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Susceptible to archaeology/art/landscape/wildlife/environment/nature/history/photography/old buildings/old stuff/books/beauty/cake/worry Chester, UK Fighting the barbarians at the gate...

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Oh nooo, very sorry. The daughter had the same with their cat. It's so horrible because they don't understand, though they do know you're doing your best for them ❤️ Good luck🤞

10.03.2026 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.

He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.

10.03.2026 11:02 👍 758 🔁 217 💬 68 📌 15
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social • 12m
The world we live in... The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal "Tommy Robinson." Following the Israeli government's increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond.
= THEJERUSALEM POST
Jerusalem Post / TOMMY ROBINSON
TOMMY
ROBINSON
Tommy Robinson is a British patriot, street-level activist, and unapologetic truth-teller who has spent two decades exposing the rot in Britain's

Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social • 12m The world we live in... The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal "Tommy Robinson." Following the Israeli government's increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond. = THEJERUSALEM POST Jerusalem Post / TOMMY ROBINSON TOMMY ROBINSON Tommy Robinson is a British patriot, street-level activist, and unapologetic truth-teller who has spent two decades exposing the rot in Britain's

I think it was pretty clear in the 2020s that fascism across the white-people world was an international movement, and that its adherents were far more closely aligned with each other than they were with their compatriots. Is this not the underlying point of the Trump-Putin stuff, after all?

10.03.2026 11:41 👍 110 🔁 41 💬 5 📌 3

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

10.03.2026 07:26 👍 6627 🔁 2282 💬 200 📌 123
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Spring's a-bursting...🌷🌷🌷
#gardening #hope

10.03.2026 10:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥲 I do of course...and that's lovely x

10.03.2026 09:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A long pat & cuddle for Duke from me x

10.03.2026 09:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two gold hoop earrings with sculptural details - each has Eros riding a dove, a bird sacred to Aphrodite. The birds' wings, tail feathers and the down on their heads, as well as the wings of the Erotes are accentuated with beaded wire arranged in circles and long loops.

Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd century BCE. Met Museum, New York (1995.539.9a, b)

Two gold hoop earrings with sculptural details - each has Eros riding a dove, a bird sacred to Aphrodite. The birds' wings, tail feathers and the down on their heads, as well as the wings of the Erotes are accentuated with beaded wire arranged in circles and long loops. Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd century BCE. Met Museum, New York (1995.539.9a, b)

These delicate, highly detailed gold hoop earrings depict winged Erotes riding doves. The dove, of course, was a sacred bird of Aphrodite (mother of Eros), symbolizing love, beauty, and fertility. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

Greek, 3rd c. BCE. #MetMuseum
📸 me

06.03.2026 03:55 👍 167 🔁 42 💬 7 📌 2

Isn't it just the most beautiful, awe-inspiring thing

10.03.2026 09:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bronze head of Sulis Minerva, looking straight ahead at the viewer

Bronze head of Sulis Minerva, looking straight ahead at the viewer

Finally got to see the bronze head of Sulis Minerva at the Roman baths 🖤

07.03.2026 18:19 👍 592 🔁 68 💬 13 📌 2

Aww! 😍

10.03.2026 09:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In one of the specialist departments at an auctioneer's where I used to work someone put a sign on the wall which said, 'Dear Lord, please help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I'm talking about'. Yeah, that.

10.03.2026 08:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage

We don't need to take foreign policy advice from the American President. The last time we did that it was called the Iraq War.

6:29 PM Jun 7, 2015

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Post Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage We don't need to take foreign policy advice from the American President. The last time we did that it was called the Iraq War. 6:29 PM Jun 7, 2015 338 replies 2.3K shares 2.7K likes https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/607600226774482945

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage

The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran!

10:34 AM Feb 28, 2026

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Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran! 10:34 AM Feb 28, 2026 4.7M Views 8.1K replies 5.4K shares 35K likes https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/2027693784310710744

Full Farage

28.02.2026 19:06 👍 314 🔁 135 💬 12 📌 10

same as it ever was

10.03.2026 07:45 👍 201 🔁 49 💬 7 📌 0

You will! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

10.03.2026 08:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy birthday Toby, have a great day 🥳🎉🍻

10.03.2026 08:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Liverpool waterfront 1947

09.03.2026 15:21 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It really is time to drop her and consign that bias to the bin.

08.03.2026 13:59 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

Latest from the BMJ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

03.03.2026 10:48 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3

Israel is a rampaging, out of control rogue nation with tentacles everywhere and, incredibly, an entirely uninspected nuclear arsenal.

08.03.2026 11:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.

Now, even the rain is contaminated.

08.03.2026 09:58 👍 179 🔁 141 💬 7 📌 8

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.

05.03.2026 12:42 👍 620 🔁 151 💬 23 📌 12
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All the countries Israel attacked in 2025: Animated map Israel has carried out attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar and Yemen, as well as in maritime waters.

Unbelievably stupid, impertinent comment by #BBCLauraK. Israel not only started it but has been doing far worse continually for two years, with almost no justification:
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/lon...

08.03.2026 10:18 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 👍 25238 🔁 8086 💬 783 📌 329
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Looking east onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #HadriansWall #RomanBritain #Northumberland

07.03.2026 07:35 👍 138 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
Chris Murphy speaking to reporters

Chris Murphy speaking to reporters

Murphy: “ppl now see Trump for who he is — a would be dictator who doesn’t care what Americans think, cares nothing about our Constitution or our laws, & sees himself as a kind of 18th century king, with unlimited power to drag all of us into disastrous wars overseas without the consent of the ppl”

28.02.2026 17:09 👍 2485 🔁 816 💬 133 📌 39
Hillary Clinton speaking at a lectern. PHOTO: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton speaking at a lectern. PHOTO: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton: “You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.

You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files.“

26.02.2026 18:22 👍 8883 🔁 2527 💬 255 📌 105
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What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.

Russia helps Iran track American forces.

And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.

Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

06.03.2026 17:44 👍 4844 🔁 1829 💬 233 📌 91

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

07.03.2026 02:43 👍 3761 🔁 1264 💬 68 📌 23

A personal one for #FindsFriday. An interesting day; and finding musket balls, in an area with a well-known history of Civil War skirmishes, certainly fired the imagination! 💥

06.03.2026 16:18 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0