Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

Spurs were terrible, truly awful, for 85% of that game. Shocking defence for both goals. United dropped points there.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Connections! Day 8: Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’. Heatwave’s keyboard player, Rod Temperton, not only wrote their three big hits ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘Always & Forever’, & ‘The Groove Line’, but then went onto write ‘Off The Wall’, ‘Rock With You’, & ‘Thriller’ for Michael Jackson.

The definition of Instagram.

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Gold autumnal leaves and plants are scattered across this beautiful little ojime bead. An ojime is used to fasten the cord of an inrō (tiered lacquer carrying case). They are often intricately carved from materials like wood, lacquer, or metal.

‘Sara Rydkvist, the Hong Kong programme director of Amnesty International, and Francis Bown on the threat from China to academic freedom on British campuses’.

‘Detention in the notorious Shenyang City First Prison destroyed the physical and mental health of Men Yulin’.

British military planners travelled to Bodø, nestled between the sea and snow-capped peaks of the Arctic Circle, to rehearse what it would look like if Russia decided to unleash hostile activity there. But the task is not purely hypothetical. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brit...

But of course. Trump has given so many outright free gifts to China, Xi wakes up every morning like it's Christmas.

It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵

The resulting map includes nearly 186,000 miles (300,000 km) of roads, twice what other maps have.  Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

#FindsFriday It’s no great surprise to find #Roman remains if you dig in your garden at Great Casterton. The crossing point of the River Gwash was the location of a fort and the next significant town north of Durobrivae on Ermine Street.(1/4) #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #History👇🧵

Ancient Map of the Cosmos Uncovered in Mexican Jungle | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/arch... || #archaeology #indigenous

And finally, here is the Top 30 of Black Echoes first published 12" Reggae chart, courtesy of this great website - www.ukreggaehistory.com #reggae #reggaesky #musicsky #12inchtuesday

This picture is worth 1,000 words.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Connections! Day 7: Heatwave ‘Boogie Nights’. From ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’ to ‘Boogie Nights’, you can get enough of the Boogie.

Frog came into Toad’s house. He came in quietly.

Note from my notebook (2016)

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

US-South Korea nuke sub pact deeper than it seems; Tech transfer signals US intent to decentralize regional security and check China with network of autonomous well-armed partners - Asia Times asiatimes.com/2025/11/us-s...

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/ Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

Ellis: "The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion."

Incredible news! 🗞️ ‘Last Friday, HKFP appealed for support after a 20-month tax probe uncovered an alleged HK$3,020 shortfall. Readers helped cover the HK$57,692 settlement almost threefold. As our newsroom marks 30,000 published articles, we have now surpassed 1,000 members’.

Jones doesn’t sound very Anglo-Saxon to me; time to send him back to the other side of Offa’s Dyke.

I can never get enough of this album ❤️ #NowPlaying #kdlang #AbsoluteTorch&Twang

A director of a company that was hired to run Hong Kong’s Community Testing Centres during the Covid pandemic was charged with fraud after he allegedly subcontracted to a company that he secretly owned and controlled, resulting in service payments of HK$120 million www.icac.org.hk/en/p/press/i...

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

St Michael's Mount nr Penzance Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives 📷 Yesterday

New #Archaeology TV show alert!🚨 Hidden Wonders starts Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm on More 4 Available for download on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #newtv #documentaryseries #History 🏺

We have been warned. ‘This is not a Chinese bus problem. It is a problem for all types of vehicles and devices with Chinese electronics built in’.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Connections! Day 6: A Taste Of Honey ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’. The Mizell Brothers (Larry & Alphonso) were a legendary record producing team, who produced both the ‘Places and Spaces’ and the eponymous ‘Taste Of Honey’ albums which this Disco classic hails from. 🪩

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

‘The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not represent what we see, but makes us see. And I quickly learned the same is true of journalism: far from being a neutral arbiter of information, it has the same power to craft the ideas we think with, not just the ideas we think about’.

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Some impressive ancient stonework from Corbridge Roman site just south of Hadrian's Wall for #WallsonWednesday.

Long story short, due to critical design flaws in the #Fujian aircraft carrier it's main feature while looking good on paper cannot actually be used during wartime scenario. #China www.eurasiantimes.com/critical-des...

"Food remnants show bones of fish from the Pacific Ocean, cotton, fruit and vegetables such as sweet potato, avocado, maize, squash and chili pepper. Trade appears to have thrived in open-air markets – much as they do in modern Peru – said Ordoñez." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Connections! Day 5: Donald Byrd ‘You and Music’. The Blackbyrds were inspired, mentored, and produced by the Jazz and Funk trumpeter, Donald Byrd. This track is from his incredible ‘Places and Spaces’ album on Blue Note.

This is where we finished up, a glorious sunset at British Camp, rounding out a long weekend with a lot of Hillforting across Wales & Shropshire with that in mind thought today could use a 🧵 of the highlights for #HillfortsWednesday 👇

Alors que le géant chinois de l’ultra fast fashion ouvre ce mercredi au sein du grand magasin parisien, le ministre de la Ville et du Logement Vincent Jeanbrun soutient la proposition de « déréférencement » du site Shein en France.

Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel M. Fox concerning the slave trade https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.174.3.1

From the archive: There’s a statue of a dead parrot in Greenwich www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

On this day in 1605 a Catholic soldier named Guy Fawkes was arrested in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Many people know about the infamous gunpowder plot, but here's a blog post about the broader Catholic community at the time. manyheadedmonster.com/2014/11/03/g... #EarlyModern 🗃️

I barely get a mention in my wife's new autobiography, which says a lot more about her than it does about me.

‘Influencers with millions of followers were shut down not for criticizing the Communist Party—but for failing to praise it’.

‘The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was created by and for the CCP, and is constitutionally subordinate to the party. Everything the government does is to serve the interests of the CCP, not the people, not the nation, not the country’.