My photo shows a frontal view of a buff-coloured Minoan pottery jug with a dark-red, stylised octopus painted beneath the dark red pouring spout. The jug has a rounded body with very short neck with out-turned rim, the body tapers downwards to a slightly turned out flat base also painted red. On each shoulder there’s a small chunky loop handle. The octopus is stylised and looks cartoon-like with a vertical dumbbell shaped body, with two large circular eyes with central red dots staring out at the viewer. From the top of the head emerge eight suckered arms. Four arms hang symmetrically downwards on each side of the body, writhing and curling at the tip. There is a similar red octopus on each side of the jug not shown in my photo.

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙

From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): The "Robin Redbreast" was given its nickname long before a distinction was made in the English language between "Red" & "Orange". Thank you again Matthew Cassar for sharing your lovely photo of this singing Robin taken in the UK 🎶🎵 #robin #nature #bird #wildlife

Hungary chose Europe today.
Budapest’s streets are packed, with people chanting “Russians out”

🇭🇺 Budapest: "Russians, go home"

According to a poll by the Idea Institute, Tisza is ahead of Orban’s Fidesz — 50% to 37%.

OHM 🦭

(Sleeping Seal)

🇷🇺 Admits 🇺🇦 Has Big Drone Advantages; Near-Rear Strike Bonanza | Ukraine War News Update 20260409 YouTube video by ATP Geopolitics

Great daily coverage of the war in Ukraine by this journalist on YouTube.
#ukraine
youtu.be/4eDR8wotYJc?...

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

UK-caught cod joins mackerel, as overfishing means loss of traditional British fish

Decades of this - each generation of politicians allows quota higher than ecosystems can take

It's not supporting fishing communities by doing so, in the end it's failing them

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Presidential Records Act isn’t complicated. It was passed after Watergate for a reason & it’s very clear about what belongs to the public & what doesn’t.

That’s what makes the new position DOJ is taking so disturbing. I explain here: joycevance.substack.com/p/killing-hi...

UK and Norway foil Russian submarine plot to survey undersea cables in north Atlantic

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

This is a great demonstration of cultural exchange. It’s a frieze in the classical style from what is now Pakistan with distinctive subcontinental styling on the figures, but depicting Dionysus (L) dead drunk at a revel propped up by two women.

🕰️C1st-2nd AD
🏛️Tokyo National Museum
📷mine

Poll: More Europeans see US as threat than China Washington outranks Beijing as a threat in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Germany, according to POLITICO Pulse survey.

Poll: More Europeans see US as threat than China

The foreign interference in the Hungarian election, is overtly the U.S. and Russia, on behalf of "Putin's mouse" and autocratic dictator, Viktor Orbán. #Hungary #USA #Russia
@ec.europa.eu @volteuropa.org

❗️Putin will not stop if he gets Donbas, and the next attempt will be to seize the regional centers - Dnipro and Kharkiv, - Zelensky

"Some Americans believe that Donbas means nothing to us. They do not want to admit that Putin will lie to them and that he can continue occupation after such steps."

This mammoth ivory statue is 40,000-years-old!📷
This is the Lion Man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel, considered to be the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world.
The Lion Man has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body.

Orbán faces an electoral reckoning in Hungary

Hungarian opposition leader outlines his approach to Russia Péter Magyar, leader of Hungary's opposition Tisza party, has said his future government would pursue a "pragmatic" approach towards Russia.

⁉️ Hungarian opposition leader outlines his approach to Russia

Hungary's Watergate: Secret service spied on opposition On the eve of Hungary's elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has been rocked by an espionage scandal. The intelligence services are said to have tried to infiltrate the opposition Tisza Party.

Hungary's Watergate: Secret service tried to infiltrate the political opposition

Marine biologist Tabitha Siegfried helps to save “Syrena” the sea turtle struggling offshore and completely covered in barnacles.

IG: tabby.siegfried

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❗️Ukrainian forces have been shooting down Russian drones for almost 24 hours, with air raid alerts in most regions and over 700 Russian drones, mostly Shaheds, intercepted at a high rate of about 90%.

Subventionen gestrichen: China verteuert Solarmodule China beendet Export-Subventionen für seine Solarbranche. Das wirkt sich weltweit auf die Preise aus. Ist bald Schluss mit dem Balkonkraftwerk aus dem Baumarkt für unter 250 Euro? Von Lucretia Gather.

Man sollte mal ausrechnen, wieviele Milliarden uns CDU Peter Altmaier schon gekostet hat, die Solarbranche mit Vorreiterrolle hier in Deutsch faktisch ermordet zu haben. Und die Automobilindustrie steht als nächstes auf der Liste der Todeskandidaten.
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/s...

This is the Coppergate Helmet, named after its find location in York. It’s Anglo-Saxon & one of only 6 helmets surviving from the period. If you look at the nose guard, it has fantastical animals weaving through the decoration. It’s wonderful.

🏛️Yorkshire Museum
📷Museum Trust
#AncientBlueSky