"We built this!" Slab set up by the Legion XX Valeria Victrix marking the construction of High Rochester fort (Bremenium) north of Hadrian's Wall in Redesdale, Northumberland. Now in the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle. (More details in ALT text.) #EpigraphyTuesday 📷my own 2025

Join us as a Victorian Society member to help us protect more Victorian and Edwardian architecture: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/join/ You will find our Manchester Regional Group's news and events on our website here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...

Manchester's Albert Memorial and its square have reopened following restoration. In the early 1970s the Memorial was saved from demolition by the Victorian Society’s Manchester regional group. The Group are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year. 🧵 📷 Patricia Smith

Being usurped can be such a hurtful business. www.tom-cox.com/jim/

The UK's water systems are crumbling. Thousands have been left without water in Kent. Our rivers are polluted. Our bills keep rising. This experiment of privatisation has failed. Public Ownership now.

Reform's by-election candidate reckons a local church has been 'turned into a mosque.' It hasn't. The building had stood empty for five years and twice failed to sell at auction, so it was turned into a food bank with a prayer room that can be used by people of any faith.

A beautiful day! My life has been dominated for the last year by building the Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point to celebrate James Hutton's 300th birthday. Formal launch of the trail is today, it is looking great, and I'm mightily proud of what has been achieved. james-hutton.org/deep-time-tr...

The Rest Is Politics is launching its first collaborative series, working with The Observer on a four-part investigative podcast 'The Rest Is Politics: Who Funds Reform?'. They said the partnership "allows us to develop original journalism that complements the core show"

Just as moving from X to #Bluesky felt like finding my way back to old Twitter, moving to #DuckDuckGo feels like getting a worthwhile useable version of Google back again, thank goodness.

Reminder to use DuckDuckGo because Google have lost their way

Kent Greens tried to get the water emergency in the county debated at full council last week. Instead Reform wanted to talk about this... bylinetimes.com/2026/05/26/r...

Kent Greens: "After days of ongoing disruption, thousands of residents in the Whitstable, Tankerton and Herne Bay area still have no water, and are forced to queue for the one water distribution point operating in the area; with significant wait times" ~4,000 homes and businesses currently affected

If 4000homes and businesses are without #water , why on earth is there *one* distribution point? 10 sites would be barely adequate, 1 is a total failure of provision.

The numbers suggest, for example, that a #LibDem and #Green coalition might be the best answer for #Birmingham #Council

A lot of councils’ current problems with “no overall control” since the Local Elections - or, far worse, the threat of a chaotic Reform leadership - would be solved by a #LibDem & #Green coalition.

And her successor as WHO Chief Scientist, Sir Jeremy Farrar, accepts that this would have led to better decisions around aerosols and PPE for nurses and doctors “that would have saved an enormous number of lives” tinyurl.com/5n72dy6c

It is now over 3 years since the WHO Chief Scientists admitted that their failure to acknowledge the airborne route of transmission of COVID-19 was a big mistake.

SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO This letter from World Health Network is a must-read tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...

Recalling a more glamorous time. Gare de Lyon, Paris #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime #UrbanGaze #IronworkThursday

Alençon, France An adorable metal figurehead used to hold the shutter doors open. #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

Another look at the wonderful door at St Saviours Church Dartmouth. Carbon-dated to 1361, The 1631 date is thought to be when it was repaired. The ironwork depicts a Tree of Life flanked by two leopards, 📷 2022 #AdoorableThursday #ironworkthursday

This amazing #ironwork is perfect for #IronworkThursday

Surely better PPE must be provided? @who.int I feel as a fellow doctor & as one impacted significantly with the aftermath of an airborne infectious disease (Covid 19) - that must not let these healthcare workers catch Ebola as a result of substandard face masks. They need FFP2 or FFP3 protection!

Facsimile of May: Celebrating May Day Near the Town of Riom in the Auvergne https://www.wikiart.org/en/limbourg-brothers/facsimile-of-may-courtly-figures-on-horseback

Today is the feast day of St Melangell the patron saint of hares. She fled from Ireland to Wales where she founded a community of women. Remembered for saving a hare from a pack of ferocious dogs

Link to petition here action.breastcancernow.org/sign-petitio...

VERY URGENT Almost 40,000 have signed the #EnhertuNow petition. Please help us make it 50,000🙏 Enhertu is a drug that could extend thousands of lives but was rejected for use on the NHS in 2024 for being too expensive. Since then, thousands of people have missed out w.org/sign-petition-enhertu-now

One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse Police data shows 21% of the 949 people detained in England and Northern Ireland were later accused of violence against intimate partner www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The death of Bede happened #OnThisDay in 735. Bede was a monk, historian and scholar whose "Historia eclesiastica gentis Anglorum" provides valuable insight into early medieval England. Pictured here is his tomb in Durham Cathedral (Image: Neil Theasby via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 2.0).

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Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35°C Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8 °C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️

🌞 Hot Weather Reminder 🌞 If you're taking antidepressants or antipsychotics, your body might struggle to regulate heat. Stay cool, drink water, find shade 🌳 #Summer #Weather

Left: Resident in Makerfield, "Change needs to happen, that's why I'm voting for Reform" Right: Explains on Instagram why the Reform UK's candidate Robert Kenyon is not suitable to be an MP

My inspiration walk is on tomorrow- 27th May - starting at 10am at Polwarth Parish Church. So looking forward to sharing a beautiful walk, and writing prompts with folk. Thanks to Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust. #Edinburgh

St Peter with his key features on this manhole cover from the #German City of #Trier for #ManholeCoverMonday

Detail of colourful late C1st to early C2nd AD #Roman #mosaic from Bologna. Details in #AltText #MosaicMonday

Float to live Source: RNLI share.google/Hv9VxuPRHWVL...

We're sooooooo close to our target!!! If anyone can help us reach it it would be super mega appreciated!! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported so already - you're all absolute legends! ❤️❤️❤️🫶 shorturl.at/Qx4Lr

To understand Britain’s new politics, look no further than this Shakespearean saga in Worcestershire www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

I recently joined @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Patreon and got home last night to a lovely surprise - a handwritten card from Old Fox himself with news of his friends and pressed flowers from the village. A genuine treat! Thank you Anne and Old Fox. 🦊

Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️

The unique Trichtingen torc consists of an iron core with a silver mantle. It’s too large and too heavy for human use (6.7 kg); it was likely intended for use with a wooden cult image. Dating to the 2nd/1st century BC. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

Finally, Margery dictated her book, known today as The Book of Margery Kempe which illustrates her visions, mystical and religious experiences. Margery’s book is commonly considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language.

At around twenty years old, Margery married John Kempe, who became a town official in 1394. Margery and John had at least fourteen children. A staunch Catholic, after the birth of her first child, Margery went through a period of crisis for nearly eight months, leading to a renewed religious zeal.

Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438) was an English Christian mystic and author. She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around 1373 in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn). Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament. #CelebratingWomen

Hold your head up high, I would be far more self conscious sitting in the river playing with Lego minifigures. Playmobil is the new rock n roll. #PlaymobilInfestation #ProudlyPlaymobil

Hold your heads up, Playmobil collectors!

I think the doyen of #Roman #PlaymobilInfestation - @theduncanmackay.bsky.social - would have views about this…

Bread and circuses. #Vote #PlaymobilInfestation