Portwrinkle
@prehistoricpot.bsky.social
Archaeologist, prehistoric pottery specialist, heritage consultant, photographer and lover of the arts. I adore Owls.
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Portwrinkle
@prehistoricpot.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi, I am migrating to here and Mastadon, to escape from doom scrolling, reels, and toxicity. I am looking for things that feed my brain whilst I battle cancer treatment.
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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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“One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”
She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”
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ceasefire
Finally i will sleep without any fear about my kids Finally I will take off my white medical coat and rest for a long time I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all of you for what you have done for me and my family I will remain grateful to you for as long as I live
Finally i will sleep without any fear about my kids Finally I will take off my white medical coat and rest for a long time I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all of you for what you have done for me and my family I will remain grateful to you for as long as I live
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
ceasefire
Finally i will sleep without any fear about my kids Finally I will take off my white medical coat and rest for a long time I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all of you for what you have done for me and my family I will remain grateful to you for as long as I live
Finally i will sleep without any fear about my kids Finally I will take off my white medical coat and rest for a long time I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all of you for what you have done for me and my family I will remain grateful to you for as long as I live
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Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social
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BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
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🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing and Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two burly men (30s?) are sitting across from each other. Both have tiny brand new humans strapped in slings across their chests.
Tucking into fry-up breakfasts, comparing notes on sleeplessness and being new dads. (1)
Two burly men (30s?) are sitting across from each other. Both have tiny brand new humans strapped in slings across their chests.
Tucking into fry-up breakfasts, comparing notes on sleeplessness and being new dads. (1)
October 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing and Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two burly men (30s?) are sitting across from each other. Both have tiny brand new humans strapped in slings across their chests.
Tucking into fry-up breakfasts, comparing notes on sleeplessness and being new dads. (1)
Two burly men (30s?) are sitting across from each other. Both have tiny brand new humans strapped in slings across their chests.
Tucking into fry-up breakfasts, comparing notes on sleeplessness and being new dads. (1)
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If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum
Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (10?) reverentially pulls two brand new paperback fantasy tomes from a crisp paper bag. He examines the covers in fine detail before carefully stowing them away again. Magnificent treasures to read later. (1)
A young human (10?) reverentially pulls two brand new paperback fantasy tomes from a crisp paper bag. He examines the covers in fine detail before carefully stowing them away again. Magnificent treasures to read later. (1)
October 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (10?) reverentially pulls two brand new paperback fantasy tomes from a crisp paper bag. He examines the covers in fine detail before carefully stowing them away again. Magnificent treasures to read later. (1)
A young human (10?) reverentially pulls two brand new paperback fantasy tomes from a crisp paper bag. He examines the covers in fine detail before carefully stowing them away again. Magnificent treasures to read later. (1)
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Yesterday: imagine managing to get the last seat on a packed train even in 1st class, just to be confronted by a frail 75+ White man who decided that the only Black person in the carriage (and NOT the only person who got on that carriage) couldn't possibly have a 1st class ticket.
October 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Yesterday: imagine managing to get the last seat on a packed train even in 1st class, just to be confronted by a frail 75+ White man who decided that the only Black person in the carriage (and NOT the only person who got on that carriage) couldn't possibly have a 1st class ticket.
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🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) are sitting side-by-side. She's wearing a fluffy bobble hat. He's wearing a tweed bucket hat. A hot chocolate arrives and he drawers a smiley face in the foam--two marshmallows for eyes--before sliding it over to her. (1)
A couple (80s?) are sitting side-by-side. She's wearing a fluffy bobble hat. He's wearing a tweed bucket hat. A hot chocolate arrives and he drawers a smiley face in the foam--two marshmallows for eyes--before sliding it over to her. (1)
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🧵Spotted While Cafe Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) are sitting side-by-side. She's wearing a fluffy bobble hat. He's wearing a tweed bucket hat. A hot chocolate arrives and he drawers a smiley face in the foam--two marshmallows for eyes--before sliding it over to her. (1)
A couple (80s?) are sitting side-by-side. She's wearing a fluffy bobble hat. He's wearing a tweed bucket hat. A hot chocolate arrives and he drawers a smiley face in the foam--two marshmallows for eyes--before sliding it over to her. (1)
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My book is about how Nazis got power, how they kept it, & how to fight it—how we fought it then, how we can now. Nazis weren’t a foregone conclusion. They were not inevitable. They want you to think so—convince you they already won so you quit fighting. Because they know they can’t win otherwise.
The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319
wwnorton.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My book is about how Nazis got power, how they kept it, & how to fight it—how we fought it then, how we can now. Nazis weren’t a foregone conclusion. They were not inevitable. They want you to think so—convince you they already won so you quit fighting. Because they know they can’t win otherwise.
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BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
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And once in a long while someone is like “wait a minute maybe we are not necessarily doomed but part of the op is to make everyone think we are necessarily doomed. Let’s fight back” and then replies yelling at them for not being doomy enough
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
And once in a long while someone is like “wait a minute maybe we are not necessarily doomed but part of the op is to make everyone think we are necessarily doomed. Let’s fight back” and then replies yelling at them for not being doomy enough
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The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
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YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF THI
October 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF THI
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At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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🧵Spotted on a recent Beach Walk in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)
A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)
October 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🧵Spotted on a recent Beach Walk in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)
A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)
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People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
I decided this was unacceptable.
Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.
I decided this was unacceptable.
Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
I decided this was unacceptable.
Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.
I decided this was unacceptable.
Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.
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Yes, tomorrow Health insurance companies will double or triple premiums because of the healthcare cuts. People are going to go bankrupt for healthcare or die from a lack of healthcare because they can't afford it.
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Yes, tomorrow Health insurance companies will double or triple premiums because of the healthcare cuts. People are going to go bankrupt for healthcare or die from a lack of healthcare because they can't afford it.
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“London councils now spend staggering £5m a day to house homeless people
Almost all of the current homelessness budget is spent on temporary accommodation”
www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
Almost all of the current homelessness budget is spent on temporary accommodation”
www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
London councils now spend staggering £5m a day to house homeless people
Almost all of the current homelessness budget is spent on temporary accommodation
www.mylondon.news
September 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“London councils now spend staggering £5m a day to house homeless people
Almost all of the current homelessness budget is spent on temporary accommodation”
www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
Almost all of the current homelessness budget is spent on temporary accommodation”
www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...