Monbiot is right to point out how “the centre” has been redefined. This isn’t just political drift, it’s what happens when discourse is shaped by systems that reward outrage and performance over verification.

‼️URGENT REQUEST Our heroes from 225th Separate Assault Regiment need two cars to save lives! But for the first let’s get one car and then the second car for them! ‼️One good car ✏️Write your name on the car -$50 or more 🎯: $8500 🅿️: [email protected] ®️&🍏: revolut.me/drobotunv #donatetoukraine

Ukraine was just knifed in the back. Essential reading on yesterday's deal open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‼️REQUEST BY MY BIRTHDAY -12.04 I don’t need any gifts, I want to make gifts for our heroes One good jeep 4x4 Two anti-drones systems Fiver sets of tires One drone DJI Mavic 3 Tools for car repair Two laptops to set drones Fix one car 🎯: $23000 🅿️: [email protected] ®️&🍏: revolut.me/drobotunv

Europe’s disarmed state is … (also) an advantage ✅… IF we use it right - by stepping up, NOW, to arm ourselves, for the ST, MT & LT future in a smart way ❌not slowly spending a fortune trying to replace US capabilities & arming ourselves to fight the last war, not the next one. 🧵

To the people claiming the Russian military is winning: Russia has 3 stated objectives. 1: To Defeat and disband the Ukrainian military. 2: To arrest the political enemies of Putin within Ukraine 3: To create a new government. Which of these has their military achieved?

Here is the Issue for Putin: Putin invaded Ukraine for 2 reasons. 1: as punishment for rebelling against him, to send a signal to everyone else that he is the leader and cannot be questioned 2: To keep the west out of Ukraine at all costs

This fragmentary small ivory figurine was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. Gravettian, about 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face

One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.

A fundamental challenge for liberal democracies. During the Cold War, the openness of Western information systems was a massive asset, that contributed to the weakening of the USSR. Today that openness has been Trojan horsed by Western and non-Western social media. www.ft.com/content/9c88...

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

Another excellent Living History photography thread with pictures taken at the Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim. Group of history enthusiasts portraying the past. freilandmuseum.de Look, people wearing colours! Photos ©Susan Sümer

Ukrainian wartime art: "Blackout" 🖼️ by Anna Katayan

Fellas, this account is a huge hazard to ukrainian volunteers and NAFO! Please help and REPORT! *mustachepete* #NAFOarticle5 #NAFO #donatetoukraine ⚠️ It is also connected to ukrainian-squad on bluesky (!), which is a russian operation and NOT the one from X.

For those interested in the Syrian rebel group that has captured Aleppo. “Today, HTS can be thought of as a relatively localized Syrian terrorist organization, which retains a Salafi-jihadist ideology despite its public split from al-Qaeda in 2017” www.csis.org/programs/for...

This is what the good people of Georgia are going through tonight to oust the Russians from their government while dumbasses like disinformation casualty Joe Rogan invite them in.

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900-3300BC. The thread measures a total of ca. 10m in length. 📷Laténium 🏺 #archaeology

When iron was introduced during the Later Bronze Age of Central Europe, it was first used for ornaments and decorative purposes. Hilt of a bronze swords with dark iron inlays, 9th century BC, found in a well at Unterkrumbach. Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg. #archaeology

Ouch. China is running out of working age Chinese.

I thought I’d contrast the photos I posted yesterday (of some small fragments of 13th century wall paintings from a church in Suffolk) with this amazing and much more complete scheme, dating from the 12th century, which still adorns the walls of St. Mary’s Church, Ickleton, Cambridgeshire 🤩❤️

I usually ban myself for posting this stone as it’s so ubiquitous but it’s also the stone I’m asked most often to identify. It’s called Jura Marble, a limestone from the Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation of the Bavarian Jura. Used everywhere! #urbangeology

Celebrate and rejoice with me. The buffalo population is slowly coming back. 🪶🦬

www.freshplaza.com/north-americ... a particularly sexy article (readable)

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this gotta be one of the all time wmg classics. ive seen this image so many times and i love it more each time

Just a reminder that vaccines are saving lives left right and center. During COVID the vaccines did their job brilliantly. At least 20 million lives saved. Nice.

A stunning find from my hometown #Rottweil: a #Roman hot and cold water tap. It was not a mixer tap, but was used to tap either hot or cold water. The spout has not been preserved. The picture of the reconstruction was taken in the...🧵1/2 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

The first thermal re-usable FPV drones are ready! There is plenty of production capacity, but not enough funds! Support our drone production by following the link in our profile! You can make a difference on the battlefield!

Kids will be kids: The first #fossil collectors, apparently, were ... #Neanderthals (at least that's what finds from the Mousterian levels in Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain seem to suggest). archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nean...

The eye of S-EU-ron has turned its gaze upon Bluesky. (Is that a good joke? Im working on a routine for open mic night) www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...

'Sunset over the Thames, Waterloo Bridge' (1918) by Emile Claus (Private collection)

A super cool 3D model of the Lewis Chess pieces on chessboard, available on Sketchfab. sketchfab.com/3d-models/re...

People need to calm down about the Oreshnik missile. (Not about the strike itself, which was barbarous Putin chest-thumping.) It's a medium range ballistic missile. Of course it's faster than the speed of sound because that's what ballistic missiles do. Don't fall for "AMAZING SUPERWEAPON" hype.

Please retweet in advance. This will be a long thread in which I will explain and show the approach of mass corporate defaults in Russia. I will also show that Putin's economy is currently in the worst possible position. Here is the IFX-CBONDS G-SPREAD index 1/n

Thanks to @anik-richard.bsky.social (and a few others), today more than 150 new entries are added to the block list. I do this work so you do not have to vomit. #KeepTheSkyBlue. bsky.app/profile/nafo...

Do I need 150 HDMI cables? No, of course not. Do I HAVE 150 HDMI cables? Yes, of course I do. Who throws away a perfectly good HDMI cable?

From a local Facebook group, coupled with relevant statistics showing relation between vaccination and infection and death in UK.

OTD in 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died of the natural cause of annoying Vladimir Putin ☕️ 🍣 One of the witnesses at the inquest later 'committed suicide by stabbing himself several times'

An infographic of the Russian attack on Dnipro in #Ukraine last week, including the test of the Russian Oreshnik missile. @texty.org

116 of you already follow this account, just FYI it's a scam, they collect funds but have never donated any of it to Ukraine, yes even with their huge following...

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century

Something wonderful for the weekend! About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology

“The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Putin has staged another performance concerning the "missile": kremlin.ru/events/presi.... He bragged about the specs and promised to start serial production. A master bullshi**er, he delights in intimidation. You can tell from his demeanor here that he thinks his tactic has worked.

#FindsFriday! Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 🏺 📷 ALM B-W

The delicate excavation of a scatter of flint waste flakes from the manufacture of a handaxe. It was left behind 480,000 years ago, maybe by early Neanderthal people. The scatter preserves the shadow of their knees. Boxgrove, UK 🏺 #FlintFriday