Helsbels
@helenus3.bsky.social
Archaeology/art/landscape/wildlife/nature/environment/old buildings/old stuff
Chester, UK
Susceptible to beauty, cake & currently, politics & grumpiness
Chester, UK
Susceptible to beauty, cake & currently, politics & grumpiness
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For this chilly #StandingStoneSunday I'll let Stanley Herbert's brilliant drawings tell the story of #Stonehenge 🧐 from Oldham's 1950s standard for school pupils - 'British History in Strip Pictures' 👌
Hopefully this book is in all Archaeologist's stockings this Christmas? 🎄
Hopefully this book is in all Archaeologist's stockings this Christmas? 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
For this chilly #StandingStoneSunday I'll let Stanley Herbert's brilliant drawings tell the story of #Stonehenge 🧐 from Oldham's 1950s standard for school pupils - 'British History in Strip Pictures' 👌
Hopefully this book is in all Archaeologist's stockings this Christmas? 🎄
Hopefully this book is in all Archaeologist's stockings this Christmas? 🎄
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December Sunrise at Avebury.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
December Sunrise at Avebury.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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The podcast is honestly the best I’ve ever listened to. It is like a ten part spy thriller; only not fiction, but real life, with British voters the victims, and too many British politicians choosing to turn a blind eye. Each episode is better than the last, devastating in conclusions. MUST HEAR.
I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The podcast is honestly the best I’ve ever listened to. It is like a ten part spy thriller; only not fiction, but real life, with British voters the victims, and too many British politicians choosing to turn a blind eye. Each episode is better than the last, devastating in conclusions. MUST HEAR.
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The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
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These vibrant Roman ribbed 'rippenschalen' glass drinking bowls were made in various places in the empire. The most common color was the amber, shown on the left (made in the Balkans), followed by cobalt blue and purple (both here made in the E. Mediterranean). 🏺 1/
50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)
50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
These vibrant Roman ribbed 'rippenschalen' glass drinking bowls were made in various places in the empire. The most common color was the amber, shown on the left (made in the Balkans), followed by cobalt blue and purple (both here made in the E. Mediterranean). 🏺 1/
50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)
50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)
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The Lewis Chessmen
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Lewis Chessmen
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀
From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
This resonates deeply and makes me want to weep. True words from a great, wise and beautiful human being.
#DrJaneGoodall #humans
#DrJaneGoodall #humans
Brian Allen
Netflix quietly filmed a final interview with Dr. Jane Goodall, to be released only after her death.
In it, she jokes about blasting Trump and Elon Musk into space… then leaves the world with two words:
“Don’t lose hope.”
A legendary sign-off.💙🧡💙
Netflix quietly filmed a final interview with Dr. Jane Goodall, to be released only after her death.
In it, she jokes about blasting Trump and Elon Musk into space… then leaves the world with two words:
“Don’t lose hope.”
A legendary sign-off.💙🧡💙
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This resonates deeply and makes me want to weep. True words from a great, wise and beautiful human being.
#DrJaneGoodall #humans
#DrJaneGoodall #humans
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The Trump-era US is reshaping global order in the same way the racoon reshaped the shelves in that liquor store.
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Trump-era US is reshaping global order in the same way the racoon reshaped the shelves in that liquor store.
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One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
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Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
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It was clear from the moment Trump's election win was announced that this would be a pro-Russian, anti-Europe administration. The 2025 National Security strategy, viewed in comparison with all its post-Cold War predecessors, shows that unambiguously.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It was clear from the moment Trump's election win was announced that this would be a pro-Russian, anti-Europe administration. The 2025 National Security strategy, viewed in comparison with all its post-Cold War predecessors, shows that unambiguously.
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Small 🧵
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Small 🧵
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
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#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
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Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s latest violation of the ceasefire that was declared nearly two months ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s latest violation of the ceasefire that was declared nearly two months ago.
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This is Saber al-Sakani, whose family members were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on Gaza City Tuesday. “I lost my brother and my two nephews. My brother’s wife and her daughter are hospitalized in intensive care. We’re asking you to stop the wars, for God’s sake.”
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is Saber al-Sakani, whose family members were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on Gaza City Tuesday. “I lost my brother and my two nephews. My brother’s wife and her daughter are hospitalized in intensive care. We’re asking you to stop the wars, for God’s sake.”
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
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Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
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Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Really great lecture for the Cambrians thank you @richardosgood.bsky.social 🎄Such a worthwhile project, and not just archaeologically...so good to see the veterans making these exciting discoveries in such beautiful places, lovely stuff. So many bits of Iron Age chariot wheels..! 🤯
#Anglesey❤️
#Anglesey❤️
Bluesky
yourichardosgood.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Really great lecture for the Cambrians thank you @richardosgood.bsky.social 🎄Such a worthwhile project, and not just archaeologically...so good to see the veterans making these exciting discoveries in such beautiful places, lovely stuff. So many bits of Iron Age chariot wheels..! 🤯
#Anglesey❤️
#Anglesey❤️
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I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p>
<p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p>
<p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p>
<p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p>
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December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
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Reform UK have accepted £9 million from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne.
Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reform UK have accepted £9 million from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne.
Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
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“To separate the Romans from the barbarians.”
Three square metres of imperial folly.
Hadrian’s Wall, Steel Rigg.
#RomanFortThursday
Three square metres of imperial folly.
Hadrian’s Wall, Steel Rigg.
#RomanFortThursday
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“To separate the Romans from the barbarians.”
Three square metres of imperial folly.
Hadrian’s Wall, Steel Rigg.
#RomanFortThursday
Three square metres of imperial folly.
Hadrian’s Wall, Steel Rigg.
#RomanFortThursday
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Make America grate again
Shredded cheese sold in dozens of states recalled due to potential for metal fragment contamination
The Food and Drug Administration says that there is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of potential metal fragment contamination.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Make America grate again
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The US is in absolutely no place to make any such commentary - the most corrupt US administration in living memory.
Also far too early to use the word ‘scandal’ to describe this matter in the EU. (And even then, all it does show is that the rule of law & processes for oversight do exist there!)
Also far too early to use the word ‘scandal’ to describe this matter in the EU. (And even then, all it does show is that the rule of law & processes for oversight do exist there!)
The United States is slamming the EU on the fraud scandal that has rocked the bloc this week.
US trolls EU over fraud scandal
Deputy secretary of state takes aim at Federica Mogherini.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The US is in absolutely no place to make any such commentary - the most corrupt US administration in living memory.
Also far too early to use the word ‘scandal’ to describe this matter in the EU. (And even then, all it does show is that the rule of law & processes for oversight do exist there!)
Also far too early to use the word ‘scandal’ to describe this matter in the EU. (And even then, all it does show is that the rule of law & processes for oversight do exist there!)
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Brexit has made 30% of British people batshit crazy, including Braverman.
Farage IS Reform. He's a privately educated, multi millionaire, anti semite, misogynist, racist snob.
Britain is the sick man of Europe - largely because of Farage; his links with Russia and the money makers who back Trump.
Farage IS Reform. He's a privately educated, multi millionaire, anti semite, misogynist, racist snob.
Britain is the sick man of Europe - largely because of Farage; his links with Russia and the money makers who back Trump.
"Why is anti-semitism tolerated in the UK?" asks Suella Braverman, shortly before defending man accused of saying "Hitler was right" and telling Jewish people they should be sent to the gas chamber
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Brexit has made 30% of British people batshit crazy, including Braverman.
Farage IS Reform. He's a privately educated, multi millionaire, anti semite, misogynist, racist snob.
Britain is the sick man of Europe - largely because of Farage; his links with Russia and the money makers who back Trump.
Farage IS Reform. He's a privately educated, multi millionaire, anti semite, misogynist, racist snob.
Britain is the sick man of Europe - largely because of Farage; his links with Russia and the money makers who back Trump.