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Support Ukraine. Learning Ukrainian. Cat lover. 5 Grandchildren. Formerly Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Chartered Physicist. Married 42 years. Interested in Science, History and Nature.
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This is great Be sure to give @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social a follow www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvT3...

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

If you're in the UK you'd like a pause from banging your head on the table in agonised despair & belief, there's this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

As the #measles outbreak continues, and has now unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, I see a lot of posts along the lines of: "I had measles as a child and I'm fine". Let me tell you a different version of that story: 🧵1/11 🧪 #medsky

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Not strictly on the same topic as this French case, but I wrote about how mid-Victorian judges tried and failed to develop the concept of “marital duty” as a way of constraining husbands here: academic.oup.com/past/article...

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

#FindsFriday The extraordinary Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Bronze cauldron from Llyn Fawr votive lake 🧙, Rhigos, south Wales, dating from 700 BC Pulled from the mud & peat of the drained lake during reservoir construction 🌊 Now on display at Amgueddfa Cymru/Museum Wales, St Fagans 📷 Yesterday

For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink, I was the stranger and you invited me in, I need to clothes and new clothes to me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison, and you came to visit me…

A little-known story about Reverend Budde. She’s a saint if there ever was one. 💙

What an incredible, brave woman.

I’ve now de activated my X account and deleted the app

Anticipation 🫠🌳 @discoverthewild.bsky.social