The museum image shows a rich purple Roman glass bottle. Free-blown with a spherical body, a flat base, and a narrow, slightly tapering cylindrical neck with flaring rim. 13.7 cm in height. The glass appears to have patchy accretions which have built up over time. The display lighting makes the centre of the bottle glow with a reddish light, as if it contains warm embers. Circa 1st century AD.

Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.

📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

#Archaeology

Graptolites are some of the coolest animals you may not have heard of. Colony creatures, zooids at the tip add on to the branches. Eventually sexually-born larvae swim out to start new colonies that stretch out zooid by zooid.

Going… going… gone overseas? by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…

My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.

We really are in a mess...

#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure

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The lucky ones escape. The unlucky ones die a slow, painful death. It’s time to end bird netting, not just for pigeons and gulls, but for all bird species.

No. If starmer , I can't go on. ...
Starmer must somehow be related to someone who praises it. Oh dear. Oh G

An aerial shot of the limestone quarry and nine people in yellow safety vests and hardhats working on uncovering the track of sauropod footprints left behind in the white limestone.

The chances of footprints, and even more so of trackways hundreds of prints long, being preserved and then found is a rare treat!

Dr Emma Nicholls standing on a saurapod trackway, large roundish footprints embedded into white limestone, pointing to the long trackways continuing on behind her

We asked @dremmanicholls.bsky.social what exactly needs to happen for dinosaur footprints to be preserved like those found in Oxfordshire.

The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...

Crocodiles get no enjoyment.

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, balancing Reform’s budget

All the party wanted was to be taken seriously. Now that it has happened, they don’t seem to be enjoying themselves nearly as much

I repeat: The surest sign sexual preferences are innate is that 90% of women aren't dating each other.

Jesus. Haploid. Christ.

one user said [...] “I was part of the beta testing and the faceswop was great. I was able to upload pictures of my wife and it generated a pretty close,”

"I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice."

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Revolting.

A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry

NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
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November: Dig-Out Horror, Racist Abuse, Lawbreaking Hound Packs In this mid November hunting update we report the arrest of seven people in Ambleside, Cumbria, for illegal fox hunting after Lake District Hunt Saboteurs and the Hunt Saboteurs Association released…

We're only halfway through the month! Hunting update

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Very sad to hear this. John Barkham was an inspirational ecologist who carried out pioneering research into Black Tor Copse, one of Dartmoor’s last remaining temperate rainforests. I’m so glad to have met him, and hope we can restore this special place in his memory.

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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

Thank you for coming Andrew!

Well spoken.

We are right behind the BMA and their fight for pay restoration.

At its core, this doctor’s strike is a fight to ensure patients have access to an NHS doctor right now and well into the future. Thank you to @jordanrivera.bsky.social and the Homerton Unison team for their support yesterday. It was great to be home.

#SOSNHS #DoctorsStrike #PayRestoration

YouTube video by Novara Media Zack Polanski Accuses Labour of Treating Migrants “Like Crap”

Zack Polanski Accuses Labour of Treating Migrants "Like Crap"

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Misunderstanding the tide puts millions at risk Tidal literacy is a matter of life and death. But many people do not understand tides, and many only survive because of the rescue services

Know your tides, so the seaside remains fun...

Since 2020, tidal cut-offs have resulted in around 3,600 RNLI lifeboat & ifeguard rescues assisting some 35,500 people.

Martin Austin reports

Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder signaled the creeping censorship now hitting US media, with the Washington Post imposing red lines and bending to billionaires like Saudi Arabia's royals. #PressFreedom

A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Control? Or Cruelty? Mahmood's Asylum Plan Adrian Goldberg discusses Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans for asylum seekers to the UK with Dr Sohail Jannesari, a migration and mental health researcher at King’s College London, and Laur...

"A controlled immigration system, which is what the British public wants, does not have to mean a cruel and inhumane immigration system."

@laurenhstarkey.bsky.social @SohailJannesari talk #asylum with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Streeting is not in politics for the People!

The BMA and other trade unions stand together against anti-migrant rhetoric

The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.

We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.

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Opportunity 4-19-18 s5061 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/26MydKG

How to help nature thrive in your neighbourhood As COP30 debates how to save the planet’s biodiversity, here are some ideas to try in your garden and community to help local wildlife

COP30 debates protecting biodiversity today. Glyn Evans says even our gardens can make a difference ! Since urban gardens make up 30% of green space, individual efforts add up to big change. Read his ideas here
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Dolly Parton Was Just Awarded Her First Oscar—And Her Poignant Speech Has Fans Cheering

Congratulations, Dolly! We love to see it!

Not my king was keen on this cruel barbaric disgrace.
It has no place in civilised life.