I don't think it has to be either/or Russian/Israeli influence. When you've got sex obsessed child abuser running ring of morally compromised govt ministers, politicians, celebs, academics, royals etc from across world, I'd be amazed at any dodgy government who didn't take advantage... #Epstein

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

As someone who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it), let me tell you something: The lies Trump, Vance and Miller say are not meant to be believed by their followers. They are meant to be REPEATED. The repetition of the lie is the test of loyalty to the cult.

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These wetlands support scarce species like Grass Snake, Great Crested Newt, Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, and Marsh Helleborine orchid. Even the most unlikely landscapes can become vital refuges for nature. 🌿💚 (3/3) #CoalToNature #GloiNatur #Wetlands #NatureRecovery #WorldWetlandsDay #Wales

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Crocus flowers protruding through the water of a flooded lawn. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Chips often flies in doing a barrel roll. It is the most amazing sight. I think this is the first time I have captured him doing a full roll. Amazing to see him upside down in flight! He is a real show off 😆

Loving the Gateway :).

Read more about the Ice Age art, and caves, of the Swabian Jura in Germany on this link: www.iceageart.de/en/ice-age-art

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Today we won. A U.S. District Court ruled that the administration violated federal law when it secretly convened a group of climate contrarians to produce a thoroughly debunked report to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The science still matters. We won't stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

What is happening in United States is what happens when coercive powers of the state - arrest, detention, charges - are used as ends in themselves, and not as means of serving justice. They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care. Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.

I love that description 'Confiding Robin' to me it sums up the quality of this songster's winter song.

A scratch and a Splash, Bathing at Elizabeth Gardens, Salisbury this morning.

Amazing woman. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

fucking hell, this is powerful

Finally! Looks like the #Kilisik sculpture's getting some more regional context. 😉 🏺 arkeonews.net/the-tas-tepe...

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

1 / 23 Prototaxites is known from some very large fossils, including columns over 8m tall. These fossils date from the end of the Silurian to the Late Devonian (425–365 million years ago). This makes Prototaxites the largest organism on the Earth’s surface before the appearance of tall trees.

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.

The USA has a Congress and a Senate that could stop this situation today, but they don’t. And while they fawn over their mad king, the rest of the world has to deal with the consequences

Did somebody mention basal rosettes? Check out the fabulous Basal Project website, it has almost 2,000 photos of basal & juvenile leaves of British & Irish wild plants: basalproject.org.uk

Calling all Salisbury creatives! Grant applications are now OPEN from our friends at Salisbury Culture ✨ Available to support people and groups who contribute to the city’s cultural and creative life and want to grow their work. Full details and how to apply, visit: www.salisburyculture.org/grants/

We're really only at the start of understanding these interaction dynamics over a vast area of western Eurasia which apparently went on for some 15,000 years and involved more than one population of H. sapiens. They're going to be anything but simple

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦 Dr Jim Leary and Dr Elaine Jamieson will be presenting our next lecture on ‘Life on the lake: The prehistory and history of Skipsea, Holderness’. At Burlington House and on youtu.be/dTxePLmT25I

Nothing about the clip made you think that this was first-time/unusual behaviour for this individual, did it? Catch it, kill it, re-bait the trap and repeat...

I like to think of myself as an ant colony. Here’s why you should too. Written by Dr Juliet Turne www.gwct.org.uk/blogs/news/2...

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Atlantic Rainforests & Temperate Woodlands - extending the conceptual boundaries & understanding eco-history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9io...

No one will invade another state for the wind or the solar. This is the last gasp of fossil fuelled warmongery. #OliIsDeadly

125 years ago, on the last evening of the 19th century (properly reckoned), two stones fell at Stonehenge. The Salisbury Journal reported that "A shepherd named Ford… says he saw the stones intact on Monday afternoon, but on approaching the venerable ruin on Tuesday morning [1st Jan] he found… 🧵

An informative thread. x.com/jens2go/stat...

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The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact. The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

By strange coincidence, I’m wearing my Cirencester Roman Cockerel T-shirt today! I love Tess’s chocolate version. Any other representations out there? 🏺🏛️

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast! In this episode I chatted with Dr Jessica Smith, Dr Neil Carlin, and @suegreaney.bsky.social about the important recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, death, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.

Thank you, ‪@juliet-turner.bsky.social‬ , for those incredibly good educational links. I look forward to seeing you interviewed on www.youtube.com/StatedCasually

“It seems that for Britain’s creaking, risk-averse bureaucracies the real danger isn’t damage to the environment, rubbish falling into the river, or criminal gangs running rampant in rural Oxfordshire: it’s that they might be made accountable for dealing with a difficult problem.”

Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.

H. L. Mencken is quoted as saying :- "No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby."

It's a sad world that 'marketing', 'selling oneself' and 'politics' as practised today has created.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

New independent report reveals locations of poisoned raptors in northern England, 2015-2023 - information that has been suppressed by government raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/17/n...

Believe the survivors. Release the files. All of the files.

#wildflowerhour Dandelion from a profusion of dandelions flowering on 15th November in Churchill Gardens, Salisbury.