@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
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May 07, 2026
Mark Saltveit
@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar. Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.
mastodonapp.uk
Aldhelm was already growing on me, but this is awesome: (from wikipedia)
"He was now an old man, but he showed great activity in his new functions [as bishop]. This included going into public places where he would sing hymns and passages from the gospels interspersed with bits of clowning to draw attention to his message. "
@medievodons@fedigroups.social
#medievodons @histodons@fedigroups.social #histodons
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@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
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May 05, 2026
Mark Saltveit
@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar. Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.
mastodonapp.uk
RE: https://fedihum.org/@avstockhausen/116517608028738836
This is the manuscript reading software I've been searching for (and trying to help make) for 5 years -- not just bleed through, but easily adjustable image enhancement generally. FOR FREE
If you remember the late, great Retro Reveal, it's like that but 100 times better.
#histodons @histodons@fedigroups.social @medievodons@fedigroups.social
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/3fCV8bLKiBnHCfiKoAhtvQ 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
Une Analyse de la Complexité Affective d’un Génie Littéraire.
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/jh1iuW42arhcQTrqkmxJL6 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
A chilling exploration of emotional dissonance through a master of concise observation.
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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May 01, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 30, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
mstdn.social
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 27, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 25, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
mstdn.social
#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 22, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
mstdn.social
#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 20, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 02, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@TheConversationUS@newsie.social
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Mar 07, 2026
The Conversation U.S.
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social
A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of researchers, scientists and experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research. Pictured: just a few of our recent writers. We're committed to the openness of the Fediverse. We're the US edition of the largest publisher of news under Creative Commons license in the world -- our articles are free to read (and publish) without ads, paywalls or subscription fees.
newsie.social
Meet “Tiger Queen” Mabel Stark:
The woman once known as America’s most famous female tiger trainer. Her life in the circus was thrilling, groundbreaking and ultimately tragic.
https://theconversation.com/the-inspiring-and-tragic-story-of-mabel-stark-americas-most-famous-female-tiger-trainer-276570
#Histodons @histodons@a.gup.pe #WomensHistoryMonth
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@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 27, 2026
Mark Saltveit
@taoish@mastodonapp.uk
Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar. Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.
mastodonapp.uk
Job opening: Special Collections director at Middlebury College. Good library, good town, and you get to work in the same building as ME!
https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/F7664CF699/
#job #jobvacancy #library #histodons @histodons@fedigroups.social
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@bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net
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Feb 25, 2026
✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
@bibliolater@social.vivaldi.net
Not a bot just a chap in his early fifties who occasionally reads things. Formerly @bibliolater on #QOTO. Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #books, #maps, #charts and #graphs related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Toots are set to automatically delete every week. Finis
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🇺🇸 The Siege of Boston, General Washington, and Phillis Wheatley
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026/02/25/the-siege-of-boston-general-washington-and-phillis-wheatley/
#USA #US #UnitedStates #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Feb 11, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons
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@dig_history@mastodon.world
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Feb 09, 2026
Dig: A History Podcast
@dig_history@mastodon.world
Dig: A History Podcast is a narrative-driven, open access, and accessible digital history project bridging the worlds of popular and academic history with an explicitly feminist perspective. #histodon #podcasts
mastodon.world
Save it for the Rag-and-Bone Man: The Premodern History of Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse
https://digpodcast.org/2026/02/08/save-it-for-the-rag-and-bone-man-the-premodern-history-of-recycling-salvage-and-reuse/
#EnvironmentalHistory #18thC #18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #EuropeanHistory #SocialHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Jan 30, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.
In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@BigSkyTreasure@mastodon.world
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Jan 28, 2026
BigSkyTreasure
@BigSkyTreasure@mastodon.world
Step back in time and wander the wild, windswept plains and mountains of Montana, where history whispers through the pines and rivers remember the dreams of pioneers. From the gold rush days in Virginia City to the proud legacy of the Crow and Blackfeet Nations, Montana's past is a tapestry woven with courage, hope, and untamed beauty. Let your heart roam the Big Sky Country-where every sunset tells a story! Engage with @BigSkyTreasure: BigSkyTreasure@novakmedia.one
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The Echoes of Fourchette Bay:
A Confluence of High Plains History
The Missouri River, a winding arterial vein through the heart of the American West, has long been a conduit for ambition, survival, and transformation. Among its many bends and breaks lies Fourchette Bay, a geographical fixture in what is now the Charles M. Russell...for further reading see link below.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places#h.odibaxlz7sy4
#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons
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@bibliolater@qoto.org
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Jan 17, 2026
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
@bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things. Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Finis
qoto.org
🖥️ Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”
#History #Histodons #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Psychology #Technology #Tech #STEM
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Nov 28, 2025
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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