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The 3 Bridgets of the Black List
One of our volunteers looks into the lives of three women with the same name from the 1905 Inebriates Black List
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Hello. As a volunteer with the Dundee City Archives I get to look at some really interesting documents and subjects and was given the opportunity to research some of the folk on the Dundee Blacklist of 1905. If youre interested here is my write up.
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“Feeling drained”
Local little owl at its usual spot
@durhambirdclub.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
#NEbirding
#UKbirding
Local little owl at its usual spot
@durhambirdclub.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
#NEbirding
#UKbirding
December 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Feeling drained”
Local little owl at its usual spot
@durhambirdclub.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
#NEbirding
#UKbirding
Local little owl at its usual spot
@durhambirdclub.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
#NEbirding
#UKbirding
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"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni."
See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni."
See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
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We lost large fish in our pond due to bastards exploding commercial grade fireworks over our property - they never apologised or acknowledged what they had done.
Animals - kept and wild - can be left terrified of fireworks.
I fully support a ban on private use.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Animals - kept and wild - can be left terrified of fireworks.
I fully support a ban on private use.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fireworks: Calls for change to regulations after worries from pet owners
The Department of Justice (DoJ) is responsible for the control of fireworks in Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We lost large fish in our pond due to bastards exploding commercial grade fireworks over our property - they never apologised or acknowledged what they had done.
Animals - kept and wild - can be left terrified of fireworks.
I fully support a ban on private use.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Animals - kept and wild - can be left terrified of fireworks.
I fully support a ban on private use.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Hunting Act 2004 banned the hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England & Wales, including fox hunting, deer hunting, and hare coursing.
Nigel Farage says the ban is “an abomination” and “monstrous”.
Make no mistake, he opposes the ban on hare coursing and tearing foxes to pieces with hounds.
Nigel Farage says the ban is “an abomination” and “monstrous”.
Make no mistake, he opposes the ban on hare coursing and tearing foxes to pieces with hounds.
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Hunting Act 2004 banned the hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England & Wales, including fox hunting, deer hunting, and hare coursing.
Nigel Farage says the ban is “an abomination” and “monstrous”.
Make no mistake, he opposes the ban on hare coursing and tearing foxes to pieces with hounds.
Nigel Farage says the ban is “an abomination” and “monstrous”.
Make no mistake, he opposes the ban on hare coursing and tearing foxes to pieces with hounds.
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The Express will keep doing this.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Express will keep doing this.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
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Scientists studying reindeer/caribou early in the Cold War made a startling discovery. It led to a major public health investigation, turning Canada and the Arctic into nuclear spaces.
#histSTM 🗃️
daily.jstor.org/the-radioact...
#histSTM 🗃️
daily.jstor.org/the-radioact...
The Radioactive Reindeer Problem - JSTOR Daily
Cold War nuclear testing left troubling levels of Cesium-137 in caribou, prompting years of research into Arctic fallout and its risks to human health.
daily.jstor.org
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Scientists studying reindeer/caribou early in the Cold War made a startling discovery. It led to a major public health investigation, turning Canada and the Arctic into nuclear spaces.
#histSTM 🗃️
daily.jstor.org/the-radioact...
#histSTM 🗃️
daily.jstor.org/the-radioact...
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Australian director and cinematographer Frank Hurley cuts to the ice cracking before the Endurance in SOUTH (1919). Hurley accompanied Shackleton's polar attempt and dove into the submerged ship to recover his glass negatives.
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Australian director and cinematographer Frank Hurley cuts to the ice cracking before the Endurance in SOUTH (1919). Hurley accompanied Shackleton's polar attempt and dove into the submerged ship to recover his glass negatives.
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Eat like it’s a competitive sport.
Nap like it’s a medical necessity.
Argue gently about whether Die Hard counts as a Christmas film.
Repeat until Boxing Day. 🎄
Merry Christmas BlueSkylets.
Nap like it’s a medical necessity.
Argue gently about whether Die Hard counts as a Christmas film.
Repeat until Boxing Day. 🎄
Merry Christmas BlueSkylets.
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Eat like it’s a competitive sport.
Nap like it’s a medical necessity.
Argue gently about whether Die Hard counts as a Christmas film.
Repeat until Boxing Day. 🎄
Merry Christmas BlueSkylets.
Nap like it’s a medical necessity.
Argue gently about whether Die Hard counts as a Christmas film.
Repeat until Boxing Day. 🎄
Merry Christmas BlueSkylets.
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Let's face it fireworks are of no practical use whatsoever and only contribute to the environmental pollution that we are trying so hard to reduce. The fact that these powerful fireworks are now being used as a weapon is as good a reason as any to ban them totally.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Let's face it fireworks are of no practical use whatsoever and only contribute to the environmental pollution that we are trying so hard to reduce. The fact that these powerful fireworks are now being used as a weapon is as good a reason as any to ban them totally.
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Every year the chaos inspires the same lament: surely the country’s ban on buying fireworks for 362 days of the year should be expanded to the remaining three? Polls suggest that most Germans agree
Why German cities feel like war zones on New Year’s Eve
A dream for pyromaniacs, a nightmare for everyone else
econ.st
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Every year the chaos inspires the same lament: surely the country’s ban on buying fireworks for 362 days of the year should be expanded to the remaining three? Polls suggest that most Germans agree
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“Let’s see how far his back stretches
when I move this fruit over his head!”
when I move this fruit over his head!”
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Let’s see how far his back stretches
when I move this fruit over his head!”
when I move this fruit over his head!”
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It's important to share images like this right now: this photo is Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins and Bilal Rauf (special adviser at the Australian National Imams Council) at an interfaith vigil in Sydney for the Bondi victims.
We can ban guns! We can fight antisemitism without defaulting to Islamophobia!
We can ban guns! We can fight antisemitism without defaulting to Islamophobia!
‘We are all human beings first’: Jews and Muslims embrace at vigils for those killed in Bondi beach terror attack
Interfaith groups share messages of love, unity and ‘deep heartbreak and condolences’ in the wake of antisemitic mass shooting
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's important to share images like this right now: this photo is Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins and Bilal Rauf (special adviser at the Australian National Imams Council) at an interfaith vigil in Sydney for the Bondi victims.
We can ban guns! We can fight antisemitism without defaulting to Islamophobia!
We can ban guns! We can fight antisemitism without defaulting to Islamophobia!
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The year is 2382. All physical and digital media was lost in a great cataclysm that humanity has gradually rebuilt itself from. The village gathers for festivities and drinks. A travelling musician plays a song passed down in folk tradition for centuries. It is called the YMCA. Everyone joins in
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The year is 2382. All physical and digital media was lost in a great cataclysm that humanity has gradually rebuilt itself from. The village gathers for festivities and drinks. A travelling musician plays a song passed down in folk tradition for centuries. It is called the YMCA. Everyone joins in
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Labour had 500,000 members at the time of the 2019 election and got absolutely slaughtered. Actual votes, not number of members or opinion poll figures, win elections.
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Labour had 500,000 members at the time of the 2019 election and got absolutely slaughtered. Actual votes, not number of members or opinion poll figures, win elections.
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Just a little sketch from a visit to Southampton in 1998. I wandered around looking for something to draw and settled for a quick seascape of the docks with gulls. A cold wind coming off the water.
#art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls
#art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Just a little sketch from a visit to Southampton in 1998. I wandered around looking for something to draw and settled for a quick seascape of the docks with gulls. A cold wind coming off the water.
#art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls
#art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls
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Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
What is driving a surge in enthusiasm for comics among children and how may it benefit their future?
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
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I'm not good at Photoshop, but this gave me an idea:
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm not good at Photoshop, but this gave me an idea:
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‘You will never walk down the Strand again without thinking of the hippopotami that wallowed in a primeval swamp at the Trafalgar Square end.’
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham · Busiest Thoroughfare of the Metropolis of the World: The Strand
After reading Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin’s concise history of the Strand, you will never walk down that street...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
‘You will never walk down the Strand again without thinking of the hippopotami that wallowed in a primeval swamp at the Trafalgar Square end.’
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Can't see the wood for the trees @my_refractive_photos #photooftheday #photograghy #refraction #night #rain #abstract #art #tree #wood #trees #see #can't #alternative #my #refractive #photos #forsale #abstractart
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Can't see the wood for the trees @my_refractive_photos #photooftheday #photograghy #refraction #night #rain #abstract #art #tree #wood #trees #see #can't #alternative #my #refractive #photos #forsale #abstractart
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Ben Bradley, yet another discarded Tory, has slunk over to Reform, a party rapidly turning into a refuge for the hard-right castoffs the public has already rejected. Under Farage, Reform isn’t offering renewal; it’s recycling the same divisive rhetoric voters have grown tired of.
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Ben Bradley, yet another discarded Tory, has slunk over to Reform, a party rapidly turning into a refuge for the hard-right castoffs the public has already rejected. Under Farage, Reform isn’t offering renewal; it’s recycling the same divisive rhetoric voters have grown tired of.
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Days later, another related paper. (#JESP)
Religiosity ==> slippery slope thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Days later, another related paper. (#JESP)
Religiosity ==> slippery slope thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Days later, another related paper. (#JESP)
Religiosity ==> slippery slope thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Days later, another related paper. (#JESP)
Religiosity ==> slippery slope thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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On the bus is a toddler holding tightly to his proud possession, an actual Commonwealth Bank tin money box!
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
On the bus is a toddler holding tightly to his proud possession, an actual Commonwealth Bank tin money box!