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Bruce G

@bg-sta.bsky.social

Re-enactor. Love the fells. Love live music. Football = blue. Politics = mostly green. Drink = real ale, especially dark beers 🍺

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Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 7h ago

The stupid part: “Trump’s Russia deal is for 2.25 million barrels: the equivalent of about 16 hours’ worth of U.S. consumption, 10 hours’ worth of U.S. production, or 14 days’ worth of Canadian imports.”

Bruce G@bg-sta.bsky.social · 3d ago

Okay good people of Bluesky, we're sat in a bar in Puerto Pollença and this is hanging on the wall. Any suggestions regarding it's function? 🤭🤔

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Dr Ella Hawkins@ellamchawk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
licia@astra99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Norway's melting ice reveals 48 prehistoric arrows, including a 6,000-year-old slate arrowhead with its shaft. It's incredible what's preserved, offering a rare glimpse into ancient life, but also a stark reminder of what climate change uncovers and threatens.

Hidden in Ice for Millennia, a 6,000-Year-Old Discovery Has Emerged from Western Scandinavia's Once-

Archaeologists with Norway's "Secrets of the Ice" program have uncovered 48 prehistoric arrows in the Jotunheimen mountains, including an exceptionally well-preserved 6,000-year-old slate arrowhead. T

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