Timby2
@timby2.bsky.social
It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views.
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BBC bosses completely fail to realise they’ve been wooing the very people who want rid of it. For the likes of Farage and Trump (and Johnson who installed Gibb) while they make a lot of noise about what the BBC gets wrong, it’s actually all the stuff they get right that’s most damaging.
Farage accuses the BBC of bias on Europe, immigration, the environment, Gaza, and Trump - to a hall of toadies roaring their approval.
And in the blink of an eye, turns to his actual employer "a much perkier GB News," then remembers "although I have to declare an interest." ~AA
And in the blink of an eye, turns to his actual employer "a much perkier GB News," then remembers "although I have to declare an interest." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BBC bosses completely fail to realise they’ve been wooing the very people who want rid of it. For the likes of Farage and Trump (and Johnson who installed Gibb) while they make a lot of noise about what the BBC gets wrong, it’s actually all the stuff they get right that’s most damaging.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates - BBC News
What a snowflake!
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates - BBC News
What a snowflake!
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates
The BBC chair earlier apologised for the
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates - BBC News
What a snowflake!
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates - BBC News
What a snowflake!
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The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
Israeli police order C of E delegation to leave West Bank village after stand-off with armed settlers
Archbishop of York’s pastoral visit to the south Hebron hills was cut short
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
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Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
news.artnet.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
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Lord I have seen what you do for other places 🙏🙏🙏
The Netherlands just elected a young, upbeat, openly gay prime minister who’s talking optimism, growth, and even building new cities, and somehow, it’s working!
@stanveuger.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to talk it
@stanveuger.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to talk it
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Lord I have seen what you do for other places 🙏🙏🙏
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Read the whole thread
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Read the whole thread
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Sorry to hear about your first wife
But people need to realise what private health is.
You are their meat.
Our NHS has been deliberately run down by politicians, underfunded & privatised, so it’s not what it should be.
But, fundamentally, it delivers care according to need not ability to pay.
But people need to realise what private health is.
You are their meat.
Our NHS has been deliberately run down by politicians, underfunded & privatised, so it’s not what it should be.
But, fundamentally, it delivers care according to need not ability to pay.
Exactly.
True story: when my first wife died, I got lots of demands for uninsured excess charges. Most were $10 or $20, so I paid them. Then one for $1600 for an MRI. I checked the details before calling the provider. The alleged scan was done after she had been cremated and buried.
True story: when my first wife died, I got lots of demands for uninsured excess charges. Most were $10 or $20, so I paid them. Then one for $1600 for an MRI. I checked the details before calling the provider. The alleged scan was done after she had been cremated and buried.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sorry to hear about your first wife
But people need to realise what private health is.
You are their meat.
Our NHS has been deliberately run down by politicians, underfunded & privatised, so it’s not what it should be.
But, fundamentally, it delivers care according to need not ability to pay.
But people need to realise what private health is.
You are their meat.
Our NHS has been deliberately run down by politicians, underfunded & privatised, so it’s not what it should be.
But, fundamentally, it delivers care according to need not ability to pay.
The BBC ought to be reporting this - and they don't need to fabricate anything.
We're probably going to find out this is projection, or at least it's going to give him ideas.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The BBC ought to be reporting this - and they don't need to fabricate anything.
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But the US private insurance healt model makes untold billions for the profiteering companies.
Which is what private medicine is all about - profit before patients.
Which is what private medicine is all about - profit before patients.
Indeed, the US model costs most per capita of any country & delivers the worst outcomes of any wealthy country - for obvious reasons, it has inefficiencies & rentiers baked in.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
But the US private insurance healt model makes untold billions for the profiteering companies.
Which is what private medicine is all about - profit before patients.
Which is what private medicine is all about - profit before patients.
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Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
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Medicare for all could be done in one day.
Step 1 - Ban Health Insurance.
Step 2 - Enroll everyone in Medicare.
Step 3 - Alter Social Security Payments to pay for it.
Will be far, far cheaper than paying your current Health Insurance and your cover won't be 'maybe'.
Step 1 - Ban Health Insurance.
Step 2 - Enroll everyone in Medicare.
Step 3 - Alter Social Security Payments to pay for it.
Will be far, far cheaper than paying your current Health Insurance and your cover won't be 'maybe'.
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Medicare for all could be done in one day.
Step 1 - Ban Health Insurance.
Step 2 - Enroll everyone in Medicare.
Step 3 - Alter Social Security Payments to pay for it.
Will be far, far cheaper than paying your current Health Insurance and your cover won't be 'maybe'.
Step 1 - Ban Health Insurance.
Step 2 - Enroll everyone in Medicare.
Step 3 - Alter Social Security Payments to pay for it.
Will be far, far cheaper than paying your current Health Insurance and your cover won't be 'maybe'.
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This is a really informative story from the University of São Paulo about archaeological work seeking traces of Neanderthal-modern human interactions:
“Brazilian scientists travel 40,000 years back to study Neanderthals in Romania”
jornal.usp.br/uspnews/braz...
“Brazilian scientists travel 40,000 years back to study Neanderthals in Romania”
jornal.usp.br/uspnews/braz...
Brazilian scientists travel 40,000 years back to study Neanderthals in Romania
In partnership with Romanian researchers, USP is leading a project to search for traces of ancient Hominins in caves across Transylvania
jornal.usp.br
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a really informative story from the University of São Paulo about archaeological work seeking traces of Neanderthal-modern human interactions:
“Brazilian scientists travel 40,000 years back to study Neanderthals in Romania”
jornal.usp.br/uspnews/braz...
“Brazilian scientists travel 40,000 years back to study Neanderthals in Romania”
jornal.usp.br/uspnews/braz...
Try this policy here in the UK and you'll be rightly shut down within a week.
Obviously this is ridiculous as a policy for employees but also as a customer my blanket preference from any people working in any store anywhere ever is “leave me the absolute fuck alone”
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Try this policy here in the UK and you'll be rightly shut down within a week.
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Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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I'm reading @kmilne.bsky.social's The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections and I'm totally engrossed. Open access! #medievalsky academic.oup.com/book/59790
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections
Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I'm reading @kmilne.bsky.social's The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections and I'm totally engrossed. Open access! #medievalsky academic.oup.com/book/59790
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The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r
Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r
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In this episode of @planetpossible.bsky.social, Julie Foley comments how ridiculous it is that the EA draws up coastal erosion management plans with foremost experts, and everyone, including the government, feels completely free to ignore them when building:
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November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In this episode of @planetpossible.bsky.social, Julie Foley comments how ridiculous it is that the EA draws up coastal erosion management plans with foremost experts, and everyone, including the government, feels completely free to ignore them when building:
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Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought
www.newscientist.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
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New Forum in Australian Archaeology: “Voice: A Third Space in Archaeology to Advance Indigenous Emancipation,” with commentaries & authors’ response.
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Latest articles from Australian Archaeology
Browse the latest articles and research from Australian Archaeology
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November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
New Forum in Australian Archaeology: “Voice: A Third Space in Archaeology to Advance Indigenous Emancipation,” with commentaries & authors’ response.
All articles FREE for 30 days 👉 www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
All articles FREE for 30 days 👉 www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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This.
...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum.
We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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It's genuinely funny to look back now at the shit the media called a "scandal" under Democratic presidents.
I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.
I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.
Meet the 37 private donors for Trump’s ballroom—many of whom have ongoing governmental contracts or regulatory cases.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks | Fortune
The list, reviewed by Fortune, did not mention specific dollar amounts offered by each contributor.
fortune.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's genuinely funny to look back now at the shit the media called a "scandal" under Democratic presidents.
I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.
I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.