Andy
@archristiansen.bsky.social
Westerner. Amateur photographer, WWII Historophile, Anglophile, Bibliophile.
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How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours.
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match ⬇️
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match ⬇️
How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours.
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match ⬇️
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match ⬇️
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NEW: Russian forces continue to intensify offensive operations in and around Pokrovsk to seize the town and collapse the Ukrainian pocket.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110225
Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110225
Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/6)
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
NEW: Russian forces continue to intensify offensive operations in and around Pokrovsk to seize the town and collapse the Ukrainian pocket.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110225
Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110225
Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/6)
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Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, teens and twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras.
🔗: on.wsj.com/3J9LuFt
🔗: on.wsj.com/3J9LuFt
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, teens and twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras.
🔗: on.wsj.com/3J9LuFt
🔗: on.wsj.com/3J9LuFt
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All 20 Israelis are now in hospitals in Israel, surrounded by their families and medical teams dedicated to their recovery.
The nightmare is over.
The nightmare is over.
October 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
All 20 Israelis are now in hospitals in Israel, surrounded by their families and medical teams dedicated to their recovery.
The nightmare is over.
The nightmare is over.
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We're delighted that the Watson Collection is now live.
The collection offers rich material for scholars of the Second World War, memory, religion, women's history, and the social history of twentieth-century Britain.
🔗https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/watsoncollection
The collection offers rich material for scholars of the Second World War, memory, religion, women's history, and the social history of twentieth-century Britain.
🔗https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/watsoncollection
A powerful collection of letters, diaries, and photographs has been unveiled online to mark 80th anniversary of #VJDay.
The Watson Collection tells of Frank Watson, an RAF serviceman captured by Japanese forces and his wife May, who waited four years for his return. ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
The Watson Collection tells of Frank Watson, an RAF serviceman captured by Japanese forces and his wife May, who waited four years for his return. ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
Unseen WWII letters and diaries released for VJ Day's 80th
A powerful collection of wartime letters, diaries, and photographs – never before shared with the public – has been unveiled online today to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
www.ox.ac.uk
August 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We're delighted that the Watson Collection is now live.
The collection offers rich material for scholars of the Second World War, memory, religion, women's history, and the social history of twentieth-century Britain.
🔗https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/watsoncollection
The collection offers rich material for scholars of the Second World War, memory, religion, women's history, and the social history of twentieth-century Britain.
🔗https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/watsoncollection
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Read The Independent's review of our new John Le Carre exhibition: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Inside the meticulous, marvellous mind of John le Carré
A new exhibition opens up the spy writer’s sprawling literary archive to shed light on his idiosyncratic creative process. Katie Rosseinsky explores how he brought George Smiley and co to life
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Read The Independent's review of our new John Le Carre exhibition: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Microsoft Word 2002
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Microsoft Word 2002
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Nebula NGC7822, Constellation Cepheus taken with my Celestron Origin Telescope from West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies 25 Sept 2025. This nebula is almost impossible to see visually, which may be the reason it doesn't have a common name like "torch flame nebula" or something similar. #astrophotography
October 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nebula NGC7822, Constellation Cepheus taken with my Celestron Origin Telescope from West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies 25 Sept 2025. This nebula is almost impossible to see visually, which may be the reason it doesn't have a common name like "torch flame nebula" or something similar. #astrophotography
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The previously unreported support has intensified since midsummer and has been crucial in helping Ukraine carry out attacks that Joe Biden’s White House discouraged, according to multiple Ukrainian and US officials familiar with the campaign. on.ft.com/3W1U8c0
October 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The previously unreported support has intensified since midsummer and has been crucial in helping Ukraine carry out attacks that Joe Biden’s White House discouraged, according to multiple Ukrainian and US officials familiar with the campaign. on.ft.com/3W1U8c0
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"China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy:
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...
China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.
foreignpolicy.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy:
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...
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Good morning to you all, now it's time for #StunDay
This week i'm going with a male Bearded Tit with it's 'Splits Pose' using 2 reeds to balance Ninja Style at RSPB Leighton Moss.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife #BeardedTits #naturetherapy
This week i'm going with a male Bearded Tit with it's 'Splits Pose' using 2 reeds to balance Ninja Style at RSPB Leighton Moss.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife #BeardedTits #naturetherapy
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Good morning to you all, now it's time for #StunDay
This week i'm going with a male Bearded Tit with it's 'Splits Pose' using 2 reeds to balance Ninja Style at RSPB Leighton Moss.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife #BeardedTits #naturetherapy
This week i'm going with a male Bearded Tit with it's 'Splits Pose' using 2 reeds to balance Ninja Style at RSPB Leighton Moss.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife #BeardedTits #naturetherapy
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The Lesser Yellowlegs continues to entertain at Etton, Cambs, feeding along the south shore of Pig Jaw pit last night @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Lesser Yellowlegs continues to entertain at Etton, Cambs, feeding along the south shore of Pig Jaw pit last night @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
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Here is a look at the Israeli hostages expected to return home from Gaza.
Soldiers, Brothers, Music Lovers: The Israeli Hostages Expected Home From Gaza
The deal to halt the war after more than two years means 48 remaining hostages, living and dead, likely will soon be released.
on.wsj.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Here is a look at the Israeli hostages expected to return home from Gaza.
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BREAKING: Al Jazeera reports, citing a Hamas official, that Hamas will meet with the Red Cross today to finalize the mechanism for handing over the 20 hostages.
The hostages have already been divided among 3 locations in Gaza from where they will be transferred to the Red Cross.
The hostages have already been divided among 3 locations in Gaza from where they will be transferred to the Red Cross.
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
BREAKING: Al Jazeera reports, citing a Hamas official, that Hamas will meet with the Red Cross today to finalize the mechanism for handing over the 20 hostages.
The hostages have already been divided among 3 locations in Gaza from where they will be transferred to the Red Cross.
The hostages have already been divided among 3 locations in Gaza from where they will be transferred to the Red Cross.
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Nice: "More Working-Class Americans Than Ever Are Investing in the Stock Market: For the first time, a majority of low earners have an investment account, and more than half of those new investors entered the markets in the past five years" www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nice: "More Working-Class Americans Than Ever Are Investing in the Stock Market: For the first time, a majority of low earners have an investment account, and more than half of those new investors entered the markets in the past five years" www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
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Life = one long panic punctuated by cups of tea.
May 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Life = one long panic punctuated by cups of tea.
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Questions that make my mind go blank:
“Why do you want this job?”
“Know any good jokes?”
“Been up to much lately?”
“What did you do yesterday?”
“Why do you want this job?”
“Know any good jokes?”
“Been up to much lately?”
“What did you do yesterday?”
June 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Questions that make my mind go blank:
“Why do you want this job?”
“Know any good jokes?”
“Been up to much lately?”
“What did you do yesterday?”
“Why do you want this job?”
“Know any good jokes?”
“Been up to much lately?”
“What did you do yesterday?”
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Start work slightly early:
Nobody notices.
Finish work slightly early:
“Part timer are you?”
Nobody notices.
Finish work slightly early:
“Part timer are you?”
July 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Start work slightly early:
Nobody notices.
Finish work slightly early:
“Part timer are you?”
Nobody notices.
Finish work slightly early:
“Part timer are you?”