Robert Ashby

Quite right, Netanyahu is not a genocidal war criminal because he is Jewish or because he is an Israeli. He is a genocidal war criminal because he is a psychopathic authoritarian. He uses the Israeli/Palestinian issue to increase the power he needs due to deeply malign personality disorders.

I think you are getting carreid away with this. The Government website says:
"The Government will undertake a consultation early next year. Legislation to reform marriage law will be introduced when parliamentary time allows."
No date, opaque "consultation" including CofE? Back in long grass!

Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales, report finds Analysis finds lower proportion of foreign inmates than would be expected if they were jailed at same rate as UK citizens of same age

Immigrants less likely to commit crimes than natives, as countless other studies have shown #NomadCentury

And counting...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Humanism provides Hope for Humanity?

Trump lives on sycophancy. There comes a point where it is an ironic act to feed that and make it obvious that is what is going on. I recall a exchange in 101 Dalmations:
Cruella de Ville to her manager "what kind of sycophant are you?"
Manager "what kind of sycophant would you like me to be?"

Pushback like this means that we really are doing the right things and they necessary.

GREAT! Poster Submission done.

A new version of George, the Turkish/Palestinian saint's flag.

A new version of George, the Turkish/Palestinian saint's flag.

That's four birthdays this week! Me, Kate, Julia and my great niece Sophie Caroline. Love to all at the Alsmhouse!

Thanks, I didn't know that. I think there shouldn't be a press thing about using "Dr", as readers really need to know the level of academic achievement of people that they are reading an article about, as it's relevant. It's obvious in this case that he was clearly not a medical practitioner!

The article, though good, would have more credibility if it referred to James Whitely as Doctor James Whitley, which confirms his academic status, rather than the weighted use of "Mr" compared to acknowledging his academic status as Emeritus Professor, which we should all refer to him as from now?

Yes, a great place to see what 3D can be. Its not just the scan quality at MST, the texts are really very informative too.

Sorry to be a pedant, but I think you mean ellipsis...?

”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

3) From my Literature Review on the Social Brain Hypothesis - for my current PhD research project.

2) A further paper published almost at the same time as Lindenfors et al 2021 also finds that a cognitive limit on human group size cannot be derived in the way that Dunbar’s number was originally determined (Hague, et al, 2021), but was not considered by Dunbar & Shultz 2023.

1) Dunbar & Shultz 2023 responded to Lindenfors et al 2021, but dismiss their findings on statistical and hypothesis methodological grounds.

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

#Gobeklitepe, #Sanliurfa,Turkey, 2024. Important #Neolithic settlement site, 9500-8000BCE. From my series on Ancient and #NuminousPlaces, part of my #evolution of #religion project. #archaeology

No Merch shipping to UK?? This needs to be an international movement surely?

#Hattusa, Anatolia, Turkey, 2024. Hittite capital in the late bronze age. From my series on Ancient and #Numinous Places, part of my #evolution of #religion project. #archaeology

Zhong Guo Renmin Daxue (Peoples University of China), Haidian, Beijing, 1982. In memory of today. Today we remember Tiananmen 1989. A regime that stresses dialectic and self criticism, but suppresses dissent, dialogue and democracy.

#china #tiananmen #1989 #dissent #democracy

York cathedral, 2025. From my photography project "Some Statements of Power and Influence", on religion as a central artefact within the evolution of culture.

#religion #york #culturalevolution #cathedrals #yorkcathedral #power #influence #humanism

Tre'r Ceiri, Lynn Penisular, North Wales, 2023. From my series of Numinous Places, within my work on the origins of religion.

#trerceiri #wales #lynn #numinousplaces #religion #landscape #landscapehead
#newtopographics #amanalteredlandscape
#manalteredlandscape

Handaxe of the Week. Neolithic Flint Book of Butter - 220 mm large handaxe from Grand Pressigny, France. A stone face has a story to tell!

#archaeology #neolithic #grandpressigny #handaxe #MaterialCulture #storiesinstone #photography #blackandwhite

Korean catholic pilgrim, Medugorje, Bosnia, 2024. From my photography project on religion as a central artefact within the evolution of culture.

#religion #bosnia #culturalevolution #pilgrims #medugorje

Ian, great to meet you last evening. Could you possibly add me into the starter pack list please, so all my colleagues from my time as Chair of Humanists UK know that I am here on bluesky. Thanks.

Ha, I heard that about Larkin's poem today too. Were you also at the launch party of the merged Humanists UK and New Humanist magazine this evening at the Humble Grape?