Tabitha Paterson's brilliant artwork for @unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social is a challenge to the status quo, the idea people werent in Britain 125,000 years ago. It shows animals from the last interglacial, but includes the people and stone tools which some people have stopped looking for. 🦣🏺

#OnThisDay in AD 363, the Roman army defeated Sasanian forces at the Battle of Ctesiphon. Whilst conflict on the eastern Roman frontier is well recorded, research indicates it was also a place of trade and cultural exchange between east and west. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Scientists are studying the bones of the 14th century queen and her retinue to learn more about the lives of elite medieval women. 🧪🏺

A Laconian relief, probably showing Menelaus and Helen. 6th Century BC, Sparta Archaeological Museum. #art #mythology #ancientbluesky🏺

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STOP locking black children up in Australian prisons. The world sanctioned and boycotted the South African Apartheid Regime. Are we any better? Pull your finger out Albo #auspol #NOchildPrisoners #albo #alp #HumanRights #aussieApartheid

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d... #auspol #USPOL #USA #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #SocialJustice #LongerTables #DemocraticSocialist #Ecosocialism #Socialist #socialism #LeftIsBest #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness #abolishcapitalism #HumanRights

Greetings, citizens. We, Anonymous, stand with the Global Sumud Flotilla in defiance of oppression. 🇵🇸 #OpSumud #FreeGaza #Anonymous

✨ Thank you to Muhammad Tuhin at Science News Today for highlighting archaeological #research! As he writes: "The evidence shows that these artificial islands were not simply medieval or Iron Age constructions but may have deep #Neolithic origins stretching back more than 5,000 years."🏺 📖 Read more

Made up of thousands of aligned holes, the Andean monument Monte Sierpe (Band of Holes) is iconic, but its purpose is unknown. New research proposes this mysterious monument was part of an Indigenous system of accounting and exchange. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Ok, who was streaking in the British Museum? Because "certain members of the staff" has the sound of "especially you, Derek." about it.

📰 600-year-old anaesthetic residue uncovered in the tomb of a Chinese surgeon indicates Ming China's medical professionals knew a great deal about reducing pain during surgery. 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @newscientist.com institutions.newscientist.com/article/2527...

NEW c. 3500 years ago, ceramic traditions began to spread around the Amazon, but their origins are poorly understood. Comparison of two early styles suggests they have a shared origin, spreading with increased migration and interaction across Amazonia. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The use of shark teeth in weaponry was a phenomenon that spread across the Asia-Pacific region during the middle Holocene. They were possibly used for conflict, butchery or even ritual combat. 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Very specifically constrictor-shaped head. Nice to see a Time Lord depicted at last. The Dr was always going on about them but I don't remember ever seeing one (unless he was one of course). Face not as dramatic as I'd have expected.

What turned Tony Blair into a neoliberal dinosaur? youtu.be/bq2RYrW2eCo?... The man is now prehistoric in his attitudes, and a threat to us all.

Great success, ruzzians.

Interesting case in progress: The European Court of Human Rights can help countries address blind spots in their justice systems and hold states to account for abuses of power that domestic actors can't see, writes LSE professor Kai Möller👇 🔗 www.ft.com/content/a77a... via @financialtimes.com

100% this👇🏽 Challenge the billionaire class and surprise surprise, relentless attacks by the billionaire owned legacy media 😂

Preliminary look at endocranial (brain) growth among different gibbon species: the space surrounding the cerebellum expands dramatically between infancy and adulthood. The same is true for humans, but possibly not fossil Neandertals #FossilFriday

#OnThisDay (29 May 1945) The Consolidated B-32 Dominator conducts its first combat mission. The target is a supply depot at Antatet in the Philippines. Only 118 B-32s were built; the heavy bomber was retired from service in August of the same year. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

We're facing the second lost decade of the century. The far-right will blame migrants. Liberals will tell us the economy is working just fine. Meanwhile, bosses will keep making record profits - unless workers figure out how to take them back.

🏥 NEW 🏥 A hospital refused surgery to a woman in pain, just because she’s trans – so we’re taking them to court: https://goodlaw.social/lhol

kissthegroundmovie.com Kiss the Ground is a good starting point for understanding how sustainable farming can turn environmental concerns around towards a healthier direction.

Crystal Palace lives rent free in our minds. The photographs are taken from 'Crystal Palace and district' which possibly published in 1900. The structure was built for the Great Exhibition in 1851, but moved to Sydenham Hill in 1854. Crystal Palace was later destroyed by a fire in 1936. See less

These days they probe with drones, not bayonets

Has anyone watched the AI version of BBC Question Time? BBC's Question Time to feature AI panel of historical figures | Radio Times share.google/R9awgNgw5DdD...

Another triumph for civilisation:

“In effect, today’s corporations and wealthy are hoarding the society’s resources for themselves, while starving the treasury of funds that are badly needed for repairing and strengthening the society on which their wealth depends.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Well done everyone! 👏👏👏👍👍👍

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Good Friday morning friends. Sending love, light and strength.

Will this list be as long as the Trumpstein list?

Happy 8th birthday to this, from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

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I think the good guys will have to realise that a lot of the bad environmental beaviour, like a lot if the bad politics in general, doesn't happen by accident. A lot of rich gits continuously pump BIG money into the bad propaganda.

Plastic recycling: A panacea or environmental pollution problem #Plastic #recycling is ineffective in offsetting the impact of rising global plastic production of more than 400 million metric tonnes annually, due to low global recycling rates of only 9%. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Nature #ART by Anna & the Willow. The Huntress of Skipton Castle Woods #SkiptonCastle in #NorthYorkshire, #England.

For #FindsFriday Some freshly recovered flint artefacts from the machine clearance of our new trench at #Durotriges26 I have a feeling we're not in Duropolis anymore 😱 #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Flint #Archaeology

PUTTING THE "MEGA" IN MEGACONSTELLATION: By black carbon absorbing sunlight, it heats the atmosphere. By shading sunlight, it cools the atmosphere. Researchers are sure that black carbon will tip the atmosphere's thermal balance--they don't know which way www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new... spaceweather.com

You should be dancing, yeah. Moving to music offers all kinds of benefits as you age. apnews.com/article/ment...

☣️ ☣️ ☣️ Ebola Outbreak in DRC and Uganda: Situation Report #2 (May 26, 2026) ☣️ ☣️ ☣️ reliefweb.int/report/democ... The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus has impacted both DRC and Uganda, with over 900 suspected cases, 223 suspected deaths, 112 confirmed cases, and 11 confirmed deaths. #Ebola #Outbreak

This week @ #BCPBirding has been all action Cuckoo 3 Male possibly 4 & 2 F The bubbling call of the Female followed by the excited call of a Male. Good to see after a rapid decline in last 6 years resulting sporadic sightings. Photos not the best! #UKBirding #Patchbirding

Looks like making the lower sections out of wood didn't work for them

Ugh. They’re determined to make iRobot happen…

Late afternoon y'day @ #BCPBirding @ Nevison's Flash #Odonata noted 2 Norfolk Hawker, 4 Spot Chaser, Small Red eyed Damselfly, Red eyed Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly

Ok NATO putin hit Romania The world is watching!