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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ㅤ Ancient intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being pulled by two butterflies — Roman, 1st c. bce - 1st c. ce, carnelian ㅤ

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marble that looks wet. This jaw-dropping detail comes from “The Nymph” (La Ninfa) by Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823–1880) where solid stone is carved to mimic water rippling around her bare feet. The full sculpture was executed in 1858 for Palazzo Facchi in Brescia. Original post

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of a cross-shaft from Holy Island in Northumberland. Dating to the 9th century, the cross-shaft is part of the collections at the Lindisfarne Priory Museum. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Lindisfarne #Northumberland

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ich sing as it doth rayne, Ich sing as it doth rayne - What a merveilous feelinge! Ich am mirthful agayne. Ich laughe loude at cloudes That glowere above, The sonne yn myne herte Ich am redy for love.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lilian Marsden and her friend Phyllis, 14-year-old workers at Salt's Mill, Saltaire, in 1930. Lilian is carrying a hook on the string round her waist, which was used to wind yarn on to the spinning frame.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A #Roman pie or pastry mould in the shape of a pig - probably used to create a 'showstopper' dish for a dinner party, some 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #Baturday #31daysofhalloween

Marginalia of black bat with giant fan like wing.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That ys great! The starte ys an Earthe Quake -- Foweles, Serpentes, An Aeroplane -- And Lenny Bruce nys not afrayde

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @fraggenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Vivid; any bird with bright colours - chosen the amazing iridescent colours of the male Wood Duck - photo taken at Ebbw Vale Festival Park - South Wales 😍 😍🪶🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #ECK

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Curlew, Tunnicliffe.

Painting of curlew and different isolated aspects/ features of the bird.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This two tier policing is disgraceful. It's as if there is one approach for people who helpfully film themselves committing crimes and another approach when there is insufficient evidence.

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Roman Sites @romansites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Autumn (with his rake) from the Four Seasons mosaic at the excellent Yorkshire Museum in York seems seasonally appropriate today. The staff positively encouraged me to walk on this - although shoes aren't allowed. 3rd or 4th century CE. 📷 my own 2026 #MosaicModay #RomanBritain #RomanSites

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beneath the Weeping Canopy By Jeff Stanford

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MosaicMonday Mosaic of the capture of Europa, found in a #Roman villa at Torre tre Teste, on a road from Rome to Paestum (Palestrina), Italy - 1st/2nd century AD - Ny Carlsberg, Copenhagen. #ancient #artwork #art #History

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Morning. Just. Le Merle Noir, Leo Paul Robert in Les Oiseaux dans la Nature by Eugene Rambert, 1916.

Blackbird stood on ground upon Autumn leaves. Painting.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thou knowest it wolde be untrouthe, Thou knowest Ich wolde be a liar, Yif Ich were to saye unto you, Love, we koude not ascende higher. Wende forth, lemman, lighte my fyre Wende forth, lemman, lighte my fyre, Mayhap we sette the nighte on fyre. Lo!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jones’s Corner Shop, painting by Salford artist Tom Brown (1933-2017).

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ancient Greek figurine of a barber cutting a man’s hair, 5th century BC. Brings to mind the ‘chatty barber’ joke: Q. How should I cut your hair Sir? A. In silence! 😂😂😂 Coincidentally this joke can also be traced back to the 5th century BC! Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The remains of St. Oswald's Priory in Gloucester. The priory was founded by Lady Aethelflaed of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, in around 900. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #StOswaldsPriory #Gloucester

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