@chrislambwell.bsky.social
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A wriggling infestation of Bronze Age lurs for #FindsFriday (not fair the #carnyx gets all the glamour…) all found in bogs in Denmark, c.1200-700BC.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A wriggling infestation of Bronze Age lurs for #FindsFriday (not fair the #carnyx gets all the glamour…) all found in bogs in Denmark, c.1200-700BC.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
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Squatting again @radiobeartime.com ?
Experience: a bear moved into my house
Experience: a bear moved into my house
I heard this huff, then a stomp. A growl that sounded like a death warning
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Squatting again @radiobeartime.com ?
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Stephen Harwood-Stamper, in his 50's, cut the camera down earlier, the judge: "moment of madness".
He was in the anti Ulez FB world, where Sadiq Khan is, at best, "Sad dick".
The same anti Ulez world that Chris Philp was in, where Tory staff ran 36 groups
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He was in the anti Ulez FB world, where Sadiq Khan is, at best, "Sad dick".
The same anti Ulez world that Chris Philp was in, where Tory staff ran 36 groups
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse
Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Stephen Harwood-Stamper, in his 50's, cut the camera down earlier, the judge: "moment of madness".
He was in the anti Ulez FB world, where Sadiq Khan is, at best, "Sad dick".
The same anti Ulez world that Chris Philp was in, where Tory staff ran 36 groups
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He was in the anti Ulez FB world, where Sadiq Khan is, at best, "Sad dick".
The same anti Ulez world that Chris Philp was in, where Tory staff ran 36 groups
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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i love my beautiful son (cherry pecan loaf with a mix of white and spelt flour)
January 28, 2026 at 8:34 PM
i love my beautiful son (cherry pecan loaf with a mix of white and spelt flour)
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After more than two years of struggles with the NHS I found out on Friday that Mum doesn't and indeed never did have pancreatic cancer. And I'm sharing here only because I have no idea what else to do with it.
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
After more than two years of struggles with the NHS I found out on Friday that Mum doesn't and indeed never did have pancreatic cancer. And I'm sharing here only because I have no idea what else to do with it.
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Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.
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“This idea of objective truth is impossible. There is no such thing. Memory is a construction, it’s a fiction”
fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
Family History
Five of the best books on family history, as recommended by Thea Lenarduzzi— critic and author of the award-winning family memoir Dandelions
fivebooks.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“This idea of objective truth is impossible. There is no such thing. Memory is a construction, it’s a fiction”
fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
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Here are some sizes (length / width / height / footprint area) of common mid-sized, mid-war WW2 tanks and their average. At the bottom is a comparison to the average sizes of the SUVs I compared. The modern SUVs are ~90% of length, 75% of width, ~70% of height and footprint area of the tanks.
January 27, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Here are some sizes (length / width / height / footprint area) of common mid-sized, mid-war WW2 tanks and their average. At the bottom is a comparison to the average sizes of the SUVs I compared. The modern SUVs are ~90% of length, 75% of width, ~70% of height and footprint area of the tanks.
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
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Last week's comic. I'm new to The Traitors and predictably loved every minute of it
![1
CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN [entering the breakfast room]:
Good morning everyone
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CW:
Today’s mission is the hardest one yet:
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CW:
Having absolutely *no chill whatsoever*.
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[Various of the Contestants doing their best ‘disproportionate reaction’ faces]:
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
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JADE:
*HAUNTED SIDEYE*
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AMANDA [shaking head, saying out loud]:
Inappropriately solemn reaction shot
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[In the car en route to the Mission, spotting a few props set up in the woods];
JESSIE:
OH MI GOOOOD
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JESSIE:
What is THAAAAT
[unseen contestant responding off-frame]:
It’s some props in a wood
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ROXY [in the middle of doing a silly task in the sunny countryside]:
WE’VE GOT TO DO AN ESSENTIALLY UNDEMANDING TASK IN THE PLEASANT COUNTRYSIIIDE
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REECE [crying, being comforted by solemn contestants]:
I’m just feeling sad about the silly parlour game
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MATTHEW [stern face, hand up in the roundtable like he’s a lawyer striking the killer blow]:
Can I just get some clarification on what you meant by… ‘Good morning’?
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RACHEL [in the staring-murderously-to-camera bit]
I can’t believe he said “Good morning”
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreig2bucdnlleqoosoxvjx6sgmnrrwrbgaimrjm4wenvdnokeqpedbm@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Last week's comic. I'm new to The Traitors and predictably loved every minute of it
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A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 AM
A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
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The one big Republican talking point on Minneapolis has been that the state government doesn't cooperatem in handing detained criminal foreigners to ICE, so they "have to" go around grabbing people off the street. This piece says that's nonsense
www.startribune.com/paul-schnell...
www.startribune.com/paul-schnell...
Minnesota prisons chief accuses Homeland Security of peddling ‘misinformation’ on ICE surge
Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell offered video evidence to refute DHS claims, suggesting it’s spreading “pure propaganda.”
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The one big Republican talking point on Minneapolis has been that the state government doesn't cooperatem in handing detained criminal foreigners to ICE, so they "have to" go around grabbing people off the street. This piece says that's nonsense
www.startribune.com/paul-schnell...
www.startribune.com/paul-schnell...
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The idea of all of "cool stuff" as being just Product to be provided by The Dystopia is part of the erasure of feminised and racialised labour, the same as people expecting an endless supply of fast fashion as OP above said. Even in our age of automation, the sewing machines don't work themselves.
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The idea of all of "cool stuff" as being just Product to be provided by The Dystopia is part of the erasure of feminised and racialised labour, the same as people expecting an endless supply of fast fashion as OP above said. Even in our age of automation, the sewing machines don't work themselves.
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
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Anyway, my first piece on what is happening here in Minneapolis - it's pretty straight news, but it is on how the state violence is alienating basically everyone, including at least some Trump supporters: www.economist.com/united-state...
Donald Trump’s siege in Minneapolis is floundering
Violence is alienating even some supporters
www.economist.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Anyway, my first piece on what is happening here in Minneapolis - it's pretty straight news, but it is on how the state violence is alienating basically everyone, including at least some Trump supporters: www.economist.com/united-state...
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I think this is my core geopolitical belief.
Frankly: it is ridiculous that Russia (population circa 145 million, awful demographics, GDP of about the same size as Italy) is a security threat to Europe that requires US help to manage. But it currently is.
Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.
Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I think this is my core geopolitical belief.
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Grasmere Church and Garden in Snow, photo by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Museum).
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Grasmere Church and Garden in Snow, photo by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Museum).
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Today the Church of England remembers Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, a reconciler, a great pastor (and a very able administrator), and last but not least, the man who abolished the slave trade in Bristol and across his diocese.
Wulfstan died this day in 1095.
Wulfstan died this day in 1095.
January 19, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Today the Church of England remembers Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, a reconciler, a great pastor (and a very able administrator), and last but not least, the man who abolished the slave trade in Bristol and across his diocese.
Wulfstan died this day in 1095.
Wulfstan died this day in 1095.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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“I like to ask my students why they became interested in Japan and Japanese history”
fivebooks.com/best-books/j...
fivebooks.com/best-books/j...
Japanese History
The best books on Japanese history, recommended by historian of Japan, Adam P. Brosnan.
fivebooks.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“I like to ask my students why they became interested in Japan and Japanese history”
fivebooks.com/best-books/j...
fivebooks.com/best-books/j...