More of this please

Soooooo Jamie Campell Bower read that script and was like OH THANK GOD, right

In general it's pretty cool seeing someone talk basic common sense about taxing the wealthy in this country but it's especially cool seeing Zack Polanski defeat the Crypt Keeper live on air

NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts). I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

Anecdotal, but the leader of the Downe village Cubs that Nigel Farage and his brother were in was a family friend, and she always spoke of him as being a memorably horrible child (prevailing wisdom was that if Mrs Perry couldn’t straighten him out, no-one could).

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

Looked at Morris and Co stained glass again and made a mari piece

I’d love to see the ~48 hours Agent Stinson and her powersuits probably had at the end of Season 4 of Stranger Things: retrieve Dr Owens from Area 52 or whatever; locate Eleven and the boys; get Hopper, Joyce, and Murray back to Hawkins; accidental Soviet defector Jaqen H’ghar, somehow.

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

Reminder - this doesnt just affect trans people. Hannah Botterman is a icon and English legend - is scared to go to the loo alone in case people now challenge her. And this advice would entirely empower them.

I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

There is something on the top floor of Peterborough Museum (extremely haunted), especially in the Napoleonic prison camp gallery, that absolutely does not want you there.

Meant to get round to making it sooner, but the smell of homemade mincemeat as it gets spooned into jars is one of the festive season’s #TinyJoys

7yo neighbour has been learning about the Stone Age at school. So far she’s told me that during the palaeolithic, everyone was going around killing each other, and that when prehistoric kings died, they got thrown in a ditch, and someone else was killed and thrown in the ditch with them.

Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!

How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?

We wake to mornings of cold magic. Exhale dragon-breath, crunch frost-frozen leaves as we walk. The year is dying. We feel it as rush of ghosts, a shivering that foretells the blade of ice upon its neck. No wonder this is the season where folklore burns bright. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore

One of the main defences of detecting I hear is that they discover things we wouldn't know about otherwise. Stuff sitting on a shelf in somebody's house is lost to us. Stripping it of context strips or of meaning = It'd probably be better off left in the ground.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left

I forgot to post this on Friday, but: a moment of appreciation for the spectacular Must Farm cake made by the Flag Fen café’s Kate Ferry. I had no idea how Kate was going to pull off the brief she was given, but she nailed it. And it was delicious!

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Two jackals on a stele, dedicated to the cult of the Emperor Nero, showing a combination of Egyptian iconography and a Greek inscription. From Asyut (Greek - Lycopolis, Wolf city), home to a major temple dedicated to Wepwawet, a canine god. 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky

Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

Today is the day! I am immensely proud to have been a part of this project. It has been an honour and a privilege to help put Dorothy back together, and I can’t wait for people for people to be able to see the result of all of Mary’s hard work on these very special boats.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I genuinely hope Rama Duwaaji is enjoying the internet having a field day with her design.

Good evening to everyone except my dog, who has decided to introduce standing on my toes into her asking for treats routine.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology

In the UK, a judge has decided that fascism, as a deeply held belief, is a protected characteristic - drawing on similar rulings for transphobia

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

The nice thing about having a birthday that falls around the time Americans have elections is that sometimes you wake up and find that they’ve made Barack Obama president or Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City, which is an excellent start to the day.

The name is Mamdani: M A M D A N I You should learn how to say it. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMg9CbT8/

Once again a terrible time to have functioning ears and have been a teenager in 2005.

By Toutatis! I think the sneaky wild boar is my favourite part …

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Important update: Dorothy has now been moved over to the Flag Fen museum, where Mary and I (but mostly Mary) will be working hard over the next couple of weeks to get her and Alan, aka Boat 2, ready to go on display, opening on November 14th.

Please enjoy the delightfully shaggy mostly complete new Bronze Age house at Flag Fen – looking forward to some cosy roundhouse time in here.

Not an original point, but as someone who was a teenager during the War on Terror™️ years, this very much feels like one of those things where if you showed it to someone from twenty years ago, they’d never believe that this man is probably the next mayor of New York City.

When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday