REVEALED: Just 2,500 farms own a QUARTER of the farmland in England
Startling new stats I obtained from DEFRA & shared with @mirror.co.uk show how unequal land ownership is in this country
Large landowners must pay their fair share of tax
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www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome!
With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:
An interesting thing about hashtags on Bluesky is if you click on a hashtag (on desktop; long press for mobile) on a user’s post or profile, you can filter to see all the user’s posts using that hashtag.
So if you share work on here, it’s a convenient way to catalogue all your work in one place
leak the fucking report, you all have 473 reporters on speed dial, stop playing by rules nobody cares about and embarrass these people by any means necessary
Genuinely MAGA guys… most people just say no to this question
Long before Musk’s takeover, historians outsourced our public sphere to a private corporation.
Now is a great opportunity learn from that experiment — or rather: that mistake.
Would there be interest in an online workshop on public history after X?
Another project I'm proud of is a long form video I made examining the development of the Gilgamesh/Bilgamesh myths, along with the tale's association with the Mesopotamian flood myth. I remember being terrified it was going to bomb whilst making it so I'm glad so many people watched it.
I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)
Interested in Mediterranean Island Prehistory from multiple perspectives? Then the #IslandLegacies conference is the one for you! Click the below link for info - 3 days with lunch included, keynote with wine reception, gala dinner and excursions all for €125!
www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...
Voter concerns in Ireland #GE24 two weeks before election day
Cost of living: 30%
Health: 18%
House prices: 17%
Way down the list
Immigration: 9%
Economy: 6%
Cost of rent: 6%
Law & order: 5%
Climate: 4%
Tax: 3%
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
this guy sucks so hard that he can't get any friends, so he bought a site to make all the users his friends, and they left; and he made a robot to tell him he was cool and it instead said he fucking sucks just like we all know he does
how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals
Big wins in the US for measles, mumps, rubella, polio whooping cough, diphtheria and hep B! 🙌
#ComebackKids
Submissions open for Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation until 1 January 2025. Cuirtear fáilte roimh thráchtais i mBéarla nó i nGaeilge: acisweb.org/dalsimer-pri...
Extract from tribute to Adele Dalsimer (1939–200) by Vera Kreilkamp, Éire-Ireland, 2003.
📢 Join us for #IPBES11 Stakeholder Day in Windhoek, Namibia!
🗓️ 9 December 2024
Showcase your IPBES-related projects with a poster!
Register by 10 November: www.ipbes.net/ipbes-11/sta...
Can't attend in person? Watch the webcast live! 🌍🧪
Context: Elon Musk dislikes Scientific American’s editorial perspectives on social and climate justice, and has been fanning a targetted harassment campaign this week in an effort to silence the magazine.
It appears to have worked.
Fig. 1
Gregory of Tours describing a historical event
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Gregory of Tours about that one guy miraculously healed from hiccups, St Martin be praised
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PBAthaCliath2024 is the handle, only set up last night
I'm here too 🤣 The Dublin Penya is up or will be up soon
See? This is the sort of nonsense we used to enjoy.
Yet again, the due diligence of auction houses seems somewhat lacklustre:
Italian officials said they had dismantled a Europe-wide network of forgers and dealers selling works purported to be by A-list artists, mostly through auction houses.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/w...
I find it funny how many of his fans (both Rogan and Lex) call me "arrogant." It's like, nah, I'm summarizing the research of thousands of scholars when I present #RealArchaeology to the public, and I credit them
But, him saying he knows more than an entire field of study. That's real arrogance
Burgum is from fossil fuels. The trouble with “eff around and find out” is that not only people are going to find out - the National Parks and federal lands and their environments and its creatures are going to find out www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/c...
The Lower Lake at Glendalough..
#Glendalough #Wicklow #Ireland 🇮🇪 #autumn #fall #landscape ##photography #nikonz3
I propose Bluesky night owls be known as moths! Anyway, going to bed now.
#oc #art
Several years back I helped coordinate a live performance of GW2 music. My parents reluctantly came in an "I guess we'll endure this to support you" fashion. They were absolutely dumbfounded. "We didn't know it was like THAT". Performance link, just for fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8nw...
Put video game music in symphony halls. DONT tell them it’s from a video game. Watch how they lose their minds.
