Frosty the Snowman Spawn of the Elder Gods He’s got three eyes and he’ll hunt you down With his seagull-headed dogs

Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England. #language #dialect

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Cumbria, 1391. The last wolf in England felt desperately alone. He lived in the thorn woods at Humphrey Head & his one friend was a kind girl who gave him bacon & buttery scones. When he was killed & his soul flew over the sea, he howled her name to the dying sun, to the waves

Come for men being silly in fields, stay for the linguistic awesomeness of a dialect / language rooted somewhere in the middle of the North Sea. youtu.be/HGvTiZOKfyI?...

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.

Come for men being silly in fields, stay for the linguistic awesomeness of a dialect / language rooted somewhere in the middle of the North Sea. youtu.be/HGvTiZOKfyI?...

I have so many questions about this: - were flammable shorts ever a big problem? - is this the origin of hot pants? - was the image of the human candle burning from the shorts up meant to sell them to us?

I love the Dave Arcari version of this youtu.be/9m9J067LlWs?...

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense. It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!

Lidt uheldig overskrift, men ja. nyheder.tv2.dk/klima/2025-1...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Xenophon: I was unexpectedly dumped in the desert and had to walk home.

Just two foot?

Whirl Pool occasioned by many Tides meeting but not so Dangerous as is Reported George Eunson (1795) 'A chart of the islands of Orkney... with the coast of Scotland' maps.nls.uk/view/74401125

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Today's working tempo is courtesy of Doctor Avalanche

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Trying to articulate why leaving stuff undiscovered is good, actually...

When the Mary Rose was raised, her wet weight was 272 tonnes (150 cars, two blue whales, 30 T. rexs or 200,000 human brains) That's not including the lifting cradle, which added another 72 tonnes/45 cars/0.7 blue whales/eight T. rexs/55,000 human brains... #Museum30 #Heavy

AN INSTRUMENT OF PLAY FOR A STONY COUNTRY riddle

'Silence Through the Ages' Max Ernst, 1968 Oil on canvas The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

🦤 Vi (🇩🇰) har tre arter i slægten Præstekraver: Stor, Lille og Hvidbrystet. Af dem er det Stor præstekrave der er den mest almindelig, og den kan ses det meste af året langs de danske kyster, hvor den i foråret laver rede i en lille fordybning i sandet. God weekend til alle! ✌🏼

Several minute piece on the BBC. Lots of detectorists. No archaeologists. No-one from PAS. No-one from museums. No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved. 😡 #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News

Zhao Mengfu's round sheep and goat, 1300, Mongol Empire. asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

Woah! In one summer. UK data centre boom 🧵

4% of annual finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme were DONATED to Museums.... thats right 4% 📢One last time folks 4%📢 C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?

Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)

You simply don't get a sense of the hidden architecture lurking beneath Edinburgh's South Bridge from street level until you look at the cross-sectional view. retrospectjournal.com/2024/11/10/a...

Little Kingdoms-core Ch.8 of Fellowship Of The Ring is my favourite of the bunch; dripping in Tolkien’s signature melancholic references to Bronze Age > Early Med. tombs, dust-laden accursed hoards, and the long forgotten borders of half-mythologised realms belonging to ancient stunted bloodlines

Cloudy night. No aurora here. Instead a baleful dawn.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Cloudy night. No aurora here. Instead a baleful dawn.

I travelled with this experimental camera in my hand luggage recently- the airport security were excited and curious because of the "WTF is that?" factor. It must be pretty tedious spending all day asking folk to throw away their shampoo. bsky.app/profile/davs...

I wonder if she, like Anders Holch Povlesen, pays more tax on her Scottish estates to the Danish Government than the 0% that goes to the UK exchequer. Scotland badly needs land reform. www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...

Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...

Iron oxide rings, deposited around decomposed organic matter (possibly plant roots) in a recently exposed mud bank. County Clare, Ireland.

Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.

Good news, but a shame it's Rosyth-Dunkirk and not Leith-Esbjerg (for purely selfish reasons)

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Love this book. Also online: rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...

Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...

Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay More information on the harrow