Jonathan J Stedman
@jjstedman.bsky.social
still stumbling and mumbling through life, hopefully with hû.mata, hüḵta, hvaršta
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Absolutely THIS!!!!!!!!! 👇
My only worry is that ARE there any decent MPs left in #Labour?? The handful that I thought that were seem to be happy & content with the #Starmer shitshow.
My only worry is that ARE there any decent MPs left in #Labour?? The handful that I thought that were seem to be happy & content with the #Starmer shitshow.
Only Keir Starmer's Labour could arrest the world's most famous climate activist for holding a placard
All I want for Christmas is a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer for trashing the UK's humanitarian reputation
Come on decent Labour MPs, where are you?
All I want for Christmas is a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer for trashing the UK's humanitarian reputation
Come on decent Labour MPs, where are you?
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Want a science-based guide for effective climate solutions, with no greenwashing, no hype, and no BS?
Check out the new Drawdown Explorer.
100% evidence-based. Beautifully presented. No subscriptions. No paywalls.
And it’s 100% free. Forever.
Drawdown.org/explorer
Check out the new Drawdown Explorer.
100% evidence-based. Beautifully presented. No subscriptions. No paywalls.
And it’s 100% free. Forever.
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He saw the light.
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has been appointed by the Pope.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
He saw the light.
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I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
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The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet, dated AD 770-775, is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in York in 1982. Iron and copper-alloy.
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet, dated AD 770-775, is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in York in 1982. Iron and copper-alloy.
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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This is an absolute disgrace, please take action now and contact your MP to stop this.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-govern...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-govern...
The Government Is About to Class Animal Testing as “National Infrastructure”
URGENT PLEASE ACT NOW
protectthewild.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is an absolute disgrace, please take action now and contact your MP to stop this.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-govern...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-govern...
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✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.
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This is Cody. He's always wanted a dog of his own, and his wish finally came true. Can already tell his new little brother Cooper is going to be his best friend forever. 13/10 for both (TT: codythegoldenboy)
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is Cody. He's always wanted a dog of his own, and his wish finally came true. Can already tell his new little brother Cooper is going to be his best friend forever. 13/10 for both (TT: codythegoldenboy)
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A genetic therapy has reversed aggressive & incurable blood cancers in ~64% of patients in a trial.
The treatment involves editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".
🧪🩸🧬 #medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The treatment involves editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".
🧪🩸🧬 #medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A genetic therapy has reversed aggressive & incurable blood cancers in ~64% of patients in a trial.
The treatment involves editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".
🧪🩸🧬 #medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The treatment involves editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".
🧪🩸🧬 #medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is shocking, but it's not JUST Cornwall, it appears to be happening everywhere. In the 6th richest country in the world!
Things have got worse in my area too, & neither the #Tories nor #Labour have done anything about it.
Yet, the rich are getting richer. #Starmer turns a blind eye to it all.
Things have got worse in my area too, & neither the #Tories nor #Labour have done anything about it.
Yet, the rich are getting richer. #Starmer turns a blind eye to it all.
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
Did Sasanians Remember the Achaemenids… or Should They Have?
(Any unauthorised quotations, copying, or use of the following is strictly prohibited) The scholarly debate on whether the Sasanians, particularly the early Sasanians like Ardashir I, had any memor…
iranologie.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
iranologie.com/2025/11/29/d...
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As the saying goes... "RAGGA TWINS DEH BOUT!"
The Rough Guide To Rongorongoland returns to Soho Radio this coming Tuesday…
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the saying goes... "RAGGA TWINS DEH BOUT!"
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
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Ten or twenty years ago, if an executive came out and said "actually our products can't be trusted" the stock would take a nosedive rather than go up.
The casual way this techbro talks about the "error-prone" products they are throwing out into the world, the necessity for the consumer to accept, train for, and correct for these, and the impending economic chaos wrought by the frenzy they are creating as though it's normal and natural: holy hell.
Don’t blindly trust everything AI tools say, warns Alphabet boss
Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence models are ‘prone to some errors’ and warns of impact if AI bubble bursts
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Ten or twenty years ago, if an executive came out and said "actually our products can't be trusted" the stock would take a nosedive rather than go up.
Just had the chance to visit the Ooty Aramgarh.
Paid my respects to Siloo Manekshaw, my mother's lifetime friend & bridge partner and her husband Sam Manekshaw MC
So many many men & women from a forgotten time, resting in an oasis of calm that is the centre of ..
ootyaramgarh2009.wordpress.com
Paid my respects to Siloo Manekshaw, my mother's lifetime friend & bridge partner and her husband Sam Manekshaw MC
So many many men & women from a forgotten time, resting in an oasis of calm that is the centre of ..
ootyaramgarh2009.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just had the chance to visit the Ooty Aramgarh.
Paid my respects to Siloo Manekshaw, my mother's lifetime friend & bridge partner and her husband Sam Manekshaw MC
So many many men & women from a forgotten time, resting in an oasis of calm that is the centre of ..
ootyaramgarh2009.wordpress.com
Paid my respects to Siloo Manekshaw, my mother's lifetime friend & bridge partner and her husband Sam Manekshaw MC
So many many men & women from a forgotten time, resting in an oasis of calm that is the centre of ..
ootyaramgarh2009.wordpress.com
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Lads
If you get an NHS invite for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening then please do go along.
It’s a short and painless process which will be over in 10 minutes and it could save your life.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/a...
If you get an NHS invite for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening then please do go along.
It’s a short and painless process which will be over in 10 minutes and it could save your life.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/a...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Find out about abdominal aortic aneurysm, what the symptoms are, how it’s treated, how to lower your risk of getting one and what the causes are.
www.nhs.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Lads
If you get an NHS invite for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening then please do go along.
It’s a short and painless process which will be over in 10 minutes and it could save your life.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/a...
If you get an NHS invite for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening then please do go along.
It’s a short and painless process which will be over in 10 minutes and it could save your life.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/a...
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Well done to everyone who remembered to vote.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Well done to everyone who remembered to vote.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
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Get your #Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Get your #Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Many of the same reasons we detail here for the reintroduction of lynx our other missing carnivore. www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scot...
Lynx to Scotland | SCOTLAND: The Big Picture
The Lynx to Scotland partnership has been working towards a trial reintroduction of lynx that, if successful, would be the first time that a large mammalian predator has been returned to any part of t...
www.scotlandbigpicture.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Many of the same reasons we detail here for the reintroduction of lynx our other missing carnivore. www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scot...
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. . . and I don't want any shit from the microwave either
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
. . . and I don't want any shit from the microwave either
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This was powerful
Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This was powerful