This is an amazing story. What an incredible person.

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Historical research is a fascinating obsession. Howw individuals lived their lives in a world so different to mine never ceases to intrigue me. Just looking at a couple of boys totally unrelated. One is 14 and offering a reward for a horse of his that stayed of the family property. 1860

Lest We Forget youtube.com/shorts/JTt7v...

My wife and I have being doing our family history together for about 18 months. A wonderful retirement project. A lot of 'normal' lives, a lot of 'quick we need to get married'. Just occasionally we get he, and thetny seem to be he, is a proper bastard. So we are in competition who do you think

A little thing I noticed. Shopping in Coles yesterday I bought my usual 100g jar of Republica brand instant coffee. As usual Coles keeping prices down sticker was attached. About 2 months or so back it dropped fromv$15 to $13 with the sticker reading ' was $15 on such and such a date.

I am 70. For the majority of my adult life climate science has been proven . Yet it is still being debated. Profits before people as ever.

A new test on eating words. Seriously interesting.

The monastery at Gyruum (Jarrow), where Bede was to live and work, was dedicated to St Paul #OTD in 685. Among those present at the ceremony was Ecgfrith, king of the Northumbrians, a little under four weeks before his death at the Battle of Dunnichen.

This 1,800 year-old Roman glass cup is so well preserved that the railway construction worker who found it in the 1800s used it as a flower vase not realising its age! 💐 😲 From Himlingøje, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ardoch Roman Fort is located just outside the village of Braco in Perthshire, Scotland. There are the remains of a Roman fort and several marching camps which included a signal tower. The earliest fort is believed to be associated with the campaigns of Agricola (1st century). #RomanFortThursday

What state is this? Queensland what state

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.31 (lookback time 3.63 billion years) with coordinates (150.03705, 2.01919). 47 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Just goes to show the Liberals and Nationals have become parties of the far right.

Despite what One Nations thinks Australia needs immigration. Either that or we face a future disaster.

NEW: Russian Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov continues to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances amidst Russian forces’ poor performance in their ongoing Spring-Summer 2026 offensive. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar042126

It’s time to reset the NDIS to ensure it is there for those that need it the most | Martin Laverty

Another of the pack of drongos running the US at the moment. This guy would not even get ore-selected in Australia. I can hear the mocking laughter.

Thanks Napoleon

"I must also say how disappointed I have been in the responses of both the government and the current opposition to this war," writes John Hewson. “What was urgently needed was an outright condemnation of US–Israeli actions.” satpa.pe/ddEmLhY

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope! Museo di Antichità, Turin 📷 by me #Archaeology

A horned god with spear and shield - a local god from Roman Maryport in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport, Cumbria. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Maryport #Cumbria

I sometimes ponder James Brown. An ex convict. He married the older sister of my 3xG grandmother. They leased a small holding, about 40 acres along Cockfighters Greek near Bulga NSW. Lovely country. They had no children. His wife remarried a wealthier grazier and moved far away, buried with him.

Pete remember 1918? Lot of military on sick call.

I refuse to succumb. Friends are starting to use it with the excuse everyone is doing. I will not even acknowledge their post.

It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke. Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".

I am beginning to think the US regime has turned to piracy ebay Caibean, Indian Ocean. Perhaps the tanned Mango watched an Errol Flynn movie recently.

Wish Doug was still in government. Grow a spine @albomp.bsky.social

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

'Australia's close ties to the United States were once a strength but have become a weakness' Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Oh wait - that was Canada's PM Mark Carney. For a moment there I was fantasizing that Australia had a real leader. #auspol www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Happy 80th Tim

Titan's Surface Unveiled - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nHBHWb

Why does Trump complain Europeans aren't helping the US in an illegal war pushed by Israel when Trump refuses to aid Ukraine and Europe against an illegal Russian invasion and war?

Sekhmet Sunday

Even if it was just something small, this is very significant.

Definitely a good news story

Fantastic

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

I believe we. I have thought so for some time

"The changes that far-right populism seeks to make are ones that threaten our freedom. And the longer we fail to properly challenge this movement, the greater the risk we run of something even more extreme following in its wake." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

It’s so important to know your bollard history. #WorldBollardAssociaton

#OtD 19 Apr 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jews fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. Although defeated after 27 days it was the biggest armed Jewish rebellion of the Holocaust stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062...

Well said Dougie.

Solidarity to the protesters and everyone in Qld who isn’t bowing to authoritarianism ✊

The madness of AUKUS led to support for Trump’s doomed attack on Iran. Appeasing a madman is not diplomacy it is cowardly capitulation. Diplomatically distancing the govt from Trump is too little too late. We are paying a huge price for this grave miscalculation

Scratch Lobster. Another toy bites the dust.

Any Aossie's on here remember Carson? Great blues rock outfit. I never saw them live but had their albums Blown and Live at Sunbury. Sadly Broderick Smith passed a couple of years back youtu.be/92IcEbih0u8?...

Memorial to the ~3000 German International Brigaders who fought against Franco in Spain. El Fossar de la Pedera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona.

18 April 1932 | A Czech Jewish girl, Doris Kindlerová, was born in Prague. In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 17 December 1942. Deported to #Auschwitz on 18 May 1944. Registered in the Theresienstadt family camp in Birkenau. She did not survive.