My decades theory has expanded to the 20s, 30s, and 40s (see posts passim)

The short 1930s runs from 1933 to 1938, and the long 1920s is 1919-1933.

The long 1940s starts in 1938 and runs until 1954 when sweet rationing ends and Elvis Presley releases his first single.

In case there's any debate, no one should watch this. Any of it.

Just to be clear, social media ‘bans’, age verification, ‘device-level’ control over sexual images etc. all *increase* the power of the tech giants and the tech bros. They hand over enforcement and monitoring to the tech giants. They all give more data and more control to the tech giants.

Rain can be irritating (oh yes) but it does help to bring out archaeological features Here, for instance, is a nice Iron Age linear gulley #Durotriges26

NEW TOLKIEN JUST OUT: delighted to see “JRR #Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” edited by Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... Chuffed to have played a minor role in this 1/3

Andrée de Jongh (1916 – 2007) was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised the Comet line (Le Réseau Comète) for escaped Allied soldiers and airmen. After the war, she worked in leper hospitals in Africa. #CelebratingWomen

Optimising DAX: How VertiPaq Stores Your #Data by Carmel Eve #PowerBI endjin.com/blog/optimis...

Apropos of foolishly reading the comments on someone else's thread, I wonder how much of the received wisdom about Doctor Who is ultimately derived from half-remembered rants in DWB?

Hotel is appalling. We are all in the attic.

And for UK people who enjoy music, this one closes sooner. Require all AI 'musicians' and songs to have a visible AI notice. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Remember, while 'likes' are nice, reposts get these in front of more people. (Bluesky is not Twitter.)

Well obviously I'm going to enjoy this.

Periodically, I plough through my LinkedIn invites clicking "no" on the 99% of "Business Development Executive" and "Marketing Consultants" - especially all the ones that have written a nice note asking how they can help.

I often think about the fact that there is remarkable reporting about "the invasion" even on D-Day and D+1, given security. But of course the deception plan was that this is not the "main" invasion (that being Patton->Calais). So the news *should* report the actual invasion as the actual invasion.

Waiting for the bus is sometimes nice.

The rain is thrashing down. I'm under a tree.

I would very much like to see the Sister Boniface team do a broad adaptation of Raffles with a larger ensemble.

Well HELLO Iron Age roundhouses 👋 How very lovely to see you!! 😍 #Archaeology #Durotriges26

My thoughts are with all those people from around the world—who were half my age—who came to fight and, all too often, die in my country 82 years ago today, for the freedom of my family, and therefore my own. So I’m sharing again this excerpt from my grandmother’s memoirs:

Noooo! The cricket has been abandoned because the pitch is too soggy.

My Aunt dated one of the people from Hipgnosis.

The Quentin Blake centre for illustration opened today in Islington so we went to see the queer comics exhibit curated by Paul Gravette and it’s chock full of funny, snarky resistance with touches of joy and visions of possibility. Loved this Rachel House page

Are there any algae specialists out there on BlueSky?

@iammilliam.bsky.social @robertshearman.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social TIRTY

What an excellent team! Looking forward to the new series, safe in the knowledge that it is not going to pivot to hushed tones and "baffled" archaeologists.

Bebe Daniels, c 1923. Fashion Friday.

What are *you* going to do with your half-day-a-month of credits? Don't eat them all at once!

I have been thinking about this video and laughing all week. youtube.com/shorts/5hBfH...

The algorithm has just put up a video of Robert Plant at Knebworth in 1990. (A gig I was offered tickets for but was working at Sainsbury's that day.) The old bugger was more than 10 years younger than I am now. I will just take this opportunity to crumble to dust.

What a find - the house of Peter Firmin, the creator of bagpuss, which doubled for Emily’s shop, is for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Merge two movies: I Was Monty's Double Indemnity

Well this is just lovely - @alasdairstuart.com has the first part of a deep dive into the entire Mega Robo Bros series, over at Sci-Fi Bulletin: scifibulletin.com/comics/mega-... (thanks so much, Alasdair!)

One of my favourite startup genres is “we named our product so badly our first ad campaign is dedicated just to that”

This #bookshelf is fairly illustrative of my casual non-fiction interests. And filing style.

Eisenhower’s all-staff email ahead of D-Day:

It's not proper archaeology because they aren't "baffled".

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Archaeologists have reached the cellars of Paris's medieval residents. Below them lie Merovingian and Carolingian grain pits, from the 6th to the 10th centuries; below those, a dense Roman quarter from the 4th and 5th centuries.

I think it's great that global organizations like the IOC are publishing data in a way that is easy to explore and tell stories with, rather than *just* the data dump. Helps with public understanding, as well as transparency #olympics www.olympics.com/ioc/olympic-...

Looks like XXX Corps aren't going to make it...again. #watchingFilmsWithMatthew

It's live. I burned roughly what I spent last month in 1 day. I stopped using it. I'm a strong proponent of making these things economically sustainable. Unfortunately this particular step change puts it beyond our budget.

Fair. I take my car for an annual MoT every 2 weeks now- I just love the buzz when it passes. Might go weekly.

Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.

(it is the device I actually want though)

Woo! Hope it is an even more interesting season than last year.

@unamccormack.bsky.social I failed to correctly include you in this message.

This is a screenshot from an episode of Endevour where (not yet inspector) Morse is off to see someone in hospital. Now, some of you may have heard of Fosdick Ward before, because it’s in Carry On Doctor. Proving that the Carry Ons an Inspector Morse take place in the same universe

Boon. Michael Elphick, David Daker, and Rachel Davies retired Firefighter-turns-odd-job-detective. Season 1 reminds me (in terms of tone and storytelling) very strongly of Rentaghost.

I don't trust this cow.