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Jann Visconti 🔶 💚 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Londoner living in rural East Anglia. #FBPE Vegetarian, (almost Vegan).Wildlife gardener🐝. Carer for my Husband. #Alzeimers🔶LibDem🔶Advocate for the Environment, Women’s Rights, and Democracy. Cheerful. With a love for Cats and the Arts. #AdoptDontShop
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#Friyaymorning ~ Alma & Annwyn like sitting on the bench outside the rehoming pens & hope the volunteers will join them later. This normally happens & the volunteers are so pleased.#inthecompanyofcats #freerangers #catrescue #happycats
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass!
A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at British Museum.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.

Which is your favourite?

From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me

#Archaeology
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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What Does It Feel Like to Be Older and Hungry? Trump Doesn’t Care.
truthout.org
What Does It Feel Like to Be Older and Hungry? Trump Doesn’t Care.
twp.ai
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"Without female staff, we cannot collectively serve returning women and children under conditions of dignity and respect.” Says a UN official in Afghanistan.

www.newarab.com/news/un-susp...
UN suspends work at Afghan-Iran border over curbs on women staff
The UN said restrictions imposed by the Taliban government were imposing ’immediate operational challenges’ and ’risks’ for women and girls.
www.newarab.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Shopping is done for the week.
Did we miss anything?

#DogLovers #DogsOfBluesky
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

#Mood 🌊
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Have you ever heard a cheetah call?
Amazing footage of a cheetah at Kishindo Tiger Canyon in South Africa.

TT: jstafford_wildlife
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Time to leave 😲
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Beautiful monarch butterflies
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Fought his way to the top, judging by all his scars.
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Co-worker is tired and ready to go home
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This is what Guatemala's coastlines look like right now...

TT: 4ocean
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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A new analysis shows an Africa-continentwide collapse in the animal “power” that drives nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, and other life-support functions. This collapse raises risks for biodiversity and the people who depend on it....

www.earth.com/news/africas...
Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
www.earth.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Our story on the Drinking Water Inspectorate ordering water companies to act on PFAS in drinking water sources made it to BBC Radio 4 PM yesterday, with Prof Patrick Byrne explaining some of the ways forever chemicals can affect people's health. More here:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Every sample tested contained chemicals, whether from treated or untreated wastewater, surface runoff or agricultural chemicals. Antibiotics used to treat both humans + animals 'at concentrations high enough to suggest that antimicrobial resistance should be studied further in UK freshwaters'
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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‘Winter Hare’, Bruno Liljefors, oil on canvas, 1908.
Available as part of our Winter Wildlife Christmas Card Collection (6 Card Pack).
www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/wint...
#christmascards #hares #hare #hareart
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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#MondayMorning ~ every day Joe Snow comes up from the greenhouse where he & Elsa live to remind volunteers that it's time for breakfast & not to forget them. He will then lead the volunteer down to the greenhouse carrying their breakfasts 😍🐾 #inthecompanyofcats #freerangers
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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#CharityTuesday ~ Harvey decided the log was a good place to pose for a photo. He is such a love bug. He just wants you to know the village can be #sponsored for £60pa.More info contact Sam sponsorship@shropshirecatrescue.org.uk or shropshirecatrescue.org.uk/sponsor-a-cat #inthecompanyofcats
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’.

Without good food, housing, healthcare people suffer. Need poverty reduction targets.

6.26m people in England awaiti 7.41m hospital appointments.

Privatisation of the NHS means money buys less, longer waits.
UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’
Exclusive: Royal Society of Public Health says ‘fundamental shift’ needed in how firms help those with health conditions
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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'Man Reading.' (1904) John Singer Sargent's portraits balance looseness and definition, what might be called Old Master-casual;
faces and hands rendered just tightly enough to stay alive. The sitter is Nicola d'Inverno, Sargent's Italian valet and a frequent model.
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Pink Sky.
Mark Grantham
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Ruth McDonald
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM