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Roy Manterfield @mumblingnerd.bsky.social · 2d

6 October 2003 ► #Nottingham University staff member and Emeritus Professor, Sir Peter Mansfield, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
#NottinghamHistory

Nottingham University staff member and Emeritus Professor, Sir Peter Mansfield, was awarded the N… | Magnetic resonance imaging, University of nottingham, Mansfield

While Peter Mansfield didn’t have the career as a rocket scientist he craved, his contribution to humanity has been immense.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

Mural homage to Irish International Brigader Bob Doyle, Dublin. Since painted over, but now plaque nearby Doyle was captured during Aragón offensive+spent hellish 11 months in San Pedro de Cardeña concentration camp before being released. I recommend his autobiography Brigadista

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Workers Gallery @workersgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Calling all artists and photographers!

Winter Open - call out from Friends of the Workers Gallery!

#callforartists #gallery

Poster for Friends of the Workers Gallery open art exhibition. Image is a landscape on a bight day. A hand appears to be holding an instant photo that shows the words Winter Open.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 3d

This cannot go on. It's insanity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

History repeats.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull, Paul Nuttall, still haven’t said a word about their MEP colleague from UKIP to Reform UK, the Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill.

8 charges of Russian bribery, all admitted.

Reform UK are on the hook for this.

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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 6d

CONOR GEEKIE ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! 🤯

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Roy Manterfield @mumblingnerd.bsky.social · 5d

3 October 1766 ► Infantry and cavalry were brought in keep the peace following #Nottingham’s ‘Great Cheese Riot’ of the previous day, but later that evening there were serious clashes between the rioters and military.
#NottinghamHistory ►

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 8d

#OTD: 30 September 2016, ESA's #Rosetta mission ended with the spacecraft landing on #Comet67P️, 12 years after its journey started. This video compilation shows the last images taken during the descent to the comet's surface.

@science.esa.int @cnes.fr @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social

Rosetta’s final images

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

What's that?

You want to listen to a Cambodian cover of Hard Day's Night?

My pleasure ...

youtu.be/4cjWvk9U2uo?...

Pnhaeu samnieng

YouTube video by Pan Ron - Topic

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PeteZab @petezab.bsky.social · 10d

Facebook seems incapable of policing these racism / hate sites.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11d

From Ken Burns' “The 2025 Battle of Portland”

🎶Sweet Betsy From Pike🎶

“Dearest Prunella: As I write to you, a silent war rages in Portland. ANTIFA is the sneakiest foe of any war. Being invisible, they are difficult to find. Please pray for me as I enjoy my delicious coffee. Your Loving Husband”

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 10d

Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures
The place to be through the 1980s, a nightclub where Johnny Rotten and Kim Wilde rubbed shoulders with the Beastie Boys and, er, Mel Smith. David Koppel’s new book captures it all www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 11d

200 years ago today LOCOMOTION pulled a train between Darlington and Stockton and everything changed.

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PeteZab @petezab.bsky.social · 11d

The Three Graces consist of the Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building, the picture was taken from the Museum of Liverpool. #photography #Liverpool

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WG RumblePants @wgrumblepants.bsky.social · 11d

It’s an old favourite today for the final day of the 2025 season…

Today’s beautiful village cricket ground is the home of Bledlow CC in Buckinghamshire

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17d

All folks, you should see this!

Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17d

Art folks, have you seen this? www.flakphoto.news/p/the-candy-...

The Candy Factory

Art folks, you're going to love this.

www.flakphoto.news

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 17d

Harold Larwood bowls to Ted A'Beckett, 3rd Ashes Test, MCG, December 31st 1928. Don Bradman, the non striker, had been recalled for this match after being dropped for the only time in his career in the previous Test. He scored 79 in this innings and 112 in the second