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Portwrinkle

@prehistoricpot.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, prehistoric pottery specialist, heritage consultant, photographer and lover of the arts. I adore Owls.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”
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She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Consider my jaw officially dropped.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT. You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
You're looking at a large yellow gold beast, AKA a kiwi cheese scone, sitting on a white stoneware plate. It dominates the plate and the small bowl featuring two hefty triangles of butter next to it. If you were to lift this scone, you would feel its heft. This scone sees cheese and says give me more! You know that if you tapped the top of this scone it would make an ominous hollow sound that, if you know your cheese scones, promises a delicious crunchy top with a soft interior. Also on this table, admiring this scone is a yellow tea cup sitting on a blue saucer. A frankly inferior looking stainless steel teapot and milk jug containing just enough brew to wash down the scone. Elsewhere on the table is a comedic book from 1936 about Gardening and my notebook that I was using to jot spotted notes. It's brown covered and nondescript, unlike the scone of might. Which is easy to descript. It is majestic.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing and Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two burly men (30s?) are sitting across from each other. Both have tiny brand new humans strapped in slings across their chests. Tucking into fry-up breakfasts, comparing notes on sleeplessness and being new dads. (1)
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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
walesonline.co.uk
Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum
Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (10?) reverentially pulls two brand new paperback fantasy tomes from a crisp paper bag. He examines the covers in fine detail before carefully stowing them away again. Magnificent treasures to read later. (1)
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Yesterday: imagine managing to get the last seat on a packed train even in 1st class, just to be confronted by a frail 75+ White man who decided that the only Black person in the carriage (and NOT the only person who got on that carriage) couldn't possibly have a 1st class ticket.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple (80s?) are sitting side-by-side. She's wearing a fluffy bobble hat. He's wearing a tweed bucket hat. A hot chocolate arrives and he drawers a smiley face in the foam--two marshmallows for eyes--before sliding it over to her. (1)
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 02/10/2025
My book is about how Nazis got power, how they kept it, & how to fight it—how we fought it then, how we can now. Nazis weren’t a foregone conclusion. They were not inevitable. They want you to think so—convince you they already won so you quit fighting. Because they know they can’t win otherwise.
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The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
And once in a long while someone is like “wait a minute maybe we are not necessarily doomed but part of the op is to make everyone think we are necessarily doomed. Let’s fight back” and then replies yelling at them for not being doomy enough
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF THI
5 bird puppets play piano in an Edwardian looking study
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🧵Spotted on a recent Beach Walk in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/10/2025
I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.
Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yes, tomorrow Health insurance companies will double or triple premiums because of the healthcare cuts. People are going to go bankrupt for healthcare or die from a lack of healthcare because they can't afford it.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
How is masculinity measured? He hasn't said 'health' for example.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢Devon folk: Chris and I are bringing our stories & songs to Exeter Phoenix! If you'd like to learn more about the lives of #EarlyModern folk, to join us on Saturday 11 October 1:30pm for music inspired by the wills & the #History behind them. @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social
A poster advertising 'Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives, an event at FUTURES Festival of Discovery, with Chris Hoban and Laura Sangha. There is a photo of a will and the university of Exeter and UKRI logos.
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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Kamala was right
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If there isn't a rapid and vast rejection of this by every level of civil society, the consequences will be counted in dead neighbors.
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Matt @coygrizz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I mean what they fear is what happened to me - enter as right leaning private school suburbanite, encounter a bunch of people different than me, take classes on African American history etc, and leave a bleeding heart liberal lol. But that's not indoctrination it's learning and growing.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Wouldn’t it be nice to have one day where the human rights of LGBTQ ppl were not ‘being debated’. Just FYI this false talking point is a Heritage Fdn/ADF one. The so-called Gender Critical movement seeks the abolition of same-sex marriage, as a next step after trans erasure.
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Nigel Farage claims ‘most stable relationships’ are between men and women
The Reform UK leader was accused of ‘vile homophobia’ after claiming that heterosexual relationships ‘last the longest’
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 13/09/2025
I can’t fit my whole take in a post on here, but I think viewing the entire internet as competition is really toxic for journalism. we have to be okay with information being “out there” while we take time to vet it, and that competitive impulse is hard to resist
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I refuse to learn enough about ::waves hands:: them but I do have to keep my terminally offline husband in the loop on stuff, so I just began a text message with the clause, "Apparently there are two warring factions of puberty-aged podcast bro acolytes in America..."
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Secondary schools were given few resources to make classrooms feel safe or to work with children's Readiness to Learn. The first goal should have been to teach kids that it was finally safe to be in a room with other breathing people.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My son suffered more from being scared by how many people it was killing. He is still traumatised but would be even more so, if he'd had to attend school during it. Children know when something isn't safe.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My Husband too. It led to so many sweet moments we would never have otherwise had. He couldn't wear hats with our first, because it became a game...he would put it on. Baby would chuck it away.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I think he is? For some reason, we just never see coverage of the hard work they put in. He will see them all this weekend.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Agreed.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Nahh. Laura Kuenssberg doesn't understand any of this. Of course he knows. They possibly didn't see the massive tantrum coming but this will have revealed Trump and Vance for everything that they are.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Me too! That's the thing. The art of playing people is everything in politics.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
That nails my gut instinct too. I honestly thought that Macron and Starmer were doing a great job of paving and smoothing the diplomatic way for Zelensky, who has been in full war mode for three years. Now I see that Trump and Vance are not to be steered away.
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Quite. As a friend said, " people have got so used to the Tories' means of "Government by Social Media" that they have forgotten that actually govt statements were given out only *when* there was a statement to be made, rather than a constant diarrhoea of meaningless tweeting..."
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#UKPolitics
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I found this, so it is getting reported somewhere? www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
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British premier reaffirms unwavering support for Ukraine following calls with Trump, Zelenskyy
Starmer 'retains unwavering support for Ukraine and is doing all he can to find a path forward to a lasting peace based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine,' says 10 Downing Street - Anadolu Ajans...
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Portwrinkle @prehistoricpot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Starmer spoke to Zelensky right afterwards, on the phone. And to Turkey, to reassure them of our support for Ukraine. On friday, our policy documents for supporting Ukraine were updated. www.gov.uk/government/p... Number 10 released a statement yesterday, acc. To BBC but I can't find it.
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