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It’s a big beast that 1800 years ago left this paw print in a Roman imperial tile (IMP) found during excavation this week on the #Carlisle dig #archaeology #HadriansWall

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Cutting aid abroad

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The threat from the radical right is real. That makes working together not just the right choice, but the only choice. Now is the time to prove that more unites us than divides us – and the SNP will take our role in that seriously.

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Re the latest mad video from Trump, here's the point of it, from Mein Kampf:

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The #Roman army captured the #IronAge #hillfort at Hod Hill in Dorset in 43 or 44AD, sweeping away part of the earlier settlement and building their own defences in its north-west corner. #HillfortsWednesday

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This is grotesque and no, Today Programme, it isn’t funny - as the excellent Lyse Doucet made very clear

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Trump's mother Màiri Anna Nic Leòid was a penniless migrant who spoke English as her 2nd language. The tenth child of an impoverished crofter who arrived in America as a domestic worker. Her son is now charging $5 million a visa to shut the gates in the face of people like her and let the rich in.

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Brilliant! #PresidentMusk

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Congrats to pyoung, everyone respects my man pyoung

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🚨Nigel Farage has been busy representing the people of Clacton again. Here has just declared: - £91,000 for working 4hrs per month for Mayfair based Direct Bullion. - £27,000 trip to the US for Trump inauguration. - £15,000 private jet flight to Palm Beach. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷‍♂️⤵️

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EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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"Putin's poodles are not in the chamber today" Stephen Flynn criticises Reform's Nigel Farage and Richard Tice for their absence during the discussion on support for Ukraine

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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✍️ BECLI A probable Gaelic personal name has been inscribed in a geometric style on this early C8th cross-slab found under the floor of Dull Parish Church. The style of the cross is linked to Iona, as may the Dull monastery itself (Canmore; ScARF; Will et al. SAJ 25:1 2003, 57). My 📷, Perth Museum

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Absolutely shocking by Trump. 👇

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Gaslighting loons can point to imaginary benefits of their stupid Brexit, but in reality people are getting out and heading for Ireland because of it. #brexitdisaster www.ft.com/content/870c...

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You think A is true. Then you encounter evidence B that contradicts it. Science: You examine B and, if it stands up, reject A. Belief: You view B as a test of the strength of your faith, sent to you by the entity whose existence the correctness of B would falsify. Hence B validates the truth of A.

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SCOTTISH WAITING TIMES REDUCED The SNP promised 64,000 NHS procedures by the end of March this year but we’ve already exceeded that target and delivered 75,500 by the end of January.

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Wow! What a great cover!

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Remember this one from Razorlight? If you've not heard it please watch/listen And @razorlightofficial.bsky.social (?) maybe time for a re issue? youtube.com/watch?v=V9Nh... Panic in America

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Reminder: Andrew Carnegie had a reputation as a sometime jerk, in his day, but... 1659 public libraries? 1400+ grants for community projects?

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As the dust gradually settles let’s remember 80% of Germans today rejected AfD/fascism and told Elon Musk to do one. Thank you Germany

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Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His forces bombed cities like Mariupol into rubble. Raped, tortured & murdered civilians. Targeted maternity & children's hospitals. I took this photo of one the mass graves - it contained 445 bodies in Izium (1/2)

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A #Pictish glass gaming piece of c. AD 700-900, probably for a 'tafl' board game, found in the hillfort at Dundurn. The only other example of this type from Britain was discovered at Lindisfarne. My image, Perth Museum. References: Mark Hall et al. in ScARF and DigVentures; HES Canmore.

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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Piazza Navona in Rome, shaped thus because it sits on the footprint of Domitian's Stadium, built for the Greek-styled games in honour of Jupiter Capitolinus instituted in AD 86. Even in the 4th Century the Stadium was counted among "the glories of the eternal city" (Ammianus Marcellinus 16.16). 🏺

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#StandingStoneSunday Two stumps through which Stanydale "temple" can be seen on the horizon. The "temple", which almost certainly wasn't a temple, stands in a still largely unexamined Neolithic landscape of farm houses, fields, cairns & standing stones in West Mainland, Shetland.🏺 #AncientBluesky

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Exploited migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours. Workers not paid for in-work travel, time spent moving between workstations, team meetings, receiving instructions on equipment use. Employers violating employment rights. Need effective enforcement, not deregulation.

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