Tees #Archaeology Day Sat 18 Oct, Stockton-on-Tees The post-medieval & industrial landscapes of northern England, new research over last 5 years, £25 / £15 concessions

#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology Whoop! Had the pleasure of IDing this absolute beauty from near York, one of the finest I've ever seen. finds.org.uk/database/art...

Hour this eve testing Microsoft Teams for a call tomorrow w/a friend. I'm still old Windows 8.1, current Firefox browser, but audio broken. Teams needs Win10/11 as an app. All vid/audio/mic SW drivers fine. But Google Chrome works with fiddling. And it's supposed to be 21st century!

Oi, why the question mark headline? Yes it's safe. No, there is zero proven medical evidence for a connection. (I understand that autism is largely hereditary, genetic, first diagnosed 1911, so pre-existing, 50yrs before paracetamol). STOP scaremongering. POTUS is wrong and infantile, or senile.

Mentally unwell. Vindictive, sociopath malignant narcissist. Low IQ. Financially corrupt. Morally corrupt, as is his family. A rapist in evidence. A likely pedophile. POTUS.

Doing enough? Government is doing NOTHING. Good article. And UK #LongCovid is more than ~2mill I wager with confidence! POLL as of now is: "Do you think the UK government is doing enough to support long Covid patients?" No 88% | Yes 5% | Don't know 7%

Take you back to 2016, the thank you card from two Bradford Uni undergrads. The Lost Village of Lodge, Scar House reservoir, Nidderdale N Yorks. Middle of bleedin nowhere and a very long walk every day. #Archaeology

It’s been quite a week (+month, year etc), so here’s a little #FindsFriday / #FlintFriday treat for your timelines: a gorgeous little Mesolithic ‘mèche de foret’ (drill bit) from my desk. Retouched edges abraded to a smooth sheen by repeated use. 🏺🏛️

This seems very hopeful. “This isn’t just about DWP being a failed organization... This is about successive governments deliberately underfunding to make the benefit system as hostile as it possibly can be, and to reduce the benefit bill." #LongCovid www.disabilitynewsservice.com/praise-for-i...

We walk amongst sociopathic malignant narcissists. Or them amongst us. Some of them billionaires. I'd venture for psychotic too, whatever "spectrum" they exist on, by virtue of whatever mindful-assisting narcotics, whether or not a function of their upbringing, abuse or environment. Malignant. Sad.

Power cuts, decimal currency, green shield stamps, corporal punishment in school

They maybe in Kent, bit like France with apples & curtains, but by gods they hit nuts on the head. Brava bravo! And I've almost watched you grow up, voices breaking, thru the (ongoing) pandemic. Proud of you @MarshSongs 🥰

London W10: Trumps have landed. Anybody noticed household clocks now ticking backwards? Streetlights gone out: they don't emit light, they suck-in darkness (my late Gt Uncle said). Posh dog walkers stood confused in't street, legs wide apart. Distant howling, bats, helicopters 👿

This is so funny: read the thread! I contribute (subtle): - Boris-Johnson burger - Grenfell fireburner (that's Mrs May) - Rail Replacement bus to nowhere (that's today) - Back of a Fag Packet Politician 'BFPP' (my privilege to say the F word, not yours)

If an elected standing MP decides to switch political party there should surely be a by-election, yes? If you voted for a cabbage that switches into a lettuce or turnip, the electorate must surely ratify (or deny)? Ethical. Don't call me Shirley.

Activists in the UK unveiled a MASSIVE banner featuring Donald Trump and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein outside Windsor Castle where he will be staying this week (Video: Everyone Hates Elon)

Gods yes, before the age of 5. Traumatized (parents took me to the docs). Lassie Come Home wrecked me for the rest of life, until the Waltons, Dallas, Dynasty, and Rich-Man-Poor-Man, MASH. Blue Peter had its moments with Xmas decorations which caught fire, and mis-spelling "desiccate" on TV. I'm 59.

Don't ask me why, but I just pulled a long nasal hair out. Other than my toes curling up, screaming surround sound, there may now be a tsunami alert in the Pacific. I'm 59. Why do I not learn?

Might be onto something here.

@sarahmay1.bsky.social as along the lines around our chat earlier... esp the 'Enoch Powell' bit.

Hear hear.

Reminder, Trump1 at Windsor with HM QEII who knew a few tricks about symbolism. The dog bowl by his feet. Never a mistake. I recall she wore Obama's brooch too.

Coughs. The birth of "this nation" the USA involved the violent massacre of a thousands-year-old indigenous and peaceful population. Perspectives?

@lornarichardson.bsky.social ?

Catherine Tate on Graham Norton Show, explaining her belligerent characters (like nan). I love this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3v7...

Like Faragerine, Johnson is a sociopathic (narcissist) crook, might be alleged. Comes with the gift to serial lie, get caught out, often sacked in his case, but not bat an eye. To greater or lesser extents most politicians appear to be the same. Parasites. Not new, but social media illuminates.

Top of the line IT security in the '90s 🤣 repost if you remember this 🔄

Bicentenary of the World's Oldest Public Railway. Yarn bombers doing their fantastic best. Pics courtesy of Emma Watson, Tees Archaeology.

Weekend Question. When is the last time you lost your temper/patience with somebody? Did they know or did you suppress? Spectral family-friends-work-social-medical-political-yada. Describe? It's cathartic. My mood has changed with #LongCovid so self-aware of edges, tolerance.

Excellent news & a huge grant for community #Archaeology engagement at Jarrow, Tyneside north-east England, 7th century monastery. www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/archaeolog...

Why in any logic's name doesn't his constituency, Clacton-on-Sea, who never see him, RECALL him as an MP and sack him? It just takes a bit of coordination. Same way Johnson's did in Uxbridge W London (who never held a constituency surgery). SACK FARAGE. Parliament is in session. #Farage

your periodic reminder that “archaeology isn’t political” is a political statement

It's like your parents reading out your fifth-grade school report back at you.

Re Farage/USA/Free Speech (viral today) I haven't laughed so much since: BBCR4 Jim Naughtie's "Jeremy Hunt Culture Secretary" spoonerism mistake (2010) youtu.be/-JpNravrwZc Derek & Clive's "Jump" song (1973) involving Aunty Mabel's left tit in a mangle accident (vs a right tit) youtu.be/TXBxpBMI0JA

Can anybody else hear the mechanisms churning with editorial anxiety @BBC over Farage's "slaughter" today in the USA? I hear distant screaming. Perhaps a new recipe on the news website.

GOSH. I mean really - my jaw drops. Farage being slaughtered. You see this @femi-oluwole.bsky.social ?

Good. County Durham nr Bishop Auckland. 532 objections submitted. Lib Dem councillor Mark Wilkes: "Other parts of this area are crying out for development and improvement first. Right now, the landscape harm is just way too much." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello & welcome! 👋 This is the new @JnlWetlandArch account, sharing news & updates on all things wetland archaeology. 🌿💧 Follow along for the latest news and updates!

It doesn't take any rock science.

WHAT IN GODS' NAMES? I think there are still bits of the UK I like. No red crosses or flags. This should be an Olympic sport.

But it's not working is it? Putin (ICC indicted) is having his way and a dark laugh. Intimidation and death. For an illegal land-grab. UN isn't working, NATO isn't, EU seems to be all noise, UK "summon the ambassador". Trump is more worried, if at all, about "Epsteingate" and deflection.

A pretty much pointless and patronising news item by, well.... (an intern?) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Throwback to my tiny party flat with a balcony over Notting Hill Carnival route 1997-99 Chepstow Rd W2. Since 2020 I'm qtr mile away, much better managed. Somebody turns an off button 7pm. NOISY Police helicops gone by 10. Our festival must live on. Managed carnage & joy. Now silence ☺️

We're being systematically "gas-lit" by NHS (& govt). I do bloods qtly: GP surgery (clinician not GP) ask "have you been unwell recently?" LIKE F*CK since 2020 + hospital. My immune is crippled, visibly. "Oh" they say. Referral is Talking Therapy @england.nhs.uk 😠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometime between AD 55 and 65 a man named Lucius Julius Hipponicus scratched his named into a Samian Ware drinking cup Because of this simple act, he is one of the first residents of Exeter (ISCA) for whom we have a name 📷 May 2025 @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology #Devon

IDK if delayed #ThrowbackThursday or #FindsFriday #Archaeologist since 1982. Clearing out old docs & rediscovered myself 1996, age 30, 3yrs after coming out in London. Luckily pre-Internet! Editorial is a scream in itself. Me & Gabriel @ The Gate, Notting Hill, centre-L. #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈

We seek £500 to help fund a community-centred #Archaeology project at Windmill House, Boroughbridge, N Yorks. This is the landscape of the famous Thornborough Henges & Devil's Arrows standing stones. Link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/archaeolog...

We're boring, there are no treatments, we're unaffordable, un-insurable, an economic drain, expendable, a nuisance to know, politically unsafe to touch, easier to sweep under a carpet of apathy and, in China's corner, probably a massive compensation risk, hence the cover-ups and denials. #LongCovid

Fell over again tonight. Outside backyard. Stood up too quickly. Vortex spin. BANG. Hit head hard, lots of blood. But managed to stand w/i 30 mins. First fall-over 2025. It's very scary, knees jelly, stare at stars. #LongCovid keeps giving. I probs should go to A&E. iphone refuses a pic (blood).