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An idle singer of an empty day
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
BBC News - Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' - BBC News
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Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo
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But NEO and Eggie have a secret weapon - they are being controlled by human operators. This is the thing the promotional videos don't show - and something that the Silicon Valley companies we visited are keen to downplay.
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Is this the year domestic robots come in our homes?
Joe Tidy meets robots being trained to tidy up all your mess.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg63e3mq4o
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Dr Tess Machling
5 days ago
FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us ÂŁ7,280,321.26 1/2
bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Archaeology
#Treasure
#Detecting
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âThat belongs in a museumâ: The true âcostâ of detecting in England and Wales.
By Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] âMy members donât want to be quasi-archaeologists, they want to go out on a Sunday, dig around, get dirty, find âŠ
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/that-belongs-in-a-museum-the-true-cost-of-detecting-in-england-and-wales/
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@stoneclub.bsky.social
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
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Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland
Traffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotlandâs trunk road network
https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
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LordWoolamaloo
14 days ago
Someone just reminded me that as we are now in 2026, we are in the future the iconic, 1920s classic Metropolis was set in. Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past...
#film
#cinema
#History
#Histoire
#ScienceFiction
#Metropolis
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Pointless...
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@amendlocke.bsky.social
In the future, we will all travel in hover cars.
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24 days ago
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A good read for the shortest day, with
@ruthaylett.bsky.social
from
@stairwellbooks.bsky.social
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
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Solstice
Helen and her cousin Malcolm are reluctantly thrown together again to combat a multi-dimensional conspiracy, involving love and drugs and quantum futures. As the solstice approaches, they must coopâŠ
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
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@amendlocke.bsky.social
@edinburghsff.com
@gsfwc.bsky.social
It looks like the SF Site is no more. It's not on the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know if it's archived somewhere?
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BBC News - Roomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy
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Roomba vacuum cleaner firm iRobot files for bankruptcy
Under the so-called pre-packaged Chapter 11 process, the main maker of its devices will take ownership of the firm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lr75lp239o
about 1 month ago
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@ianpaulwright.bsky.social
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
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How to erect "mysterious Stonehenge" from the Illustrated London News, August 1924. Pleasingly, from a book by E. H. Stone.
@stoneclub.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday
about 1 month ago
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BBC News - Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid - BBC News
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Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid
More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection were taken.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dyr37qzrno
about 1 month ago
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Illustrated London News 1958. From the fencing behind the car, this might be during the renovations.
@stoneclub.bsky.social
@suegreaney.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday
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Ceryl
about 1 month ago
14 women were shot to death at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©alâs Ăcole Polytechnique
#Canada
#OTD
6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was âfighting feminismâ.
#RIP
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News
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Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns
Three years after he was banned by the council, the 30ft (9m) statue dubbed Golden Balls reappears.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pel4qd08o
about 1 month ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 1 month ago
âWhile WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstepâ
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social
compares three novels of the â45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively 4/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midw...
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Midwinter, Waverley and Kidnapped: Tangled Tales of the â45 - The Bottle Imp
Three naked men I saw,One to hang and one to draw,One to feed the corbieâs maw.â Midwinter The nineteenth of August â exactly a week before John Buchanâs birthday â is remembered as the day the 1745 u...
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
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BBC News - Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk - BBC News
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Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk
The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e0y3913jo
about 1 month ago
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@stoneclub.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday
Illustrated London News 1956
about 2 months ago
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BBC News - Huge Neolithic structure found in Stonehenge landscape - BBC News
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Huge Neolithic structure found in Stonehenge landscape
A study has confirmed 16 pits were dug close to the Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3vgd5732o
about 2 months ago
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@stoneclub.bsky.social
@chrismanias.bsky.social
On the left, a still from a 1917 stop motion film RFD 10,000 BC, showing a love letter. And on the right, a George Morrow cartoon from Punch in 1923 called Writing A Love Letter In The Neolithic Age.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoMW...
about 2 months ago
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
about 2 months ago
Have you e-signed
@sciencecentres.bsky.social
's letter to the UKGov? Today is your last chance before it goes to Downing St! Join 1000s of us in calling for fairer funding for the UK's science centres currently excluded from UKGov infrastructure funding.đ§Șđ âïž
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
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1937 Illustrated London News Worthington's beer advert
#StandingStoneSunday
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about 2 months ago
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New-Cleckit Dominie
about 2 months ago
PLOOS YER DOOS alert.
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@amendlocke.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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BBC News -
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Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News
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Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
In a unanimous judgement the Supreme Court allowed an appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c201qqq0n61t
about 2 months ago
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Argonaut Books
about 2 months ago
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social
, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25629089.waterstones-open-prime-site-beside-independent-shop/
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The state of the art, 100 years ago: Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man, Volume II, Williams and Norgate , Ltd. 1925
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@gsfwc.bsky.social
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Do come to the Glasgow launch of my and
@ruthaylett.bsky.social
's novel Solstice, from
@stairwellbooks.bsky.social
, on Sun 7th December, 2pm to 4pm, Garnethill Multi-Cultural Centre. With Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. Plus mulled wine and mince pies!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../solstice...
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@megalithic.bsky.social
BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News
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Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts
Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql9pwvg9kvo?fbclid=Iwb21leAOGepVjbGNrA4Z6jmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAhjYWxsc2l0ZQIyNQABHkwibhmlODqGHuGXJ5UR-velrdjUT4D-Ak8-drswQB3Ut3aNYs4f3Vhz6EEc_aem_t90S4fMkkE81HZ6krWtlIA&app-referrer=deep-link
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BBC News - Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money?
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Tutor sought for ÂŁ180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9kljww1zdo
2 months ago
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Dr Rachel Pope
2 months ago
A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
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Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals
A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/rosalind-franklin-knew-dna-was-a-helix-before-watson-and-crick-unpublished-material-reveals?utm_medium=social
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Stairwell Books
2 months ago
What a great
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
!! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website:
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
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Ruth Aylett
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And do come to the workshop I am running with
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social
at 3.15 on the Saturday, on how to write a novel collaboratively!
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Association for Scottish Literature
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Hereâs Karine Polwart singing Hamish Hendersonâs âFreedom Come-All-Yeâ in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
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âFreedom Come All Yeâ performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.
YouTube video by Alan Ferrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw
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@northernpicts.bsky.social
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BBC News - Trader who inspired The Big Short and now bets against AI sends tech shares lower
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Trader who inspired The Big Short sets off AI tech share sell-off
Shares of major tech companies have fallen in the US and Japan over fears about AI bubble
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c867vyn2evlo
2 months ago
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BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
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Bronze Age Fife coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
The boat was found buried in a prehistoric cemetery and recreated by a Highland based coracle-maker.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7m4yy0k0zo
2 months ago
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Ruth Aylett
3 months ago
For Naomi Mitchison fans: the annual Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison lecture is on Dec 11th in Glasgow University with Professor Alison Phipps
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BBC News - Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - BBC News
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Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest
The trio are cleared of all charges after citing human rights law in their defence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjekdqj7529o
3 months ago
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
Was Boudica thought of as an Ancient Britain in popular lore?
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@edinburghsff.com
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BBC News - OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit
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OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit entity
The deal will see long term investor Microsoft retain a 27% stake in the ChatGPT-maker.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv38py7ewo
3 months ago
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