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wraith 👻

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it's 1869 in my head chronically ill, chronically unchill charity worker 🍞🌹

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History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 19h ago

🧵In the summer of 1797, 22-year-old J. M. W. Turner embarked on an eight-week tour of Northern England that transformed his early career. While passing through West Yorkshire, Turner was captivated by the medieval Chantry Bridge spanning the River Calder in Wakefield. He initially captured

The Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin on the Wakefield Bridge over the River Calder. It was created as a watercolour around 1798 by the celebrated English landscape artist J. M. W. Turner (held in the collection of the British Museum
wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 19h ago

This isn't an anachronism per se but portraits of characters in tv/film are atrocious, especially when the characters are supposed to be immensely wealthy. Darcy would likely have hired Thomas Lawrence for his portrait so I wish his style had been mimicked. This looks unfinished and sad.

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Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · yesterday

Prompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'

wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay but this has reminded me that, as a kid, I thought a book that was sold as a bestseller was one of the best selling books of all time. I was really surprised by how much absolute crap was included in that hallowed list. which was catalogued by The Times for some reason.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

bear with a question if you will, trying to check something real quick. Without googling, what do you think is the 2nd best selling series of all time

wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm working on my mandarin vocabulary at the moment but I'd forgotten how frustrating this is, I will look up a word and find seventeen different translations for it, each of which also has eight related but different meanings.

wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 2w ago

I voted for 910 because she's my queen but Backpack is such a worthy winner. A real chill guy, a survivor, an absolute hunk of a chunk. and look at him as a tiny guy, with his legendary mum Holly (who won in 2019)

A large and rather shaggy blonde bear is sitting in the grass with her shaggier blonder cub. The cub is looking rather winsomely towards the camera. He sees greatness in his future.
Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 2w ago

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 3w ago

my ME/CFS is mild. I am thankfully able to work. I could not work without my partner doing the bulk of the housework, preparing healthy meals and clean clothes etc. I have almost no life outside of work. I can't work full time and realistically I know I'm working more than my body is able.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 4w ago

I gave a presentation on this at uni in Mandarin! It was terrible! there have been a large number of thefts of Chinese items from Western museums as China forcibly repatriates their history

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥@thoc.bsky.social · 4w ago

In October 1860, British & French troops punitively captured, sacked, & burned the Summer Palace outside Beijing. In the midst of the looting, a Pekinese dog was found in a palace closet. It was taken home to England & eventually became Queen Victoria's beloved pet: "Looty."

History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last one for tonight. No not John Atkinson Grimshaw but a painting of Upper Westgate Wakefield (1896) by son Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870–1944). Like his father he produced many evening scenes lit by artificial light and moonlight. The painting is now in the collection of the Hepworth Wakefield.

Louis Hubbard Grimshaw’s Wakefield, Upper Westgate (1896) masterfully captures the atmospheric essence of late Victorian urban life. Heavily influenced by his father, John Atkinson Grimshaw, the artist employs a muted, twilight palette to evoke a sense of nostalgic isolation. Wet, glistening cobblestones reflect the warm glow of shopfronts and gas lamps, contrasting sharply with the sombre towering silhouette of the cathedral spire piercing the misty sky.
wraith 👻@morsdilectio.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think that, when the welfare and futures of women and girls are put in jeopardy by their government, citizens should be allowed to leave their country actually. that's why I support afghan refugees :) :)