Sky News reports from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a health centre in Lebanon. The strike resulted in nearly the entire medical team being killed. Health centers like this one are clearly protected from attack under the laws of armed conflict, but Israel disregards these protections.

Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth. #25thAmendmentNOW

One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian

Imagine that everything he promised his base turning out to be a lie. Shocking. Just shocking.

Things that happen in Scotland. 🙌🙏🫶👇

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in UK tax. Complex plan used offshore trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a string of dormant businesses. His property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. archive.ph/c5EcY

Well well well, what have we here 🤦🏻‍♀️ Roman well discovered under a shop during renovations in Caistor #Lincolnshire #archaeology #Roman #ancientbluesky 🏺

As it rampages thru Lebanon & Iran, Israel continues its massacres in Palestine, terrorizing Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This genocidal state has created more destruction and death in the last 2.5 years than any country of comparable size and population ever x.com/mariambargho...

👇🏽for the TL:DR crowd👇🏽 According to ACLED, in 2025, up to December 5, 2025, Israel attacked: * Gaza and the occupied West Bank 8,332 times * Lebanon 1,653 times * Iran 379 times * Syria 207 times * Yemen 48 times * Qatar once * Tunisian waters twice, Maltese and Greek waters once each read the story📰

I don't know, but I guess it bothers me some that the President of the United States posted on social media that it is his great honor to be killing people. 🤷‍♂️

30 years ago today these children went to school in Dunblane, Scotland & never came home. At the time Farage called the handgun ban that was brought in 'overkill' (there have been no such school shootings in the uk since). This week farage is campaigning to restore the right to own handguns.

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

In the age of hyper-individualism, what we need isn’t more choice, but more belonging. Why neoliberalism frayed our social fabric and how we can weave it back together. Read the full piece by @awbrakeley.bsky.social www.youthobserver.com/p/the-lonely...

Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇

A #Roman tile , impressed with the footprint of a chicken that walked across it some 1600+ years ago 🐔 #AncientBlueSky

Hillforts were great defensive positions, but exposed to the elements, especially strong winds, making attacking them even harder. Remains of Burton Point Iron Age promontory hillfort with brilliant views for miles around. #HillFortsWednesday #IronAge #Celts

"My first thought when I found out its origin was that I would like to return it to an institute where it could be studied by all...My grandfather would be proud to know, as I am, that the coin is coming back to Leeds." Lovely. ❤️ #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Running his country like he ran his bankrupt businesses #TraitorTrump

A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii. At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

This is horrible. Despicable little toerags. #Chester #heritagecrime

Le Cloître (aka St-Guinec) in Huelgoat is one of the tallest menhirs in inland Finistère at just over 8m tall; the bases of the broad faces are 2m wide, the narrow ones 1m. Probably once part of a row of menhirs. Card by Villard in Quimper pre-1904.

Credit to 'Court Above The Cut' fresh 'scrapes' to create wildlife habitats interesting patterns in the landscape for future civilisations to puzzle over. What were they up to?

Great bit of deserved petrol-pump-Farage bashing by John Crace in the Guardian 🎯 #Reformfail www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].

An adorable #Roman shoe, made for a #baby too young to walk. The shoe imitates the footwear of Roman soldiers (caligae). The cut-out design would have shown off the kid’s socks! From Bordeaux, dating 1st/2nd AD. 📷 Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine 🏺 #archaeology

Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight. He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.

I think it was pretty clear in the 2020s that fascism across the white-people world was an international movement, and that its adherents were far more closely aligned with each other than they were with their compatriots. Is this not the underlying point of the Trump-Putin stuff, after all?

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Spring's a-bursting...🌷🌷🌷 #gardening #hope

These delicate, highly detailed gold hoop earrings depict winged Erotes riding doves. The dove, of course, was a sacred bird of Aphrodite (mother of Eros), symbolizing love, beauty, and fertility. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ Greek, 3rd c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

Finally got to see the bronze head of Sulis Minerva at the Roman baths 🖤

Full Farage

same as it ever was

Liverpool waterfront 1947

Latest from the BMJ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Israel is a rampaging, out of control rogue nation with tentacles everywhere and, incredibly, an entirely uninspected nuclear arsenal.

Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water. Now, even the rain is contaminated.

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Looking east onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #HadriansWall #RomanBritain #Northumberland

Murphy: “ppl now see Trump for who he is — a would be dictator who doesn’t care what Americans think, cares nothing about our Constitution or our laws, & sees himself as a kind of 18th century king, with unlimited power to drag all of us into disastrous wars overseas without the consent of the ppl”

Hillary Clinton: “You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions. You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files.“

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones. Russia helps Iran track American forces. And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil. Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

A personal one for #FindsFriday. An interesting day; and finding musket balls, in an area with a well-known history of Civil War skirmishes, certainly fired the imagination! 💥

I do fear that grotesque boast that the USA no longer needed to worry about "stupid rules of engagement", will haunt the country for years to come. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

During various excavations at the Roman fort in Osterburken, more than 120 arrowheads and spearheads were discovered. Some are of Roman origin, most are of Germanic type. The fort was attacked around the middle of the 3rd c.AD. These finds highlight the intense threat to Roman territory...🧵1/2

President Trump was right in 2020: "We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East and we're not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we're not fixing our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, our schools? It's crazy."