Bombshells Podcast

Me: It's not fair, I want to be an anteater, why do other people get to be anteaters but not me?
Tim: Nepotism. I have it on good authority that all current anteaters had parents who were ones as well

Sometimes spotting fake history is very easy.
I knew this photo does not show a WW2 photographer in 1944... because it's my old pal Seimon from Wales.
To compare a photo of him on the set of Band of Brothers.

I'll share Seimon's amazing photography work in the future.

History Notes

July 9, 1762: Catherine the Great overthrows Peter III and begins her reign as empress of Russia.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

@beigegrae.bsky.social

I have three types of #ttrpg characters
- self-assured borderline sociopaths who end up as the villains of the next campaign
- manic pixie dream girls if your dream is to take a lot of acid while having uncontrolled teleportation powers
- Okka Australian miners

The war on trans women is a covert insistence on the enforcement of traditional gender norms. You don't just have to be a cis female, you have to perform feminity to the correct standard so you don't get questioned and harassed and honestly no, fuck that noise

Dr Anita Heiss and Me

Such a fun evening tonight at NLA listening to @dranitaheiss.bsky.social talking about her new rom com Red Dust Running - first written as an audiobook!
Yes this is the ever gorgeous Dr Anita, and me looking like a proper fan girl librarian-I have to live up to stereotypes some time…
Reading time!

YouTube video by Living History by Dr Julia Martins The Secret History of Renaissance Bath Houses

I always go on about medieval bathing, but what happened during the Renaissance?
Did things really get worse?
And how did women who visited spa's without their husbands mysteriously ended up getting pregnant?!

Interesting video by Dr Julia Martins
youtu.be/oKBpXQ0FfqY?...

NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her. "It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."

This lady is amazing
www.space.com/space-explor...

I love how this synopsis distinguishes it in no way from almost any other episode

#InternationalNursesDay 💉

This is one of the earliest photographs of the nurses at Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum.

These were among the first mental health nurses in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#histmed #Wales

‘The world needs you to be bold’ Simone Biles delivers a memorable address at WashU's 164th Commencement, telling the Class of 2025: "The world doesn’t need you to be perfect. It needs you to be bold, to care, and to keep going even ...

Simone Biles shared a very important message: “The world doesn’t need you to be perfect. It needs you to be bold, it needs you to care, and to keep going even when things don’t go as planned. So go out there and write your own story — one that only you can tell.”

source.washu.edu/2025/05/the-...

Black and white photo of a young light skinned black woman in a dark beret and turtleneck sweater, sitting outside of the brick steps of a wooden house porch. Next to her is a shorthaired white cat looking very curiously into the distance, but the cat is restrained by the woman’s hand and also a harness if it should decide to run off and investigate.

Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.

In 1927, Marcia Pinkenfield was chosen as the most beautiful child in America at 6 months old. #history #historical #didyouknow #historyfacts

But she did not have an easy life, that's a tough read at times, she had mental health problems and alcohol issues

"She was a direct descendant of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States" That's so cool!

Mayo Methot - Wikipedia

@80yearsago.bsky.social Oh, she was an actress in her own right! Humphrey Bogart was her third and final husband
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Me...

Mayo Methot is a heck of a name, I'm going to see how much information I can find out about her

This sounds amazing!

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

Funnily enough, this is exactly what I had in mind

Further #gaming update - a bomb at the stage has been successfully defused, the anarchists are angry at us for not taking their side (they do make fair points about the Dendalus political system, but you can't let people do a terrorism just because they don't like the distribution of power) #ttrpg

#Gaming tonight with the guys. Russell just got four successes on a roll to save Green Day from performing badly in front of a horde of demon scorpion monsters #ttrpg #concertsaved

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 @drmaureenwright.bsky.social dives into the unsung heroines of the Victorian women's movement. Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and her peers challenged the system and fought for real change. 💪👩‍🦰 #WomensRights #Feminism #Victorians

Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2bcfdd
#History #Podcast

Oh man, I would love to go to this!

That would make for some very funny mix ups