Abigail Nunes-Richards
@abinr.bsky.social
Mum, scientist, archaeologist, geneticist, cheese monger.
Over the last two days kiddo has been watching all 4 Hunger Games for the 1st time, never having read the books.
Kiddo kept asking if so and so dies and I won't say.
Kiddo says I'm really mean for not warning.
I'm sorry, I had to read it in the book, you have to watch it.
Btw, not enough Rue.
Kiddo kept asking if so and so dies and I won't say.
Kiddo says I'm really mean for not warning.
I'm sorry, I had to read it in the book, you have to watch it.
Btw, not enough Rue.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Over the last two days kiddo has been watching all 4 Hunger Games for the 1st time, never having read the books.
Kiddo kept asking if so and so dies and I won't say.
Kiddo says I'm really mean for not warning.
I'm sorry, I had to read it in the book, you have to watch it.
Btw, not enough Rue.
Kiddo kept asking if so and so dies and I won't say.
Kiddo says I'm really mean for not warning.
I'm sorry, I had to read it in the book, you have to watch it.
Btw, not enough Rue.
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Which means he has savings and investments that GENERATE £125,000 income PER YEAR
Meaning his savings and investments must be in the £2-4 million region (depending on the return)
7/
Meaning his savings and investments must be in the £2-4 million region (depending on the return)
7/
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Which means he has savings and investments that GENERATE £125,000 income PER YEAR
Meaning his savings and investments must be in the £2-4 million region (depending on the return)
7/
Meaning his savings and investments must be in the £2-4 million region (depending on the return)
7/
This week it was TinyPuppy watching his cousins, but no photo as the tripod had the same as him and it was confusing and sad.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This week it was TinyPuppy watching his cousins, but no photo as the tripod had the same as him and it was confusing and sad.
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Offline, I've been asked why the Dark Ages isn't an appropriate term for the Early Medieval period. Bottom line, you'd be hard pressed to make something as stunning as the Alfred Jewel if you couldn't see what you were doing. End of. www.ashmolean.org/alfred-jewel
ALFRED JEWEL
The Alfred Jewel is a masterpiece of goldsmith's work formed around a tear-shaped slice of rock crystal. Its inscription: AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN – 'Alfred ordered me to be made’ – connects the jewe...
www.ashmolean.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Offline, I've been asked why the Dark Ages isn't an appropriate term for the Early Medieval period. Bottom line, you'd be hard pressed to make something as stunning as the Alfred Jewel if you couldn't see what you were doing. End of. www.ashmolean.org/alfred-jewel
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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famously, also, Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem just for a romantic minibreak, not because they had to pay any taxes or anything
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
famously, also, Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem just for a romantic minibreak, not because they had to pay any taxes or anything
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#KimiBadonochMustWatchTheLifeOfBrian News
In early Christian times, under the (checks note) Roman Empire, a (checks notes) state entity uniting much of Europe and the Mediterranean, which (checks notes) provided infrastucture, land grants to retired soldiers and (checks notes) bread and circuses.
In early Christian times, under the (checks note) Roman Empire, a (checks notes) state entity uniting much of Europe and the Mediterranean, which (checks notes) provided infrastucture, land grants to retired soldiers and (checks notes) bread and circuses.
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#KimiBadonochMustWatchTheLifeOfBrian News
In early Christian times, under the (checks note) Roman Empire, a (checks notes) state entity uniting much of Europe and the Mediterranean, which (checks notes) provided infrastucture, land grants to retired soldiers and (checks notes) bread and circuses.
In early Christian times, under the (checks note) Roman Empire, a (checks notes) state entity uniting much of Europe and the Mediterranean, which (checks notes) provided infrastucture, land grants to retired soldiers and (checks notes) bread and circuses.
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‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
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The 1970/80s was the era of Jim Davidson doing "chalky" on tv and the Black and White Minstrels. A different time... yes Nigel but here's the thing...
If fellow pupils remember you being racist at school in that clinate then you were being REALLY racist because the standards were rock bottom.
If fellow pupils remember you being racist at school in that clinate then you were being REALLY racist because the standards were rock bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The 1970/80s was the era of Jim Davidson doing "chalky" on tv and the Black and White Minstrels. A different time... yes Nigel but here's the thing...
If fellow pupils remember you being racist at school in that clinate then you were being REALLY racist because the standards were rock bottom.
If fellow pupils remember you being racist at school in that clinate then you were being REALLY racist because the standards were rock bottom.
And the baby panther also enjoys watching his cousins.
But prefers the porn bits.
But prefers the porn bits.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And the baby panther also enjoys watching his cousins.
But prefers the porn bits.
But prefers the porn bits.
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During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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But on issues such as respectability and morality, I think you should judge people by their deeper, more important actions. That doesn't mean how they dress, but how they treat others on a more meaningful level.
I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.
I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
But on issues such as respectability and morality, I think you should judge people by their deeper, more important actions. That doesn't mean how they dress, but how they treat others on a more meaningful level.
I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.
I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.
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Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money!
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money!
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
Cont'd
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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Seems we're unwilling to return treasure looted from other countries during the Empire days, but happy to sell off our own cultural heritage to the highest bidder.
*Archaeological find of national significance broken up and dispersed overseas*
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
Roman coin find in Dorset field sells for over £16,000
A hoard of 97 Roman coins found in Dorset by metal detectorist Trenton Oliver sold for £16,625 at Noonans Mayfair auction, exceeding estimates.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Seems we're unwilling to return treasure looted from other countries during the Empire days, but happy to sell off our own cultural heritage to the highest bidder.
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So why aren't "journalists" camped on Fartrage's doorstep shouting at him about Reform's "Russian bribery problem"? I mean they were doing it to Jeremy Corbyn over "Labour's anti-Semitism problem" + I don't recall any of the Labour party even being prosecuted for it, never mind jailed for 10 years
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So why aren't "journalists" camped on Fartrage's doorstep shouting at him about Reform's "Russian bribery problem"? I mean they were doing it to Jeremy Corbyn over "Labour's anti-Semitism problem" + I don't recall any of the Labour party even being prosecuted for it, never mind jailed for 10 years
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Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
Nathan Gill; A traitor who was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting Russian adversaries, has been sentenced today.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
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I‘m not superstitious. But I am a *little* stitious, just to be safe.
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I‘m not superstitious. But I am a *little* stitious, just to be safe.
I don't believe, but I don't not believe either.
You'll never catch me stepping inside a fairy ring at dawn or dusk or a solstice.
You'll never catch me stepping inside a fairy ring at dawn or dusk or a solstice.
when people meet me they often ask me if I REALLY believe in all of the things I say about the fae and I’m like “oh, no, not at all, except you know, when I do”
Remember that time when Ireland rerouted an entire highway to avoid pissing off the fairies that truly nobody believes in but we’ll just in case
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I don't believe, but I don't not believe either.
You'll never catch me stepping inside a fairy ring at dawn or dusk or a solstice.
You'll never catch me stepping inside a fairy ring at dawn or dusk or a solstice.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian