Ruth Watson
@ruthwatson.bsky.social
Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
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The first of our LIMITED EDITION 3D PRINTED ORKNEY LIBRARY BOOKMARKS are being sent out into the world today. 📨
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email [email protected] and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email [email protected] and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The first of our LIMITED EDITION 3D PRINTED ORKNEY LIBRARY BOOKMARKS are being sent out into the world today. 📨
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email [email protected] and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email [email protected] and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
Putin, defending his American assets.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Putin, defending his American assets.
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I thought this was an @theonion.com headline.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I thought this was an @theonion.com headline.
Fuck it, Black Friday weekend sale, 20% off everything on HappyToast.co.uk even the original artwork.
HappyToast ★ art, animation, nonsense and stuff
One guy who does drawings and photoshops and animations and writes funny stuff
HappyToast.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Whalebone plaque and glass 'smoothing stone' from Birka grave Bj 854. The plaque, paralleled at Scar, Orkney, was likely a board for linen preparation, with inclusion in high-status female graves a symbolic nod to prestigious household management roles.
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Whalebone plaque and glass 'smoothing stone' from Birka grave Bj 854. The plaque, paralleled at Scar, Orkney, was likely a board for linen preparation, with inclusion in high-status female graves a symbolic nod to prestigious household management roles.
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
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Hanna Hammarström 1st person in Sweden to produce phone wires commercially. Worked out how to make phone wires after making wire ornaments. Started factory making wires for Swedish phone company. Held monopoly 1880/90s. Employed only women. d. #OTD 27 Nov 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_H...
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Hanna Hammarström 1st person in Sweden to produce phone wires commercially. Worked out how to make phone wires after making wire ornaments. Started factory making wires for Swedish phone company. Held monopoly 1880/90s. Employed only women. d. #OTD 27 Nov 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_H...
Denies it from his château in France.
Former Farage party MEP denies taking money from pro-Russian campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Denies it from his château in France.
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Prisoner 951 on iPlayer is incredible. There was a LOT I didn't know about Nazanin's ordeal but I knew about 5%, it's mind-blowing. And I managed to go up a level in how much I despise Boris Johnson which is impressive tbh.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Prisoner 951 on iPlayer is incredible. There was a LOT I didn't know about Nazanin's ordeal but I knew about 5%, it's mind-blowing. And I managed to go up a level in how much I despise Boris Johnson which is impressive tbh.
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Redbubble are doing 35% off tshirts
www.redbubble.com/people/Happy...
www.redbubble.com/people/Happy...
HappyToast Shop | Redbubble
HappyToast is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
www.redbubble.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Redbubble are doing 35% off tshirts
www.redbubble.com/people/Happy...
www.redbubble.com/people/Happy...
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Just to understand the concept of a trillion.
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just to understand the concept of a trillion.
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
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🇷🇺🇬🇧 🇷🇺🇬🇧
The petition: ‘Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy’ has now passed 70,000 signatures.
Let’s get it to over 100,O00 by the weekend!
Please sign and share widely.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
The petition: ‘Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy’ has now passed 70,000 signatures.
Let’s get it to over 100,O00 by the weekend!
Please sign and share widely.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🇷🇺🇬🇧 🇷🇺🇬🇧
The petition: ‘Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy’ has now passed 70,000 signatures.
Let’s get it to over 100,O00 by the weekend!
Please sign and share widely.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
The petition: ‘Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy’ has now passed 70,000 signatures.
Let’s get it to over 100,O00 by the weekend!
Please sign and share widely.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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The Suffragettes could have faced a ban as a terror group if current laws were in place at the start of the 20th century, the High Court has heard in a challenge against the ban on Palestine Action.
www.thenational.scot/news/2565322...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
www.thenational.scot/news/2565322...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
Suffragettes could have been banned under terror laws, High Court told
THE Suffragettes could have faced a ban as a terror group if current laws were in place at the start of the 20th century, the High Court has heard…
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Suffragettes could have faced a ban as a terror group if current laws were in place at the start of the 20th century, the High Court has heard in a challenge against the ban on Palestine Action.
www.thenational.scot/news/2565322...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
www.thenational.scot/news/2565322...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
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November 27, ca. 110 or 112 CE: Happy birthday to Antinous, stunning boyfriend of emperor Hadrian. Make sure you get yourself a boyfriend who builds cities for you and then starts a cult in your honor if you were ever to fall into the Nile. 🐊 followinghadrian.com/2016/11/27/t... (See CIL XIV 2112).
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
November 27, ca. 110 or 112 CE: Happy birthday to Antinous, stunning boyfriend of emperor Hadrian. Make sure you get yourself a boyfriend who builds cities for you and then starts a cult in your honor if you were ever to fall into the Nile. 🐊 followinghadrian.com/2016/11/27/t... (See CIL XIV 2112).
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades followed a year of safety complaints reut.rs/4okpN44
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades followed a year of safety complaints
Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced "relatively low fire risks" after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by ongoing renovation works, the city's Labour Department told Reuters.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades followed a year of safety complaints reut.rs/4okpN44
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Very much enjoying this BBC article explaining how David Coburn, Nathan Gill’s fellow MEP who acted as an echo chamber for Gill’s Ukraine position, is now another bloody immigrant living in his “chateau in France” (but took no 🇷🇺 money)
His Wiki page is worth a read
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His Wiki page is worth a read
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Very much enjoying this BBC article explaining how David Coburn, Nathan Gill’s fellow MEP who acted as an echo chamber for Gill’s Ukraine position, is now another bloody immigrant living in his “chateau in France” (but took no 🇷🇺 money)
His Wiki page is worth a read
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His Wiki page is worth a read
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A lovely thread.
Just caught up with a friend who got back in touch recently after we hadn't seen each other for OH GOD twenty five years. He's recently written a book about hand-rearing baby gorillas, which is not where I thought he'd end up, but wow. Here is the book: summersdale.com/titles/alan-...
ANYWAY...
ANYWAY...
Gorillas in Our Midst
Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing two baby g...
summersdale.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A lovely thread.
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An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.
It’s Time To Scrap Zimbabwe’s Outdated Abortion Law - Molokele ⋆ Pindula News
Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele (CCC) has called for the repeal of the 1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act, describing it as one of the most backward laws in Zimbabwe. Molokele made the comments at a ...
news.pindula.co.zw
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.
Egads.
The genius of this is that I can hear his voice and all the rambling, all the pauses as I read it.
The genius of this is that I can hear his voice and all the rambling, all the pauses as I read it.
Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Egads.
The genius of this is that I can hear his voice and all the rambling, all the pauses as I read it.
The genius of this is that I can hear his voice and all the rambling, all the pauses as I read it.
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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
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Another reason to stop Russia - Georgia is also on their list. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Georgia's pro-EU protesters defiant year after accession process was halted
The demonstrations began when Georgia's prime minister called a four-year halt on moves towards joining the EU.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Another reason to stop Russia - Georgia is also on their list. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology