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[sal @ste_sal]

@Sikowitz17 I’ve been buying these for two years and my findings: the best colour Tees around although they are pretty flimsy (holes where belt rubs etc.)

[sal @ste_sal]

@shiner_sam @ghgwmusic 👀 new version?

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This Burnham campaign video deserves a retweet (and many more). Take a look at the vast (shady) money and professional media operation behind Reform. It’s going to be an existential battle.Wherever you stand on the Labour leadership, this seat must be won.

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Farage declares war on working from home!
Farage stands by his pledge to scrap remote work, saying "when we're in charge, work from home will be gone."
Private jet for Farage, packed trains for you.

[🏴‍☠️ Geoff Barrow 🏴‍☠️ @jetfury]

@jet_furry I don’t have any idea who you are or what you are talking about sorry.

[Adam Dandy @AdamDandy]

I was at the new SHAC in Chester this morning for a meeting with @ChesterRaces who have been unbelievably supportive towards SHARE over many years.
Whilst waiting I was sat talking to 2 lads who had spent last night sleeping rough in the City.

One said to the other, “any plans for today mate?” his response has been going through my head all day.

No, no plans… just to get through it.

(SHAC - Share Homeless Action Centre) https://t.co/og58kzA5FG

[Amy Eastwood @amymillypolly78]

@HaysTravel @easyJet @easyJetholidays please help me my partner booked a holiday yesterday for Mother’s Day but booked the wrong week. I’ve been told that the holiday can’t be changed or cancelled so we will loose £2500. Absolutely devastated. It was human error please help!

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Around the year 907, a Viking force of Danes and Norwegians descended on the walled city of Chester in what is now northwest England. The city's Roman-built walls had stood for eight centuries, and the Vikings quickly realised that a frontal assault wasn't going to work. So they adapted. They drove wooden hurdles into the ground at the base of the walls, creating covered corridors that shielded their men from above, and began tunnelling underneath the foundations. The defenders hurled boulders down onto the hurdles. The Vikings propped them up with timber columns.

The Saxons, advised by the lord Æthelred and his formidable wife Lady Æthelflaed, boiled every barrel of ale and water they could find in the city and poured it through the gaps, scalding the men below until their skin came away. The Vikings responded by laying animal hides across the top of the hurdles to seal them. Every move had a counter-move, and the tunnels kept advancing.

What happened next was recorded in the 11th-century Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, one of the most vivid accounts of early medieval siege warfare that survives. The Saxons had run out of obvious options. Boiling liquid had failed. Rocks had failed. So the defenders of Chester gathered every beehive in the city, carried them to the walls, and scattered them directly onto the besiegers below. The effect was immediate. According to the Annals, the bees prevented the Viking soldiers from moving their feet or their hands because of the sheer number of stings. Warriors who had withstood scalding beer, crushing boulders, and months of siege warfare were brought to a complete standstill by a swarm of insects. The Vikings abandoned the tunnels and withdrew from Chester. The city held.

What makes this more than just a strange footnote is that it wasn't a desperate improvisation that vanished from history. It was the beginning of a documented military tradition. Medieval castle builders across England, Scotland, and Wales began constructing specific recesses into their interior walls called bee boles, designed to permanently house beehive colonies. In peacetime the bees produced honey and wax. In wartime they were a standing weapon. By the 14th century, military engineers had developed a windmill-like device capable of launching straw hives from rapidly rotating arms in rapid succession, the closest thing the medieval world had to an automatic weapon. The Romans had already been so enthusiastic about bee bombs that historians have noted a documented decline in hive numbers across the late Roman Empire from battlefield demand alone.

Lady Æthelflaed, who advised the defence of Chester alongside her dying husband, went on to become one of the most effective military commanders in early medieval England, personally directing the construction of fortified towns across Mercia and leading campaigns against the Vikings for years after Æthelred's death. She is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the Lady of the Mercians. The siege of Chester is one of dozens of engagements she helped win. History tends to remember the warriors who carried swords into battle. It is considerably less interested in the woman who figured out that, when every other option fails, you send in the bees.

#drthehistories

[sal @ste_sal]

@pjjp586 First time I’ve seen… this meme in 2026. Hopefully not the last

[sal @ste_sal]

Over Hawarden

[Roy @badwool9]

The Shipbuilders new albums - The Blue Earth - is out today.

It’s an independent release. So it needs a bit of people power.

Buy it. Listen to it. Tell your mates about it. Share it. Whatever you can.

Is right.

https://t.co/l5evdSmsld

[BC CAMPLIGHT @bccamplight]

Order CD or Vinyl (with signed booklet) https://t.co/qdL9w0M3yY

Read about the charts https://t.co/XH8Bw7FRle

[sal @ste_sal]

@GeauxReadBooks 6 other books by no means the end (plus one short story that builds out some of the stories)

[sal @ste_sal]

@esmayrosalyne This is the pinnacle of reading.

[sal @ste_sal]

@ST0NEHENGE enjoyed the visit - created our own. We thought you missed a trick by not naming your scones as scone henge cream tea instead stone henge cream tea

[DS @DorkSirjur]

Second to last mix of the day now let's come with one of the most infamous duos in dance music 22 years ago on a rare radio set:

This is @sashaofficial and @DJJohnDigweed - Kiss100 Boxing Day Christmas Special 26.12.03

They both played a set that evening on Kiss, and this is both of them joined. First hour is Digweed I believe. Rarer rip, this.

Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.

👇🔥👇

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

We will always remember the 97.

[Seb Morris @SebMorris31]

Big accident on Tarvin Road this morning. Glad everyone is ok. Must have been a hell of a wake up call for the residents…. @ShitChester @ChesterChron

[sal @ste_sal]

@AnthonyTeasdale @sashaofficial I’ve just started listening to his track Hold on and opened twitter to this 🧵 ace!!