Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Let's all pretend that this wasn't the plan of these evil people all along...

A lovely review article (and my first dissertation citation🍾) on Scottish archaeological mollusc exploitation from @jenniferbones.bsky.social & @mlaw.bsky.social. Makes the point that culture ("taste" if you like) may be just as important as economic considerations www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

From the MetroWest website. I can spot an obvious barrier to accessibility at Lawrence Hill station if this photo is anything to go by.

Forensic Architecture unpacks the architecture of Israel’s genocidal starvation of Gaza.

A brilliant article. Clear and legally correct. People need to calm TF down about people using toilets as toilets and not fall for the artificial panic whipped up by the right.

And remember kids we have to pretend like this wasn't the plan all along....

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

Massive support for Miriam Margolyes as pro-Israel lobby tries to cancel her As the Zionist lobby comes for Miriam Margolyes, it exposes itself as the cynical, colonialist operation it really is. Disgraceful. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Life is much simpler when the other side can't fight back www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-wan...

Koch's Postulate > that Cock's Postulate.

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

Nick Clegg has a bloody cheek piping up at all. It was the austerity he enabled that is most responsible for Brexit & the continued unravelling of our social fabric. Then he swanned off to piss around at meta. Twat.

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

It's Starmer's "island of strangers" idea that pisses me off the most. The fact that an unlikeable man struggles to make friends on an island of 65 million is not really the fault of immigration is it?

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

#dodecabakeof @tessmachling.bsky.social I did have a dodecahedron. Went to get my phone for a photo, and this happened! Still tastes good but I am not expecting to meddle.

When I ask her opinion about this moment the historian, who studies the dark times, tells me she is worried that the end is in sight, and I tell myself that she is just talking about the end of the semester, yes, I tell myself, that must be what she means.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... A joint library. The US thinks they have the upper hand because they control the entrance. But all the books are located in Canada.

Hitler hated lawyers too.

Deeply shameful of the @royalsociety.org . All decent members must now resign.

Trading standards are warning people not buy Welshcakes from unlicensed vendors. This couple are travelling South Wales selling Welshcakes from the back of a K reg Ford Transit. Analysis of the Welshcakes confirms that half the currants have been replaced with dead flies.

In honour of #EastEnders 40th anniversary, here’s its first gay kiss, which sparked tabloid outrage at the time. Brace yourself, it’s a bit racy!

By now you’ve probably heard CDC investigators say “Asymptomatic Cases of Bird Flu in Humans Are Flying Under the Radar,” but you need not worry about hearing more of this frightening news, for those investigators laboring at the CDC are all getting fired.

Something has changed with the BSky algorithm. It has switched from offering me inane posts from attractive young pouting women to inane posts from pumped-up guys in gyms. I guess my lack of engagement with the former leads it to try its luck with the latter. I don't actually come here for either.

Where The Oscar Wilde Things Are #watercolor #queerartist #gayartist #popart

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

Just found @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social on Bluesky. My life is complete.

Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico? It's high time we used the original names for our own waters....

BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk ended a speech today by shouting "Heil Hitler". Republicans were quick to defend the billionaire, arguing that he may have actually said "whale glitter".

Social meaning in molluscs... (how I wish this was all just a bit of fun)

Well, well, well...🙄

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

The "aliens" delusion is essentially colonialist. The airheads putting out this stuff (to attract followers) refuse to believe that any people pre-US 1960, could possibly build anything like pyramids, stone circles, burial mounds like Newgrange, Inca cities and anything else in our global heritage.

Absolutely. Well done Ed. The glaring problem though is that Ed posted this on Twitter (X).

'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

I heard a doctor say we need not be terrified of H5N1 for “we know a lot about zoonotic flu,” and “have been preparing for it” but the doctor noted that this readiness can be negated by: “policy failures pandemic denialism antiscience disinformation” and so now I am terrified.

SPOILER: The reason that nobody gets to see Birmingham’s network of medieval tunnels is because they don’t exist.

Back at work. Same as before, but with a NEW MUG!

Happy Christmas everyone from me and the Maeshowe dog. 2 more hours of work and then I'm done until Monday!!

GOOD NEWS - My mollusc paper has been accepted for publication! Due Sept 2025. BAD NEWS - My most recent previous piece of peer-reviewed research was published in 2001 (in an entirely different field). The 24 year gap means I am old.

I asked my aunt, the doctor, to help me make sense of the new article in Science titled: “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors,” and my aunt replied: “it means that we are a single mutation away from catastrophe.”

Still waiting for the same outcry we got when ISIS were doing this. Savages.

Slightly sore head from last night's @ox.ac.uk Continuing Education Archaeology reunion. Spotted some ancient Greek graffiti in the pub toilets. Only in Oxford

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Kudos to Prof Bishop. "Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain”

Clifton Suspension Bridge leaves twitter and why they've left twitter - all in one handy image.

Well. I have been meaning to jump ship from Twitter for quite a while and now I have finally done it. The idea of giving toxic Elon any more power or money just became too much.