SHAFT!

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."

"Now Dougal, this is going to sound very, very immoral, and stay with me, but what if..."

🌴 Who Is Using Arches? The City of West Hollywood has launched a new Arches implementation as part of its Historic Preservation website—improving public access to info on the City’s cultural & historic resources. 🔗 Learn more & explore the database: bit.ly/wehopreservation

Why the f*ck must everything I hold dear be subject to the whims of a demented shitposter with no emotional regulation? Why can I not book a holiday or make a financial decision, without first stopping to think about that guy? Why should I have to wake up every morning to find out what he’s done?

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Bloody hell. "Our lord and saviour" isn't even dead yet - that happens on Friday. The celebrating bit is on Sunday, and not before.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

My Royal Navy piece is out - some history, some analysis, and a shout at the government open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

🚨 New on Substack, Lincoln’s Early Council Housing and the Corporation’s "duty to provide the houses themselves" - Homes for Heroes, a model Garden Suburb and pioneering slum clearance: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/lincolns-e...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

We’ve built an interactive game to show what the pressure of adult social care looks like in practice. In Run the Council, you take charge of a fictional council for four years. Can you run ‘Northfield Council’ amongst mounting financial pressures? Play here: www.labourtogether.uk/council-sim

The Enshittification of #GIS. #GISChat open.substack.com/pub/reimagin...

How do Americans not die of embarrassment when this man speaks? I couldn't bear it if someone like this were PM.

In case it's of interest... www.pleasantgreen.co.uk/the-return-o...

📢 The Getty Conservation Institute is accepting applications for the Head, Arches Initiative role. This leadership position will direct the Heritage Data Management: Arches department at the GCI, as well as liaise with & work to support the interdisciplinary Arches open-source community.

"Mum, whats that monkey doing to that other monkey?"

Fire near Glasgow Central station causes major rail disruption

Trump told me that the Ayatollah and Kamala Harris were in the cupboard making babies, and he saw one of the babies, and the baby looked at him.

Over on the other site, French army’s @TimLeberre reports that Blue Shield emblems have been placed on the roofs of cultural properties in Iran, including the Mausoleum of Baba Taher, in accordance with the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed conflict.

Setting - The surroundings in which a heritage asset is fucking smothered! Suttle House, Grade II listed!

Guess it's time to frack the Lincolnshire Wolds, and all it took to make it worthwhile was the world being on the precipice of a new world war.

Remember this Reel that went a lil viral a while ago? Where Oxford Archaeology dug up a VERY FAMILIAR looking Roman figure which was dubbed 'the OLDEST Warhammer mini ever'? Well guess who got to meet that mini? ME! Im so hype to make this video im gunna scream 🫠 #warhammer #warhammercommunity

The Americans used AI to choose targets for them to strike in this unnecessary war, and ended up killing over a hundred 7-12 year old girls as "collateral damage". Someone has to face justice for this, before blaming the machine becomes a defence. It has to be stopped before it goes any further.

BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Historic Environment Records (HERs) are an established part of archaeological practice. With thanks to CIfA for allowing this cross over. and to Ben Wallace and Keith Elliot for writing the short guide to Historic Environment Records: Signposts to the past www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...

All my research (10 minutes on google) has done nothing to disprove my hypothesis that so-called "Pancake Day" was created in the 1950s by Big Dairy and Be-Ro to increase their profits at a lean time of year.

We should be clear: Reform are the quisling's party and just a extension of Trump. This should be everywhere

old enough to remember this

New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham

Jenrick sowing;

It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game.

When I was a student I was lectured in archaeology by the brother of Tom Hingley of the Inspiral Carpets. He had me wash some sherds of pot from a fieldwalking project that came out of a bag initialled TH. It is therefore possible, though not likely, that I've washed of Tom Hingley's finds.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

A perfectly reasonable question. My admittedly hypothetical answer is that I reckon on the whole smaller family run farms are better for rural communities than large estates. Revenue stays in the area and is spent locally, supporting lots of ancillary businesses and keeping communities sustainable.

Hedgerows are not a feature of fenland landscapes. The appropriate way to deal with declining biodiversity in this area is to crack down on pesticides and runoff, not to create some weird pastiche of 19th century planned enclosure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For more about the Arches UK Interest Group, including how to engage with group members on the forum and how to sign up for the group’s mailing list, visit

Now available: Video recording from the Nov 27 Arches UK Interest Group meeting. Learn about Arches software developments related to the recent v8 release, as well as Historic England’s new Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record database:

📣 Introducing the new Arches Lingo webpage! Learn about this new Arches application (currently in development) and how it will support the creation, management, and sharing of authority data. 🔗 www.archesproject.or...

I'd love to think that the CofE has a sufficiently strong immune system to keep these people out, but just in case the declining congregations of 60-80 year olds aren't up to it we should probably take church schools out of their hands and get bishops out of the lords pdq.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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