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Before we split up my ex got mad at me for warning my son about this bit if the Internet, we split up 7 years ago.

Amateur Archaeologist Couple Is Excavating Ancient Outhouses Buried in Philadelphia Amateur archaeologists Matt and Melissa Dunphy are excavating outhouses, dating back to the 1700s, to uncover Philadelphia’s history.

🚨 Do not do this! 🚨 “Amateur archaeology” without someone actually trained in the field is just digging, y’all. Let professionals do what they were trained for many years to do. Also these object aren’t “ancient”—they are 18th century. people.com/amateur-arch...

Gardaí in Crumlin are appealing for the public’s assistance in locating Cian Mooney, 16, and Ella Rose Mooney, 13, who are reported missing from their home in Crumlin since Thursday.

They were last seen on the evening of Wednesday, 11 March.

Luckily Northern Ireland’s best are on it…

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

The announcement will be a devastating blow for those who believed the court would uphold Italy’s 160-year history of citizenship by descent, or ius sanguinis. https://cnn.it/4b8p0Qy

Bird flu confirmed in dead swan found in Co Cork It’s understood that 11 swans were found dead on private lands at Loughaderry Lake near Castlemartyr.

Bird flu has been confirmed in a swan that was found dead in Co Cork.

It’s understood that 11 swans were found dead at the site on private lands at Loughaderry Lake near Castlemartyr.
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🚨 A new study from @forbrugerraadet.bsky.social has identified problematic chemicals in 25% of 50 lip balms reviewed.

👎 9 lip balms contained suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals, and received the organisation’s lowest rating of a ‘C’.

More in our latest news story 👉 buff.ly/RJQRs4C

I'm pretty sure we can do both.

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimag...

We have highly evolved organisms like trees and plants and algae ... more effective than anything we can possibly create ourselves.

#unlearn hubris and Descartes idea of organisms as mechanical

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Explosion damages Jewish school in Amsterdam, no injuries The blast occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning and comes after nighttime attacks this week in front of synagogues in the Belgian city of Liege and the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.

Explosion damages Jewish school in Amsterdam, no injuries

Pete Hegseth’s Worrisome Press Briefing If you want to believe the Iran war is going as planned, don’t listen to the defense secretary.

Pete Hegseth is hoping the administration’s friends in the media “crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior”—but that’s not the point they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Iran had plans of taking over the entire Middle East, and completely obliterating Israel. JUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF, THOSE PLANS ARE NOW DEAD! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Annihilatory rage is a feature of malignant narcissism—and a dangerous one in a man with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons.

This should help.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

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Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conser...

Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female #Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/shan...

#women #archaeology #paleontology #science

If you think he cares about gas prices, housing costs, home electricity costs, inflation, no jobs, troops getting killed, grocery prices, health care costs, or anything else that would improve the lives of most Americans, you are wrong.

As an older person, I keep feeling a need to apologize that this is the world we are leaving to younger people.

All I can say is many of us tried to make it better—and we did in some ways.

Nonetheless, we failed to constrain the powerful forces who profit from greater entropy.

It’s heartbreaking.

Trump says white South Africans are persecuted; some are returning to a better life — Reuters Andrew Veitch left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as...

South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...

Why are unprecedented violations of the constitution happening? Because the Supreme Court keeps encouraging Trump to violate the constitution with de facto impoundments, overruling lower courts that have actually tried to rein him in.

A satellite view of Ullard, or Controversyland, Co. Laois.

Ullard, or Controversyland, Co. Laois. 'Iolard nó Fearann an Chlampair' in Irish.

The name stems from an ownership dispute between two landowners in the early 1800s.

#speirgorm

Why Irish women's history belongs in every museum & not just one Opening a standalone women's museum in Ireland in 2026 risks reinforcing separation at a time when integration should be the goal

Gillian O’Brien discusses the pros and cons of the proposed Irish Women’s Museum in Limerick www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The Fog of AI The spread of fake imagery of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable.

The spread of fake imagery of the Iran war is helping make the question “Is this real?” all but unanswerable, Mahsa Alimardani argues:

Anyway, I think if you’re going to write about a company valued at >$10 billion, these are relevant details about its origins.

Why Friday the 13th was bad luck for the Knights Templar and their legacy A series of confessions, obtained under torture have shaped the order’s legacy in film.

A series of confessions, obtained under torture have shaped the order’s legacy in film.

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pekudei (פְקוּדֵי) with a bear climbing up the central margin of the page.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.58r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Is the Earth warming faster than we expected? New research on what three very hot years can tell us about climate change.

You can catch the whole radio edit here:

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Vincent Price with cats.