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This needs shouting from the rooftops.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Gannets - by Dumfries and Galloway artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper Because you can never have too many Gannets (or Lisa Hooper prints) in your Bluesky feed More of this artist's wonderful prints, here: hoopoeprints.co.uk #birds #art #seabirds #birdart #gannets 🪶

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

From the other place…

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Bagel and cream cheese in bed. It’s a hard life being a greyhound, says Delphine. #SkyHounds

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

An outrageous removal of the 'T' from the Stonewall Memorial website is a disgusting and deliberate revision of historical fact. The current administration should be ashamed... "For Stonewall, Christopher Street, New York" Planted in 2019.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 14 days ago • 842 comments

Carl Lutz - The Swiss man who saved tens of thousands of Jews 1/n Carl Lutz (30 March 1895 – 12 February 1975) was a Swiss diplomat who served as the Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews in a large rescue operation.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense. Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway. What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 75 comments

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

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submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

Leave it to beavers

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a hard life being Delphine #EasyLikeSundayMorning #skyhounds

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

BESA, the code of honor that saved the Albanian Jews 1/n Albania, a mountainous country on the southeast coast of the Balkan peninsula, was home to a population of 803,000. Of those only 200 were Jews. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, many Jews found refuge in Albania.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 23 days ago • 1103 comments

💥 NEW: Labour voters are *84%* for a youth mobility scheme... ...with only 6% against. What's to lose? In fact, they might even gain some of those 59% of Conservatives and 34% of Reform that support it too.

submitted 24 days ago • 46 comments