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“Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling Are you fucking serious?”

Brilliant work here. Takes the code of practice apart with a scalpel.

citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions?

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

Fuck's sake. This font change is not an improvement. Does not HES have more important fish to fry, such as reimplementing functionality it removed as a result of the transition from Canmore to Trove? * www.trove.scot/place/41326

So a thing I learn is that printers of old, not having a superscript c, instead inverted a comma when dealing with your Scots person. (Also known as a turned comma or "6-quote" ... I did wonder why so many Scots I encountered were M'Leods and M'Kenzies.) * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...

The Met moved out of that building in 2016, and it was demolished in the 2016-2017 period, but other than that, BBC, finger on the pulse for a 2026 crime / investigation.

In which the Wikimedia Foundation fires union organisers on its staff, so that it has more time available to it to count its money. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Shall we listen to The Toy Matinee again? Probably time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69D...

Kame of Isbister: not monastic; martial. Probably.

My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...

It me.

Down the Nick Drake rabbithole, and finding this; 52 minutes very well spent: Wenlock Priory, Louis de Wet, memento mori, haunting music by Gavin Bush. vimeo.com/688568657

Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. Why have you not sacked Arif Ahmed yet? Why have you not resigned? The High Court is clear that the OfS's actions were a travesty, politically motivated and a fundamental breach of academic freedom.

Christ on a fucking bike; the state of this. Meandering river meanders.

No two ways about it: if you scan/steal a historic photo - someone else's work - and watermark it so as to claim ownership, then you're a bad person with a broken moral compass.

Wikipedia daily pageviews for Avignon Papacy, for the 30 days ending 8 April 2026. Truly unhinged country. * pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w...

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

There are only 11 organisations listed on the UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme public register. * foreign-influence-registration-scheme.service.gov.uk/public-regis... #chocolateFireguard

Started / going

Ring ditch & settlement 0, agriculture 1. Ewieside Hill, Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

tfw the LIDAR runs out of poop just before your feature of interest. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

UAE going all out to Streisand the idea that you're not safe there whether or not a missile falls on your head. Excellent work, no notes.

In which Canmore decides that pretty much everything in this boggy west Shetland moorland is worthy of notice. (Centre is approx HU 24268 51410 ... PastMap doesn't take arguments on URLs, so no possibility of a link to it) * pastmap.org.uk/map

A380 flying backwards into Heathrow, according to ADS-B Exchange. Nice trick.

This 1900s cartographer had drawn enough brochs by then to know that this was not such a thing. What was (presumably) he thinking? Kame of Isbister, Mainland, Shetland. Posited as a mid C9th monastic settlement. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

ngl, I kinda wonder how the Glasgow fire got from this to that /with/ the fire brigade on scene.

Meticulous, well-argued and generally fascinating Words? What do they mean? article just dropped.

Meldrum House Golf Course, inspired in part by the lilia of the Antonine Wall. No sharpened stakes, though; probably a mistake.

Distribution of wind turbines in the UK, according to OpenStreetMap ... about 13,500 of. Space for one or two more, I feel. * overpass-turbo.eu/s/2lws

Fun fact: this facility cost $1.06 Billion, rising by 2021 to $1.21 Billion taking account of maintenance. It has, allegedly, been taken out by a ~$35,000 drone. #SoMuchWinning * www.executivebiz.com/articles/ray...

Dark ages singular and fairly epic countour fort, described by RCAHMS as 'impressive', and 'I do not know anything comparable' ... which you'll never see b/c it's under trees and scrub. Just along a plateau from a huge Roman fort area. Inchtuthil, Perth & Kinross,. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Get that hillfort ploughed. Why not? The Chesters, Spott, East Lothian. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... * www.trove.scot/place/57792#...

Big up the owners of Little Scews on Hoy, who seem to have decided to plant a vast arboretum around their shabby little cottage. * www.bing.com/maps/search?...

A little unsatisfactory that Canmore/Trove has zero thoughts on what this structure on Hoy, Orkney, might be. The 'D' shape is about 50 metres west-east. * www.bing.com/maps/search?...

A little unsatisfactory that Canmore/Trove has zero thoughts on what this structure on Hoy, Orkney, might be. The 'D' shape is about 50 metres west-east. * www.bing.com/maps/search?...

Trouble with Reviewer 2? Why not carve your alternative theory into the side of your house instead? (seen on a facade on New Street, Scalloway, Shetland)

tfw a huge Grade B listed country house is just not big enough for you, your family and your helicopter. Balgray House, East Renfrewshire; the original house is the top of the C-section complex. What looks like the courtyard is the roof of a structure, so 3x size? * www.nvdc.co.uk/balgray-house

Cricket ground - top left - mimicing an Iron Age scooped settlement (bottom right). Easy mistake to make. Balgray Cleuchheads, Dumfries and Galloway. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

In which the famer had some fun. Hetlandhill, Carrutherstown, Dumfries and Galloway.

Nice Iron Age scooped settlement you have there. Shame if it was completely obscured by a spruce plantation of negligible value. (Part #837 in an endless series of wholly avoidable shit.) Shiel Burn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... * www.trove.scot/place/67307

Was wondering why & on what authority Quholme (Rackwick, Hoy, Orkneys) had been renamed Bunnertoon by Ordnance Survey (as you do). Seems to be that Peter Maxwell Davies ascribed that name to the cottage when he restored & lived in it. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Corn drying kiln, it being rather wet much of the time on Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Probably owned by a clergyman, built on glebe land. Post-medieval, Canmore says. A nearby manse, they say, is 18th-century. * www.google.com/maps/place/H...

Cropmarks ftw. The Grange Bronze age Class I henge in Balmerino, Fife, Scotland, doesn't care about your ploughing. 2,700 or more years old. * www.bing.com/maps/search?...

Shite cartography, OpenStreetMaps. Huge slurry tank at Dalwinton Roads, Dumfries and Galloway, represented by a tiny icon. * www.openstreetmap.org#map=19/55.14...

BBC News website actively preferring and promoting Kristi Noem's version of the Pretti killing, by omitting a key paragraph in his parents' note and inserting Noem's falsehoods.

Manny Shinwell's racism not featured in his Wikipedia article. Whitewash, as it were.

Nice Neolithic class II henge you have there. Shame if anyone were to fill in parts of the ditch to construct golf bunkers, and place a putting green in its centre. Castle Hill Henge, now hole 13 of the Muir of Ord Golf Club, Highland, Scotland. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Ofcom, the parliament that passed the Online Safety Act, and Starmer's cabinet all busy brushing this under the carpet as if industrial-scale CSAM and revenge porn was not happening. Regulation and government by quislings.