@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World Cup boycott continues to grow. Since Renee Good was executed by ICE last week, 25,000+ World Cup tickets have been cancelled. Visiting the US simply isn't safe. #BoycottUSA #CancelWorldCup #FIFA #WorldCup2026 #UK #EU #cdmx #CanMNT #USMNT #eltrieng #cdnpoli www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...

If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

Better photos of torc & discs/terminals on #Carnyx. Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain. From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation. #Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy 📷 ITV News

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Resurrection Man caught in the traditional way…

“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.

Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words #IronAge #WarTrumpet and #Boudicca in it www.theguardian.com/science/2026... PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from #Norfolk Wow 😲 We need a lie down @theguardian.com @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

An early modern anti-multi-tasking emblem and slogan... “We cannot all do everything” Jacob Hoefnagel, 1634 (British Museum)

🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians

5 Jan 1617: George Villiers created Earl of #Buckingham by James VI & I #otd (NPG) in the swift ascent of a favourite who made the king's heart beat a little faster.

“All quiet, sentry?” “All quiet sir; perhaps…too quiet…” #PlaymobilInfestation

In 1847, James Y. Simpson became the 1st surgeon to use chloroform as an anaesthetic during childbirth. Indeed, the 1st baby born under the drug’s influence was nicknamed Anaesthesia! Duncan Flockhart & Co. Ltd were the 1st British manufacturers of chloroform. #histmed #medicalhistory #skystorians

I just need Playmobil ATeam, ok?

Hrithik Roshan!!!

Nero incoming!

In case you missed it, Harvard offers free online courses: pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

This is absolutely insane, and for authors who spend years researching, editing and writing a book, to have them flagged as #AI because the infernal thing was trained on it is f--king infuriating. It SHOULD be illegal...but nothing stops amoral techlords from violating ethical and legal boundaries.

あけましておめでとう🌅🎍🌅！

Marx had many things to say about this, but it boils down to this: pushing AI onto the general populace is intentional, the GOAL is alienation - to unhook that link in your brains between labour and product. It's why fast fashion is made where you can't see it.

Sensory overwhlem being a thing in ADHD explains a lot. I just thought everyone spends most of their days, when they have to commute and be in an office, feeling world-endingly, dig-your-own-eyeballs-out awful, and they were just dealing with it as a fact of life.

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Okay, that's enough of that. A.I. sucks. Think for yourself. Create for yourself. Struggle. Take your time. Do not cede your humanity to an algorithm because it's hard. Make something yourself. It won't be perfect. But it'll be yours. And call your mom.

Upon my sickle I catch the sun And by my power I cast it on Across the sky The light to bring To rouse the gods To send the spring #WinterSolstice #Solstice #Midwinter #PlaymobilInfestation

21 Dec 1120: traditional date of the birth of St Thomas Becket at Cheapside #London #otd On the feast of St Thomas Apostle (BM)

Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice. The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2 #Solstice

Great costume!

Lovely moment. :3

All of this thread. I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.

16thc trepan, used to drill holes in a patient's skull as a treatment for a whole range of conditions including headaches, hysteria and epilepsy. "Press the trepan on the thickest part, and in this take good heede..."

pleased to report that Pink Magic Energy has safely seen me through the entire year, thank you Ura 🩷

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cat-abiner!

Alexander Wood was born #OTD in 1817. Wood devised the first syringe for the injection of a local anaesthetic in 1853. He used an opium preparation -the antecedent to modern morphine. Wood used this syringe for the first subcutaneous injection of morphia in the UK.

We are looking for a Visitor Services Lead to join the team. Full details can be found here: cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/v...

It's #FestiveClothes for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar with @arascot.bsky.social. These beautifully embroidered gloves (c.1600) belonged to our College founder & surgeon, Peter Lowe. We probably wouldn't recommend wearing them to make snowballs though 😆❄️ heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/37

Hello!

This is so cool! Most of the robbed graves in London sadly weren’t this deep or exclusive though. ;_;

The whole thing is just a pretext to create more ANTI sentiment so the Government can cut benefits even more. I mean, it’s SO transparent. Also, Wes Streeting is a piece. It’s tragic what the ‘Labour’ party has become. >.>

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

feels like most everything is like this now

Madness. :(

“Don’t replace the culture war with class war” is such a fun way of saying, “Please don’t unionize, I just bought a yacht that parks inside another yacht.”

First poster for Markiplier’s directorial debut ‘IRON LUNG’ The film will have a theatrical rollout starting on January 30 with approx 50-100 theaters.

17thc medical diagnosis by astrology. Watch out under Capricorn for diseases of the knees and hams. And beware of scabs and fractures

Society: *treats disabled people like shit* Also society: People just wanna be disabled so they can feel SPECIAL!

In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

Partaking in the capitalistic sales of Black Friday? Well my chickens have a sale on all their merch today. Why give ur money to Big Corporate when Big Chicken is right here blacksmoke1033.etsy.com