 am on a summer night in 2010, five parked cars went up in flames in downtown Stockholm. As authorities rushed towards the fires, three thieves riding a moped sped towards the Chinese Pavilion, a building on the grounds of Drottningholm Palace, where Sweden’s royal family lay sleeping.

#MarsupialMonday : Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917 - 2017) #Opossum Family 2, 1968 Cotton, wire, buttons, 10 x 15 x 6 in. shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/d... #WomenArtists

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Resharing for #WorldOkapiDay

No Kings, Overland Park, KS

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UITNODIGING EXPOSITIE – De Stichting Suryoyomediafoundation nodigt u van harte uit voor de bijzondere kunstexpositie “Echo’s uit Mesopotamië”.

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New Case: Alabaster Ram, contributed by Damien Huffer This 5th century BCE alabaster ram was one of three Yemeni objects seized from collector Shelby White's Manhattan apartment in January 2023.

Ur or Uruk? >> • "Ur" can be used to refer to the original version of something, because "Ur" was supposedly the name of the first city! • But Ur was not the first city. There was an earlier city called Uruk so Uruk was the ur-Ur!

Phone doodle: flower shade #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: cyber hot #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

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Barry Blitt

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it boggles the imagination that a nation's entire pundit class seriously entertained the possibility that there might have been even one single person in the Kingdom of Norway who for even an instant considered awarding the Nobel to Trump

“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”

Phone doodle: electronica #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: flock #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: backbone #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: rood + blauw #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

#MosaicMonday: colourful #Roman glass tesserae found in Geneva/Switzerland, dating 3rd/4th c. AD.  Mosaic cubes were made of stone, pottery, tile, or glass. Glass tesserae were rather fragile. They were used rather rarely in floor mosaics to provide colours that...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺

We were so privileged to get a private performance of Cirque Du Raccoon last night. So graceful. #CorpusChristiTx #Mammal #Ring #StickupCam

What a week! Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.89r @camdiglib.bsky.social

With a bespectacled cow playing backgammon?!?

Ik ben óók een bezorgde burger. Waarom zie ik in het nieuws nooit bezorgde burgers die over hetzelfde bezorgd zijn als ik?

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So far, about 4,000 antiquities have been counted missing in Sudan. 700 pieces disappeared from museums in the cities of Nyala and El GeneinaI, where the museum’s curator was killed when the building was shelled www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Phone doodle: groen + rood #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

"Temple-handled double spout bottle in stepped volute shape with mythical painting. Late Nasca Phase, 450-650 AD. Clay, modeled and painted, fired; Museo Textile Amano" (grundoonmgnx.tumblr.com/post/1734959...)

Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.

A #Roman figurine of a lizard, carved from a single piece of hyaline quartz. It was found in a Gallo-Roman tomb in Belgium, where it was buried as part of an assortment of grave goods about 2000 years ago (📷 MFAH, Brussels) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

This Etruscan guttus - a vessel used to store and pour liquids in small amounts, or to refill oil lamps - is shaped like an elephant. It may have been inspired by the elephants first seen in Italy during the invasions of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal of Carthage in the 3rd c. BCE. 🏺 300-200 BCE.

When you look at these type of reliefs in a museum, they frequently are hard to understand. Why? Because they were made of stone that was marbled and multi-colored… which didn't matter because they were originally painted anyway!