Join us & the #SLRC for a day of activities. A great chance to connect, learn, and commemorate National #StephenLawrenceDay 👇️
WHERE Stephen Lawrence Research Centre @dmu.ac.uk
WHEN Apr 22, 2026
DETAILS & FREE TICKETS: buff.ly/gwKZfvQ
#NationalYearofReading @librarydmu.bsky.social
This is what we are building with the Global Council for a Common Good Economy launched today with Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Carlos Cuerpo.
At Global Progressive Mobilisation plenary with Lars Klingbeil, Vice Chancellor of Germany, and Paul Magnette, President of the Belgian Socialist Party.
The Telegraph and The Times. Compare and contrast...
95% of people serving prison sentences for murder in the UK are men. Not women. Men.
Wars, bombings, rapes and other violent acts across the world are in the vast, vast, vast majority caused by men. Enough with the whataboutery; it’s us, not them. For fucking fucks sake.
Jealous
Reform's Ricky Hodges urged "veterans" to put the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, "in a coma for a long time".
Previously said he wanted to shoot people "in the face", and that he would "love to come up against" a group of Labour activists to "take their... limbs off".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EXCL #2: Senior government officials have been considering whether to withhold from parliament sensitive documents that show Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting before he assumed the role of US ambassador @direthoughts.com, Paul Lewis & me reveal
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Although best known for its waxworks, the famous museum founded by French sculptress Marie Tussaud — who died #onthisday in 1850 — also featured a weird and wonderful array of historical memorabilia. Leaf through the pages of an early catalogue here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... #OTD
Chart showing earnings gap 10 years after graduation, associated with having been in deep poverty at age 16, adjusted for demographic and university characteristics, and further adjusted for work characteristics: England
Child poverty isn't just bad, it results in an enduring earnings gap.
The pay gap between graduates who grew up in poverty and those who didn't persists even between when they go to the same university, get the same degree and work for the same firm ⤵️
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Read the working paper ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Read our Devex piece ➡️ www.devex.com/news/why-the...
My latest in the @bmj.com on needing to learn the lessons from the COVID Inquiry and implement its recommendations
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
The Irish Writers Centre is thrilled to announce our National Mentoring Programme 2026 awardees!
The Irish Writers Centre would like to extend our gratitude to the supporting bodies for their funding and support for the programme.
Read more here: irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
Look at its beautiful spindly legs!
Pretend you're a doctor by referring to each toe by its proper name, i.e. Market, Home, Roast Beef, No Roast Beef and Wee Wee.
Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...
Scribles from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
Scribles from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
Scribles from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
Scribles from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
Born on this day in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci imagined ideas centuries ahead of their time.
His notebooks reveal a mind constantly observing, questioning and exploring what could be.
Here's a reminder: fruit and vegetables are fruit and vegetables. Canned, frozen, fresh, whatever you can afford, and whatever is easiest for you to consume is ok. Don't let the internet make nutrition complicated. ♡ #nourishyourbody
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The picture shows a fibula (a brooch) in the shape of an owl, decorated with enamel in different colours: The large are orange with blsck pupils, the wings are green with red circles.
A charming #Roman enamelled fibula (a pin for fastening garments) in the form of an #owl.
Found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort.
Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg / Peter Knierriem
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Highlights from the many centuries of artworks to feature the Notre-Dame de Paris — which caught fire 5 years ago #onthisday — from its illuminated punctuation of medieval skylines to grainy detailed studies at the birth of photography: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
""I think people are sick of being told they can't have healthy rivers and seas, just because powerful financiers want to keep making money from our water bills.
"Our government is listening to them [water companies] but not to us,""
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Monday: salad
Tuesday: salad
Wednesday: salad
Thursday: salad
Friday: salad
Saturday: 3 pizzas, tacos, grilled cheese, bottle of wine, 7 cinnamon rolls, gallon of ice cream, 2 cheeseburgers
Sunday: salad
Painting of the upper half a ginger and white cat facing left with head tilted upwards sniffing a red and white flower
Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart
Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Ancient History and Archaeology (x2 posts)- University of St Andrews - School of Classics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD927/a...
Beholde thys unit moost absolute.
I TOLD THEM TO FIX THEIR HEARTS OR DIE
"Easter Bunny on the Train"
By German artist Michael Sowa (1996)
British Museum photo of a Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare. It is seen in profile with head to the right, displayed against a black background. The brooch is cast from copper-alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The hare has a long body inlaid with green enamel and decorated with four copper-alloy dots arranged within the enamel along the length of the body. Its back arches gently and its legs are represented by one back and one front leg, both bent, with feet curling slightly inward, giving a sense of motion. The head is small with a narrow snout and one long ear rises up and backwards. The head is decorated with a large, circular, green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye. The hare has an incised mouth with a slight upwards curve as if smiling!
Happy Easter!
Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
