Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
🇬🇧 You have been told Britain was a backwater before Rome. 🇬🇧
But people walked from the Alps to reach this island 2,400 years before Rome arrived. 🏔️
They came carrying gold no one in Britain had ever seen. 🪙👀
In 2002, Wessex Archaeology dug at Boscombe Down near Amesbury, Wiltshire. They opened the richest Bronze Age grave ever found in Britain.
More than 100 objects buried with him. Five Beaker pots. Sixteen finely worked flint arrowheads. Copper knives. Stone wristguards. And two small folded sheets of gold. The earliest gold ever found in Britain.
🏛️ He was in his mid-forties. Robust. Broad-shouldered. And carrying an old wound. A leg infection that had bent his bones.
And yet he had walked here. From what is now Switzerland. More than a thousand miles, walked on a damaged leg, to a country he had chosen.
His teeth gave him up. Tooth enamel holds the chemistry of the water you drank as a child. And his chemistry was wrong for Britain. The strontium and oxygen pointed to the cold-climate valleys of the Alps. He was born more than a thousand miles east of where he died. But buried in Britain.
He came to a people who had been here for thousands of years.
Stonehenge was being completed. Bronze was new technology. A bronze-worker could become wealthy on these islands. He was not running from something. He had come toward something. And he stayed.
🇬🇧 The British were already here. Long before him. Long after him. They have been here for thousands of years. And they are still here.
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Our story is older than his.
Older than Rome. Older than the pyramids.
Help us put our story where our children can find it. 👇🙏
👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
When you arise in the morning
Think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive
To breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
#writing
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🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.
RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
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The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir (The Guernsey Novels Book 9) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world. #1008
Book number 15 in The Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series comes out next Friday. Spend the month of May in Rome, but not the Rome most tourists see. These are the Roman hills where the pope has his summer palace.
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Bees lives less than 40 days, visit at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us it is only a teaspoon of honey, but for the bee it is a lifetime of work.
Thank You Bees!
The Artemis II crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—have safely exited the Orion spacecraft (named Integrity) after a textbook splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on April 10, 2026.
They're now aboard recovery boats, with the full team on the USS John P. Murtha for medical checks after their ~10-day journey that took them farther into space than any humans since Apollo. This marks humanity's first crewed flight around the Moon in over 50 years—a powerful step on the path back to the lunar surface and beyond.The reentry at Mach 33, the parachutes, the precise "bullseye" splashdown, and the careful extraction by Navy divers and recovery teams were all executed flawlessly. Watching the astronauts step out onto the inflatable platform and take in that first breath of fresh air was genuinely moving.Huge congratulations to the entire NASA, CSA, and industry team (including Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy) for bringing them home safely. This mission wasn't just a test flight; it was a historic return to deep-space crewed exploration.What's next? Data from this flight will help refine Artemis III and the crewed lunar landing. The future of human spaceflight feels closer than ever.Welcome home, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy.