@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26 1/2 bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

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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

@tessmachling.bsky.social Pointless...

@amendlocke.bsky.social In the future, we will all travel in hover cars.

A good read for the shortest day, with @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...

@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?

BBC News - Roomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ianpaulwright.bsky.social Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742

How to erect "mysterious Stonehenge" from the Illustrated London News, August 1924. Pleasingly, from a book by E. H. Stone. @stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

BBC News - Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Illustrated London News 1958. From the fencing behind the car, this might be during the renovations. @stoneclub.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

14 women were shot to death at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique #Canada #OTD 6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was ‘fighting feminism’. #RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...

@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep” @gjmichaelson.bsky.social compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively 4/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midw...

BBC News - Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday Illustrated London News 1956

BBC News - Huge Neolithic structure found in Stonehenge landscape - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@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...

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.🧪🔭 ✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

1937 Illustrated London News Worthington's beer advert #StandingStoneSunday @stoneclub.bsky.social

PLOOS YER DOOS alert. www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful - BBC News

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... (1/2)

@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social The state of the art, 100 years ago: Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man, Volume II, Williams and Norgate , Ltd. 1925

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....

@stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social BBC News - Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money? www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

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...

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!

Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...

BBC News - Trader who inspired The Big Short and now bets against AI sends tech shares lower www.bbc.com/news/article...

@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery www.bbc.com/news/article...

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 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@theduncanmackay.bsky.social Was Boudica thought of as an Ancient Britain in popular lore?

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BBC News - OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit www.bbc.com/news/article...