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Unfair trade rules, broken food systems. Also archeology, plants and sci-fi.
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āļømari-lwyd odentāļø
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
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Alison Fisk
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Owl of Athena! š¦ā¤ļø Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC. Photo Getty Museum:
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#Archaeology
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Following Hadrian
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#MosaicMonday
- Detail of a Roman floor mosaic with a glass bottle protected by a sheath of straw, and a glass cup. From Thysdrus (El Jem), dated to the 3rd century AD. National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.
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Outis
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#MedievalMonday
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Tetisheri
14 days ago
Here in the UK, it's cold, it's dark and it's wet, so for those of us running headlong into the darkest part of the winter, here's an ancient ceramic lamp from the Levant to light up your day. š· by me for
@jennycromwell.bsky.social
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16 days ago
How is it reputational risk for someone to act out of conscience, but not for the CEO to completely blow it by firing them?!
novaramedia.com/2025/12/04/d...
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Disability Charity Sacks Employee for Palestine Protest, Citing āBrand Reputationā | Novara Media
Exclusive: Sense sacked an employee after she was arrested at a peaceful protest against Palestine Actionās proscription. In a letter, the charity told her it needed to think of its ābrand reputationā...
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/04/disability-charity-sacks-employee-for-palestine-protest-citing-brand-reputation/
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Anna Bower
21 days ago
A chapter in Hegsethās book is literally titled āMore Lethality, Less Lawyers.ā Itās almost as if there were signs!
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Oscar Lozada
20 days ago
#RomanSiteSaturday
Stumps of columns in the sand, the sad forgotten remains of the Roman port city of Meninx š Djerba island, Tunisia šø Mine
#archaeology
#photooftheday
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Cat Manning
20 days ago
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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Better Things Are Possible
22 days ago
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Randall Munroe
23 days ago
Fifteen Years
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24 days ago
A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for
#HillfortWednesday
#scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
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deāon
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Malcolm Stoneman
29 days ago
Fish plate - Southern Italy c. 2,350 years old Used to serve fish, with a depression to hold a dish for perhaps a sauce. Now in
@rammuseum.bsky.social
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Duncan Mackay
29 days ago
I saw a mouse! Where? There on the stair! Where on the stair? Right there! For
#FindsFriday
this lovely little Roman toy or joke mouse made from a scrap of leather at marvellous
@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
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Duncan Mackay
about 1 month ago
A walk through the stone defences of Mither Tap, Bennachie in Aberdeenshire for
#HillfortsWednesday
I believe occupied in the early Middle Ages, donāt know how far it goes back? Whenever it was, I hope it was less windy than now.
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Duncan Mackay
about 1 month ago
And now, live from Orkney for
#StandingStoneSunday
, the Stenness 360.
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that wonāt ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Such happiness, to be a cat, warm and asleep
about 1 month ago
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In Dublin the pedestrian crossings go Pyaowww when they turn green. This is very pleasing
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Kingfisher & Wombat
about 2 months ago
I canāt wait for the articlesāāDemocrats won big Tuesday night. Hereās why thatās bad for Democrats.ā
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Alison Fisk
about 2 months ago
A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek āEYΦPAINOY EĪ¦ĻŠAPEIā āBe glad that you are hereā Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD š· š· Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
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Patrick Galey
about 2 months ago
Hi. This is not how a ceasefire works. If you only abide by it in between massacring 100s of people, then thatās whatās know as genocide, not a ceasefire Can we please stop sane-washing this international pariah?
www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...
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Israel says it's resuming the ceasefire after its strikes in Gaza kill over 100 people
Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g-s1-95523/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire
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Durotriges Dig
about 2 months ago
Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch
#ScottishBorders
showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely š šŖ š· Ā© Hamish Fenton 2011 For more of Hamish's work see:
archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
2 months ago
Who robbed the Louvre right answers only
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Kingfisher & Wombat
2 months ago
My momās protest signs, as always, are a helluva thing.
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Ideas Roadshow
2 months ago
š¦ Relief plaque of a beautiful owl with melancholic eyes in remarkably high relief & other exquisite details, Egypt, 400ā30 B.C. šļø Met šŗ
#archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
#Egypt
#owl
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European Trade Justice Coalition
2 months ago
The European Trade Justice Coalition (formerly the Seattle to Brussels Network or S2B) recently had its 25 year anniversary It's good to remind ourselves of our history - the shoulders we stand on and the struggle that has gone before
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25 years of trade justice campaigning from Seattle to Brussels
YouTube video by European Trade Justice Coalition
https://youtu.be/bxOHjk8TU8Y?si=yTgV6FxMO-HJmEYr
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gazaās list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israelās offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead
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I keep checking the
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3 months ago
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Gavin MacGregor
3 months ago
Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of
#Neolithic
rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.
@megalithic.bsky.social
#rockart
#archaeology
#TombTuesday
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Jamie Driscoll
3 months ago
When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. Iām proud of our city and its people. My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
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Geordies weren't letting far-right fascists spout hate in their city this weekend
A far-right rogues gallery of racists came to Newcastle on Saturday 27 September - and yes, racists is the correct term. Or fascists...
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/09/28/newcastle-far-right-march/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 months ago
Scholars of the 50s and 60s, nowās your time to remind people of how the FBI infiltrates left-wing groups and foments violent action.
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Majority
3 months ago
Today Newcastle stood united. āš¼ The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up. Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing!
#TheyDidNotPass
#NaePasaran
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Anti-racist demonstrators blocking Tommy Robinsonās fascists from marching through the centre of Newcastle - successfully so far But being kettled and apparently the police are agreeing an alternative route for the far right
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Brad Lander
3 months ago
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (š„: Elias Eliahu)
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Alison Fisk
3 months ago
Vibrant colour projected onto a 2,600 year-old wall panel offers a glimpse of the past lived in glorious technicolour! From the North Palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq), where the walls were decorated with brightly painted reliefs. š„ by me
#ReliefWednesday
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Alison Fisk
3 months ago
Timeless design! Incredibly, these beautiful fibre baskets are about 9,500 years old! 𤯠Look like they were made yesterday rather than by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers! From the Cueva de Los MurciĆ©lagos (Cave of Bats), Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid š· by me
#FindsFriday
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Vauvert Moths
3 months ago
A while since I posted a nice Iron Age
#coin
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#FindsFriday
here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le CĆ¢tillon hoard,
#Jersey
. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region.
#numismatics
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Stop Trump Coalition
3 months ago
Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They donāt speak for us ā and they wonāt have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
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Community Archaeology North CIC
3 months ago
Our second test pit weekend in Hexham. More great enthusiasm from our test pit hosts and volunteers of all ages.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Dale
3 months ago
They tried to remove the latest Bansky art and, to me, it is better now.
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It's Going Down
3 months ago
In
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#NewYork
, 100 marched to surround a house where roofers were being detained by ICE. While one person was taken, several others were left alone as the crowd "shouted āshameā and "Gestapo,ā and applauded as agents...drove...away on four flat tires."
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
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ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted āshameā and "Gestapo,ā and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-09-09/ice-agents-in-the-park-ave-neighborhood-spark-large-scale-protest
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Majority, the north east progressive political movement, is having its annual conference today and over and over again the message is that democracy is up to us
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Kingfisher & Wombat
4 months ago
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I⦠WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?
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The Ghost Monk
4 months ago
The medieval church porch at Corwen,
#Denbighshire
has been built round a little standing stone bearing the splendid name of Carreg y Big yn y Fach Rhewllyd (the pointy stone in the icy nook).
#Folklore
suggests this may have been true of earlier churches on this ancient site.
#StandingStoneSunday
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Byline Times
4 months ago
As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.
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'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves'
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-to-bring-back-scotlands?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1755204969
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