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Cotswolds, UK
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Independent publisher of @WilkieMartin.bsky.social's unhuman series of #comedy #cozymystery #fantasy books
Cotswolds, UK
WitcherleyBooks.com
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Reminder this weekend sees the peak of the Geminids meteor shower. About 0800UT 14th December. 🔭 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reminder this weekend sees the peak of the Geminids meteor shower. About 0800UT 14th December. 🔭 🧪
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THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
Fibers found on an ancient ocean voyaging canoe in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands roughly align with the first archaeological traces of human settlement on Rēkohu. https://scim.ag/3MvPKAp
‘Incredible’ carved canoe dates back to first settlement of islands near New Zealand
Fibers found on waka in Chatham Islands roughly align in age with earliest known human arrival
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December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
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Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
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How the solar storms that cause the Northern Lights can wreak havoc on Earth. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
How solar storms that cause the Northern Lights have the power to wreak havoc on Earth
The aurora borealis can bring stunning night skies, but hidden dangers can accompany the Northern Lights to disrupt life on earth as Chris Fawkes explains.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
How the solar storms that cause the Northern Lights can wreak havoc on Earth. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
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Sometimes I get a call where we have to drop everything and go.
Our newest arrival is Luna. We got her just in time
Our newest arrival is Luna. We got her just in time
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Sometimes I get a call where we have to drop everything and go.
Our newest arrival is Luna. We got her just in time
Our newest arrival is Luna. We got her just in time
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Every act of creativity is a kind of resistance.
‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail
‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail
Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty.
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Every act of creativity is a kind of resistance.
An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman: Harriet Tubman: slave, underground railway conductor and spy.
@throughtimepod.bsky.social
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53. Harriet Tubman: The Woman Who Led An Army (Ep 4)
Spotify video
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December 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman: Harriet Tubman: slave, underground railway conductor and spy.
@throughtimepod.bsky.social
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@throughtimepod.bsky.social
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A protective service jointly-developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites....
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December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A protective service jointly-developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites....
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As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026....
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December 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026....
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if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
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Expert commentary on the new BBC Civilisations series - together with further reading!
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
Does BBC Civilisations get its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Expert commentary on the new BBC Civilisations series - together with further reading!
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
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NEW
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
emptycity.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
NEW
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
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Next Thursday night will see the final Full Moon of 2025. Also coincides with the Geminids meteor shower becoming active. 🔭 🧪
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Next Thursday night will see the final Full Moon of 2025. Also coincides with the Geminids meteor shower becoming active. 🔭 🧪
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Something that confused me when I started blogging was not only how to get more people to my blog but ALSO how to optimize my posts
Here's my simple mini-book for writers (only 99c)
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#Blogging
Here's my simple mini-book for writers (only 99c)
by @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social
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#Blogging
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Something that confused me when I started blogging was not only how to get more people to my blog but ALSO how to optimize my posts
Here's my simple mini-book for writers (only 99c)
by @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social
https://geni.us/SEOBlogPosts
🎧 Audiobook https://geni.us/SEOBookAudio
#Blogging
Here's my simple mini-book for writers (only 99c)
by @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social
https://geni.us/SEOBlogPosts
🎧 Audiobook https://geni.us/SEOBookAudio
#Blogging
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'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site. So extraordinary they don't know what it is. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site. So extraordinary they don't know what it is. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Bill Gates says he hopes these five reads “spark your curiosity.”
Here’s What Bill Gates Recommends You Read This Holiday Season
Billionaire Bill Gates says he hopes these five reads “spark your curiosity.”
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Billionaire Bill Gates says he hopes these five reads “spark your curiosity.”
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Huge discovery - how little we understand about the #biodiversity that we are fast-trashing
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...
Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life
It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.
www.sciencealert.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Huge discovery - how little we understand about the #biodiversity that we are fast-trashing
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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REPOST. Commentatorballs: These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers. From An Evening with Private Eye 2024.
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REPOST. Commentatorballs: These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers. From An Evening with Private Eye 2024.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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REPOST. Commentatorballs: These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers. From An Evening with Private Eye 2024.
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REPOST. Commentatorballs: These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers. From An Evening with Private Eye 2024.
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The sun has officially set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska and won't rise again until January 22nd 2026...
Once sun dips below horizon in mid November, it stays below it for roughly 65 days. This period is called polar night, but it’s not pitch black whole time.
#archaeohistories
Once sun dips below horizon in mid November, it stays below it for roughly 65 days. This period is called polar night, but it’s not pitch black whole time.
#archaeohistories
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The sun has officially set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska and won't rise again until January 22nd 2026...
Once sun dips below horizon in mid November, it stays below it for roughly 65 days. This period is called polar night, but it’s not pitch black whole time.
#archaeohistories
Once sun dips below horizon in mid November, it stays below it for roughly 65 days. This period is called polar night, but it’s not pitch black whole time.
#archaeohistories
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Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
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Previously unknown lineage of humans discovered in Argentina
Previously unknown lineage of humans discovered in Argentina
Previously unknown lineage of humans discovered in Argentina
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Previously unknown lineage of humans discovered in Argentina
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If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...