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As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find!

An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea.

✨ Happy New Year all! ✨

National Museum of Denmark
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#Archaeology
My photo shows a small figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The bear is seen in profile facing right. The legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The figurine is displayed on a small metal stand. The display lighting shines on the bear’s head and neck enhancing the translucence of the orange amber. The neck of the bear has a polished groove indicating it was once suspended on a cord or string. Length 6.5cm. The Fanø bear was found in 1991 on a beach on the west coast of the Danish island of Fanø, located off the south-western coast of Jutland. In the Stone Age the Danish coastline was different from today. “Since then the coastline has been influenced by later changes to the sea level as well as the rising up of the land after the last Ice Age. This rising of the land is still going on today. North of a line on the map the land has risen up and south of the line the coast has become submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea level. Therefore a proportion of Stone Age settlements south of the “tilt line” now lie under water or at the edge of the beach. Thus objects can be washed out in the sea and later be found on the beach”. The Fanø bear is one of a small number of amber bear figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach Amber has many amazing properties: it’s warm to the touch, it’s a glossy translucent colour when polished, it gives off a fragrant scent when burnt, and when rubbed against fur or hair it can produce static electricity which ‘magically’ emits green sparks in the dark and can make hair stand on end.
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
cheezyquaver.bsky.social
😂
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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parodypm.bsky.social
Isn't it fantastic to be a sovereign nation once again, able to make our own rules and not bend to the demands of foreign politicians?
December 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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maks23.bsky.social
💯💯💯
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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pbump.com
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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December 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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flyinginside.bsky.social
Wisdom from the old man
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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maks23.bsky.social
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December 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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“George Bailey is a feckless, puritanical and self-serving tyrant, using his fellow townsfolk’s money – ineffectively – to impose his own morality upon them. The celebrated George Bailey is…saving townsfolk from their own selfish desires, such as for more housing or any viable nightlife.”
The truth about It’s A Wonderful Life
This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
In about two weeks, Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine will last as long as the Soviet-German war lasted.

That war (called "the Great Patriotic War in Russian narrative) lasted 1,418 days.

The "special military operation" lasts for 1,401 days already.
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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twlldun.bsky.social
I like that every iteration of the Tory party since I’ve been aware has had its own version of Sir John Hayes, a point of surety in an uncertain world
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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marikamikiashvili.bsky.social
At least 11 people will be tried tomorrow and the day after over protesting on a pavement.

#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
marikamikiashvili.bsky.social Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 8d
Caucasus School of Business Dean Elene Janjghava will be prosecuted for protesting on a pavement.

#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
December 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
This is absurd.
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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leftoutside.bsky.social
The decline in spin and rise of our and out lying in politics is bad. Campbell respected his audience and expected them to buy what he was selling. The Betting and Gaming Council don't care this is ridiculous.
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 8d
And they say satire's dead. 😂

"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
Betting shops are keeping community spirit alive this Christmas
Walk into a betting shop this Christmas and you will find something Britain is in danger of losing. Laughter, conversation, familiar faces and a re...
www.politicshome.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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#BBCNews live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
'Massive' Russian attack across Ukraine, says energy firm, power cuts across Ukraine
'Massive' Russian attack across Ukraine, says energy firm, with four-year-old child among three killed
Air raid alerts were issued across the country, including in Kyiv, where one person was killed. Others were killed in Khmelnytskyy, western Ukraine, and the central Zhytomyr region.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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ruthwatson.bsky.social
Independent journalism really matters.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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bobmayer.bsky.social
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason.
www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiy...
Novorossiysk Was Russia’s Last Sanctuary. It Just Fell.
The Black Sea Has No Safe Harbor Left for Russia
www.theconcis.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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najabentzen.bsky.social
The entire thread is worth your time:
lucasguttenberg.bsky.social Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 16d
Which leaves us with the one solution I have seen so far that satisfies all three criteria: The reparations loan. It is a piece of genial policy work: It gives Ukraine quasi-cash as the loan only has to be repaid once Russia ends the war and to the extent that Russia pays reparations.
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
"I have lived through a great deal of terrible evil in my life -the Holocaust&repressions.I made it my duty to outlive Putin."

100-yr-old Ukrainian Anastasiia Hulei survived both Stalin's repressions& Nazi concentration camps.Due to the full-scale invasion she had to leave for Germany
📹: DW
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Analysis | Zelensky says he wants a better peace deal. Until he starts buying $TRUMP coin, it’s hard to take him seriously.
December 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
Very good read
eublogo.bsky.social Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 19d
Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
cheezyquaver.bsky.social
Oh good bloody gawd
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
cheezyquaver.bsky.social
Cannot believe Arc Raiders did not win Game of the Year. And to rub da salt in Battlefield 6 won best game sound design.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM