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♪ #nowplaying My nose - Ezra Williams (Supernumeraries - 2023) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
My nose - Ezra Williams (Supernumeraries - 2023) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
September 15, 2026 at 10:08 AM
gergyl.bsky.social
Perrottet senior is an admitted 'supernumerary' member of the Catholic Opus Dei sect* -- ABC Four Corners 15 Feb 2023: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02....

(* You might use another word. Full members live apart from society, proselytise in schools, wear the cilice self-torture device, whip themselves.)
"CLAIRE HARRIS: The Perrottets are a very large family. They've been at the schools for a very long time. They are a very integral part of the Pared community at both Tangara and Redfield. LOUISE MILLIGAN, REPORTER: Mr Perrottet's parents are married members of Opus Dei, known as supernumeraries. They appeared on a Compass program in 2000. GERALDINE DOOGUE: You're called a what, strictly? Supernumerary? JOHN PERROTTET: Supernumerary. Perhaps 80 per cent of the people in The Work are married people, living in their own homes, working in their own jobs. LOUISE MILLIGAN, REPORTER: Opus Dei is often referred to as 'The Work'."
August 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
4gottenfuturist.bsky.social
In the #StarTrek TNG episode "Data's Day" there's a scene where Data comes onto the bridge while Riker is talking to some lower deckers. From what you can hear under Data's voiceover, it sounds like he's regaling them with some Away Team exploit or holodeck adventure. In reality, it was a dad joke.
Screenshot from the script for "Data's Day": INT. MAIN BRIDGE Data ENTERS. Riker's shift still on duty. Riker is telling a joke to the Supernumeraries at Tactical and the Aft Science station. Data watches Riker as he moves to Ops and takes his station. Data's V.O. can be heard over Riker's joke. RIKER •.. he still won't talk... so they put the Count's head on the chopping block... 'one more chance' says the Queen. 'No' says the Count. The headsman swings his axe and just as the blade falls, the Count says 'wait, wait, I'll talk!' but it was too late. And the moral to the story is don't hatchet your counts before they chicken. DATA (V.O. ) (over the above) Commander Riker's easy-going manner and sense of humor is fascinating. It is one reason why he is so popular among the crew. I believe it may also be partly responsible for his success in matters of love. There may be a possible correlation between humor and sex... the need for more research is indicated. The Supernumeraries groan at the joke, but Riker is pleased with himself and moves back to Command. Data notices something on his console.
July 29, 2026 at 1:44 PM
scottclevenger.bsky.social
Used to be, we could force supernumeraries like that into the Church.
June 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
iblistad.bsky.social
Many will continue to fall into the hands of different religious organizations.
I have relatives who were recruited by Opus Dei from a very young age; today they are supernumeraries, they swallowed it all, others luckily did not.
June 17, 2026 at 11:25 PM
donsheldon.bsky.social
If I turn off my blue light filter and pump my brightness to max I can barely make out the supernumeraries in this shot.
Tiny ripples of repeating colors at the inside edge of the primary bow. This is the only way to see pink in a rainbow (when the blue and red from multiple contributions overlap). It's pretty rare and only happens when the air has especially small and uniform water droplets.
June 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
What the hell is it with Christopher Guest and supernumeraries? Six fingers…amps that go to eleven…did he outbid Bowie for the 13-hour clock from Labyrinth too? Gah!
June 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
overyourhead-photo.bsky.social
We've all seen rainbows, most of us have seen doubles, and some might have noticed supernumeraries. But what about triple? Quadruple?

Those are rare but possible! They're very faint & face the Sun, but with perfect conditions & enhancement, they're BARELY catchable.

Look closely. Can you see it?
A highly enhanced photo, faintly showing the 3rd order rainbow (centre), with the 4th very faintly discernible to its left.
June 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!!

Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!
A ridiculously bright double rainbow in front of dark clouds. There are multiple supernumeraries (little tiny rainbows under the main rainbow). The colours are almost unreal they're so bright.
May 22, 2026 at 3:01 AM
ramblingclub.bsky.social
Some people do have supernumeraries like back 9s. But I think it's more bug than feature
May 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
paulbusmiller.bsky.social
Either way a desire for "the great Winnowing" of all the supernumeraries , which can be replaced by robots, from they the Eloi,
April 24, 2026 at 5:12 PM
kleonardphd.bsky.social
I like that! I was also thinking of using supernumeraries who share a shape with the character to come on & off stage like a runway show, or filming the performer in each of the outfits and running clips as projections.
April 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM
monstrousregiment.bsky.social
Impeach the orange buffoon and his coterie of fart-breathed maga-turd supernumeraries (aka house republicans, Cabinet, and Ted Cruz).
April 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
vermontmelbguy.bsky.social
Life may be about to get more interesting for OD's money laundering supernumeraries open.substack.com/pub/garethgo...
My audience with Pope Leo
I spoke with him for more than forty minutes about Opus Dei's abuses
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March 18, 2026 at 12:48 AM
investigacecz.bsky.social
Ruská stínová flotila exportuje sankcionovanou ropu nebo slouží tajným službám k provádění sabotáží a dronových útoků. S rostoucím napětím v Baltském moři přibyli do posádky noví členové, označovaní pouze jako „supernumeraries“ čili nadpočetní či extra. 👇
March 10, 2026 at 12:47 PM
peggysanders.bsky.social
“About 650 members of Opus Dei are believed to live in Australia.

Most of the group's lay people are supernumeraries or numeraries.”
February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
johncnaylor.bsky.social
Died OTD, French physicist, Felix Billet, published in 1868 results of an experiment in which he illuminated a thin, vertical stream of water with sunlight and managed to see 19 rainbow orders including supernumeraries. He named it “la rose des arc-en-ciel”, known in English as Billet’s Rose.
January 28, 2026 at 10:27 AM
prospero53.bsky.social
Opera #supernumeraries
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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ICYMI: Midline supernumeraries and eruption of the maxillary central incisor
Midline supernumeraries and eruption of the maxillary central incisor
Supernumeraries in the premaxilla are said to be the most common cause of failure of eruption of the permanent central incisors. However, only a proportion of cases with supernumeraries in this region have delayed incisor eruption. The inci...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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#OnThisDay in London's radical past: Anti Tax riot in the City, 1648
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Today in London’s radical past: Tax riot in the City, 1648
On 13th January 1648, there was a tax riot in London; after an attempt to levy a special tax on salt in the City, to pay for arrears of pay for ‘army supernumeraries’, there were disturbances in pr…
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January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Midline supernumeraries and eruption of the maxillary central incisor
Midline supernumeraries and eruption of the maxillary central incisor
Supernumeraries in the premaxilla are said to be the most common cause of failure of eruption of the permanent central incisors. However, only a proportion of cases with supernumeraries in this region have delayed incisor eruption. The inci...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
jdconnor.bsky.social
Image grabbed from "The Third Meaning," Roland Barthes, Artforum Jan. 1973, 46–50
ROLAND BARTHES TRANSLATED BY RICHARD HOWARD Here is an image from Ivan the Terrible (I): two courtiers, confederates, or supernumeraries (it doesn't really matter whether or not I recall the story's details exactly) are showering the young czar's head with gold. I believe I can distinguish three levels of meaning in this scene: 1) an informational level: collecting all I can learn from the setting, the costumes, the char- acters, their relationships, their appearance in an anecdote am however vaguely familiar with. This level is that of communication. If I had to find an analytic mode at this level, I should re- sort to the semiotics of the "message" - though 1 shall not deal with this level, or with this semiotics, here. 2) A symbolic level: the shower of gold. This level is itself stratified. There is the referential symbolism: the imperial ritual of baptism by gold. Then there is the diegetic symbolism: the theme of gold, of wealth (supposing that it exists) in Ivan the Terrible, of which this scene would constitute a significant intervention. There is, further, the Eisensteinian symbolism - if, say, a critic were to decide that gold, or a shower of gold, or the curtain constituted by this shower, or the disfiguration it effects, can participate in a system of displacements and substitutions characteristic of Eisenstein. Finally, there is an historical symbolism, if, in a manner even more generalized than the preceding ones, it can be shown that gold leads to a (theatrical function, a scenography of exchange, which we can lo- cate both psychoanalytically and economically, i.e., semiologically. This second level, in its total- ity, is that of signification. Its mode of analysis would be a semiotics more highly elaborated than the first, a second or neosemiotics, no longer accessible to a science of the message but to the sciences of the symbol (psychoanalysis, economics, dramaturgy). Is this all? No, for I cannot yet detach my- self from the image. I read, I receive (probably, in fact, immediately), a third - evident, erratic, and persistent meaning (see note 1). I do not know what its signified is, at least I cannot name it, but 1 can clearly see the features the signifying accidents of which this sign, hereto- fore incomplete, is composed. There is a certain density of the courtiers' make-up, in one case thick and emphatic, in the other smooth and "distinguished"; there is the "stupid" nose on the one, and the delicate line of the eyelids on the other, his dull blond hair, his wan complexion, the affected smoothness of his hairstyle which suggests a wig, the connection with the c skin tints, with rice powder. l am not certain wheth- er my reading of this third meaning is justified - if it can be generalized - but already it seems to me that its signifier (the features 1 have just attempted to express, if not to describe pos- sesses a theoretical individuality. For on the one hand, that signifier cannot be identified with the simple dasein of the scene; it exceeds the copy of the referential motif, it compels an in- terrogative reading -an interrogation bearing precisely on the signifier, not on the signified, on the reading, not on the intellection: it is a "poetic" apprehension. On the other hand, it cannot be identified with the episode's dram- atic meaning. To say that these features refer to a signifying "expression" of the courtiers, here remote and bored, there diligent ("they are simply doing their job as courtiers"), does not entirely satisfy me. Something in these two faces exceeds psychology, anecdote, function, and in short, meaning, though without being reduced to the persistence which any human body exerts in its mere presence, its dasein. In opposition to the first two levels, that of communication and that of signification, this third level - even if my reading of it is still risky - is that of significance; this word has the advantage of referring to the field of the signifier (and not of signification) and of joining, by a path marked out by Julia Kristeva, who has proposed the term, a semiotics of the text.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM
johnnol1.bsky.social
Australia is contemplating supplementing its domestic police force with armed Jewish supernumeraries to enforce the policies of an envoy appointed by the PM but totally supportive of Israel’s Netanyahu which would be staffed by Mossad.
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
johnnol1.bsky.social
Australia is contemplating supplementing its domestic police force with armed Jewish supernumeraries to enforce the policies of an envoy appointed by the PM but totally supportive of Israel’s Netanyahu would be staffed by Mossad.
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM