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I prefer 📚 & source materials to memes I’m bewildered by some on the.Left WHILE we’re living a climate 🌎 crisis AND the Far.right gains ascension More HATE solves NOTHING… (Just cuz I don’t follow you back does NOT mean i don’t ✅ in -suffering from TMI‼️)

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now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 5d

One can’t post even the most neutral news stories (which, by the way, can take an hour to locate) 🦋 here
Those determined to propagate hatred hunt them (you) down, assuming you must have an agenda
‘Social Media’ has devolved into Anti-social Pathology (unless one sticks to hobbies) 1/2

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 5h

Museum am Strom in Bingen 🇩🇪
Bingen on the Rhine - “the Romantic Rhine, the gateway to the Unesco World Heritage of the ‘Upper Middle-Rhine Valley’ and in the middle of four winegrowing regions” www.bingen.de/EN/ also in DE FR NL TR #museum

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 6h

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon www.mba-lyon.fr/en
⚜️ www.mba-lyon.fr/fr
👩🏼‍🎨 #museum

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 6h

National Museum of
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/national-mus... #museum

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 6h

AI-trump BALLROOM
These vdeos are the only reason that I’ve been ‘captured’ by AI

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 7h

A👁 is not all bad.

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 6h

Canada's first documented 'demon possession' case
(A Demon Attack in Old Quebec) c.1660 www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/... #Canada #Quebec #Supernatural #CanadianHistory

Historian discovers new details in Canada's first documented 'demon possession' case | CBC Radio

A demonic possession, a do-it-yourself exorcism, and the execution of an accused witch — welcome to daily life in Quebec City, circa 1660. Historian Mairi Cowan shares the story of Canada’s earliest r...

www.cbc.ca

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 7h

Croy Hill on the Antoine Wall
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
- www.antoninewall.org/croy-hill
- www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

Croy Hill Roman Fort

Croy Hill Roman Fort lies on the east side of Croy Hill, overlooking the Forth and Clyde Canal.

www.antoninewall.org

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 7h

Read at archive.org/details/isbn...

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📕 Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières [MsF] www.msf.org) by Dan Bortolotti 2006
MsF as it was meant to be
Although it includes information on MsF origins & the then organisation, it read to me as personal experiences #bookSky myhero.com/hope-in-hell

Hope in Hell: The Inside Story of Doctors Without Borders

FROM THE PUBLISHER Gripping accounts ...

myhero.com

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now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 18h

- Palestinian Media Watch palwatch.org
- Media Bias mediabiasfactcheck.com/palestinian-... “…Failed Fact Checks (=) None in the Last 5 years”

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 19h

Orionids Meteor Shower 2025
This occurs every year in October, usually peaking around Oct 20/21
At its peak, up to 20 meteors are visible every hour www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/me...

Look Up to See the Orionids Light Up the Night Skies

Check out our meteor shower animation to find out how, where, and when to see these shooting stars.

www.timeanddate.com

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 1d

Keith Jarrett 🎹
Youtube Channel music.youtube.com/channel/UCm3...

Keith Jarrett

Pianist Keith Jarrett is recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times. His ECM discography embraces solo improvisation, duets, trios, quartets, original compositions, multi-instrument...

music.youtube.com

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 3d

NO KINGS LIVE www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...

Millions rise up at over 2,500 peaceful protests to say: No Kings

YouTube video by No Kings

www.youtube.com

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now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 4d

John Spencer www.johnspenceronline.com

John Spencer | Scholar, Writer, Speaker, Veteran

John Spencer is a scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare and other military related topics. He is author of the books Connected ...

www.johnspenceronline.com

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 4d

Center for Peace Communications www.peacecomms.org

The Center for Peace Communications

We grow public support for partnership across differences. The CPC works through media, schools, and centers of spiritual and moral leadership in the Middle East and North Africa to roll back divisive...

www.peacecomms.org

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“Blackfish”
the Award-winning www.filmaffinity.com/us/movie-awa... documentary about the ethics of taking killer whales captive, especially after a loving trainer’s public death in a Sea World enclosure tubitv.com/movies/64003...

Blackfish (2013)

Award-winning documentary about the ethics of taking killer whales captive, especially after a loving trainer’s public death in a Sea World enclosure.

tubitv.com

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 5d

Baking from
🦋 @rockrecipes.bsky.social
- Chewy Chocolate Cherry Brownies (Freezer friendly for the holidays) www.rockrecipes.com/chewy-chocol...
- Chocolate Walnut Butter Tart* Bars (Ideal holiday freezer cookies) www.rockrecipes.com/chocolate-wa...
* 🇨🇦 Butter Tarts are an art worth acquiring

now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll continue to work within (omFg) REAL LIFE multi-cultural multi-faith groups (people who know history and theology), but refuse anonymous engagement with little minds

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“Samuel Williams”
ARRESTED!
and Oxford will have to suspend him www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oxford student arrested after chanting about putting Zionists 'in the ground'

Video appears to show Samuel Williams allegedly leading the chant at a pro-Palestinian march in London.

www.bbc.com

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now seeking diversion @martinesumner2025.bsky.social · 8d

Social Media posts about
“Canadian teachers” and
“Schools in Canada” are wildly inflated

Education in Canada is a provincial/territorial responsibility and
within those 13 jurisdictions are numerous District School Boards…

(Many schools do have Allergy Alerts and discourage processed foods)