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Timby2
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It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views.
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“CBS News has a partnership agreement with the BBC, meaning news content including video footage can be shared. BBC News is editorially independent of CBS.”
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CBS defends pulling 60 Minutes segment about Trump deportations - BBC News
The network was accused of making a "political" move to pull the story about Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador.
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Unverified: chatter in diplomatic circles that RU were to exchange Venezuela for control over Ukraine.

For what it’s worth. Russia’s actual reaction (beyond the statement of “condemnation”) will show what’s true.
January 3, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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This #findsfriday, we are sharing with you one of three leather shoes that were found in Avebury in 2025, concealed in a wall of a house. Wiltshire Council's Conservation & Museums Advisory Service then worked to conserve the shoes for our collection, creating bespoke mounts to stabilise the shoes.
January 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Jewellery designed by Dalí
January 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Did our ancestors walk upright earlier than we thought? New analysis shows Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal 7 million years ago, pushing the origins of human walking to the dawn of our lineage. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Bipedalism #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/standing-u...
Standing Up in the Sahel
New fossils suggest upright walking began earlier than we thought
www.anthropology.net
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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A Government that says it's concerned about the cost of living, but capitulates to corporations

"Housebuilders have been lobbying against the inclusion of batteries, which would entail an upfront cost to the developer, though they would save money for homeowners"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England
Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Interesting to see Ronnie Wood and Lulu on Jools Holland's Hootenanny and remembering they are the same age.
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Whoops!
December 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Some former Jan 6 riot defendants are expected to return to US Capitol grounds on Jan 6, 2026.

So too are some counter-protestors who oppose the mass pardons of Jan 6 defendants
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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University Challenge Christmas 2025. Alumni Teams had never heard of Eric Hobsbawm
The University Challenge Christmas series, consisting of teams of Alumni, on Monday 29th December featured St Hilda’s Oxford and Edinburgh Amol Rajan asked who the joint author (with Terence …
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December 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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#Caturday is every day 🐈😻😼
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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According to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), an independent conflict monitor, from January 1 to December 5, Israel carried out at least 10,631 attacks, marking one of the broadest geographic military offensives in a single year.

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December 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Sweet mischief through probable chance. apple.news/A6RfqTLQBSrm...
Someone Stole Trump's Kennedy Website Just To Troll Him, And It's Honestly Genius — BuzzFeed
Can't wait for the 2026 updates!
apple.news
December 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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All my uncles have passed but they believed in the Jesus in your book!
December 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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“Federal prosecutors said Sunday the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to "speak up" for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen…”

Lies have consequences.
www.foxnews.com/us/dc-pipe-b...
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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This is Part 2 of the Worst Things Trump Did in 2025. It goes from late February to early April.

101-200 in chronological order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 - Pt. 2
#101-200. February-April 2025
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I wish someone could explain this to Trump, but it wouldn't matter. He is determined to crown Russia the winner.
December 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This year new archaeological finds on Sulawesi for the first time established that human relatives were in the islands of Wallacea before one million years ago. I can't wait to find out more about what they may have been like.

www.johnhawks.net/p/hominins-v...
Hominins voyaged to Sulawesi before one million years ago
New report of stone artifacts from Calio place human relatives in Wallacea more broadly and earlier than anyone knew.
www.johnhawks.net
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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That first light as it hits the Syren's way marker at the base of Glastonbury Tor. You can ring the bell on your way up or down. Photograph taken this morning shortly after sunrise.
December 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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“None of us can guess how the Trump assault on the BBC will play out, because he wields unprecedented power, unchecked by personal dignity or decency.”

No. We can’t. But we can condemn forever the repulsive British politicians and media gobshites who would side with him instead of us.
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"

"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
December 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM