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I was impressed that one reason it was abolished in the UK was that juries refused to convict people facing the death penalty. Ordinary people are not bloodthirsty

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Isn’t this similar to the polling before the referendum? Remain in place of rejoin at over 52% ?

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Last time they took one each from two pairs of shoes for maximum destruction. I found one under a hedge but it was all chewed up

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Oh no. If the door is open at all they dash in to grab one from just inside (it’s a shoes-off house)

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 07/10/2026

hmmm. Maybe when it stops stealing shoes, pissing on the doorstep, and screaming in the night

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Today is #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Did you know that octopuses have blue blood? This graphic looks at what makes it blue, as well as other blood colours seen in different organisms: wp.me/p4aPLT-Fc #ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the chemistry of the colours of blood. Human blood is red due to haemoglobin, which is also red when deoxygenated - not blue! Spiders, crustaceans, and molluscs including octopuses and squid have blue blood due to haemocyanin, which contains copper instead of iron. When deoxygenated, haemocyanin is colourless. Some segmented worms, some leeches and some marines worms have green blood due to chlorocruorin, which is light green when deoxygenated. Marine worms including peanut worms, penis worms and brachiopods have purple blood due to haemerythrin, which is colourless when deoxygenated.

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So … * I’ve* been banned ?

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So … Banned Books Week is ‘trending’ but has zero posts?!? Have the posts been … banned?

Screenshot from Bluesky says.

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3. Banned Books Week
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really expected to hear a blues soundtrack to this!

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One Square Yard of Argyll, September #aofoto

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Looking at the Roman / Saxon / Norman conquests of England, I wonder if it is characteristic that a sense of national unity is developed by an alien elite who control a much larger population but have no local ties to it. Unified *against* the people. also of the Mahabharata, the Sarmatians, etc

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An uncontrolled route for Schengen passengers only?

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The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

John Ruskin had a lifelong interest in architecture. Some of his first articles were published in The Architectural Magazine, 1837–8, and his book The Stones of Venice (1851–3) was arguably his most influential work.

A watercolour of the Apse of the Duomo, Pisa by John Ruskin

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘Neither monarchy nor papacy acted to secure the interests of learning for its own sake, but because each was determined to prevent it from being controlled by the other.’ The practical politics of the university, and the value of the division of powers, in medieval Paris

Text says : beginning of the twelfth century, The independence which Blanche of Castile confirmed had been secured, in the first instance, by a series of papal interventions since the 1170s, designed to sustain and protect the masters against the power first of the Bishop (through his chancellor) and then of the crown. Neither monarchy nor papacy acted to secure the interests of learning for its own sake, but because each was determined to prevent it from being controlled by the other. The papacy was the greater benefactor precisely because it was a great deal farther away. Then as now, appreciation by the powerful of the practical value of learning and the learned was no guarantee of academic freedom. It was the rivalries of the court, not enthusiasm for his pedagogy, that brought Abelard the support of Stephen of Garlande in his campaign to instal himself in

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Look at those expressions. A lost painting by Veronese?

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Endorheic basin - Wikipedia

Well … that’s something new for me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorhe...

en.wikipedia.org

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Great poster from The Crick Institute

Photo outlines of four faces in four colours overlapping with textures of hair and stuff. Seen in Waterloo underground station

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This podcast is really interesting. It turns out that philology isn’t dry pedantry in dead languages (as I had assumed) but explores all sorts of issues concerning knowledge and understanding

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Errors in automated transcription and subtitles might make an interesting subject for linguists looking at variations in pronunciation I noticed recently that a certain word was correctly subtitled in the middle of a sentence, but always wrongly if it was at the end

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I suppose knee-to-nose is what you get if you divulge the information

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Iona painting! As, I’m sure, the owner likes to say

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Book review: How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham

‘a slow decline in building work, coinage, local manufacturing, and urbanisation, even as lowland elites maintained their Roman lifestyles. Taxpaying, Latin & Christianity proved tenacious, as the powerful waited expectantly for the return of imperial armies. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

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Gabriel Byng considers a new book about the origins of a nation

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘The picture is increasingly one of late Romano-British communities evolving, not collapsing. Diets may even have improved. The departure of the Romans didn’t mean that the Britons were cut off from the rest of the late antique world…a lively landscape of churches, crossroads, fields and towns.’

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Don’t confuse familiarity with understanding; both feel smooth.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder if I dare venture out into that London with its violent crime . . . being so much lower than elsewhere

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Church of St Peter & St Paul, Shropham, Norfolk Stained glass window of 1898 by Mary Lowndes. Unfortunately, the church was locked so we had to admire the window from outside. At least we could appreciate Mary Lowndes technique for the clothing, angel’s wings & faces. #StainedGlassSunday

A detail of the reverse side of the stained glass window showing angels.The folds of the garments, feathers of the wings & the faces can clearly be seen.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, this archaeologist is staggered at the response to the oldest pub film! Currently on 150,000+ views. After less than 2 days up its already the third most watched video in Historic England's archive! Thanks everyone 🙂 youtu.be/RlyvHJtptbc?...

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Some advice from London Walks on the drought.

London Weather Tutorial

The rain in London falls mainly in Spain.

London is one of the driest cities on earth. Jerusalem, Rome, Gibraltar, Barcelona, Cordoba get more rainfall than London. In Spain “rain isn’t abundant and it’s concentrated.” In London “rain isn’t abundant and it isn’t concentrated.”

In Spain and North America rain = rain. In London rain = damp. Or at the worst, a piffling mizzle.

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Phil @philcx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great poster from The Crick Institute

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Still one of the all time great posts on this app.

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One gives you a headache and one …

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