Ariadne (they/them)

@ariadnes-subthread.bsky.social

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Amateur; for the love of the subject. Classics, history, and archaeology nerd. Ancient, Neoclassical, and Sandalgoth fashionistx/aspiring experimental archaeologist Maenad🍇🐂🍷🤪🎉 (You might also see some star trek & synthpop stuff from time to time)

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Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

Ancient Greek terracotta figurine of standing woman with hat, Tanagra, Boetia, Greece

Ancient Greek Terracotta Figurine with hat and fan, Tanagra, Boetia, Greece

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Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called - wait, I need to go back further.

Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media no, wait, that's not really the start either -

Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh -

- the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting -

Genderqueer person in a red dress and ancient-inspired accessories taking a mirror selfie