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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:55 UTC

🧵 It’s election day here in the UK, so here is a coin from the first century BCE, depicting an election during the Roman Republic. On the back of the coin you can see a really clear image of a man dropping his voting tablet into a cista, or basket. Numismatists have identified

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

Reading yet another post-apocalyptic novel set in the ruins of New York where the survivors only communicate via emojis, and once again I must ask: where are the Jews Is the Torah written like 🌟🌚🌊💧now or what

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

Portrait of May Tahana, circa 1860-1880, unknown photographer. Ref PA2-2792 National Library of New Zealand.

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

A trick toy in the form of a wooden boot, circa 1900-1950. The top of the boot - which appears to be made from bone - is slid backwards a small snake with a pin for a tongue pops up. Ref RI.RT105 Te Hikoi Museum

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

THERESA MAY AND HILARY CASS???

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:39 UTC

Hilary Cass is getting a Peerage for Life.

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:10 UTC

Squirt gunning liquor directly into my mate’s open mouth

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:58 UTC

Yeah I’m opening for them, I’m a member of Globalist Banking Elites

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:13 UTC

Hard disagree, he went for the mint chocolate

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:10 UTC

Oh my Gd mate just do the triple bracket thing it takes less time

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:08 UTC

So you can’t literally shotgun from it, then…

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:35 UTC

Whiskey decanter in the shape of a pistol, mid-19th century. The word 'Depohirt' is embossed on the butt. Ref RI.W2001.165 Te Hikoi Museum, New Zealand.

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:30 UTC

A pair of thick-framed spectacles with extra strength lenses, possibly of the Martin's Margins variety, 1750-1890. Martin's Margins rims were supposed to protect wearers from excessive light exposure and to improve their vision. Ref RI.W2001.71 Te Hikoi Museum.

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

False teeth vulcaniser with gas regulating gauge, Amalgamated Dental Co Ltd, London. False teeth were vulcanite from the 1870s (replacing gold as the material of choice & meaning the middle classes could afford dentures) to the 1930s, when acrylic was introduced. Ref 8557 City of Belmont Museum.

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

Handkerchief, Woman's Rights And What Came Of It. "1981" Manufactured 1881, this hanky depicts a terrifying future where women serve in the army & navy, work in science or law, and run for political office. The men are left to scrub floors, do laundry, & make tea. Ref GH018199 Te Papa

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

The vote is here pictured as a weapon for women (shackled by the Woman's Sphere) to defeat the deadly snakes of alcohol, gambling, seduction and cruelty. Via Jeanne Wood, A challenge not a truce: a history of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1885-1985. 1986

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Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

Portrait of Ruiha, wife of Wikepa, taken between 1872 and 1886 by Foy Brothers of Thames. Ref PAColl-7884-2 National Library of New Zealand.

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