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Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Knesset Speaker A. Ohana:"Any deliberate attack on civilians is of course a war crime. This attack is a particularly serious war crime" (First time in months that Israeli spokesmen say something that is true and remembers the countless war crimes that have been committed in Gaza)

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Seven daisies @sevendaisies.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I just in general oppose people killing other people. Fellow humans, please stop doing it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Maybe it's because I'm a third child, but I find this argument bizarre. Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs. And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.

Extract from article in The Sunday Times by Jason Cowley: "McSweeney, who insists Labour must always put country before party, has long opposed extending benefits such as universal credit to third and subsequent children. So too does Jo White, the influential MP for Bassetlaw and chair of the red wall caucus. “Lifting the cap would be a retrograde step,” she said. “The benefit system is there to support people when they’re at their greatest need and should be there throughout life if needed, but the focus has to be on people working and putting a wage on the table and raising aspirations and opportunities through doing that. Having more children is a choice that you should make when the finances allow you to do so. If there’s a system that allows you to keep on having children, then it enables you to remain on benefits for years and years.”" These words highlighted: "Having more children is a choice that you should make when the finances allow you to do so". From https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e3449cc-6347-4f21-b0cd-b76bfe4db338

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My Etsy shop's now open for a v. limited print run of half calendars of my tiny posy & botanical photos. I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood. Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

6 of my photos designed using neuroscientific research to lift mood, of my tiny posies and botanical collections

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Rita's argument was always a formidable and persuasive one that could be admired without reservation, even despite being sure it was ultimately mistaken. Dorothy's reply, as always, captures that perfectly.

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Just read 'Which Child'. It simultaneously closes the debate forever and opens it forever by showing more clearly than I've ever seen before what Dunnett intended and then arguing that authorial intentions don't matter.

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#dunnett #dunnettcontent #historicalfiction #earlymodern Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.

"... In search of enlightenment, Jerott Blyth attached himself with great firmness that evening to the party which went to dine, after the Council meeting broke up, in the Auberge de France. As well as Lymond, Villegagnon was there, and Graham Mallett, with Nicholas Upton, the Turopilier, refugee from non-existent English Langue.  For the sake of coolness the meal was served in the courtyard, visible through the crested doorway, its barrel arch lozenged in colour. For sixty scudi a year, the Pilier could clearly serve his knight's hunger most handsomely. ..."
Dorothy Dunnett: Disorderly Knights

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Seven daisies @sevendaisies.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

And people tell me O'Keefe's paintings are just about shells and flowers...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt

Painting featuring a close-up view of a slightly open white shell, vertically presented

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

UK-Israeli relations plunge to worst state for decades after foreign secretary David Lammy suspends trade talks, criticising Israeli calls to “purify Gaza” by expelling Palestinians 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellant’ extremism

Foreign secretary, David Lammy, condemns blocking of aid trucks and calls by Israeli ministers to ‘purify Gaza’

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

When a friend calls you and your first thought is ‘oh God, he’s about to tell me his whole family are dead’ you have to respond. See today’s Guardian for the full story about Mohammed’s family in Jabalia, Gaza. Our Government can and must do more.

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Layla Moran urges more action on Israel and warns of ‘cruel destitution’ in Gaza

Lib Dem MP says UK’s recent tone is tougher but ‘in terms of concrete actions, not much has changed’

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

‘Home time’, (Talkabout Starting School, 1977) Artist: Harry Wingfield

In the cloakroom of a primary school, a group of children attempt, with help, to put on their coats as parents arrive at the playground

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 15/05/2025

This Johnsonian waste of space lives in West London and is (tragically my) MP for the deeply rural (/s) constituency of Beaconsfield, the bit between the M25, M40, M4, and A404(M). On my many walks in Beaconsfield’s shrinking share of greenbelt I’ve never seen a solar farm.

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Beautiful Dartford Warbleron the Quantock Hills in Somerset recently. 😍🐦 #birds 🪶

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What a daft waste of money. An AI response is not a response, so just save the £40m and don’t respond to complaints at all.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Right. If you want to know what's really going on, we're going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions. What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...

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A secret US-UK sweetheart tech deal?

What's really going on? And what's *Palantir* got to do with it??

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“Around 200 Israeli citizens living in the UK have written to the British government demanding it suspend its trade relations with Israel until the country lifts its total siege on Gaza.” To think that Israeli citizens themselves need to tell the UK govt this…

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Nearly 200 Israeli citizens in the UK call on government to suspend trade with Israel

The group, many of whom hold British citizenship, said that the prospect of mass starvation in Gaza is 'imminent and intolerable'

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Making the most of an electric blue silk skirt with not one but two bodices, catering to all events from day to night. Many garments from the 1860s were constructed in this way to maximise wear, adaptability in action @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Front view of an electric blue silk dress with long sleeved lace trimmed bodice

Front view of the same electric blue dress with alternative short sleeved bodice

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Jill Harrison @jillharrison1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy St George's Day. My favourite St George- from Hugo van der Goes' spectacular Trinity Altarpiece in the National Gallery, Edinburgh - and the person I believe was his inspiration- Anselm Adornes, from his tomb effigy at the Jerusalem Chapel in Bruges.

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Jill Harrison @jillharrison1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

At Lanercost Priory en route for the Dorothy Dunnett Society Conference in Dumfries to chair the brilliant Sam Cohn's session on Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death: New Ideas, New Questions.

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Jill Harrison @jillharrison1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A great Dorothy Dunnett conference thanks to the excellent speakers Profs. Sam Cohn, Charles West and Dr Perin Westerhof Nyman . Visited the Ruthwell Cross on the way home

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Jill Harrison @jillharrison1.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Current projects: Co-Editor - Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400 -1600 Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem Jean Guild Award: Reviving the Trinity Stones project

Shield and naturalistic birds with flowers

portrait of man in armour from a stained glass window

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections. I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

An autumnal collection of nature finds including shells, pebbles, feathers, seedheads and lichen

A large mounted print of floral finds from my garden in May

Floral finds from my garden during a very mild spell in February 2019

Garden and common hedgerow floral finds in Norfolk in September 2021

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.

A post by Marco Rubio attacking Germany for tackling the alt right extremism of the AfD.
The German foreign office responds.

Rubio’s posts says:

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy—it's tyranny in disguise.
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD-which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.
Germany should reverse course.

The German foreign office responds with:

This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say.
We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I appear to have left out PiC. The second read of that will have me gibbering in an asylum. The properly 19c ones. But we will set that aside for later.

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

will be different. On closer read FC seems less “overpowered” (as the kids say) than he did before. I remember arguments about whether FC takes the series to learn about loyalty/love/leadership etc or whether he already knows about them in GoK but is being avoidant. Woo! A break then DK.

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

focused on the swashbuckling and it took until the end of QP to make me really think about what I was reading and to fall in love with the books (if not FC at that time). I had a Damascus moment at the end of QP and have not looked back, and I suspect that my second read of DK, RC and CM

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#dunnettcontent Completed QP, second read. Thoughts: in a way GoK and QP are *almost* a first round for me: let’s call them 1.5. I read them in ebook form, which isn’t my best way of absorbing books (I tend to miss things for whatever reason), and as those of you in this group know I was very

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Excellent. Plus, how can it possibly have taken this long & so much time, energy & money? What an absolutely disgraceful episode this has been across sport governance more widely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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SFA bans trans women competing in women's football in Scotland

From next season, only those born biologically female will be allowed to take part in competitive matches in Scotland.

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

William of Occam, shortly after discovering his razor.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Feminist history is invested in women's sex-based rights, globally. How tf is ensuring the Equality Act recognises sex to uphold women’s legal right to single-sex provision in employment, education facilities, sports, prisons, etc, 'a violent setback'. I'm weary of these ill-informed politicos.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Good grief. What apolitical, vapid nonsense. Is anti racism saying "I don't see race"?

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A dappled ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, f. 236r

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Bursting at the seam with colour. Flower arrangement as it could have been in #Tudor England.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Entry into Jerusalem #PalmSunday BL Add 18851; 'The Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castille'; Bruges; c.1497 CE; f.96r

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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

On Wednesday 16 April, Cathedral Curator Fran Hollinrake will be giving a talk about the history of the memorial to HMS Royal Oak, which hangs in the north choir aisle. The event is being held in the St Magnus Centre, and starts at 7pm. It will be filmed for future release.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

autisticnotweird.com/autismsurvey/ The massive survey of thousands of autistic people, by Chris Bonnello. Did most want a cure? No. Did they approve of enforced normalisation? No. Or, try subscribing to the best journal in the field & read the studies. home.liebertpub.com/publications...

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Results and Analysis of the Autistic Not Weird 2022 Autism Survey - Autistic Not Weird

Is it ‘autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? How many autistic people are also LGBT+? Has ABA improved in recent years? Do parents of autistic people wish for a cure? Do autistic people feel empat...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

..and instead of aiming for 'targeted treatment' to make us just like other people, the researchers could try reading endless research papers, journals, blogs, books, articles etc. All of those would help them understand that most of us do not want, or benefit from, enforced normalisation.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How could we phrase this so it is up to date with modern findings & respectful of neurodevelopmental differences? Try this: "Autistic people have differences in social communication skills, & may use repeated movement, sound or interests to enable thriving. We look at how those differences happen".

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Yesterday I talked about some researchers being shocked that autistic researchers critique research work. I note recent studies like this one. Look how they describe us. It's not even correct. One of endless similar recent papers. Would *you* like to be described like this? Let's do better, eh.

"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in social interaction and repetitive behaviors. A key characteristic of ASD is a decreased interest in social interactions, which affects individuals' ability to engage with their social environment. This study explores the neurobiological basis of these social deficits.."

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Christine Payne @ellentudor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Today. Right in front of my very eyes. I honestly was beginning to think l was never going to see this for real. Stunning. 🤩

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Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just the sea. Tariff free.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is the Warwick Castle “Porridge Pot”. Legend has it that it once belonged to local hero, Guy of Warwick, slayer of the monstrous Dun Cow which terrorised the county. Since the 17th C it has been the castle’s punch bowl, holding 545 litres of punch. #WyrdWednesday

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Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My grandma used to say this

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