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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖

@moleymole.bsky.social

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An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. Not sure this account adds much to it though. #AltText - no AI🚫

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 4d

Reminding National Trust members not to turn into a pumpkin - please *use your vote* before the end of the month to support genuine candidates and keep the disingenuous ‘Restore’ stooges away from the Trust’s assets. Easiest way is use ‘Quick Vote’ to endorse official NT AGM recommendations.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 4d

Pumpkin patch at Hinton Ampner
@nationaltrust.org.uk 🎃

Very large pumpkins on bare soil in a walled garden with espalier fruit trees, ornamental planting beds and outbuilding roofs in the background.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1h

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 3h

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography

An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 23h

Anyone free on actual Halloween night? Come to Whitby, I'll guide you gently through memories of 1970s/80s Halloweens ("The sky is blue, the grass is green") and there'll be music, dressing up, sweets etc. I might even do the "Witches of Halloween" song from 'Words and Pictures'. A fiver. A FIVER!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 55m

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 53m

They seem to read a different set of gospels to the one on my shelf.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 57m

It’s their turn at the top of the Magic Faraway Tree, before it revolves away again to the next marvellous placement.

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David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 1h

You couldn’t make it up …
@hsj.co.uk

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 5h

AT ANY TIME. 😂

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2h

Thats allowed - you have to be your own algo-rhythm on this platform!

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2h

This display in Binns in Darlington triggered a trip down memory lane - and reminded me of the Mark Gatiss article.

Stickered Star Wars stock in retro packaging in Binns toy department Darlington Sept 2025.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2h

Quick - we need an empty pot in case of a bowl movement…
@pottedhistory.bsky.social

Frankie Howerd as Lurcio looking surprised - carrying a [replica by Potted History] Samianware bowl containing fruit.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2h

The *Commodus Passage reopens*

(Oo-er)

Secret tunnel used by Roman emperors inside Colosseum reopens

It is believed Emperor Commodus survived an assassination attempt while walking through the tunnel

www.independent.co.uk

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 4h

We regret to inform you that the Nobel Peace Prize is antifa.

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 1d

Just a week until the launch of our beautiful Flow zine...

An eclectic range of strikingly original work from across our diverse community of Dartmoor artists, printmakers and photographers accompanied by the words of Kirsteen McNish.

We're very proud of it.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...

A black and white image by Iain Murray of a still, dark pool in a high Dartmoor river - a bank of gravel is highlighted by the weak sun. The landscape beyond is hazy in mist. Some words by Kirsteen McNish appear on the page to the left of the image:

Daylight, a Skylark spirals
its song from gorse to cloud
- a tiny vortex rising like smoke
At night, under a full moon,
the wind sears into skin,
illuminating the flux
Swallowed, swaled,
a cacophony shaken
from an ancient dream

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 6h

UKGov's Covid vaccination policy flies in the face of scientific evidence. Covid is a rapidly mutating coronavirus that causes serious collateral damage to multiple organs. You cannot achieve immunity to it because of the mutation rate. It's MUCH more dangerous than flu. Vaccinate, for god's sake!

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 11h

New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 7h

This is American money at work, toward the UK takeover project. Farage, speaking at a far-right, Christian nationalist event in the US.

Read the Trumpian nonsense he spouts. Disgusting.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 7h

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 7h

New PML research has revealed that particles shed from car tyres – a major but often overlooked source of #MicroplasticPollution – are both eaten by, and stick to the bodies of small marine animals: pml.ac.uk/news/micropl...

#Microplastics #Plastic

Microplastics: tiny tyre particles found to stick to and be eaten by estuarine animals

New PML research has revealed that particles shed from car tyres – a major but often overlooked source of microplastic pollution – are both eaten by, and stick to the bodies of small marine animal

pml.ac.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 8h

Are you thinking "TFI Friday"? Well in Ukraine it's just another day of lying in a trench, piloting a drone, evacuating hot spots, treating the wounded, or trying to keep the family safe.

And it's Day 1325 of this, following another night of little sleep for Kyiv. Here's the🧵

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 7h

This is the #Orkney Hood, a 3rd–7th century woollen #IronAge garment with intricate twill and tablet-woven trim.
Explore Iron Age Textiles at our Workshop with Paula Constantine this Sat 11 Oct, 10am-12 pm. Experience the art of making clothing the Iron Age way!🏛️
zurl.co/7PN0Q

photo of the Orkney Hood and photo of a relief depicting the genii cucullati

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