John Peters

That face on these coins is Odin.
Next to the Swastika sun symbol.
these exact coins puts the belief in Odin back in time almost 400 years from around year 860-460.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.

How good (or bad) are good (or bad) words? @yougov.co.uk includes comparing how Americans and British people hear these words
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

A spreading sweet chestnut tree from below.

Three prickly chestnut fruits on the brown soil, but all have tiny nuts with no kernel.

Oh sweet chestnut, what hath you brought forth for me this year?
More disappointment, I’m afraid.

EES starts today: full guide to the EU’s new entry/exit system Brits now need to register their details at new kiosks before entering Europe, although not all ports will be ready at once. Here’s what you need to know

From Sunday, October 12, the EU’s new digital entry/exit system — EES for short — will begin.
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Ian Watkins: two held after Lostprophets singer killed in prison Th child sex offender was stabbed to death on Saturday at HMP Wakefield, the high-security jail where he was serving 35 years

“Nobody will shed any tears over Watkins, but that’s not the point. A high-profile prisoner in one of our highest-security prisons stabbed to death with a bladed article.” Ian Acheson quoted in
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Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast? When it comes to investment, particularly in its regions, perhaps Britain is the country that needs to keep up

12/17 Poland’s regions are richer than west Wales, poorest part of Britain. Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) in Poland’s southwest is better off than Greater Manchester. Strip London out, Britain’s output/head just 3% ahead of Poland’s.
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By @tomcalver.bsky.social

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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Dem Governors have more control over trade than they understand.

70% of international trade is running through the black dots. Most of the biggest sea ports, and most proximal to water.

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I am so so so sick of "wellness." You all need to see it for the sham it is.

RIP Diane Keaton, who has died at 79, here reinventing fashion in Annie Hall (1977)

As a high-court judge in spirit, I can't say I'm terribly familiar with her, but Letitia Wright came over well, smart and engaging. #c4news

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Summit cairn of Carn Aosda.

Loch Vrotachan from Carn Aosda

Cairn near summit of The Cairnwell, avoiding the masts, buildings & other detritus.

Had a quick wander up Carn Aosda & The Cairnwell today, beautiful autumnal day. Warm in the ☀️ Great to see lots of people out enjoying it all. #munros #autumn #hills #Glenshee #scotland 🥾

The top ten animal noises in other languages Thanks to Derek Abbott at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, who has compiled a fine online database…

From the archive, 10 years ago: Boon boon, fiyt fiyt, ronron – #Top10 Animal Noises in Other Languages independent.co.uk/news/world/t...

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

No matter how vile the crime and how non-existent the sympathy anyone may have for the perpetrator, all prisoners should be safe. #c4news

Good report here as well
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This map shows what share of German cities was destroyed during the Second World War. It's easy to spot these areas today: no old building stock and lots of 1950s and 1960s concrete. Source: buff.ly/rTmtUD7

'Desperate to return to their neighbourhoods, their communities, their familiar. Now suddenly anything but that.' Harry Fawcett in good report over pictures of unbelievable devastation. #c4news

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Inside Sweden’s secret Cold War plan to resist a Soviet invasion An underground network would have evacuated dignitaries and led resistance — and the author of a new book says Stockholm should revive the system in an unstable world

Operating in total secrecy and aided by British and American intelligence, a task force began work on a plan for resistance to a Soviet occupation, ranging from evacuation routes to campaigns of sabotage and guerrilla warfare.
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‘Our daughter was divine, then they made her a living goddess’ A two-year-old girl is believed to be the Kumari, a deity incarnated in a child. Now she will be worshipped at a temple in Kathmandu

I have serious questions about a child undergoing this.
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President’s daughter urges online fans: Don’t vote for my dad Paul Biya, 92, has presided over decades of corruption, repression and economic decline in Cameroon. Even his child says he has ‘made too many people suffer’

World’s oldest head of state had already clocked up 2 terms by time his daughter was born & has spent so much of his 43 years in power ruling by decree from abroad that he has become known as the “president of the Hotel InterContinental”
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By @janeflan.bsky.social

ChatGPT plans the perfect holiday … to places that don’t exist Tech-driven itineraries may look appealing, but travellers have found their recommended destinations and activities exist only in AI’s imagination

Algorithm is said to “hallucinate” places and people that do not exist. Study found that >1/2 of AI-generated travel itineraries suggested visiting an attraction outside opening hours nearly 1/4 recommend going to attraction that is permanently closed.
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Yes, it's really interesting. Let's hope it proves successful.