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Our US Civil War 2.0 correspondent has been shot by a non-lethal round.

The Trump Effect.

Some Old Ale for the Old Man. Lime Wharf Café, Bodium.

What could possibly go wrong? ‘This explosion would be well over a thousand times larger than the 50 megaton ‘Tsar Bomba’ test, the current largest nuclear explosion in history, detonated in 1961 by the Soviet Union in the Arctic Circle…(Apparently recycling isn’t going to cut it any more.)’

‘The Liaoning carrier, accompanied by two missile destroyers and a supply ship, entered Japan’s exclusive economic zone before exiting to conduct military drills’.

Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration.

The view from the office today: Wittersham C.C. versus Beckley C.C. 🏏

The magical St Madoes cross now in Perth Museum. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

At this point perhaps the simplest solution would be to fine Thames Water into bankruptcy and renationalise it.

The best film today is on #TalkingPicturesTV, where 48 Hours aka Went The Day Well? gets a screening this Sunday at 6pm. The Nazis are among us, and the brave Brits take up arms to fight the fascist menace in this sobering thriller. @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social film-authority.com/2020/12/12/4...

Malicious and vexatious prosecution.

The Later Prehistoric Finds Group (LPFG) have made the leap over to Bluesky! Follow us if you are interested in Later Prehistoric Finds! You can find our website here: laterprehistoricfinds.com #Archaeology #LaterPrehistory @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Superb study and identification of an iconic shipwreck, Cook's Endeavour, sunk to block the harbour during the American War of Independence in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island www.sea.museum/en/article/a...

Latest coverage of ‪@medimurdermaps.bsky.social‬: Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337 Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover www.theguardian.com/education/20... #History 🗃️

Cartoon on Elon VS Trump "Are you not entertained?" Support me and get my first graphic novel ‘You Must Take Part In Revolution: www.amazon.com/You-Must-Tak...

Total open-season on Tesla’s.

🎙 Join @alexharvv.bsky.social and Tom as they talk about Strathclyde and many more of the kingdoms of early medieval Britain! Alex Harvey is the author of the upcoming book, 'Little Kingdoms: An A-Z of Early Medieval Britain,' which will be released in November. open.spotify.com/episode/0wFQ...

Farage / Yusuf is the low budget ITV remake of the US drama Trump / Musk

Took a photo in Redcar. Can't stop looking at it.

oh my god it's literally alien vs. predator

same vibe

Trump threatens to take away Elon’s government contracts

This decorated initial-word marks the beginning of Torah portion Naso (נָשֹׂא). #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 15423; Torah; 1441 CE-1467 CE; Central Italy (Florence); f.90v

My book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico, is out in November—and it has a cover! Couldn't be happier with @univnebpress.bsky.social. For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... 🗃️📚🏺🏛️🇲🇽

We will never forget Tiananmen crackdown, Taiwan and U.S. say on 36th anniversary

It's #HillfortsWednesday ! The ramparts of Abbotsbury Castle hillfort enclose a roughly triangular area of 1.8ha atop a limestone ridge overlooking the English Channel / La Manche on the Jurassic Coast here in #Dorset A little slice of Iron Age gorgeousness 📷 looking NE © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

As part of London Festival of Architecture I am speaking at an event hosted by @savetoreuse.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June, entitled BEYOND CARBON: HOW EMBODIED MEMORY GROUNDS US IN PLACE, exploring the concept of embodied memory in the loss and reuse of buildings. Tickets: shorturl.at/m60vX

There’s a very special type of traffic crossing in central London that stops road traffic, so that horses can cross the road. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cen...

A classic poster created and distributed in 1979 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (which was founded in 1915 in the Netherlands to support nonviolent conflict resolution and eradicate the causes of war) opposing excessive military spending, particularly for nuclear weapons.

For every problem created by the enshittification of the internet, there is a scam masquerading as a solution.

Someone really needs to explain the Law of Unintended Consequences to Trump. 🤦🏼‍♂️

The definition of overkill. ‘Hundreds of police officers have also been deployed in Causeway Bay. Officers – both in uniform and plainclothes – are being stationed in the Causeway Bay MTR station, outside the Sogo department store, as well as in and around Victoria Park’.

I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future? My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 www.amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How...

Antony Hollaway mural on Thornfield House, completed 1962, in the London County Council's Birchfield Estate, Poplar, east London.

Today’s new post - A Stoke Newington Church Street Ghost Sign at alondoninheritance.com

4 June 1919 // HM Submarine L.55, deployed to the Baltic in support of the newly independent Baltic states, was sunk with all 42 crew in the Gulf of Finland following an unsuccessful torpedo attack on two Bolshevik destroyers. She was hit by gunfire from the destroyers, and also struck a mine. [1/3]

Rare facial tattoos discovered on 800-year-old South American mummy A recent discovery from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Turin introduced new data on South American tattooing practices during ancient times... More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/rare...

A photo of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters

8th June is the feast of Pentecost. Here the apostles are depicted as gathered to receive the Holy Spirit, followed by the Collect for Pentecost. #Pentecost Bamberg State Library Msc.Lit. 1; Sacramentary; early 11th century; Fulda; ff.84v, 85r

"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."