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Laura Parkes

@renatuspeace.bsky.social
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Oh no, a bad person died.
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a can of soda and says yes very sad anyway ..
Alt: Lok (a man in a suit and tie) is sitting at a table with a can of soda and says "yes very sad.. anyway .." nonchalantly
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A good article on illegal detecting in Wales to start the day... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Treasure hunters stealing from Wales' historical sites
Illegal treasure hunters are targeting ancient sites to get artefacts for the black market.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Surprise surprise
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🌍 Cities aren’t waiting for national climate plans - they’re taking matters into their own hands. “It is becoming clear, I think, to a lot of municipalities that this type of action will be absolutely essential… This is about protecting people’s lives.” — Dan Jasper, Project Drawdown bit.ly/4eBV3bJ
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As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof.
A new report documents how cities around the world are becoming more liveable and sustainable in the face of climate change.
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Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Gift link: wapo.st/3IcNOLa
Text screenshot: Homicides and nonfatal shootings dipped slightly from 2021 to 2022, but then fell off precipitously after that. In 2023, homicides fell nearly 24 percent compared with 2022, then fell another 23 percent in 2024, according to city data. In 2021, there were 726 nonfatal shootings in the city. In 2024, there were 412.

Beyond those trends, carjackings are down 15 percent so far this year, robberies are down 22 percent, and auto thefts are down 34 percent.

Scott, who recalled that “people laughed at me” when he first advocated for a community-based approach, doesn’t see it as unusual.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the USA (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1)was already talking about the sorry state of affairs in the US back in 2018. www.ohchr.org/en/documents... #notafreecountry
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A/HRC/38/33/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America -Note by the Secretariat
Summary The United States is a land of stark contrasts. Its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million liv...
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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Chuck E. Cheese is opening arcades for adults
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Chuck E. Cheese is opening arcades for adults
Chuck E. Cheese isn’t just for the kids anymore.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2025
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2025
anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🧵 Since 1912, Andromeda (M31) has been known to be approaching the Milky Way (MW). In 2012, Hubble data suggested an almost certain collision within 4-5 billion years, but a recent study has some surprises in store. ➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... 🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science #Astronomy
These galaxy images illustrate three possible encounter scenarios between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Top left: galaxies bypass at ~1 Mly separation. Top right:  close encounter (~500,000 ly). Galaxies get close enough to “feel” the friction of their dark matter halos, which could lead to a slow a merger in the distant future. Bottom: galaxies collide (~100,000 ly).
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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Science in Seattle @scienceinseattle.com · 25/06/2025
🦠 Microbial communities perform some of the planet’s most important work. Drs. Alex Carr and Nitin Baliga at @isbscience.org has shown that critical microbial partnerships are vulnerable to disruption in contaminated environments: bit.ly/4k6WbFm
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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Sentient Property That Can Experience Violence @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We did ranked choice and charter reform in Portland, and now instead of City Council being Teargas Ted and 4 ghouls funded by property management firms, we have a council with as many socialists as bootlickers, and they just decided to give 2 million to city parks instead of to the police.
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Like, IG XII,3 is in the public domain. It's not like it's hard to get copyright-free images of real graffiti about dudes bragging about how much gay sex they had on top of a rock.
From the Doric Sporades volume of Inscriptiones Graecae (IG XII,3 536, 7th c. BCE), first published in 1908.

Archaic script inscription reads: 

a.1	Πℎειδιπ(π)ίδας ὦιπℎε. Τιμαγόρας καὶ Ἐντℎέρης καὶ ἐγὤιπℎ[ομες].
b.1	Ἔνπυλος τάδε
πόρνος.
c.1	Ἐνπεδοκλῆς ἐνεϙόπτετο τάδε ϙὠρκℎε(ῖ)το μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλ(λ)ω.

https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/76061

Line a.1 spirals around from the top "Pheidippidas fucked. Timagoras Entheres and I fucked. 
Line a.2. Enpylos... these things...

Scrawled above line a.2 πόρνος 'prostitute' (m.)
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/05/2025
We explained that a large function of policing has been to create violence and exploitation in Black communities and the collective leadership of institutions throughout the US said “that’s absolutely vital to our ability to function.”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/05/2025
For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law: 1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
it was not right that Hasan was stopped however his encounter seems to have ended when he asked if he was being detained. if this happens to you the script is simple am I being detained? If no: may I go If yes: invoke the 5th
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 12/05/2025
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume. Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
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👻 oct-BOO-cryptid 🎃 🜬 @octocryptid.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Everyone getting upset over Trump's handling of immigration and conveniently forgetting that Dems only increased ICE funding
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Sean Holland @sth85.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If all the alarms weren't going off already they should be now
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Zenobia @zententia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Great article in #Cambridge CAM today - on trying to understand things that were different centuries ago, finding space for debate, and how to prepare for upcoming threats and opportunities 📚🏺 www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...
alumni.cam.ac.uk
A History of History
Everything humans do is in History,” says Regius Professor of History Chris Clark. “It’s like the largest imaginable novel, the richest treasure house of human material you could possibly ask for.” An...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A useful summary of the new study "Reconsidering the macroeconomic damage of severe warming", from report author Timothy Neal.
theconversation.com
Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We updated our 2023 story given the announcement today of new evidence and new peer reviews regarding purposeful burial in H. naledi. 🧪🏺
livescience.com
A 'landmark finding': Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according to newly updated research
Controversial claim that Homo naledi buried its dead gets new proof from 2025 research study.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/03/2025
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
npr.org
The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies'
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
propublica.org
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Cognitive Costs of Long Covid www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... @ahandvanish.bsky.social @zalaly.bsky.social @jannamoen.bsky.social @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social by @richardsima.bsky.social
washingtonpost.com
‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
well golly
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2025
When your threat model is being a moron No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information you’re trying to hide directly to someone you don’t want to have it. 🔗 www.404media.co/when-your-th...
404media.co
When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron
No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information you’re trying to hide directly to someone you don’t want to have it.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
when musk broke into the treasury and social security to steal all our shit it was junior house members standing around outside doing nothing but now that the military industrial complex has been slightly inconvenienced we're almost saying the f word in public
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Maggie @magdaline.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis blends history and anthropology to trace TB’s impact on culture, class, and identity across centuries with wit, depth, and a personal lens. It has quickly become my favorite read of the year! #history #books 🏺 everythingistb.com
everythingistb.com
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie...
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New evidence shows that ancient Greek and Roman statues were multi-sensory experiences, not only painted with bright colors but also scented with perfumes, oils and waxes. #classicalstudies #museum #art 🏺
npr.org
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If anyone is surprised by American govt war crimes and the blade attitudes of the ruling class, they haven't been paying attention. That's the thing, though, most American citizens have been trying to make people acknowledge it for decades. It isn't surprising, it's just the latest escalation.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"I want the world to be a better place." Shouldn't be radical. "I want peace and human rights" shouldn't be controversial. And yet...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/03/2025
1. In a devastating ruling, the traditionally progressive 9th Circuit Court has allowed Idaho's bathroom ban for trans students. They rule that "common experience" is enough to assume trans students are a harm to cis ones. The panel was majority Dem appointed. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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9th Circuit Upholds Bathroom Ban, Says Trans Students Violate Cis People's Privacy
The ruling, the first of its kind, asserts that the rights of cisgender people to not have a transgender person in the same bathroom are more important than the equal protection of trans students.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Truth.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
To spell it out, the reason I hate democrats so much and criticize them more than I do republicans is because they take up all the space for opposition to republicans and use that space to give republicans whatever the fuck they want.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
For the love all that is good in the world, please make it stop.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🧪 mRNA vaccines are amazing www.rcpath.org/resource-rep...
rcpath.org
An update on mRNA cancer vaccines
Advances in vaccine technology are now being applied to cancers.
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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Israel is a fascist war criming nation
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28/02/2025
sometimes you just gotta let your coffee mug be angry for you. find this one and a bunch of returning classics at effinbirds.threadless.com
A coffee mug that reads, "you dim motherfucker, science is real"
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 03/03/2025
We were trying to think of a fitting article to promote for #NationalOldStuffDay, but then we realised everything we publish is about old stuff! So here's a link to our hundreds of #OpenAccess articles, where all the old stuff is completely FREE 🏺 #Archaeology
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Open access articles | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Open access journal - Antiquity - Professor Robin Skeates
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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The 1912 article gets rolled out a lot but it’s my solemn duty as a historian to remind folks it’s *worse* than that Eunice Foote published greenhouse gas studies in EIGHTEEN-FUCKING-FIFTY-SIX (of course, as a woman she couldn’t read her OWN paper at scientific conferences - god FORBID 🙄) 🗃️🌎🏭
A page of scientific data & tables on carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses by Eunice Foote in her  1856 paper "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays"
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines. #HawaiianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
Liliʻuokalani in London in 1888 where she was an official envoy of the Hawaiian king at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. She is a Hawaiian woman with dark hair, wearing a fashionably ornate day dress.
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Laura Parkes @renatuspeace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fascism didn't start with #Trump, though he will be the figurehead to finish plans set in motion long ago. The colonial apartheid state genocide expands. REMINDER to read from 2018- A/HRC/38/33/Add.1 Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights on his mission to the USA
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