HUGH JONES PLANS ECO-FRIENDLY PERSONAL HELICOPTERS POWERED BY AI HAMSTER-ROBOTS
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
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Retired NHS. Socialist. Knitting. Crochet. History. Dark sense of humour. Grew up in Yorkshire. She/her
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
Isn't that lovely? The way the straight lines combine into curved ripples across the quilt and the rhythm of the colours. Just wonderful ❤️
Janis@joleta.bsky.social · yesterdayMy Mom was an artist. Some of her mediums were yarn and calico. This is one of the many quilts she pieced. 🥰
In case any Edinburgh social history people are interested: I have an MSc student looking at bath- and wash-house usage statistics, and he's turned up a Carnegie report from 1918 with these photos of the Simon Square wash-house.
This was a week after Starmer sacked 10 of his MPs for voting for a ceasefire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mass funeral in Gaza for 112 Palestinians killed in 2023 Israeli strike
The bodies - belonging to members of two extended families - have only recently been recovered from under rubble in Gaza City.
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Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
Please stop saying invasion when referring to immigrants. An invasion is what Britain did in India or what Britain did in The West Indies or what Britain did in large parts of Africa or what Britain did in…
Careful of the bike racks at Morrisons on Ferry Rd, Edinburgh - a couple of them can be lifted right out of the paving. #EdTravCyc 🚲 🔐
My father used to say some very mean things about the brits just after WWII Without the French Resistance no D-Day would have ever been possible
The Rabble Rouser, by George Grosz, 1928. From the fashness to the yellow trousers, it still feel very familiar today, almost a century later. Sadly.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
#2 in an occasional series of Weird and Wonderful Seen in a barbers shop window in Musselburgh...
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @durham.ac.uk Durham is proper photogenic; this view isn't bad but is it really the best they could have chosen? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Hey @lewisgoodall.com here is our Lancet article on Long COVID. Happy to chat. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
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I'm absolutely furious that facts and information like this are allowed on social media while every Reform MP is working so hard to spread misinformation and lies and stir up our gullible supporters who will believe any old bollocks.
On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt
My favourite newly learned fact is that the causeway Alexander the Great caused to be built as part of the war against the citizens of the island of Tyre caused the seaway to silt up. Tyre (off Lebanon) is no longer an island but is now part of the mainland. He literally changed the world...
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I would love reproduction mugs like these for my tea habit
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d agoSipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology
Next stop: Reform UK makes sincere apology for 'genuine mistake' of accepting £millions in bribes in exchange for anti-worker rights, anti-migrant racism, anti-women misogyny, climate denial, make the rich richer and poor poorer policies
Given everything that’s happened with Gianni Infantino this week, I‘m beginning to wonder whether Donald Trump might not have been the best choice for the FIFA Peace Prize after all.
"Taxing the rich doesn't work." Tell that to Massachusetts… Their millionaire tax has raised $3.1 BILLION so far. It's funding bridges, buses, teachers, free community college, and free school meals. Enjoy. 😎✨
I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d agoI'll be on BBC News television TODAY ~3:40pm ET (8:40pm London local time) to discuss--what else---the climate change-fueled weather extremes we're seeing around the world this summer. Please join me: www.bbc.com/live
