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Bewildered Femsle of the Species

@jakethepie.bsky.social
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Erstwhile student of Early Med Hist, Archaeology etc. Maker of costumes/wearer of big boots. Would like to be Snufkin, but suspect I'm the Hemulen. XX

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Can’t help but feel that U.K. had plenty of sort of scientists and engineers in this country who could have developed systems for renewables that we could have sold all over the world and if we’d had people in government who actually cared about this stuff we‘d be doing ok economically or whatever
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/06/2026
High-resolution, near-infrared photography of a tattoo, from an Iron Age ice mummy of Siberia's Pazyryk culture. Tattooing was not merely symbolic decoration but a specialised craft, demanding technical skill, aesthetic sensitivity, and formal training. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Close-up image of a mummified forearm with a tattoo on its surface.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Minoan jug with a big, bold flower design. 3,800 years old, and still blooming lovely today! 🌼 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a ceramic pouring jug with a bold white-on-dark floral design viewed from the side with handle at left. It is decorated with a white, many-petalled flower with a round centre, like a stylised daisy. The flower fills the surface of the side of the vessel, radiating in sunburst style against a dark background. Further white painted decoration includes a band just above the base of the jug, two bands on the neck; at the base and in the middle of the neck, and thinner white bands on the handle and on the beaked spout.

The jug has a rounded body which tapers gently to a narrow flat base. From the top of the rounded body rises a short neck that angles upwards into a narrow ‘beaked’ spout, which is slightly chipped at the end. There is a single loop handle attached between the shoulder and the top of the neck. This type of jug is known as a beaked eye-jug, due to the two relief knobs under the beaked spout. Height approx 26 cm. From Phaistos.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How do you like your burger Chuck?
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Never forget the ferret experiment. Showed that SARS-CoV-2 was airborne. Was dismissed by infectious disease doctors "animal data, doesn't count". Many humans died as a result. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are transmitted through the air between ferrets over more than one meter distance - Nature Communications
Some epidemiological data suggests that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted through the air over longer distances. Here, Kutter et al. show in the ferret model that SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV can be transmitte...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The extraordinary documentary evidence at the heart of the UK Afghan war crimes inquiry - a thread. There is currently a public inquiry into alleged war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. The ongoing inquiry has published some interesting and worrying documents. >
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky tells BBC that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already started World War Three and must be stopped www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Resilient Zelensky tells BBC Putin has started WW3 and must be stopped
Ukraine's president sat down with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Kyiv days before the four-year anniversary of the war.
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
After this, USA has absolutely zero moral high ground against Russia in Ukraine, or China in Taiwan. Bad day for rule of law; good day for might is right.
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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 24/12/2025
I’m in the Laura Ashley roof space of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas again, along with a lifetime of Secondary School History teacher’s paperwork and all the craft supplies. Do donate to Centrepoint if you can, check out @rhodri.biz for more on this annual wonder!
Colour photo taken from my bed (with me in it under the duvet) looking towards a pine desk, compact piles of boxes, a yellow curtain and expanse of yellow and green floral wallpaper.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The people of Littlebredy, a village of 32 homes, wholly owned by the Bridehead Estate Ltd, say they have been ordered to leave from Jan. But who owns Bridehead Estate Ltd? No one seems to know, but the company is registered to the same address as Belport Ltd. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries
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Save Lambeth Libraries | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The consequences of scientific fraud are profound edzardernst.com/2025/06/the-... via @edzardernst
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The consequences of scientific fraud are profound
Retractions occur when a paper is found to be flawed due to errors, plagiarism, data fabrication, peer-review fraud or other misconduct. On this blog, we have seen our fair share of such things. Occas...
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Here's a selection of Anglo Saxon buildings for your delectation and delight: The remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. Worth cracking the photo open to see. #thread #throwbackthursday
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Welcome to the archives.
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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In Coventry in the 1960s, 21 Punjabi Indian women were tricked into eating a radioactive chapati every morning as part of a medical experiment. Many of them couldn’t read the letter from the Medical Research Council explaining the possible effects of radioactive isotopes 🧵
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’d like to be crystal clear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (for want of an official BBC news/ editorial presence on here. This will be the end of my TV licence, paid by DD for multiple decades BBC, that I’ve defended, has lost MY trust over too much of its journalism
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to look at the minimum income requirement for sponsoring a foreign national spouse or partner. This is what you must earn in order to live with your spouse or partner in the UK if you are British or settled here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Family visa financial requirements review
The Migration Advisory Committee’s report on the minimum income requirement for the family migration route.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 04/06/2025
NEW Barkcloth beaters, used in Southeast Asia to produce cloth from bark for thousands of years. On Sulawesi, this process remained unchanged for around 1900 years, so why did it suddenly diversify in the 20th century AD? Find out in this #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵🏺
15 barkcloth beaters. Two are large 'paddles' made from wood, the others are square blocks of stone fixed into wooden handles. Both the wooden and stone beaters are engraved with different groove motifs and depths based on when in the barkcloth production process they were used.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Linear projections of ethnic diversity in 40 and 75 years time depend on simplistic one drop raciak thinking about those of mixed ethnic heritage. The real life pattern of racial identity across generations is fascinatingly fluid, as I found in my own household from one census to the next
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post, he could transform the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... If only Keir Starmer understood tax, he could transform the fortunes of the UK. But he doesn't, and he shows no sign of wanting to do so.
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If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK
As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax rises, warning: “I don’t think you can tax your way to...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
BREAKING: The water sector in England and Wales is failing and needs stronger regulation to better protect billpayers and the environment, according to the interim findings of a landmark review www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, review says
The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in the water industry.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 01/06/2025
Usually, if people leave us coins as donations we're delighted. But... ...we've got a bit of an issue. And this one is on a giant scale.
A section of the Giant's Causeway rocks. A group of people are at the base, facing towards the rocks. Most wear bright red/orange jackets. All are busy at work.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
In my first 14 m of solar my total ☀️ 🍃 energy production exceeded my total home energy consumption so I was able to supply about 1,800 kWh excess to the grid to help other homes benefit from clean energy.
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Bewildered Femsle of the Species @jakethepie.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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The five stages of victory | Helen Joyce | The Critic Magazine
It’s more than a half-century since the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described recovery from grief as a five-stage process.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"University: A Good Idea". Excellent piece by @patporter76.bsky.social, reasserting the humanist idea of the university as a place to think, grow and argue; not as a consumer experience providing employable skills. thecritic.co.uk/university-a...
Extract from article by Patrick Porter: "Sure, careers and money matter. But so do citizenship, war, justice, faith and the common good. You can think about such things without paying academics, of course. Yet thinking about them beside scholars who study them is a good place to start, and is another kind of value for money.

In-person study is valuable because it is done dialectically, that is, in conversation and argument, and collectively. To be a student alone is a contradiction in terms. It is one reason the recent global plague, forcing study online, damaged so many young souls. How much better it would be not only to imbibe the offerings of the web, but to argue about them with other people in the same room. Learning collectively, in an organic human setting, is the essence of the university".
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Bewildered Femsle of the Species @jakethepie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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A straight woman cannot be a gay man | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine
If there’s one thing that defines gay men, it’s a fondness for willies. One might say it’s a defining characteristic. So when the BBC aired I Kissed a Boy — touted as the UK’s first gay dating show…
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Sooo... the government has removed the 1m planning rule in England, and the BBC have opened the comments section on their article...😱😳 Because I clearly hate myself, let's do a quick fact check on some of the most popular comments... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Planning change makes heat pump installations easier for homes
The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbours property has been removed.
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Laura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
TAKE ACTION: Email your MP! Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action. Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it. sex-matters.org/take-action/...
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Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters
Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Now do Stonewall. Disclosure runs to 105 pages. Here are the FOI links: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...
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Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed] - a Freedom of Information request to Equality and Human Rights Commission
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions: 1. Any application you made in 2019 or...
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
People feeling helpless and distraught about how to help people in Israel and Gaza beyond racist propaganda, it might help to support www.standing-together.org They're bereaved families from both sides, whose courage in reaching out to each other and working together for peace, is extraordinary.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
2/ The logic of slashing aid to fund defence is flawed. Aid and defence aren't rivals—they're partners in national security. Aid helps prevent conflict, stabilize fragile states, and reduce extremism.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
'The Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts, owned and overseen by Lincoln College, has said it would accept no new applicants for world-renowned courses, including those currently enrolled on its foundation courses.'
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Only UK degree course in stringed instrument-making to close
Campaigners say knowledge taught at Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts vital to preserve traditional skills, especially luthiery
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
May your social media timelines be filled with meraki rather than Weltschmerz. Even better, may your days begin with gökotta rather than kaapshljmurslis. If that’s not the case, I wish you sisu.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It's become almost commonplace to say that the promise of democracy is that it will deliver higher standards of living. But that was never the claim made by the Chartists, the women's suffrage movement or those who struggled to win democracy in the past. And it's a bad test to set for the present.
Quote from newspaper article with highlighted text: "Years of stagnation have broken liberal democracy’s central compact with voters, that it is the best system to deliver prosperity for each generation."
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Lucy White @lucygjwhite.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
For the last year, I’ve been working on an investigation that’s left me staggered. It’s a damning indictment of the UK’s care sector, & the migration system which has allowed millions of ££s to be plundered from communities in developing countries. Free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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UK Visa Scams Squeeze Millions From Would-Be Care Workers
Recent changes to immigration policy won’t do anything for people who’ve been exploited while seeking jobs in the UK. But they may worsen the care-worker shortage.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
1/4 Please don’t tell Donald Trump, but 130 years ago this month, a megalomaniac real estate investor had a man invaded country named after him.
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tool libraries and community repair workshops on every high street would be a good way forward
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/05/2025
It is peculiar to the UK. In Japan, for instance, they have highly trained roving engineering crews that fix issues in the few hours between the last train of the day and the first train the next morning.
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Bewildered Femsle of the Species @jakethepie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Bewildered Femsle of the Species @jakethepie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.
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Bewildered Femsle of the Species @jakethepie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Can you spare a minute to help Annabel O'Docherty?
Help End Social Housing Neglect
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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Let us remember the true meaning of Easter!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
And that you sit as kings in your desires …
Elon Musk and Donald Trump walk side by side.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/04/2025
Palestinian photog Fatima Hassouna killed in an Israeli air strike with nine family members 24 hours after the announcement that a documentary about her work in Gaza would premiere at Cannes. deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
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Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Pray tell. The Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”
A bottle of wine, a Picpoul de Pinet. It’s called ‘Baron de Badassière’.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
FACT OF THE DAY. 18 April 1949. Republic of Ireland Act 1948 became law. It declared that Ireland would henceforth be officially described as the Republic of Ireland and vested in the President of Ireland the power to exercise the executive authority of the state.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Love this piece by @markabelan, a scientific illustrator, showing the botanical classification of fruit. Source: buff.ly/EiEgrG2
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
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