For #InternationalDogDay 🐶, this incredible mosaic floor from Alexandria depicting a dog seated next to a gilded vessel. This Ptolemaic mosaic was made using the opus vermiculatum technique (small, closely set tesserae). Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum.

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Just how can he think this is a brag? It genuinely breaks my brain that he can say this and see how bad it looks.

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Some personal news: I’m relocating to Pyongyang to take up an exciting new leadership role

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An early entry for #MosaicMonday this week: the powerful and splendidly bearded head of Oceanus which I was lucky enough to see when the site was newly excavated. 📷 1990 #AncientBluesky🏺

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That was the first line that got me when I first read “Guards! Guards!”: I’d read “Carpet People” (bouf); “The Color of Magic” (Rincewind is annoying) but I tried his new book and when I hit that line I thought: this guy is good

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