The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths suggests that the Eightfold Path is more a way of liberation than merely a way to liberation, which makes sense. Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

Thanks to Tony Blair and his 45 minute rush to war with Iraq 460,000 innocent Iraqi civilians lost their lives. Sadly, not a man of peace. Seasons' Greetings...

Anubis, Egypt, 664-30 BCE, wood, pigment, 66 x 50.8 x 8.9 cm, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York, USA

Some species of gray langurs have a special relationship with Spotted Deer They notify each other when predators approach In return, the langurs give the deer fruit from tall trees the deer can’t reach This type of relationship is called mutualism 📸hrishiwild

Diego Luna just received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in the Star Wars show Andor. What can Andor teach us about fighting tyranny? A lot, actually. Watch.

The Foggy Dew...

64...One institution in urgent need of democritisation is the one run by ombudsmen. The present ones seem to invariably be: pro-business, often deliver illogical decisions and have no right of appeal. Will you change that?

A vivid #Roman carving to start the week; from a tombstone depicting a hound straining on a lead as it chases a hare, circa AD 90 On display in the museum of the Roman baths, Bath 📷 My own

"We know too well - especially Haaretz and that Israeli soldier - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1977.

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Serious Pac Man vibes... #MosaicMonday

If you're in London I highly recommend the "Nigerian Modernism" exhibition at the Tate Modern. This beautiful sculpture is by Buraimoh Gbadamosi (1925-2014).

63...We believe everyone of whatever political persuasion should obsess about the process whereby an allegedly independent ombudsperson is able to deliver outcomes that are illogical. See: DJS Research / Sheffield University Nuffield Foundation Project.

61...What hard-working-families need is a political party that's for: - Economic justice. - Social justice. And, "Justice" justice... and Ombudsman Schemes that are pro-People and NOT pro-Business.

61...What hard-working-families need is a political party that's for: - Economic justice. - Social justice. And, "Justice" justice... and Ombudsman Schemes that are pro-People and NOT pro-Business.

Capitalism has mutated into something even more sinister | a talk at the Institute of Arts & Ideas last May www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCx...

61...Somewhere deep in the Amazon rainforest a butterfly flapped its wings...

Convicted of having a conscience?

Today we are happy to induct into the archive Ethel Gordon Fenwick (1857-1947), who for three decades led the fight for nurse registration in the United Kingdom, and became the country's first Registered Nurse. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/23dj4jmz #WomenInSTEM #Nursing #MedSky 🧪⚕️👩‍⚕️

60... X blocked the ombudsmans61% campaign's on Halloween 2024. No way of appealing. No transparency. No accountability. I want the account restored so that I can shut it down. And hope upon hope that it starts a trend.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen...

The Collybrook (name for the stream), last week near western Creason Woods, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

59...Imagine - justice for everyone and not just those who can buy it. And ombudsmen, civil servants, politicians and a press and media that won't be bought. Imagine that

58...Would like to be sitting on the jury when those responsible for pro-business ombudsinjustice are eventually brought to trial. In the dock: ombudsmen, civil servants and politicians from the Tory, Lib Dem and Labour parties.

Carnac (🇫🇷) is the site of thousands of standing stones, constructed ~7,000-years-ago #StandingStoneSunday Radiocarbon dates indicate people added to and changed the complex over a 300 year period, painting a picture of a dynamic #megalithic landscape 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

57...And happening here in UK with Labour Party cabinet ministers/Friends of Israel /Friends of Big Business. Who do they represent? See how "illogical" ombudsmen get away with being illogical...

56...The blueprint can be traced back to what was once The OFT and it's approval and "monitoring" of the Property scheme at Ombudsman Services. We asked why it allowed the Ombudsman to "arrive at decisions in an illogical manner." Still waiting for an answer.

Something beautiful for this day: Swallowtail butterfly on milkweed, Yakima, Washington (June 2025). #butterflies #flowers

Irish stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes, Rose Window (1938), St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium, #WomensArt

The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self and meets us where we are, offering wisdom and compassion for all stages of the journey. Goodnight everyone look after yourself.

200,000 years of human movement: A walk through time! Fascinating 🧐 Source: Harvard University gis.harvard.edu/out-eden-walk

South African anthropologist Winifred Hoernlé was born 140 years ago today. She was known both for her pioneering studies of kinship rituals and for her lifelong battle against racism and Apartheid in South Africa, using her studies to combat the racial theories of her era. #WomenInSTEM #AnthroSky

Winter Wren #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #birding #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #winter #wren

Ritual - Nous Sommes Du Soleil...

A damp day at Avebury today as the liquid sunshine gets heavier and heavier 📷 Dec 2025 #StandingStoneSunday

#Insect #Butterfly #Stunday From early summer, a little powder blue coloured butterfly on red clover (Trifolium pratense) for Stunday Sunday.

Remembering today the late 🇺🇸 American actor #EliWallach #BOTD in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, seen here with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef on location at Sad Hill Cemetery, Burgos in Spain on the set of “THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY” (1966) dir. Sergio Leone 🎬 United Artists

Also The Top 10 Poorest in Empathy/Humanity in The World | December 7th 2025.

The Patron of Migrants...

Sacrificial complex unearthed in Southern Urals reveals elite nomadic rituals One of the most extensive sacrificial complexes ever documented in the early nomadic necropolises of the Southern Urals has been found by archaeologists working... More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/sacr...

55...Deputy Labour Party Leader, David Lammy's "cynical + inaccurate" approach to the sanctity of statistical evidence would have made him a shoo-in for the CEO's job at Ombudsman Services. There's a link that runs through all of this.

The Cyrus Cylinder - often called the world’s first charter of human rights, this small clay artifact from 539 BCE tells a powerful story. #arthistory #artdaily #artaddictgallery #artefact artaddictgallery.com/the-cyrus-cy...

#OtD 7 Dec 1959 oil workers in Fiji went on strike, for the first time uniting different ethnic groups, mainly Fijian and Indian. Both the British colonial government and traditional Fijian chiefs worked together to oppose the strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

54...He needs to put on his crime-scene gloves and forensically investigate: - the "nuts" decisions that came from The RICS "appointed" ombudsman And - his "nuts" decision to support Zionism "without qualification and sell arms to the IDF.

53...Racist. "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly" Martin Luther Jr. Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

Now that's lovely 🥰 Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age flint scraper.

Wes Streeting - a union bashing, freebie-grabbing Health Secretary. Very, very Starmer-Labour. Time for a change...