DO YOU HAVE A DIG OR ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT YOU THINK REALLY OUGHT TO BE ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN SERIES 14? Then email [email protected] and maybe @toriherridge.bsky.social Rosanna or I will get to come out and visit! www.instagram.com/reel/DZViJ2T...

At this point, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Harry Brook has celebrated his ascension to the England captaincy for the next Test in a manner that has seen him suspended from the captaincy for the next Test.

Yeah, but I scored this bargain

June 8, 1926: A couple leaves their 6-month-old baby as collateral at a Sonoma County, Calif., garage for two tires, then fail to return. Welfare authorities take the child into their protection.

You won’t catch me living in a paltry 4-goat castle

June 8. Urban bird walk #edinburgh (38 species) Granton Harbour ~20 Common Terns (maybe 10 on eggs?) on or near rafts ... there appears to be loose eggs or are these fake decoys? @btoscotland.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #birdinglothian

Curlew sandpiper at Weelies Taing last night. Late light for birds. #Orkney #Papay

My suspicion has long been - and confirmed by this research- that Stonehenge articles pass through the peer review process far more easily than they should.

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 On the day it finally went live, regulators in several countries immediately moved to block ADI Predictstreet, Fifa’s $150m prediction market sponsor, for operating illegally. (Free to read for 24 hours, then paywalled.) josimarfootball.com/2026/06/08/f...

World Cup memories Rudi Völler and Klaus Allofs celebrate on the town after scoring in Germany's 2-1 win over Scotland. World Cup, Querétaro, Mexico 1986.

Well done lads. 🙄

‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on higher education. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Reports that a referee on FIFA’s World Cup list from Africa has been turned back after trying to enter the US for the tournament. Surely, this is basic stuff FIFA should have ironed out well before now. FIFA has been, as usual, contacted for comment.

These two lads are clearly away with the fairies and I applaud them for it.

WHAT'S BEEN DIGITIZED IS __ONLY__ A TINY FRAGMENT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE & HISTORY PRIMARILY WHAT'S __EASY__ TO RUN THROUGH MACHINES Internet = a sip of water Museums & archives = OCEANS, GALAXIES, UNIVERSES Signed, a former digitization professional

I appeared as a 'Theme of the Week' expert on the #HarryHillShow and the episode is out now! It is all wonderfully bonkers and there is a lot of ham but I loved chatting to Harry and Alex Horne about the #britishseaside and its heritage. Watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnk...

frates dairy milk bottle, new bedford, massachusetts, 1984

A Giant Reawakens. Free event at St Stephens Theatre in Stockbridge, 20th June at 3 p.m. A chance to hear and appreciate this historic instrument, played by 5 organists.

One of the biggest causes of duckling mortality in this area is... other Mallard families. On small streams/ponds, there's limited food, and little chance of avoiding each other, and so females and even ducklings try to kill other broods to eliminate the competition. They're very vicious in attack.

The BBC has gone full Reform. Where the fuck is Lisa Nandy??

It was a disgrace that the Judicial Appointments Commission engaged in a direct attack on press freedom by seeking £14,000 costs from a journalist. The journalist had to take contempt of court proceedings against it for refusing to comply with an FOI. www.easterneye.biz/jac-loses-fi...

Eh?

Unrateable.

BBC has finally confirmed the David Sullivan Panorama is going ahead tonight.

Woman's Own 1952 really putting a pep in our step this Monday morning...

forget it; got nervous and accidentally ate dinner instead smdh

first breakfast of the week- hope it goes well

Presumably there's someone in a boat to retrieve balls going out of play?

10 of the world's most amazing football pitches. A thread 🧵 Feel free to contribute to the thread with your own pictures. 1. 2,500 metres above, Taijikistan. Photo Credit: Jean-Phillippe Tournut

Protecting The Kids by telling websites not to let a 17yo see a boob, announcing it on a social media site with an AI that does CSAM of any kid that takes a nonce's fancy, but that's OK bc they paid a drugged up nazi trillionaire to do it

Monday blues: Bye-bye to Bath Fire Station (1938-39) How did it come to this? A rare pre-war building by a female architect, Molly Taylor; survived the Baedecker Blitz; located within two UNESCO World Heritage Sites; recommended for listing by C20 & Historic England, yet rejected by DCMS in 2025.

This may make me sound a bit bigheaded… but I can't get my jumper off.

Can’t believe it’s been 1233 years since them slags smashed up the Holy Island it still freaks my nut out to this day

‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan people... Behold the Church of St Cuthbert splattered with blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments.’ The Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place #OTD in 793.

Christ on a bike

James Sellar's stunning French Gothic style church on Observatory Road in the West End of Glasgow. Completed in 1876, it's modelled on the medieval Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. #glasgow #architecture #church #architecturephotography #gothicarchitecture

Great news as our first Guillemot chick has hatched on the Isle of May. Guillemots lay just a single egg and incubate under their feet like this individual- you can see the bulge of the egg under its stomach as it incubates

Expected to be more expensive per mile than #hs2 but it's a motorway in the south east so Labour are throwing money at it like it doesn't matter. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Heads up: the Three Sisters car park is closed from Monday to Friday this week (8-12 June) for essential safety improvement works. This is the usual start point for both the Lost Valley and for Bidean nam Bian.

I don't want to brag but I've read all of the Guardian's best books list AND the Guardian's unofficial readers' picks list. Now to read the books on those lists.

There should be national level awareness and debate about this proposed data centre in Fife.

Says here that a Spanish club (Osasuna fit the description) went on a prediction market and bet millions of dollars on themselves to get relegated, but it's cool because they were just hedging

What a massive idiot.

Can’t believe Tom Jones is 86 today.

Is that the first time that England won against the same nation in both cricket and football in the same weekend?

Worst tribute band ever.

June 7, 1926: “At Ewell West Station [in Surrey, England]. Mr. J. Larby tending his evergreen armchair which he has trained from privet bushes. He commenced the work 28 years ago.”

ok water calm down

A tell thi what: there's more nostalgia on this site at the moment than on your racist uncle's Facebook group. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo remembers? Eh? Ooo? Eh?