John Colegate

Clerk to Tribunals. 5 kids. Palaeontology, Egyptology, Music - esp. Punk&Indie, Memes, Politics, Common Decency, Monster Movies, J.P., Horror, strongly INFP-T.

[Palaeontologia Electronica @PalaeoE]

A prominent (#moth) discovery! An incredible #ancient #caterpillar has been found encased in #amber, with characteristic “stemapods”, or potential defense structure at the end of its body. This is also the first #fossil caterpillar ever described from this family!

[Bloomie🌸 @Mss_Tareem]

At the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Lee Davis found a prisoner so thin that he could not lift his head. The man blinked, barely alive. Davis knelt down, broke off a piece of his chocolate ration, and gently stuffed it into his mouth.

The man burst into tears, unable to chew, but holding the chocolate as if it were gold. "He hadn't spoken in weeks," another soldier said, "but he whispered 'thank you,' in English." Private Davis remained by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him "the man who brought flavor back to the world."

It's always good to be good.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

This man has a Sikh sense of humour.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

THE SLEEPER IS BACK.

Get ready for the hot new dance craze from 1965.

It freaked out the old folks.

It is taking over the dance floors and the streets.

[Dai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @daibach23]

Rest in peace Harold 🏹 🙏

[Clown Town @clowtownkingdom]

Nailed it!

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

At the moment, Boy George is still struggling to find British musicians willing to play with him, but he says the show will go on.

"Let them hate me.”

The singer’s newest track sparked a vicious backlash that is impacting his career, but friends say it was never going to make him back down ⤵️
https://t.co/qtRbRzgAzI

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Wow, how often do we see this?

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

In the dark hours of a freezing night in occupied France, a woman took off her clothes and squeezed through the narrow iron bars of a Gestapo prison cell. She held her dress between her teeth, dropped onto the street, and disappeared. Her name was Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.

Before the war she had lived a life of fast cars, airplanes, and classical music. When the Germans occupied France she joined a small secret network that gathered intelligence for the Allies. In 1941 its leader was arrested and handed control to her. She was thirty-one, the mother of two young children, and she accepted without hesitation.

Under her leadership the group grew into Alliance, the largest secret intelligence network in France. More than three thousand men and women joined. Nearly twenty percent were women. They used animal code names. The Gestapo called the organization Noah’s Ark. Marie-Madeleine chose Hedgehog for herself.

The Nazis spent years looking for a male general. They never imagined the person running the network was the fashionable young woman standing in front of them.

Many of her closest agents were captured, tortured, or killed. To protect her own children she sent them away. She could not even hug them goodbye. She stood behind a curtain and watched them walk down the street.

She was captured twice and escaped both times. Her agents gathered intelligence on German positions along the Normandy beaches that helped the Allies plan the invasion.

When the war ended, official recognition often favored men. She was left off many lists of national heroes. She never seemed interested in personal glory. For the rest of her life she helped surviving agents and the families of those who had been killed.

Near the end she said, “God gave me the strength to stand in the dark so that others could walk in the light.”

[Sounds Clips @SoundsClips]

The Jam's single 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight' advert in Sounds 14th, October 1978.
@LongLiveTheJam
@PaulWellerNews
@jillwebb2005

[Historyland @HistorylandHQ]

Marian Robinson (Michelle’s mom) holding Barack Obamas hand on election night 2008

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I invited women from Piddington to Parliament because Labour isn’t listening to them.

Their village of 300 faces over 1,200 male illegal migrants on its doorstep. Meanwhile, Labour is handing out leaflets explaining to these men that rape is a crime. You couldn’t make it up.

Today we forced a vote to stop it. Labour and the Lib Dems refused to back us.

Women should feel safe in their communities. Conservatives will leave the ECHR so we can deport illegal migrants instead of forcing small villages to bear the consequences.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

There is more intelligence, poise, and bravery in this picture than there is in the entire Trump administration.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

14 October 1922 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Rosa Labzowski, was born in Zierikzee.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1943 in a transport of 1,004 deported from #Westerbork.
No. 58008
She perished in the camp.

[George Orwell @OrwellTruth1984]

India & Israel stand together 🇮🇳🇮🇱
Always. Forever.

[UKRAINIAN SQUAD🇺🇦 @ukrainiansquad]

Ukrainian soldiers still moving to the front lines. Don’t forget to wish them safety & victory 🙏

[Lost London @Lost___London]

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the London Underground's Victoria Line on March 7, 1969, becoming the first reigning British monarch to ride the Tube ⏳️

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Happy birthday, Daddy. Thank you for being a bold purveyor of true peace. Thank you for living with purpose and for radically lifting the power of love. Thank you for believing that we can defeat injustice without destroying each other. Thank you for your courage and strategic, compassionate action. Thank you for teaching me so much, even now. I remember you today, on your 97th birthday. I remember you always.

#MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #HappyBirthday