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www.aol.com/archaeologis... Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Was the owner a prehistoric king?

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Day 1951 of #Brexit: ‘Labour is using post-Brexit freedoms to override EU nature laws and allow chalk streams and nightingale habitats to be destroyed, MPs have said.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.71 (lookback time 6.56 billion years) with coordinates (150.00401, 1.83005). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

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Palazzo style, Central Street, Manchester

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All sad, and true. But now wrapped in a political inertia bubble of Labour’s making. We’ll just get slowly poorer, and the bet is no-one will ever really work out why. And we’ll keep saying “growth” often enough to make it so. Onwards.

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Have I missed something? Lots of Delphic statements on here.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 More than 5️⃣0️⃣ environmental groups demand that the government increase it's funding to DEFRA. ✉️ A letter sent to the prime minister and Rachel Reeves, warns that Labour’s credibility on environmental protection is on the line! 🔗 riveractionuk.com/news/defra-c...

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"The Bum Shop," a caricature from 1785, satirizing women's fashion.

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In case you missed it: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan

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Fan by Unknown Artist (fourth quarter 18th century) #art #themetcollection #metmuseum #themet

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Strawberry Thief appreciation post

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I've been asked to do an online talk on Burn Marks in Historic Buildings on 2 July by @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social I'll be looking at why these are so common and whether they are the result of accidents or if they are the result of fears about evil... www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

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Exciting PhD opportunity in collaboration with the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust. DL 7 July, to start in Oct 2025. Kickstarting nature restoration with wetlands; exploring how wetlands support landscape scale nature recovery. #wetlands #findaphd #rewilding @wwtworldwide.bsky.social

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Poke bonnet #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95379

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www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2521341... #chester

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Libraries should be at the heart of all communities. So sad that so many have been lost across England, many in beautiful/historic buildings, due to austerity.

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Any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to #BBCBreakfast 👏

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Youth unemployment, 1981 by Tish Murtha. She was an extraordinary photographer from South Shields who used her talent to document marginalised communities in the North East. This photo has a post-apocalyptic feel to it. (© Ella Murtha all rights reserved)

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5 June 1633: Owen Gwyn Master of St. John's College #Cambridge since 1612 is buried in the College Chapel #otd Gwyn was from Berth-ddu in Creudydyn near Llanrwst Denbighshire (BM, a 1690 map of the college)

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www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2521166...

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Genuinely good news. Extending FSM to all children on Universal Credit is long overdue. Will cut poverty and help improve concentration and health.

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#ReliefWednesday For you do not share The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead Sappho, Fragment 65 Exaltation of the flower. Grave stele, Farsala. Thessaly, Greece. 470 - 460 BCE. Louvre Museum #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

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Peers vote to defy government over copyright threat from AI

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The council planted wild flowers near our local library - absolutely stunning! #bees

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Finally settled down to watch the Aisling Bea episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, and very interesting it was too. #ancestors

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Not only is it #OnePlaceWednesday, it’s also #DevonDay! From Awliscombe to West Worlington Churchyard via Cruwys Morchard, Luffincott and Sticklepath, we have 21 member-registered #OnePlaceStudies in #Devon – you can learn more about them via the Devon🔗 page on our website.

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We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life. Items include…

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A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

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The clever people told us that there is nothing outside of the text and all was intertextuality and no words necessarily corresponded with [scare quotes] "reality" but we now have loads of text which does not correspond with reality but only with other texts and all we have is AI generated slop.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rachel Reeves has signed off plans to spend billions of pounds on a new railway line between Manchester and Liverpool and other urban transport upgrades as part of next week’s government spending review www.ft.com/content/9e2d...

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Hi, I'm currently looking into the impact of the PIP cuts on carers for the Big Issue: I'm interested in speaking to anyone receives PIP and Carer's Allowance, and who is potentially at risk from the new "four point rule" please repost for circulation

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Fan #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101752

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The blog's first participant contribution is online! csherbook.hypotheses.org/314 Read about the copy of the Württemberg hymnbook in which @sparrersway.bsky.social found the beautiful pressed edelweiss flower I posted the other day. #herbook #bookhistory

www.aol.com/archaeologis... Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Was the owner a prehistoric king?

Day 1951 of #Brexit: ‘Labour is using post-Brexit freedoms to override EU nature laws and allow chalk streams and nightingale habitats to be destroyed, MPs have said.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.71 (lookback time 6.56 billion years) with coordinates (150.00401, 1.83005). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Palazzo style, Central Street, Manchester

All sad, and true. But now wrapped in a political inertia bubble of Labour’s making. We’ll just get slowly poorer, and the bet is no-one will ever really work out why. And we’ll keep saying “growth” often enough to make it so. Onwards.

Have I missed something? Lots of Delphic statements on here.

"The Bum Shop," a caricature from 1785, satirizing women's fashion.

In case you missed it: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan

Fan by Unknown Artist (fourth quarter 18th century) #art #themetcollection #metmuseum #themet

Strawberry Thief appreciation post

I've been asked to do an online talk on Burn Marks in Historic Buildings on 2 July by @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social I'll be looking at why these are so common and whether they are the result of accidents or if they are the result of fears about evil... www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

Exciting PhD opportunity in collaboration with the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust. DL 7 July, to start in Oct 2025. Kickstarting nature restoration with wetlands; exploring how wetlands support landscape scale nature recovery. #wetlands #findaphd #rewilding @wwtworldwide.bsky.social

Poke bonnet #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95379

www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2521341... #chester

Libraries should be at the heart of all communities. So sad that so many have been lost across England, many in beautiful/historic buildings, due to austerity.

Any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to #BBCBreakfast 👏

Youth unemployment, 1981 by Tish Murtha. She was an extraordinary photographer from South Shields who used her talent to document marginalised communities in the North East. This photo has a post-apocalyptic feel to it. (© Ella Murtha all rights reserved)

5 June 1633: Owen Gwyn Master of St. John's College #Cambridge since 1612 is buried in the College Chapel #otd Gwyn was from Berth-ddu in Creudydyn near Llanrwst Denbighshire (BM, a 1690 map of the college)

www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2521166...

Genuinely good news. Extending FSM to all children on Universal Credit is long overdue. Will cut poverty and help improve concentration and health.

#ReliefWednesday For you do not share The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead Sappho, Fragment 65 Exaltation of the flower. Grave stele, Farsala. Thessaly, Greece. 470 - 460 BCE. Louvre Museum #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

Peers vote to defy government over copyright threat from AI

The council planted wild flowers near our local library - absolutely stunning! #bees

Finally settled down to watch the Aisling Bea episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, and very interesting it was too. #ancestors

Not only is it #OnePlaceWednesday, it’s also #DevonDay! From Awliscombe to West Worlington Churchyard via Cruwys Morchard, Luffincott and Sticklepath, we have 21 member-registered #OnePlaceStudies in #Devon – you can learn more about them via the Devon🔗 page on our website.

We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life. Items include…

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

The clever people told us that there is nothing outside of the text and all was intertextuality and no words necessarily corresponded with [scare quotes] "reality" but we now have loads of text which does not correspond with reality but only with other texts and all we have is AI generated slop.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves has signed off plans to spend billions of pounds on a new railway line between Manchester and Liverpool and other urban transport upgrades as part of next week’s government spending review www.ft.com/content/9e2d...

Hi, I'm currently looking into the impact of the PIP cuts on carers for the Big Issue: I'm interested in speaking to anyone receives PIP and Carer's Allowance, and who is potentially at risk from the new "four point rule" please repost for circulation

Fan #artbots #themet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101752

The blog's first participant contribution is online! csherbook.hypotheses.org/314 Read about the copy of the Württemberg hymnbook in which @sparrersway.bsky.social found the beautiful pressed edelweiss flower I posted the other day. #herbook #bookhistory

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Well, no need to water the garden this evening. #cheshire