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No, they're from all over the world mostly Oliva species. The fossils are from Walsall!

That's certainly a possibility, it's difficult to tell, could be a groyne on a beach too

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YouTube video by Georg Rockall-Schmidt The Bizarre Case Of Brock Pierce

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I don't think that's a Deciever / Laccaria species, maybe a Milkcap / Lactarius or possibly a Cortinarius?

Interesting read about the guy who is introduced Bannon to Epstein and was a key figure in the crypto world

Unearthed's investigation found a network of private anti-Ulez Facebook groups that contained widespread celebrations of vandalism of Ulez cameras, alongside extreme Islamophobia, and white supremacist rhetoric.

These weren't grassroots campaigns: most groups were set up by Tory party operatives.

Caption from Figure 9 in paper: Appendages of Ordovician Phacopida. A, B Anacheirurus adserai from the Fezouata Shale (Pérez-Peris et al., 2021). A, Endopodite (YPM 226573). B, Exopodite in dorsal view (YPM 517074). C, Bavaillia zemmourensis with antennae (MCZ:IP:20105; Martin et al., 2016; Richards et al., 2024). D – F, Ceraurus pleurexanthemus from the Rust Formation (Losso and Ortega-Hernández, 2024). D, Biramous appendages (MCZ:IP:110933). E, Biramous appendage (MCZ:IP:112018). F, Exopodite (MCZ:IP:104973). G – I, Flexicalymene senaria from the Rust Formation (Losso and Ortega-Hernández, 2024). D, Protopodites in cross section (MCZ:IP:104956). E, Biramous appendages (USNM 68379). F, Endopodites (USNM 68381). J, Placoparia cambriensis from the Llanfallteg Formation (NMW 91.46G; Whittington, 1993). Abbreviations: ant, antennae; cla, claw; en, endopodite; end, endite; hyp, hypostome; lm, lamellae; pn, podomere number; pt, protopodite.

Do you ever wonder about trilobite appendages?

Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑

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It could be the start of a Lovecraftian story - It's strange though, when I reopened the photograph the waves looked different, it must be a trick of the light. The shells were unusual too, unlike anything I've seen before...

It's a photograph! Extremely faded, but the faint traces of a landscape are just visible - breaking waves in the foreground, a distant shoreline about half way up and mountains on the distance

A tightly rolled cylinder of paper

A tightly rolled cylinder of paper found in a wooden box containing shells, fossils and a few other things like glass bottle stoppers, a stirring rod and pencil leads. What's inside?

What a cracker this front cover is - and the title page continues to deliver - "Made in Birmingham - the hub of industrial England". Detailing the grimy manufacturing of the city this booklet, definitely mid-1930s, was issued by the City of Birmingham Information Office. That aside its a great cover, very of its era in terms of commercial art and with an interesting take on the city's 'coat of arms'. The title - Birmingham - is in red next to the shield of the coat of arms and runs across the lower edge. The text "the city of a thousand trades" iis ranged along the upper and right edge. The page is dominated by a shadowy blacksmith against a cog wheel, symbolising heavy industry, on a yellow/orange/red background that constrasts with the city skyline - the silhoutee includes the Town Hall, City Chambers and University Clock Tower.

@theironroom.bsky.social The City of a Thousand Trades - hints of Soviet realism on the cover of this c.1935 booklet issued by the Corporation of Birmingham. What could be more appropriate for your #CityOf1000Trades #birmingham #1930s #graphicdesign

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Alister Malcolm's glass snakes. Solid tubes of coloured glass twisted to make a snake on a bowl.

Would absolutely recommend a visit to Stourbridge Glass museum. Free lockers for bags, plenty of hands on stuff and loads of space. And snakes. #snakes

On a rainy grey February, a splendid parcel has arrived. What a relief… @pelagic.bsky.social @nfbr.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social

YouTube thumbnail: NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE Proof of 10k years of "prehistoric monoculture" (trade, memes, genes, etc.)

I was recommended this channel's YouTube videos a few times. I didn't watch any because they seemed to be hyperdiffusionist nonsense. But I think this thumbnail gives the game away - what's that symbol in the clay square eh? Yet again alternative archaeology is used as a gateway to the far right

If speeding and using a mobile phone while driving are both crimes, then pretty much every driver IS a criminal. We also need to tackle the ideology that has led to so many terrorist attacks by drivers such as in Liverpool and the ULEZ camera bombing and the routine threats of violence from them

Just to close the loop here. A cozy club of just the very worst people.

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Isn't it a weird coincidence that her wife's in the files? bsky.app/profile/lowr...

Xylaria longipes is a soft-rotter, slowly breaking down cellulose in wood. Cut it lengthwise and you can see the individual closed fruitbodies producing sexual spores, or perithecia, along the margin. 🍄
Photos from Zoutelande (The Netherlands), 2025.

A ginger cat lying in a basket on a pink blanket

Celebrity sighting of the day: @george-station-cat.bsky.social

New exhibition at museum raises a glass to drinking history Stourbridge Glass Museum is inviting visitors to toast centuries of craftsmanship and social history with its new exhibition.

Stourbridge Glass Museum is inviting visitors to toast centuries of craftsmanship and social history with its new exhibition

Is it a surprise that Musk turned X into digital Epstein island?

Meet the stubborn booksellers keeping Brum's indie scene alive 'I am not interested in running a branch of WH Smith'

Great write up for The Heath and Voce - 2 wonderful bookshops revitalising the indie scene in Birmingham. Thanks to @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social for telling the story: www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/what-happene...

17th c Japanese shaped dish

A shaped dish by the celebrated Japanese potter and painter Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743).

A painting of two mushrooms from tbe same species growing in a tuft of grassy vegetation.

More fungi, this by Beatrix Potter who is more well known as an author of children’s stories and depictions of talking animals. Image courtesy of the Cotsen Children’s Library
Princeton University.
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Colored illustrations of different fungi species from my copy of "Termini botanici Iconibus Illustrati: oder, Botanische Kunstsprache durch Abbildungen erläutert" German botanist Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, published in 1799. #fungi #botany #histsci 📚💙 #sciart #fungifriends

A page with engraved plant and fungi illustrations colored by hand from my copy of “Termini botanici Iconibus Illustrati : oder, Botanische Kunstsprache durch Abbildungen erläutert”, by German botanist Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, published in 1799. 🌱 🍄 🐡

A nice Blewit (Lepista sp.) for #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Black and white image of a performer (possibly Backxwash) on stage at a previous Supersonic festival.

Supersonic has shared details of its stripped-back 2026 edition

The Digbeth, Birmingham festival will take place earlier in the year, moving away from its usual late August date to two days in late April

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Using #FungiFriday to plug our special issue from last summer, packed with interesting mycology reviews, primers and other pieces...🍄👇

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