True to his word, PM Pedro Sánchez' Spain will formally start investigating X, Meta, & TikTok for crimes related to child pornography. Watch their owners begin a crusade or personal attacks & deliberate misinformation about Sánchez & his country. Whatever you may read, fact-check it.

Over 11,000 signatures in one day! Please sign this petition👇 #BritishMuseum

When this is all over (?!) I fancy we will look back with astonishment that we ever allowed Visa/Mastercard to monopolise global payments. And I you think they won't abuse their position, well they already do! Ask ICC judge Kimberly Prost - or indeed Assange/Wikileaks back in 2010 (under Biden!)

This angel, 4-year-old Ronza Samara, was shot yesterday by Palestinian security forces in the town of Tamoun. She was initially reported dead, but it was later clarified that she is alive and in critical condition. Please see @issa-amro.bsky.social’s important 🧵 below ⬇️

#OnThisDay in 2024, Putin killed Navalny.

#OnThisDay in 1923, Carter unsealed the tomb of #Tutankhamun. And the rest, as they say, is History.

The #BritishMuseum's shameful capitulation to political pressure to alter historically accurate descriptions.

The #BritishMuseum has altered historically accurate descriptions removing the word 'Palestine' in its exhibitions under pressure from a pro-Israel group. Please sign to support a reversal of this decision. 👇

First #Lebensraum, now #Anschluss.

#WildflowerHour #TheWinter10

The temple complex of Karnak is one of ancient Egypt’s—and the world’s—biggest religious structures. Fascinating new archaeology has identified when and why it became so important! archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2026/digs-discoveries/egypts-temple-of-creation/

The defense was that the parties were indeed discussing cockfighting. Perhaps #ForensicLinguistics analysis can help? ☺️

Law professor Lenora Ledwon talked to Amanda Pampuro about the lack of attorneys in the world of Harry Potter. @sidebarcns.bsky.social on fictional law: open.spotify.com/episode/0Ljn...

Dear Humans, Things are so fucking fucked up right now. The best I can hope for is when one of your leaders is staunchly against pedophilia. The bar is so damn low. And don’t you dare try and blame ME for this. I don’t even exist. Love, God

An interesting study. However, I am reminded of a previous study also involving #EyeTracking which questioned how much cognitive understanding individuals (in this case, forensic 'experts') had of eyeing features present at the scene. Something to bear in mind. Interesting study nevertheless.

Love among the Heretics! This piece of carnelian has been carved in the shape of Akhenaten (the 'heretic pharaoh') kissing his wife Nefertiti c.1340BC, Ancient Egypt 📍In the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #FindsFriday #archaeology #vday #valentinesday #photooftheday

May be grammar pedantry. No weapon can distinguish between civilian and non civilian. It is the targeting of civilians that is the issue. That said some weapons are such that they can really only be used as anti-civilian terror weapons - but even then see the advisory opinion on atomic weapons.

This is a marvelous example of whimsy and craftsmanship! A rare Greek askos, made in the shape of a lobster claw. 🦞 Dating back to approximately 450 BC, the vessel was used to hold perfumed oil. 📷 Antikensammlung Kassel #archaeology 🏺

Under international law, the use of weapons that cannot distinguish between combatants and noncombatants constitutes a war crime. The use of these indiscriminate weapons implicates not just Israel but also its Western suppliers. The international justice system has “failed the test of Gaza”.

The report underscores the war's classification as a crime of #genocide against #Palestinians, with women being among the most profoundly affected groups. Over 10,000 women have lost their lives due to ongoing attacks, with women and children making up nearly 70% of victims. #IsraelWarCrimes

Happy Valentine's Day to caffeinated hamsters everywhere ❤️☕

As a German, it is incomprehensible that within living memory both our victims and our liberators commit the very same crimes against humanity.

Heres an open access article on the relationship between Johnson&Johnson and AstraZeneca #Covid vaccine and blood clotting. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bonus #DarwinDay content: Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.

Far right politicians falsely claim that EU money will fund planned 'W' social network - www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... Also - the article seems to imply that W would immediately be regulated as a 'very large online platform', but it would need 45 million monthly average EU users first

Few scientists have so revolutionised our understanding of life as Charles Darwin. Born #OnThisDay in 1809, his work laid the foundations of evolutionary biology and transformed how we see the natural world, understand our origins, and think about humanity’s place within it. Happy #DarwinDay!

Low level fraud and bribery is often the most baffling. I can understand why a person may risk it all for a life changing sum of money and a life on a South Pacific island. But a watch, a leased car (both entry level luxury rather than top tier), a hunting trip and sex workers? /1

One day, History will remember the ignominy of disqualifying athletes for using their bodies and their athletic stage to pay tribute to the victims of Putin’s neo-fascist Russia. 1/3

A sad loss and so young. Rest in Peace, András Riedlmayer. 💫

Labels are inevitable. But standards are what matter. #Journalism

'Reading, writing and learning a language or two can lower your risk of dementia by almost 40%, according to a study that suggests millions of people could prevent or delay the condition.' 1/2

France announced late last week that it would be awarding funds to 46 scientists as part of a high-profile initiative to recruit foreign researchers to the country with the promise of greater academic freedom. Almost all of them were previously at US institutions.

"Cultural & linguistic diversity does not have to divide us. It only becomes divisive when framed as a problem to be managed rather than a resource to be shared." #Language as an obstacle produces anxiety & resentment Language as an invitation produces curiosity, connection & joy! 👐💬 #langsky

A magnetometry survey of Abbotsbury Castle hillfort #Dorset has shown that there are, in the SE corner of the enclosure, a series of Iron Age roundhouse platforms with collapsed daub walls, postholes and storage pits 🤩 11 have so far been identified © Dave Stewart 2014 #HillfortsWednesday

The last Dornier 226 flight servicing #Alderney has been flown. We are now at the mercy of 1 47 yr-old Twin Otter to get us on and off the Island. So far, it's been unreliable. We should have had 2 Twotters, but the second can't get licensed to fly commercial because it doesn't have autopilot. 🤦

TO RECAP: - The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent - They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein - But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell

Religious worship is not education.

"They would not threaten our community if our work did not matter." Worth listening to 👇 #Academic #Independence

Bad Bunny (Benito) es la 14 generación descendiente de Jerónimo Lebrón de Quiñones, jurista y funcionario Español (extremeño, de Cáceres), GOBERNADOR de la Isla De Puerto Rico desde 1544 hasta su muerte, y un ferviente defensor de la comunidad indígena (como un servidor). ¡Viva! #BadBunny

Drawing of Foot Recently Discovered as Authentic Michelangelo Work Sells for $27.2 M. at Christie’s, Sets New Record www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Advanced notice 👇 The 18th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL 2027) will be held in Porto, Portugal, 12-16 July 2027 hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. #ForensicLinguistics

Auditory illusions in speech perception: When our brain misinterprets acoustic information, making us understand something different from what was said. #linguistics #auditoryphonetics #phonetics

The oldies are always the best. ☺️ That's a moray!

You are allowed to break. 🫂

Last year marked the deadliest year on record for murders among Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 21 percent of Israel’s population but sustain 80 percent of the murders. That is one murder every 36 hours. #IsraelWarCrimes

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" a model of what it means to be a journalist in Gaza, to work knowing that every time you leave to cover a story may be the last, and yet you go anyway." 💔 #IsraelWarCrimes

"Where is the ceasefire... Where are the mediators?" #IsraelWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

The importance of terminology in reporting political controversies...https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science/article/misuse-mislabelling-and-the-broken-path-of-the-hardright-challenging-nonscientific-political-discourse/71F1FAF2169E3B2D45453CF921B275A5

At the #Samurai exhibition at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social. Stunning! I recommend it.