Charles has an awful lot of medals for someone who was in the RN for just five years... in peacetime... largely on ships operating off Portsmouth and the Welsh coast...

A crumpled crepe paper remembrance poppy on a khaki tunic.

A few years ago I bought the tunic of a First World War soldier of the US 89th Infantry Division. The veteran clearly wore his uniform after the war at services of remembrance, for in his breast pocket was this - a very old and crumpled crepe paper poppy.
#RemembranceDay

That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong.

Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.

We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.

@medianews-rt.bsky.social Thank you for the repost

@mouseinthehouse.bsky.social Thank you for the repost Andrea ☺️👍🏻

A canvas print of a hare in a wintry landscape

A canvas print of a wren on a branch

A canvas print of a wintry woodland

I am no longer going to sell canvas prints of my work so I'm selling the last few I have at a discount - UK only. Please take a look! Below are three examples #CanvasPrint #ChristmasGiftIdea #art #print
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nobody was bothered about trans ppl existing 7 years ago.

everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians.

every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie.

nothing you think you know is accurate.

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.

100% serious here.

BBC News shows footage of flattened ground, part of what used to be Gaza

As you watch this clip remember two things:

Kier Starmer repeatedly said that Israel has the right to defend itself while Israel was literally flattening Gaza as you see in this footage

“The Israelis are systematically trying to destroy the Palestinians as a national group. They're targeting them as Palestinians, and they're trying to destroy Palestinian national identity in addition to MURDERING huge numbers of Palestinians....”

—🇺🇸John Mearsheimer

This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts. This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot. Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth). Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.) Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.) British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/

Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

A somewhat psychedelic linocut of a hare

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

I think retailers will eventually meld all the festivities into one. There will be a giant fuck off Christmas tree with a pumpkin on top, and Guy Fawkes crucified on it and people will throw Easter egg shaped firebombs at it and the fucker will burn from March to December.

Small cobalt-blue glass vessel shaped like a scallop shell with a narrow neck and two delicate handles. The glass has a glossy surface and is displayed on a clear stand in a museum setting with other artifacts blurred in the background.

Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass!
A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at British Museum.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

A map of the new future regions of Britain, including 'Wolves' and Wild Golf'.

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.

Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.

[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are

Well done Samir!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I live in Oklahoma... the final destination of the Trail of Tears. I'm surrounded by Indian Tribes. Hell, I'm married to a Cherokee. This is not the Indian way of life.

Call Out the Killers!

🎯 Jeremy Clarkson brags about shooting birds.
🎯 Prince Harry and William were raised on it.
🎯 King Charles backs gamekeeping estates.

These aren’t harmless country pastimes.

They’re killing for pleasure 👇

The Corning Museum image shows a small, rounded cup made of deep blue glass. The vessel has smooth horizontal ridges around the body, a short cycindrical neck with outsplayed rim, and a concave base. Around the middle, there is a Greek inscription in a band around the circumference (EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI) It translates as ‘be glad that you are here’. Height 7 cm, diameter (max): 8.8 cm. The cup is displayed on a flat surface against a dark background.

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’

“Be glad that you are here”

Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷

📷 Corning Museum of Glass

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

This ~ 💯%

Happy Birthday to Stuart Leslie Goddard aka Adam Ant, lead singer of Bazooka Joe and post punk / new wave group Adam and the Ants, born on this day in 1954 in London

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #adamant #history #punkrockhistory #otd

A naive carving of a medieval woman scratched into the grey rock of a building stone.

Norwich Castle, c.13th Century graffiti of woman wearing a wimple.
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday

What the Prof says.

Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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East Hagbourne, my local village. Often it feels like stepping back in time a little. #Oxfordshire

A screen grab of a Guardian article reading "The need to identify victims Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living. Psychologists described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss” which can generate or contribute to depression, trauma and identity confusion, a situational disorder widespread in Gaza. The few remaining hospitals in the territory lack the equipment for DNA testing, which is desperately needed to help identify thousands of missing or deceased peope. Israel does not allow DNA testing materials to enter Gaza." with the last sentence highlighed in yellow.

fucking hell