@timby2.bsky.social
It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views.
War crime news
10.08.2025 22:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Will any Politicians condemn Israel's assassination of the Al Jazeera media team in Gaza?
No, they won't even mention it.
our king π
fuck Bibi and the IDF
#YNWA #LFC #Gaza #Genocide
Just when I think it's impossible to admire someone more than I already do, they go and do this β€οΈβ
09.08.2025 18:44 β π 37 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Testament to the importance of properly-funded public service journalism. Not many outlets could do an investigation like this.
Violent Channel smuggling gang's French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.1.33, fol. 161r, with large red initial Γ and title.
If it's the Nones of August, it must be the feast Oswald, King of Northumbria, d. 642. π―οΈ Cambridge University Library MS Ii.1.33 is a later-12c copy of Γlfric's homilies, including his Life of Oswald, starting here on fol. 161r.
#medievalsky
The Clintons should honor the Epstein subpoenas and prepare to dominate the time each Republican representative is allotted by using every question to mention Trump:
βDid you go to Epstein Island?β
βWhat I can say is Trump and Epstein liked to party all the time, and they were great friends, andβ¦β
A PumΓ© man and woman hunt and gather foods on the Venezuelan savanna. Russell D. Greaves
How Women Shaped Human Evolution Through Food Processing πΊπ§ͺ
www.sapiens.org/biology/huma...
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversityβpractices often led by womenβthat were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting.
How brilliant is this www.weregildcalculator.com
03.08.2025 19:54 β π 327 π 160 π¬ 32 π 55πΊ The site has been building a new museum next to the cliffs (pic 1 of our visit in June during construction), with a viewing platform, so for the first time all visitors can look inside the cave and see the cavity where the #Neanderthal skeleton was found.
It opens this autumn!
NEW POLL: This is quite the turnaround.
A majority would vote to Remain - and by a long way.
In fact, if you were to remove βdonβt knowβ & βwouldnβt voteβ, thatβs 64% vs 36% in a referendum.
See: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I had the opportunity to interview @matthewcollins.bsky.social on his recent visit to @cenieh.bsky.social. The podcast is out now! It's a fun chat about #palaeoproteomics and the ways we can study ancient #proteins at Atapuerca! Thanks Matthew for the chat! www.ivoox.com/en/paleoprot...
01.08.2025 12:48 β π 20 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Is Maxwell being transferred to Alligator Alcatraz? (Spoiler - no).
01.08.2025 21:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Via Libby through your library.
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I like to think that even if we never find a permafrost #Neanderthal, one of them might have died in a river, floated out into a glacial sea and right now is buried deep in cold silts, turning slowly into rock, which a far-future palaeontologist will excavate and finally look them in the face
Stalin ass shit
31.07.2025 23:20 β π 1359 π 326 π¬ 29 π 10
A hydria vessel on display at the Ashmolean Museum in 2019 alongside a Perspex box containing the residue. Next to this is an image of a smaller sample from the residue.
University of Oxford chemists have solved a decades-old archaeological mystery and identified a honey offering in bronze jars from a 6th century BCE Greek shrine close to Pompeii.
Read more about the discovery here β¬οΈ
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...
@ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
Jeremy Corbyn speaks to Owen Jones. youtu.be/49jppx61YhY?...
31.07.2025 22:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That's certainly a lot of balls.
31.07.2025 22:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Breaking: President Trump announces gigantic new White House auxiliary building large enough to hold the entire Epstein files.
31.07.2025 20:55 β π 61 π 13 π¬ 3 π 2
Final two Handala volunteers released from Israeli detention.
31.07.2025 22:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Photo of magazine cover. The image is a digital art picture of a woman's face, with cutaway like a house inside her mind referring to headline story "Sharpen Your Memory".
Photo of first pages in story called "The Other Humans". Image is people in silhouette walking along a ridge. They have spears.
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New piece I wrote for BBC Science Focus is out, on the increasingly complex but ever more interesting story of early Homo sapiens' origins & dispersal, and the other kinds of humans we encountered.
Scotland welcomes President Chump.
27.07.2025 20:22 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Fuck Starmer, fuck Labour #JFT97 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
26.07.2025 10:29 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Two-state solution is not the answer. Borders/access will always cause issues. Similarly, religion is a flashpoint and always will be. The only sensible future lies in a single secular state, democratic parliament, equal rights, AND truth & reconciliation.
If South Africa can do it, they can.
All eyes on the Handala.
26.07.2025 17:55 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0The ever wonderful carnyx playing historico-music enthusiasts *Here Be Flagons* at the Ancient Techonology Centre #Cranborne #Dorset today
Catch them there tomorrow too as part of Cranborne's Dark Age weekend !!
ancienttechnologycentre.com/public-events
#IronAge #Archaeology
A second whistleblower has come forward with evidence that corroborates allegations that Trumpβs judicial nominee Emil Bove directed DOJ attorneys to defy court orders and withhold information from judges.
25.07.2025 18:14 β π 576 π 176 π¬ 28 π 14
From the last @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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