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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
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danielstrauss.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/prop...
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
US printmaker Rose Piper
Slow Down Freight Train, 1947 Offset Lithograph #Womensart
Print with a stylised figure, a young Black man, sitting in Freight Train next to an open door looking up
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Top tier joke
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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andrewwallis.bsky.social
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers ❤️ Read www.ft.com/content/1d11...
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers
Churches and community groups in Northallerton provide food, clothing and company for refugee families
www.ft.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury's exclusive new story for the Big Issue features a family living on the breadline.
Author Michael Rosen: 'Life is harder for kids now than it was in 1989'
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December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Advent bird No. 1

Wren

Scientific name: Troglodytes troglodytes

Alternative name: Tiny Shouter

Finnish name: peukaloinen

Song: tsib-a-tsab-a-tsoo-diddy-dabble-iddy-wodda-tsipp-a-brrrrr-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip—tjop-tsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—-ts’tjupp-tjupp-tjupp-tjupp
A wren in silhouette, perky as all get out. Plump body, pert head, tail pointing up in the air.
November 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I've been aware for a while of the work by faith and other community groups to support people seeking asylum. So I asked the @refugeecouncil.bsky.social where there was really vigorous community support. They said Northallerton. Here's what I found when I went there: as.ft.com/r/b3449fbd-3...
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers
[FREE TO READ] Churches and community groups in Northallerton provide food, clothing and company for refugee families
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December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Community. Note.
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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We need journalism which isn't owned by billionaires.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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chrisbaraniuk.com
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹

They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.

A new scoop for The Reengineer!

www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
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December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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albrgr.bsky.social
I wanted to give an end-of-year shout out to @ourworldindata.org, who we recently gave a three-year, $3m general support grant (short 🧵)
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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rorycj.bsky.social
cureparkinsonsshop.com/products/sop... last chance to buy the #sophieforromania calendar for @cureparkinsons.org.uk - shop closes at 9:30 am
Sophie from Romania 2026 Calendar
This A4 landscape calendar features 12 stunning photos of Sophie from Romania, the beautiful rescue dog of Cure Parkinson's patron Rory Cellan-Jones. Profits raised from the calendar sales will suppor...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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rorycj.bsky.social
A foggy day in London town, but #SophieFromRomania is in cheerful mood and wondering how the bidding is going for her calendar, signed by me www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35802362...
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Pentagon’s new security strategy document “acknowledges the ideological incoherence of the president’s foreign policy instincts but tries to make it a virtue,” David Wallace-Wells writes.
Opinion | Trump’s National Security Strategy Memo Declares Global Culture War
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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theonion.com
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
takecourage.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial
Editorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
And then she starts posting Russian propaganda every single day. What a coincidence.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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“I’d like to make a suggestion to all journalists,” Beth Rosen writes in a letter to The Times. “When the president refuses to answer a question or calls a journalist a derogatory name, every journalist should continue to ask that same question immediately.”
Opinion | Trump’s Slip With the Saudi Crown Prince
Readers discuss what President Trump revealed in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. Also: Albania’s A.I. “civil servant”; bullfighting as torture.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM