Starmer take note: you can’t trust the CCP. ‘Former UK border officer Peter Wai, 38, and Bill Yuen, 65, a manager at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, face charges of assisting a foreign intelligence service and engaging in “shadow policing” for China on British soil’.

‘Australia’s military on Friday said a Chinese navy helicopter flew dangerously close to one of its aircraft during a routine passage through the Yellow Sea that Beijing criticised as a “provocation”’.

🧵Reports of desalination plants targeted by both USA/Israel and by Iran are especially concerning as many Middle Eastern countries rely heavily on desalination plants for drinking water due to the scarcity of natural freshwater. Hundreds of such plants line the Persian Gulf, supplying large

Today is International Women’s Day! Browse a number of online and open access collections of historical feminist and women’s liberation materials from around the world as part of the Radical Online Archives list. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Almost all of the world’s mammal biomass is humans and our livestock and pets. We're currently in the age of the Anthropocene, and the impact the dominance of humans is having on the world around is very clear.

There is no other god than the CCP. ‘In Guangdong, the police tried to prevent the Ying Laoye procession from taking place. In Jiangxi, they violently blocked the construction of an ancestral hall’..

‘Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why’.

Gene Tierney by Frank Powolny (1942)

#NowWatching The Lost Weekend (1945) via Mometu | PS: Looking for work. jephmann.com/movies/film....

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Reuters report US forces are likely responsible for the attack on a girls school which, it is claimed, killed well over one hundred people mostly young girl and is a probable war crime. Other outlets, including Private Eye, are asking if #AI trained on incorrect data was involved in the targeting?

I now have a shop again! tamzincavendish.co.uk It has art prints, including ones with FSC certified frames. There are hoodies and T-shirts made with 50% recycled materials. Plus notebooks, bags, etc. So my work is now available worldwide again. #Wildflowers #Nature #Art

‘The decision not to appeal against the conviction concludes Lai’s legal process, and could mark the start of the political process to secure his release’.

Judith, countess of Flanders, died #OTD in 1094. She was widowed when Tostig, earl of Northumbria, died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Symeon of Durham says she 'loved St Cuthbert even more than did her husband'. One of Judith's gospel-books 📸The Morgan Library & Museum #medievalsky

Not every Mum wants a soppy card. Some want a vinyl record. Some want a retro lamp. Some want a groovy floral. Some want a proper brew. Four new Mother’s Day cards. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/mothers-day

FLAME OF FREEDOM: It's time for the U.K. Government to stand up to #China's unceasing interference in Britain's domestic affairs, writes our U.K. head of advocacy Tomas Roberto... 🔥https://thecfhk.org/britain-under-siege-what-the-latest-spy-arrests-say-about-britains-hong-kong-and-china-strategy/

Never change Glasgow 😂

Laughing all the way to the bank, comrade. ‘More of the world’s billionaires live in China than anywhere else, after stock market gains and artificial intelligence generated a record number of billionaires globally, according to the latest Hurun Global Rich List’.

Be careful what you wish for 🍄‍🟫 ‘The prediction market platform recenlty pulled trades on the probablibly of a nuclear weapon being denotated’.

Red by Mark Rothko, 1968 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137899

A rather brilliant red sandstone corner tenement at Parkhead Cross in Glasgow. Designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, it was built in 1899 for a wine and spirit merchant called George Honeyman Framer. Cont./ #glasgow #parkhead #tenement #architecture #architecturephotography

‘Bill Yuen, a manager of Hong Kong’s trade office in London, and Peter Wai, a former UK border officer, have been accused of gathering intelligence and conducting surveillance against Hong Kong democracy activists in the UK and of allegedly breaking into a residence in London’.

You can’t trust the CCP. ‘Keir Starmer has come under pressure over his decision to visit China and attempt to improve relations, despite ministers and the security establishment saying they were “gravely concerned” about the threat of Chinese espionage’.

Please recommend to me the best books about the Balkans. Nonfiction or fiction, whatever you like!

The main gate of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort courtesy of Eric Jones. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday

An economically, politically and morally bankrupt strategy. Bad for individuals, bad for families, bad for businesses, bad for public services, bad for integration and cohesion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Billy Idol on The One Show. Punk will eat itself.

he’s right behind me isn’t he

Our exhibition ‘Sunday Funnies' features a myriad of original art and newspaper comics from our permanent collection by the likes of Hal Foster ('Prince Valiant'), George Herriman ('Krazy Kat'), Walt Kelly ('Pogo'), and many others. cartoonart.org/sunday-funnies #artexhibition #comics #PrinceValiant

A sassy dolphin with flamboyant red feather costume vibe for #MosaicMonday Detail from a 2nd century #Roman floor found in Fordington High Street #Dorchester 1927 Conserved by Cliveden Conservation, the cheeky chappie can today be admired in the excellent @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Sept 2023

I've taken the paywall off this piece I wrote about the wonderful art my mum and dad have been making in their 60s and 70s, which is also about the general (underacknowledged) concept of late-blooming creativity. I hope a few of you might find a moment to read it: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

It might have been 27 - or even 28!!! The Standard desperately seizes the latest opportunity to talk up the HK property market…

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

"Stop your massage around..."

Taiwan can export dragon fruit, lychee, jujube to EU: Ministry of Agriculture www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March & commemorates the Jewish people being saved from Haman's plot to destroy them. Here Ahasverus holds out the golden sceptre to Esther. #Purim BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.260v

As someone who solely visits heritage gardens to seek out interdimensional portals, I give Stourhead, in Wiltshire, a 5/5 Tripadvisor rating.

"O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not, therefore, begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my body". Plutarch, Life of Alexander 69.

March is the month for pruning. #MedievalCalendar BnF MS 1186; Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille; 13th century; f.3r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Hey #DavidsMonthOfMusic peeps! Here's the March challenges. I do enjoy the easier ones because you guys can go as obvious or obscure as you like or set yourselves little challenges within the challenge. So as always have fun and I appreciate you all! #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

The testimony of Bill ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky’ Clinton cannot be trusted.

Wales banned snares but England are still lagging behind! Get the ban done! Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/ban-snares/

Cute reconstruction drawing! 🧪🏺

Don’t get it twisted—British punk wasn’t born in 1977. If you’re charting the real-time rise of recorded punk in England, there’s no denying that the Big Bang happened in 1976. https://disc.gs/40xgBzS

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost! palaeography.uk/study/short-...

King Crimson The Beat Club Bremen 1972 Live At Fillmore East Live At The Pier, New York Live In Chicago, IL Mister Stormy's Monday Selection Vol.7 All five CDs are available separately and as a bundle for £25 https://burningshed.com/newsletters/newsletter_26_02_2026.html