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Speculating that that is what she is doing is the prurient bit

Hart's Tongue Fern? Courtesy of Google Image search

There is one very subtly painted male figure in a turban in the shadows to her left behind her. So probably Bathsheba.

This is unnecessary prurience. No she doesn't. That's not an angle at which anything that you are clearly refering to could be seen. It's quite enough that she has lifted her shift tantalisingly high, & a shadow hints at her nakedness underneath. You have posted this notion before & been criticised.

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The people of Littlebredy, a village of 32 homes, wholly owned by the Bridehead Estate Ltd, say they have been ordered to leave from Jan.

But who owns Bridehead Estate Ltd?
No one seems to know, but the company is registered to the same address as Belport Ltd.

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I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries

Online mostly, but dome health food stores might still sell it?

It's a soy-based dry mix very popular back in the 80s/90s and still available online. Add water, wait 10 mins, firm into sausages and Bob's your uncle. Can add extea herbs etc. It was the best fake sausage I ever ate.

Used to like sossmix... Ever tried it?

The consequences of scientific fraud are profound Retractions occur when a paper is found to be flawed due to errors, plagiarism, data fabrication, peer-review fraud or other misconduct. On this blog, we have seen our fair share of such things. Occas...

The consequences of scientific fraud are profound edzardernst.com/2025/06/the-... via @edzardernst

Here's a selection of Anglo Saxon buildings for your delectation and delight: The remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire.
Worth cracking the photo open to see. #thread #throwbackthursday

Welcome to the archives.

In Coventry in the 1960s, 21 Punjabi Indian women were tricked into eating a radioactive chapati every morning as part of a medical experiment. Many of them couldn’t read the letter from the Medical Research Council explaining the possible effects of radioactive isotopes 🧵

I came here to say that!

I’d like to be crystal clear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (for want of an official BBC news/ editorial presence on here.

This will be the end of my TV licence, paid by DD for multiple decades

BBC, that I’ve defended, has lost MY trust over too much of its journalism

Family visa financial requirements review The Migration Advisory Committee’s report on the minimum income requirement for the family migration route.

The government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to look at the minimum income requirement for sponsoring a foreign national spouse or partner. This is what you must earn in order to live with your spouse or partner in the UK if you are British or settled here:
www.gov.uk/government/p...

15 barkcloth beaters. Two are large 'paddles' made from wood, the others are square blocks of stone fixed into wooden handles. Both the wooden and stone beaters are engraved with different groove motifs and depths based on when in the barkcloth production process they were used.

NEW Barkcloth beaters, used in Southeast Asia to produce cloth from bark for thousands of years.

On Sulawesi, this process remained unchanged for around 1900 years, so why did it suddenly diversify in the 20th century AD?

Find out in this #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵🏺

Linear projections of ethnic diversity in 40 and 75 years time depend on simplistic one drop raciak thinking about those of mixed ethnic heritage. The real life pattern of racial identity across generations is fascinatingly fluid, as I found in my own household from one census to the next

If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax rises, warning: “I don’t think you can tax your way to...

If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post, he could transform the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... If only Keir Starmer understood tax, he could transform the fortunes of the UK. But he doesn't, and he shows no sign of wanting to do so.

Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, review says The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in the water industry.

BREAKING: The water sector in England and Wales is failing and needs stronger regulation to better protect billpayers and the environment, according to the interim findings of a landmark review

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A section of the Giant's Causeway rocks. A group of people are at the base, facing towards the rocks. Most wear bright red/orange jackets. All are busy at work.

Usually, if people leave us coins as donations we're delighted. But...

...we've got a bit of an issue. And this one is on a giant scale.

Two books and some art I helped support ladt August never materialised. One *may* be appearing soon, but no news on the other and no refund. And my emails to the Administrators (as insisted on by Boundless) are disappearing into the void...

In my first 14 m of solar my total ☀️ 🍃 energy production exceeded my total home energy consumption so I was able to supply about 1,800 kWh excess to the grid to help other homes benefit from clean energy.

The five stages of victory | Helen Joyce | The Critic Magazine It’s more than a half-century since the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described recovery from grief as a five-stage process.

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Extract from article by Patrick Porter: "Sure, careers and money matter. But so do citizenship, war, justice, faith and the common good. You can think about such things without paying academics, of course. Yet thinking about them beside scholars who study them is a good place to start, and is another kind of value for money. In-person study is valuable because it is done dialectically, that is, in conversation and argument, and collectively. To be a student alone is a contradiction in terms. It is one reason the recent global plague, forcing study online, damaged so many young souls. How much better it would be not only to imbibe the offerings of the web, but to argue about them with other people in the same room. Learning collectively, in an organic human setting, is the essence of the university".

"University: A Good Idea".

Excellent piece by @patporter76.bsky.social, reasserting the humanist idea of the university as a place to think, grow and argue; not as a consumer experience providing employable skills.
thecritic.co.uk/university-a...

A straight woman cannot be a gay man | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine If there’s one thing that defines gay men, it’s a fondness for willies. One might say it’s a defining characteristic. So when the BBC aired I Kissed a Boy — touted as the UK’s first gay dating show…

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Planning change makes heat pump installations easier for homes The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbours property has been removed.

Sooo... the government has removed the 1m planning rule in England, and the BBC have opened the comments section on their article...😱😳

Because I clearly hate myself, let's do a quick fact check on some of the most popular comments...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And then you get to go home to the warm and dry, and aren't trapped in a hotel/b&b for a week in a howling gale with bored, bored children! Win!

Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP!

Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action.

Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it.

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Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed] - a Freedom of Information request to Equality and Human Rights Commission This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions: 1. Any application you made in 2019 or...

Now do Stonewall.
Disclosure runs to 105 pages.
Here are the FOI links:
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...