Ian M
@ianm70.bsky.social
computer geek, book person, Tolkien nerd, history researcher, science, occasional politics. He/Him.
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Ian M
@ianm70.bsky.social
· Nov 15
“Books are sufficient to themselves. They ask for nothing and they are silently patient, but they are always there for you”.’
Karl Largerfeld
Karl Largerfeld
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25 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children deported from the ghetto in Grodno arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
Video history | Temporary gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau
YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
25 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children deported from the ghetto in Grodno arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
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@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.
From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance
Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...
transsafety.network
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, #Tolkien writes to Michael Tolkien.
Tolkien wishes he had an 'elven' grammar and vocabulary.
Tolkien wishes he had an 'elven' grammar and vocabulary.
Guide to Tolkien's Letters: J.R.R. Tolkien to Michael Tolkien
Tolkien wishes he had an 'elven' grammar and vocabulary.
www.tolkienguide.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#OnThisDay in 1969, #Tolkien writes to Michael Tolkien.
Tolkien wishes he had an 'elven' grammar and vocabulary.
Tolkien wishes he had an 'elven' grammar and vocabulary.
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Happy 50th birthday, Protect and Survive! A booklet full of bogus advice and a PIF series that was thankfully never shown (if it had, we'd have been hurtling towards a nuclear war), it still holds a special place in our hearts...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy 50th birthday, Protect and Survive! A booklet full of bogus advice and a PIF series that was thankfully never shown (if it had, we'd have been hurtling towards a nuclear war), it still holds a special place in our hearts...
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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"the first Black trans woman appointed to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women."
Because trans women are women.
Because trans women are women.
Following anti-trans hate messages, women’s commission member doesn’t regret joining
www.wgbh.org/news/lo...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Following anti-trans hate messages, women’s commission member doesn’t regret joining
Giselle Byrd received hate messages and death threats on social media after right-wing accounts picked up her appointment to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.
www.wgbh.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"the first Black trans woman appointed to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women."
Because trans women are women.
Because trans women are women.
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This Saturday at 8pm via Zoom is our next online lecture
Rich Blackett, @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social will be discussing werewolves in folklore and myth, from early wolf cults to today
Tickets are £5 and include video replay access if you can’t be there live
Order now at bit.ly/flaevents
Rich Blackett, @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social will be discussing werewolves in folklore and myth, from early wolf cults to today
Tickets are £5 and include video replay access if you can’t be there live
Order now at bit.ly/flaevents
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This Saturday at 8pm via Zoom is our next online lecture
Rich Blackett, @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social will be discussing werewolves in folklore and myth, from early wolf cults to today
Tickets are £5 and include video replay access if you can’t be there live
Order now at bit.ly/flaevents
Rich Blackett, @ofwolfandmanbook.bsky.social will be discussing werewolves in folklore and myth, from early wolf cults to today
Tickets are £5 and include video replay access if you can’t be there live
Order now at bit.ly/flaevents
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As we mark 25 years of the Countryside & Rights of Way (CRoW) Act, it's time for bold action again. Time to break down barriers. Time to create truly inclusive access to the great outdoors.
Get involved! 🌳🥾✊ action.ramblers.org.uk/access-to-na...
Get involved! 🌳🥾✊ action.ramblers.org.uk/access-to-na...
Tell the UK Government: No more broken promises. Stop neglecting the public’s access to nature.
Across England, access to nature is deeply unequal. Despite knowing the significant benefits of walking, the UK Government is not taking action. Did you know that: Less well-off neighbourhoods in Engl...
action.ramblers.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
As we mark 25 years of the Countryside & Rights of Way (CRoW) Act, it's time for bold action again. Time to break down barriers. Time to create truly inclusive access to the great outdoors.
Get involved! 🌳🥾✊ action.ramblers.org.uk/access-to-na...
Get involved! 🌳🥾✊ action.ramblers.org.uk/access-to-na...
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We're in Westminster today with partners from the outdoor sector, making the case that EVERYONE should have the chance to get out & enjoy the great outdoors
Walking & time outdoors is essential to our health & wellbeing but #AccessToNature is unequal & progress on improving access has stalled 🧵
Walking & time outdoors is essential to our health & wellbeing but #AccessToNature is unequal & progress on improving access has stalled 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We're in Westminster today with partners from the outdoor sector, making the case that EVERYONE should have the chance to get out & enjoy the great outdoors
Walking & time outdoors is essential to our health & wellbeing but #AccessToNature is unequal & progress on improving access has stalled 🧵
Walking & time outdoors is essential to our health & wellbeing but #AccessToNature is unequal & progress on improving access has stalled 🧵
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What book would you recommend to someone learning about neurodiversity for the first time?
We’re updating our Space for Reading at the Weston Library and this time, the theme is Neurodiversity.
Share your book recommendations here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
We’re updating our Space for Reading at the Weston Library and this time, the theme is Neurodiversity.
Share your book recommendations here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What book would you recommend to someone learning about neurodiversity for the first time?
We’re updating our Space for Reading at the Weston Library and this time, the theme is Neurodiversity.
Share your book recommendations here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
We’re updating our Space for Reading at the Weston Library and this time, the theme is Neurodiversity.
Share your book recommendations here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
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It’s really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it’s clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it’s all “please don’t forget you have to feed your troops” and “if someone asks if you’re going to attack them consider lying about it”
April 23, 2024 at 5:28 AM
It’s really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it’s clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it’s all “please don’t forget you have to feed your troops” and “if someone asks if you’re going to attack them consider lying about it”
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Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts www.bbc.com/news/article... #MAGA Elon Musk has accidentally done some good. I expect this won't last.
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts www.bbc.com/news/article... #MAGA Elon Musk has accidentally done some good. I expect this won't last.
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On Tolkien's creative praxis. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/giuseppe-p...
Giuseppe Pezzini, ‘Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation’ (CUP 2025)
Ring, then, wherever you may be, for I am the Lord of the Rings said he, and I'll write it down, creative mystery, and I'll write it down re: the Rings said he
profadamroberts.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On Tolkien's creative praxis. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/giuseppe-p...
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For #NOVEMBER 1999
‘Before the great Goblin’
Alan Lee (b. 1947) #watercolour for #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit, Ch. 4 “Over Hill and Under Hill” (1997).
Reproduced, *Tolkien Calendar 1999* (HarperCollins) for November.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlanLee
‘Before the great Goblin’
Alan Lee (b. 1947) #watercolour for #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit, Ch. 4 “Over Hill and Under Hill” (1997).
Reproduced, *Tolkien Calendar 1999* (HarperCollins) for November.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlanLee
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For #NOVEMBER 1999
‘Before the great Goblin’
Alan Lee (b. 1947) #watercolour for #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit, Ch. 4 “Over Hill and Under Hill” (1997).
Reproduced, *Tolkien Calendar 1999* (HarperCollins) for November.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlanLee
‘Before the great Goblin’
Alan Lee (b. 1947) #watercolour for #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit, Ch. 4 “Over Hill and Under Hill” (1997).
Reproduced, *Tolkien Calendar 1999* (HarperCollins) for November.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlanLee
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The Goblin cave drawings and Goblin alphabet that Tolkien created for one of his Father Christmas's letters for his children.
Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Goblin cave drawings and Goblin alphabet that Tolkien created for one of his Father Christmas's letters for his children.
Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
Both were drawn in 1932 when he was working on "The Hobbit", and some of the creatures from that manuscript bled to his Christmas letters.
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
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Tolkien was right, we we are Hobbits
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tolkien was right, we we are Hobbits
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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I've Been doing a “Tolkien Tuesday” series over on Sounds of the Void, matching each member of the Fellowship of the Ring with what I perceive to be their favorite metal bands. Here’s the "official" lineup so far:
#Metalsky #Tolkiensky #Booksky
#Metalsky #Tolkiensky #Booksky
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I've Been doing a “Tolkien Tuesday” series over on Sounds of the Void, matching each member of the Fellowship of the Ring with what I perceive to be their favorite metal bands. Here’s the "official" lineup so far:
#Metalsky #Tolkiensky #Booksky
#Metalsky #Tolkiensky #Booksky
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'This is a great comic—and more than that, this is the essence of what a great spy story should be.'
Fanbase Press reviews The Circus: Losing Control issue #1
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Fanbase Press reviews The Circus: Losing Control issue #1
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‘John le Carré’s The Circus: Losing Control #1’ - Comic Book Review - Fanbasepress
I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve not read a single novel by John le Carré, or even seen any of the movies based on them. I know of them: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,
fanbasepress.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
'This is a great comic—and more than that, this is the essence of what a great spy story should be.'
Fanbase Press reviews The Circus: Losing Control issue #1
fanbasepress.com/press/review...
Fanbase Press reviews The Circus: Losing Control issue #1
fanbasepress.com/press/review...
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Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
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New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory