Rob Hewitt

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@jimnarlene 😉

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@SovereignBain I am likely Pictish, but definitely a Scot ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Sovereign 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 @SovereignBain]

For centuries, people claimed the Picts — the tattooed, painted warriors who defied the Roman Empire — had vanished without a trace. Modern science proves they never left. They became us.
The Picts dominated northern and eastern Scotland in the first millennium: masters of symbol stones, fierce resisters of Rome, and then seemingly erased from history as the kingdom of Alba rose in the 9th–10th centuries. Wild theories filled the silence — total annihilation, or some alien people unrelated to their neighbours.
Then DNA spoke. In 2023, researchers sequenced ancient Pictish genomes and compared them to living populations. The results were quietly revolutionary: The Picts were not outsiders. They were deeply rooted in Britain’s Iron Age peoples, and their genetic legacy flows directly into modern Scots — especially in the north and east. 
They weren’t wiped out. They blended, generation after generation, into the Scottish people who followed. The blood of those who carved crescent-and-V-rod symbols, who painted their bodies and turned back the legions, still runs quietly in ordinary Scottish families — and across the global diaspora.
So if your roots reach into Scotland’s north and east, this isn’t romantic poetry. It’s biology. The same spirit that faced down an empire at the edge of the known world may still beat in you. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑⚔️🔥🧬🩸

#Picts #AncientScotland #ScottishHistory #DNAHistory #PictishLegacy #ScotlandProud #HiddenHistory #CelticHeritage #OnThisDayHistory (if timed) #TartanArmyRoots

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@jimnarlene Welcome, some achievement, your very lucky 👍

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@ojessie__ @nemo_impune Tuco

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@WllliamHayes

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@AstronomyVibes Nikola was the real thing

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@Toffeewolfie @Nugent4nil @JimboIRA01 @jimmeenan85 Hop ?

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@SolheimCupUSA Gnarly

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@TRUmav £1000 quid a round ?

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@NightSkyToday @nemo_impune Mon the liberty caps 👊🏻

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@weenell3 Welcome, good cause Nell 💦

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@Nugent4nil @JimboIRA01 @Toffeewolfie @jimmeenan85 😂😂

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Great 2 Part documentary on homers oddessy where a Greek man thinks he found the tomb of Oddesius. Pretty compelling.
On Sky history btw

[Del @Del84946007]

Scotland KNOWS...
England would be gubbed without
Scottish Resources..
FACT !!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😡

[Saganism @Saganismm]

One day when I was still very young, I asked my father about his parents. I knew my maternal grandparents intimately, but I wanted to know why I had never met his parents.

“Because they died,” he said wistfully.

“Will you ever see them again?” I asked.

He considered his answer carefully. Finally, he said that there was nothing he would like more in the world than to see his mother and father again, but that he had no reason — and no evidence — to support the idea of an afterlife, so he couldn’t give in to the temptation.

“Why?”

Then he told me, very tenderly, that it can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. You can get tricked if you don’t question yourself and others, especially people in a position of authority. He told me that anything that’s truly real can stand up to scrutiny.

— Sasha Sagan; Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father Carl Sagan

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@purelivn Mine does, fell asleep on the couch and was awoken by petrichor.

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@JackPosobiec Really !!!!