🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
It doesn't look quite as white as mine... bsky.app/profile/salo...
A short (distant) video of the white Hare at Buston, Northumberland this evening #UKmammals #wildlife
Plenty of Trade Test tranmissions on ye odle 625 Line with exciting programmes like Test Card at 9am and 9.30 Oh at 11am too. Theres the Test Signal at 11.50 for those who has endured the Test Card too much that morning.
BBC2 listings from 10 March 1964. Eagle eyed viewers will note that this is a listing before the actual launch of BBC2 so its more about Trade films and test cards.
The landscape of Northern France is characterised by a patchwork of small fields and woods interconnected by a dense network of hedges. It has it's own term - 'Bocage'.
Check out the history of the bocage landscape and future of the hedged landscape in Normandy. resist-project.eu/story/nature...
any 1920s arts/theatre people following me who can place this front row? ... they're in the 1926 news reel about the theatre (mocking it as for 'high-brows') and I'm sure carefully set up for the camera, but I'm still wondering if they're well-known figures or caricatures of 'artsy' people
Title page of the book which reads: 'Novelle allegoriqve ov histoire des derniers trovbles arrivez av royavme d'eloqvence. Then a woodcut ornament and the imprint: 'A Paris, Chez Gvillavme de Lvyne, libraire iuré, au Palais, en la sale des merciers, à la iustice. M. DC. LVIII. Avec privilége du roy. Beneath a round library stamp reading 'Museum Plantin-Moretus • Antwerpen'
Detail of the round library stamp reading 'Museum Plantin-Moretus • Antwerpen'
Lost no more!
A private individual recently contacted Museum Plantin‑Moretus after spotting our historical library stamp in a book bought at a flea market. Photos showed two clear impressions of our round stamp on the title page.
#bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 📚💙📜 /1
I've always been saddened when important cultural works by great masters disappear into private hands, rarely if ever seen again.
Well done to #Italy for this approach, and what a wonderful first success!
👏🥂🎉
#art #Caravaggio
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Person seen from behind wearing a blue T-shirt printed with "Wikipedia" in multiple languages, standing in front of a large paper-covered wall with handwritten notes and posted papers. Find out why science magazine Nature says it's now more important than ever.
Nearly 280,000 volunteers uphold five pillars: neutrality, verifiability, free content, civility, and boldness.
After 25 years, the standard hasn't wavered. Read an article in "Nature" on why Wikipedia matters ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... (2/2)
Close-up of a person wearing a dark T-shirt with the text "I edit Wikipedia", with the word "edit" highlighted in blue. Text reads: Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on. "The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it". Nature Magazine. 28 January 2026.
As social media algorithms amplify misinformation, Wikipedia's model is now more important than ever. A "Nature" writer calls it an antidote to a poisoned information ecosystem. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)
Graphical abstract for Maziarz et al. (2026)
Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1–14.
Really enjoyed doing this one, and don’t forget to check out the paper!!
#sciart #entomology
Forsyth House on Union Corner in Glasgow, before the fire, back in 2024.
Listed grade B, built in 1851 and subsequently altered by Sir John James Burnet in 1896, when it became R W Forsyth's department store.
Photo: Crowsus Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Our protected species and habitats are at risk!
If you want to fight back join the day of action for nature on April 18th!
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Fucking hell. Even more deplorable.
He's FSA too...
And this was an academic, who should have known better. Is this a historian not understanding what archaeology or heritage is? Who am I kidding, of course he knew.
Sadly the report still has him saying:
"It was an honour to see expert collectors taking these coins into their care"
Rather than:
"I enjoyed selling the coins for a lot of money to a group of wealthy anonymous buyers"
Must have been an honest slip of the tongue...
A new bird atlas for Britain and Ireland has been announced by five conservation organisations:
British/African cuckoos are on the move again! Tracked thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social. Happy to see this early sign of Spring.
Large Tortoiseshell has been recorded at six counties in the south of England in the last few weeks.
Its been recorded on a handful of UKBMS transects in the south east in the last few years. Will we see it expand and consolidate its foothold this year..?
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Map extract of Ordnance Survey Ireland Half Inch map, showing what happens when you hit the bit where the cardboard cover is glued to the back of the map where the map scan goes out of focus. Galway near the bottom left is in perfect focus, the section at the top right is blurry.
In case anyone's wondering - this is why they're annoying - this is part of a single scan - Galway itself, in perfect focus. But as you then bump onto the bit on the cover to the top right of this bit, and everything goes fuzzy.
Greyscale diagram of northwestern Europe with arrows detailing movement and interaction of material cultures linked to Bell Beaker and Corded Ware around the Rhone-Rhine corridor.
I put this figure of Needham's model of a Bell Beaker/Corded Ware fusion into PowerPoint, and I kid you not the auto-generated caption was 'Map of the Battle of Brexit'.
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
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The @societyofauthors.bsky.social Human Authored scheme launches today. I am really interested to find out what verification process it's going to use.
Another example would be virtually the whole of Norfolk!
Same for Owdem as place of birth - local Pronunciation of Oldham in the past.
Now a computer can only work with what you feed it. An AI might look for a place in Lincs that is spelled similar to Olbidge but they are not going to find Holbeach phonetically
Because they can’t fucking think
And you can
I have seen a lot of people worrying about AI in family history.
I was looking at an 1851 census entry recently where the place of birth was Olbidge, Lincs
That was how it was written, that was how it had been transcribed
But I have lived on the fens my whole life, and that’s how people from Holbeach say it, even now
Sure enough, found her baptismal record at Holbeach church
Thus perfectly demonstrating - lack of respect for a woman saying no, getting angry about women having boundaries - why a woman might want a female painter.
In a local Facebook group, anonymous poster has asked for recommendations of female painters and decorators. Several men getting aggressive in the comments. (“Why? That’s sexist!”)
