People sometimes have sudden, powerful experiences they describe as ‘spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical.’ But did you know that almost half of the general population report having had such unusual experiences?
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David Seymour delivers 2nd degree burns, broken teeth, rotten fruit, cockroaches and inedible non nutritious food to our kids and it’s not even his worst policy. #SchoolLunches
#nzpol
Wish I could be there 🤷♂️ where can I buy your book in NZ?
Butanese! 😊
Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".
It’s becoming increasingly clear they just cynically lied their way into power
#RomanFortThursday - A terracotta model of a fort gate found at the Roman military camp of Intercisa on the Pannonian Limes.
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.
Would the perfect cat eat burritos while riding a Roomba?
It’s so relaxing being mostly off twitter for a while - free of the constant yelling, abuse and bad faith
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
The moon disguised as Saturn
Sorry I'm late for work, I got drop-kicked by that monkey again.
Do you think it's possible that the nerds who invented email never once said something like, "It's kinda like mail...we could... call it ish-mail?"
Scattered lights below a dark horizon, early morning orange / pink / yellow above the horizon, dark blue sky, crescent moon, planet (probably either Jupiter or Saturn given how high it is above the horizon). Photo taken on my iPhone 14.
This morning in Siena.
Sunrise over mountains. Clear blue sky.
Mōrena! Napoli is looking very beautiful today.
Ancient Roman town, overlooked by modern Italian town, Vesuvius looming.
Herculaneum
Ercolano
Vesuvius
Too right
Me, wearing a blue beret, with an aperol spritz in hand, at a cafe outside the Pantheon.
I’ve been trying not to talk about this too much but I’ve gotta say, having an aperol spritz after spending an afternoon at the Pantheon is hard to beat.
Ah, I’ve just worked out that by creating chaos at Twitter, Musk is depressing the value of the $13 billion acquisition debt. Eventually he can probably buy I back at half price (it’s already down to 65%) making a cool $6.5 billion (assuming he can then turn Twitter around). Watch this space …
Is It only me who thinks these are the trace signal of alien doomsday weapons?
edition.cnn.com/2023/12/14/w...
Just sending you some random love. ❤️
I’m a big fan of our leporine pals, but putting aside this bias for now, this Greek-Sicilian coin is a masterpiece of silver relief work. Just look at the patterning in his ears, the individual whiskers, the taut body. Extraordinary.
🏛️Mandralisca Museum, Cefalu
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Love and support from
me Claire ❤️❤️❤️
I love the depth of his fresco. It feels like you’re actually standing in an orchard and could pluck one of those succulents fruits and gobble it up. It’s from the villa of Livia, Augustus’ wife, and is just one of many beautiful frescoes found there.
🏛️📷 Palazzo Massimo, Rome
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Are you feeling peckish? If so, have some eggs, game birds and wash it all down with a jug of wine. This is a really marvellous fresco and reminds me of the famous Dutch still lifes of the 17th century. It’s actually from Pompeii.
🏛️Naples Archaeological Museum
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This is absolutely breathtaking. It’s a Roman glass bowl from the 1st century CE. The richness of that emerald green is quite extraordinary
🏛️📷 NY Met
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Minoan vases with octopuses are always a delight, but relatively common. This rare vase shows a different type of marine animal: an argonaut. It’s an octopus-like animal that lives on the seabed in a shell. The Minoans were masters of depicting aquatic beasts
🏛️📷Heraklion Museum
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