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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Solar and wind now dominate global electricity generation. Worldwide, solar and wind power will each surpass nuclear in 2026. This surge has halted fossil fuel power generation rise, with renewables overtaking coal, supported by battery storage providing system flexibility at scale.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 20/04/2026

💯 So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling. The machines can *never* do this.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Signed. Please consider adding your signature 🙏🏽

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”

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Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed

BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

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Saly "and more" @salylockheart.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Reminder that I got a print shop right here : www.inprnt.com/gallery/saly...

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Art Prints by Salomée LUCE-ANTOINETTE

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Salomée LUCE-ANTOINETTE.

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Cranky Otter @crankyotter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just to make it fit my preferred format “All that he has, like smoke into the sky, will evaporate.”

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Love this. The exception might be cuneiform…almost everything you read has not felt the light of day for thousands of years. Every ancient letter, receipt, star map, math problem, or fragment of a poem is new again. It adds to our knowledge and remembrance. It absolutely is thrilling 🧡

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/04/2026

What was taxation like in the ancient world? #TaxDay In the Assyrian Empire, the imperial core extracted resources in the forms of taxation and tribute from the settlements it took over, meaning wealth disparity increased as the empire expanded. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of northern Mesopotamia, with arrows pointing from regions of the Assyrian Empire expected to pay tribute and regions expected to provide ‘gifts’ to the imperial core.

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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Some beauty in this world.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 14/04/2026

On my timeline on the same day . . bsky.app/profile/asls...

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Tine Schenck @tinelinen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

When #archaeology REALLY means something...

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Ali Nabavizadeh @vertanatomist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Next book! “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” by Moudhy Al-Rashid. As some of you may have noticed from some of the past few books I’ve read, I’ve become quite obsessed with ancient history, particularly…(1/)

Photo of the book “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History”.

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Jones @theearlofpowys.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 13/04/2026

Translation: you can't take it with you.

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Bold to assume that the neater handwriting is the teacher’s

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 13/04/2026

Supervisors an students. An ancient tale. This one is about ~4,000 years old. It always feels kinda special to think that I share a deeper Mesopotamian ancestry with the authors of these works, in particular astronomy topics or as I am now, a student!

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE

Photo of a round-shaped cuneiform tablet with well-preserved lines of text shown from the front, back and sides. The top image of the tablet’s front shows neat cuneiform handwriting while the bottom image of the back shows slightly clunkier handwriting.

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Photo of a cuneiform tablet with 3 lines of slightly eroded text shown

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(Lizzie)🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @pip-kin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

She sounds absolutely perfect !!! This is Finn. He's 13lbs & 15 1/2 yrs old. His bff is a little special needs cat, whom he'd defend to the death. But being a happy & peaceful little warrior, he focuses on his activism.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My uncle died today. He raised us when my parents couldn’t. I feel like I’ve lost a part of myself. الله يرحمه ويغفر له ويرزقه الفردوس الاعلى

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is our foster dog Juno. She is as clingy as she is fierce. She is the only dog we have who would defend the household to the death. She steals cheese from the countertops, hates exercise, and barks at flies.

Photo of a brown dog lying down on its tummy on a colourful rug. Her front paws are crossed, and she is looking up at the camera

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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Its a really fun book and y’all should read it!

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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

NEW BOOK

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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And there will have been frail elderly, seriously ill & severely disabled people who were unable to pick up and leave at such short notice - and who would be unable to survive for long on floors, in tents and in cars

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A Treat for @EmpirePodUK Club Members- a conversation with my old friend, the remarkable Palestinians walker, human rights lawyer and Orwell Prize-winning author, Raja Shehadeh. What Is Life Like For Palestinians? –Empire: World History – Apple Podcasts linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is not just a number. This is one million people who have had to leave their homes and often their beloved pets. They’ve had to leave behind Christmas cards their toddlers made, framed family photos, food, clothing, their father’s stamp collection, safety, and their memories.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

more #warcrimes against a country that isn't even at war with #israel...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The front page of L'Orient-Le Jour tomorrow

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Israel destroying entire villages in Lebanon. Please read that again until it sinks in. Taybeh, Naqourah, Aita al-Shaab.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Happened to see Moudhy come across my TL just now and thought it would be worth noting again that her book is AMAZING!

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What happened yesterday in the hours before a holocaust was not normal. An invisible PM. Streeting refusing to utter a single critical word. Never again must a cabinet be allowed to be so wilfully oblivious to what ordinary people are thinking simply on account of the donations they’re taking.

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Have emailed my MP, urge you all to do the same. www.writetothem.com?gad_source=1...

I write tonight in weary anticipation of whatever the United States President is going to do to the people of Iran as he continues his illegal war of aggression. While I am disappointed that the Prime Minister has not been more decisive in preventing the US from using their bases in this country to wage war on Iran I do understand the complicated nature of the UK's entanglement within the US war machine, but I would urge you and the government to reconsider whether this alliance remains in the long term interests of this country, at what point do our values no longer align sufficiently for us to work to disentangle ourselves?
Over the last few months the United States has kidnapped the President of Venezuela, attacked unarmed vessels in international waters, threatened to invade Greenland, and has waged a war of aggression against Iran, now the President of the United States is openly calling for genocide against the people of Iran.
I am a lecturer in international law, I can talk to you about the legality of all of this, or rather the illegality, but I shouldn't need to this is simply immoral, it is the action of a rogue state, a pariah state, when Putin make similar comments about Ukraine we rightly reacted with horror, yet the UK government continues to regard the United States as an important ally. It is unconscionable.

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 07/04/2026

[If the king] does not regard his patrons – his days will diminish. [If the king] does not regard the scholar – his land will rebel against him. [If the king] pays mind to the fool – the land will defect." It goes on to address often‑infringed legal rights and economic privileges of citizens.

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 07/04/2026

The first cuneiform text found after George Smith's decipherment of the Epic of Gilgamesh's Flood Tablet in 1872 was a literary text called šarru ana dīni lā iqūl, or 'The King Does Not Regard the Law'. 'The King Does Not Regard the Law' concerns rulers who act out in a state's self-interest:

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I cant stop thinking about this genocidal post. Openly, brazenly, recklessly genocidal. Please, if you can, if you have any fight left in you, contact your representatives.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Israel detonated Naqoura village in South Lebanon

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I wonder how all the “I don’t do politics” people are doing now that politics is doing us all

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh my word. I made Quote of the Day in Nature a couple of weeks back and had no idea. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Taken from this piece on de-extinction in Aeon: aeon.co/essays/de-ex... Back to my break.

Quote of the day:

"De-extinction will never be purely, or even primarily, the revival of lost species, but the bioengineering of new life forms that we choose to name after lost ways of being"

Historian of science Sadiah Qureshi argues that efforts to 'de-extinct' species, using frozen biological material or living relatives, risks "reducing species to little more than genetic information, rather than appreciating them as living ways of being alive". (Aeon | 19 min read)

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

As a historian of the very ancient past, including some of the earliest known written records, I can confirm. (I really need to do a thread on gender fluidity in ancient Mesopotamia.)

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Hazel Hatman @hazelhatman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I remember a talk where a housing officer said the only estate with no rent arrears was the one with zero-carbon homes. Turns out if you take people out of energy poverty, they have money to pay their other bills.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Every climate solution is also a solution to like 100 other things

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Gosh I love a good cuneiform thread.

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Stephanie Mathis, MLS(ASCP) 😷💜 @stephmu00mls.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The last sentence of OP - 💯 🎯 ‼️

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