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Billy Lane, West Somerset for #FootpathFriday. Leads up to Billy Farm. Proper holloway in places!

The cippus, which seems to have been a border stone, appears to display a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use, including water rights, of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.

#EpigraphyTuesday

The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet (cippus) discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, #Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised #Etruscan text, about 130 words - 3rd or 2nd century BC.
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#Archaeology #History #writing

Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy. Detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. 440 BC.

#AncientGreece #art #History #Archaeology #pottery #artwork

Dedication stone from an aqueduct that was built to bring fresh water into the Roman fort at Arbeia (South Shields on Tyneside) for the Fifth Cohort of Gauls who were stationed there. Dating to 222 AD, the stone can be viewed in the Fort’s museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025
Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February….

#flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

Waking up before dawn to catch a sunrise in Monument Valley is an unforgettable experience. Standing alone in silence as the sky paints itself with pink and orange is breathtaking—a true natural wonder.

#monumentvalley #sunrise #landscape #sky #nature #southwest #photography

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Happy 80th Birthday to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour! One of the greatest guitarists of all time, he has also taken part in projects related to animal rights, homelessness, poverty, environmentalism, wildlife conservation, human rights, and music therapy.

Happy 80th birthday, guitarist and singer, songwriter David Gilmour. 🎂 #Floyd

Happy Birthday to guitarist David Gilmour born in Cambridge, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 80 years ago today.

What are your favourite songs that showcase David Gilmour?
#DavidGilmour

Happy Birthday
David Gilmore!

12,000 New EV Fast Chargers Planned For Germany In Four Years - CleanTechnica EnBW has about 8,000 fast charger points in Germany right now, but the total is planned to be expanded to 20,000 by 2030. The EnBW website states the company has over 900,000 charging points in 17 Eur...

12,000 New EV Fast Chargers Planned For Germany In Four Years

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David Gilmour is 80 today.
Happy birthday, sir.
My ears and soul thank you.

Happy #ForestFriday
#Photography🌲☀️

The world hasn’t completely imploded so we are graced with another amazing
#ForestFriday!🌲🌲
#Photography

A portrait oriented image in woodland on a misty morning. On the left side two mature trees reach from the bottom of the image to the top, they straight up and down trunks and not much else. One the top third a blossom tree, in bloom, emerges from behind them. On the right is another tree, not as large, this one has many branches. With the time of day and the mist to imagine is quite dark with the blossom giving a hint of light.

Lost in the Mist

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#ForestFriday
#Scape
#Treescape
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#woodland
#Mist
#Trees
#Blossom

Relief plaque of cobra on a neb basket late Ptolemaic period.
400-30 BC Egypt, limestone

Spring ice melt #flowing from Mt. Rainier, taken 6/4/22 #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

So what's the purpose of nuclear?

CA had enough solar+batteries in 2025 to produce a constant 4 GW every minute of 90% of days in 2025 plus more power during other hours

4 GW=180% of the constant 2.2 GW DC nuc plant, which also ran 90% of '25

Solar+batteries much cheaper, faster, safer, cleaner

Just volunteered for the first time at my local museum! It’s located in an old Masonic temple, very interesting place but small. They just acquired a 20k+ specimen large collection of fossils. A museum that was part of a recently closed school was getting rid of them. It’s an insane collection

7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970 YouTube video by stin

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This is how to get energy independence.

#ForestFriday

📍Pennsylvania

👏🏼👏🏼 The largest clean energy project in the US just hit a MAJOR milestone!

The SunZia Wind Farm in New Mexico has finished installing 242 massive wind turbines — part of a 3.5 gigawatt facility that's the biggest onshore wind farm in the country.

But that’s not all…

80 million EVs are on the road globally. That’s already displacing roughly ~2 million barrels of oil every day — about 2% of global demand.

Roughly the oil consumption of Italy or South Korea… gone.

You can fight the sun, sanction it, bomb it, fear it — but you can’t stop it. #Bettrification

I charged my EV last night (from 20 percent to 100 percent) and it cost me about $17.

Beyond the no gas, the car just rides so beautifully. Got it in July and cannot imagine ever going back to gas car.

The #ForestFriday banner features a photographic image of ferns along the forest floor. The text says, "It is #ForestFriday. A weekly celebration of the outdoors & nature. If you are so inclined, post your forest-related photographs or artwork with the hashtag #ForestFriday. Happy trails, my friends."

A new spring edition of the #ForestFriday banner makes its debut.

Photo & design by the always superb @alinagrafik.bsky.social

March is here.
Clocks spring forward Sunday.
Winter is winding down.
The equinox is March 20th.

An excellent time for a walk in the woods.

#Ferns l #Hike
#EastCoastKin

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

A new springtime banner for #ForestFriday has a background image of bright green fern fronds with the text, "It is #ForestFriday. A weekly celebration of the outdoors & nature. If you are so inclined, post your forest-related photographs or artwork with the hashtag #ForestFriday. Happy trails, my friends"

It's time to bring on the green and other bright colors!

It's also time for #ForestFriday.

Post your forest-related images as we celebrate nature and impending spring using the hashtag.

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #Forest #Fungi #Nature