Late entry for #FindsFriday. My first visit to the Wilshire Museum in Devizes - and to see this glorious battleaxe made of... Shropshire Blue? 📸 by me. 26/09/25

From @mrtimdunn.bsky.social on Twitter #Railway200

Not great footage as taken from a live feed, but sharing for any steam engine enthusiasts among my friends. This is a replica of Locomotion No. 1, working part of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Tomorrow marks the 200th anniversary of the first commercial public railway journey in the world.

27 September is the official birthday of the railway. This history of the railway timeline explains. #Railway200

This is amazing...where it all began.

2/ Wheels in motion as it begins its journey back up to the main museum site.

3/ Reversing from the museum headshunt ready to move onto the Bishop Auckland to Darlington line.

4/ Setting off eastwards to Hopetown Darlington.

As we speed towards Paris at 300 kmh, here's a reminder of how it all began 200 years ago on the Stockton and Darlington railway. I love being part of an industry that really did change the world. #Railway200

#Railway200 Locomotion No.1 #Chuffed @burngold.bsky.social

The Hove Amber Cup. A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light! 🤩 Carved from a single block of Baltic amber some 3,500 years ago! Found in 1856, inside Hove Barrow, a large burial mound in Sussex. Brighton Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Indicative. The UK has a free media that needs to report on this while it's still a free media

Can't wait for all these ID card fans to find out that most European countries don't have jury-trials, and demand their immediate abolition.

The 26-mile journey between Shildon and Stockton via Darlington on 27 September 1825 transformed how the world traded, travelled and communicated. And there's lots going on this weekend to mark the occasion! Discover more ⬇️ #Railway200 #CommunityRail

ID cards probably don't go far enough for them. They'd want badges worn by anyone a bit foreign looking.

So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?

#Railway200 Locomotion No.1 #Chuffed @burngold.bsky.social

When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one. Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

It would be nice if pro-Labour accounts who were like "yeehaw we're finally got Reform where we want them" after Farage's Tylenol gaffe would stop to note that not only did Starmer not hit him on this weak spot but he chose to instead echo Farage's message to a newspaper THAT NO LABOUR VOTER READS

In the past, I have compared political journalists on Sky News and BBC News to hacks at Smash Hits. I apologise - to hacks at Smash Hits. At least they did research.

Fiona Bruce, "I must point out there are plenty of Reform UK supporters in the audience as well" Why? They have 4 MPs, no 5 MPs, no 4 MPs, no 5 MPs... #BBCQT

It's induction week at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social and there's nowhere better to take the new @buarchanth.bsky.social intake than the mighty Maiden Castle Love this place 😍 #IronAge #Hillfort #Dorset #Archaeology #HillfortsWednesday on a Thursday

Some wonderful images; here's the cover of the special "Electricity" issue of the Architectural Review from November 1933 #electricity flic.kr/p/2nzKgbk

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Nigel Farage, however, is already talking about revoking the rights of people who have lived here legally for years. Imagine a Farage-led government with the ability to control the movement, identities and rights of citizens and legal residents of our country. 11/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What could possibly go wrong with a mandatory digital ID on GPS enabled phones? Can’t imagine this being abused by the government, the security services or the police.

Tens of thousands of pheasants are currently flooding into our reserves, devastating native species & fragile habitats. In our latest blog, our Head of Conservation explains the scale of the problem & why it matters for our work as an animal charity. 👉 https://leagueacs.co.uk/3tj0g

Find somebody who wants you like Labour wants ID cards.

Remarkably concise + accurate this time explanation from Grok!

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A sunny picture from last weekend, rather than the rain today

“𝐒𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐔𝐌!” says Sir Nortibear Wheeler, sharing a very personal Fort For The Day. #RomanFortThursday

More info on why the court judged the RSPB's covert video evidence to be admissible in this important case ⚖️ NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live. #RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/25/m...

It must make everyday decisions so difficult. How does he know whether ANY medicine is safe? Or any foodstuff? Or any appliance? Or whether the traffic lights can be trusted? Or whether the sun will rise in the morning?

Sir Nortibear Wheeler likes nothing better than a spot of experimental archaeology to help flush out the right answer. “You can learn a lot by the rigorous placement of logs” he explains while seated on his reconstructed Iron Age latrine.

My 90-something friend and I had to navigate this earlier while trying to cross Piccadilly………..

It's Find Out Now. They're always out of line with the other pollsters.

The impressive northern border of Hadrian's Wall near The Sill, Northumberland, for #RomanFortThursday 📷My own, May 2025

“𝐒𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐔𝐌!” says Sir Nortibear Wheeler, sharing a very personal Fort For The Day. #RomanFortThursday

I'd take neurodivergence* over an iron lung any day. Not that I had a say in it - my mum had lost school pals to diseases, I had every single jab (and sugar cube) going. No messing. *I'd like to state very clearly that I there is no link that I know of between vaccinations and neurodivergence.

This is what happens when you use a parrot to do your research for you blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard: 🎵“Whistle while you work, Farage is a twerp… “🎵

If it helps, we have a number of Iron Age pits filled with multiple thin, layers of organic rich soil, each one overlain with a deposit of crushed chalk They're quite unlike the fill of *normal* storage pits We think they may have been Durotrigian latrine pits Mmmmmm

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard: 🎵“Whistle while you work, Farage is a twerp… “🎵

Look what we have here then.

Roast Swan my arse. That charlatan Farage needs to be mocked out of town.