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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · Dec 31

European Union. Never let them tell you it's not British.

Bio of Captain Arthur Capel from Wikipedia.

Two years before his accidental death, Capel had met in Paris a brilliant young Pole, Josef Retinger, whim he inspired with his talk of federalism and the idea of world government based on an Anglo-French alliance... The seed had been planted in Retinger's mind and, though transformed, it arguably influenced the creation of The League of Nations and came to fruition decades later in the European Union.

Chanel "Carried Away."

Caricature of Coco Chanel lifted off her feet by the dashing Arthur Capel in the form of a centaur polo pony.

Liberty print "Capel" on Tana Lawn. A small ditsy floral suitable for men or women.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 5h

Night Ash!

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 6h

A Garden Spider with her packed lunch.

#arachtober #invertebrates #arachnids #spider #GardenSpider #AraneusDiadematus #predation #CommonWasp #VespulaVulgaris #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

A Garden Spider on her web, holding the partly wrapped body of a Common Wasp she has caught. She is a large orange-brown spider with small white patches on her back forming a kind of cross shape, and legs ringed in brown and fawn.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 22h

Antoni Gaudi's Episcopal Palace in Astorga in Leon on the Camino di Santiago: one of the very few buildings he did outside Catalonia #windowsonwednesday

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 7h

Again, far too clear and cool overnight for successful mothing: at the Obs, a single Toadflax Pearl the best of a limited catch of migrants; an unseasonable Swallowtail was an oddity there

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 7h

Today's weak weather front passed too late to jazz up the ringing numbers at the Bill - just 69 new at the Obs/Crown Estate Field (no nos received yet from Culverwell) with the best the first Greenfinch ringed this year - before the ravages of Trichomonosis we've ringed as many as 566 in a year!...

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 9h

Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17h

You get the sense that, despite everything, Kemi Badenoch is living her best life.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 15h

Freeports. Are. Scams

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 16h

Freeports. Are. Scams

Private Eye

Private Eye on Teesside’s financial woes

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 7h

Goodnight Hookland x

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

Goodnight from Seb Horner, trapped on the wrong side of the A3450 by knowledge that the Half-there Folk hold court in its underpass. Goodnight from Harriet Rain, waking in darkness and switching on bedside light to find apported swan feathers engulfing her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 8h

So it might be alright *in the end* whenever that is?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9h

The witch's calendar of harvest refuses ink-marked dates. She knows the turn year by berry swell, by movements through colour towards ripeness. She waits on the mistletoe drupe, not in hope of Christmas kisses, but future cures. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 9h

Wheelwright’s stone and Lydford castle (medieval prison) behind it today. The wheel stone was used to fit a metal tyre onto a wooden wheel. The wheel hub fitted into the central socket while the work was being done, the stone was in use locally in the 1920’s. #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #history

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Teoni Maughan Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social · 11h

I was invited to co-organise this upcoming conference being held later this month at the University of Exeter. With two days of exciting talks and panels, plus a walking historical tour of Exeter and a group dinner, I'd highly recommend coming along if you can!

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 9h

Also, frogs won't let you boil them. That's a myth. The frogs that were subject to the experiment had their spinal cords severed.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 9h

And there are a couple of poor unfortunates turned to stone underneath it.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 10h

Like a razor. Occam's Razor, in fact.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, its a Medusa!

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 10h

That tree is just sprawling along the ground; its a prostrate oak.

Amazing photography, btw.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 10h

I've been reading about it in Guy Shrubsole's book. It's an endlessly fascinating place.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15h

That "Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn" is perhaps the most insightful comment yet made about Trump and his second-term Attorney General.

Typically outstanding stuff from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 11h

At some point, somebody will have to acknowledge that it's naked theft of public money.

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

Alt: Mr Bean is standing in a field of yellow flowers looking at his watch with a pained expression.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 16h

Freeports. Are. Scams

Private Eye

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 19h

Witness Augustus as you’ve never seem him, re-sculptured to look nothing like himself!

The scene is ostensibly Augustus driving a chariot of Tritons. The imagery includes Tritons holding a shield with an oak wreath (thought to be the clipeus virtutis) and Victoria.

#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome

Description from Kunsthistorisches Museum: “The cameo shows Augustus, clad in a toga – the heads of the figures are all modern – viewed from the front in a chariot being pulled through the sea by Tritons. The triumphant naval victor holds a branch in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. An oak wreath is attached to the parapet of the chariot, and a shell is attached to the end of the handle. While the two middle Tritons – one holding a horn in his right, the other a dolphin in his left – each raise an arm symmetrically as if pointing at Augustus, the two outer Tritons carry the symbols of his reign in front of him: the left holds a globe, on which a shield with an oak wreath (clipeus virtutis) flanked by two ibexes, and the right shows Victoria floating on the globe. The cameo was probably created soon after 27 BCE, when Augustus was awarded the oak wreath, which - together with the ibex - was also engraved on the back of the stone in the 16th century.”

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