So why can't we do this with detecting? Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...? #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just walked out of Marty Supreme, which is basically Timothy Chalamet being the biggest tit in the whole world and ratcheting up the toe curling irritation in every single scene. Everyone else in the film is a victim of his selfishness. No idea why people like films like this, utterly excruciating.

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

Hookland is a deliberate re-wilding of folklore, but it is also an act of reminding people that you only have to scratch in the right places to reveal yourself as an animist, a knower of scarelore and someone whose immunity to the strange is a lot less complete than imagined.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

A 'sun stone' from #Neolithic Bornholm, Denmark. They were deposited en-masse, and ice cores showed that this deposition coincided with a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, suggesting they were buried as part of a ritual to bring it back. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Ach, und bevor wir's vergessen: Da ist was GROSSES im Anmarsch im @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social! #SaveTheDate und so. 😉 www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausste...

Listening to the interview with @theblackdog.bsky.social on 6Music from last week. Absolutely excellent!

The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time

Some Thanksgiving traditions are worth more now than ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSv...

In a cave in Liguria, ca. 14 thousand years ago, a group of humans and a single dog walked together in a cave and explored its depths. Their overlapping footprints and tracks are one of the oldest direct evidence of human-dog interactions 🐾🐕 #DogDomestication 🦣🏺🧪

Test shots for a diorama featuring the latest 1/24 muscle cars. Our occult detective team of a crossbow-wielding witch and a satyr have found their stolen Chevy outside a temple masquerading as a nightclub #scalemodels #histscalemodels

Covid truths: tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily due to Johnson's incompetence, indecisiveness and sheer laziness. This includes assembling the worst cabinet in British political history to aid and abet him.

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago

NOX is this SATURDAY in LEEDS! Wharf Chambers, 11:30 to 4am. Soborgnost will be doing a set, fresh off the train from supporting Cabaret Voltaire at ICA the night before! Playing everything from OG goth to dark chug. Smoke machines warming up already! Adv tix: ra.co/events/2298566 #leeds #goth

OMFG Scotland. That was intense.

Are you a lady who loves railways? Come join us in January for a fun, chilled out evening meeting likeminded people and chatting all things trains The Harrison Society- A meet-up for ladies who love railways www.eventbrite.com/e/the-harris...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Where caves sing, painters gathered: at El Castillo/Northern Spain sites, art clusters coincide with acoustic “hot spots,” hinting sound shaped placement. #PaleoPost #ArchaeologyOfTheSenses #Archaeoacoustics Paper: doi.org/10.1121/1.49...

My old mate Al is selling his old, signed #Mudhoney t-shirt. Going for cheap ATM, if you like your grunge get yourself a slice of history ebay.us/m/7LiLGu

Men who can’t handle a woman who looks like she would stand up for herself really love telling on themselves

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Hey wanna feel goodbad but also badgood? It's about Unbound.

Finally got to see the Devils arrows, the uk’s second tallest standing stones at 6 to 7 meters after the 8m Rudstone monolith. Part of a big Bronze Age ritual landscape extending up to the Thornborough henges. Must see site, 200 yards from the A1.

On brand for this fatuous popinjay

Deeply tempted by Teenage Engineering’s new Riddim dancehall and dub production box and the Ting siren and mic. Even if you’re not a producer you’ll enjoy the promo page. Pretty deep engagement with the Jamaican reggae community on show. teenage.engineering/products/ep-40

Excellent time last night seeing the Allexa Nava Quartet. Absolutely banging jazz led by a Peruvian sax player. Gig was at the Working Men’s Club at Crookes, superb venue. The drummer was incredible. Great band info here; www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk/event/allexa...

History of the Jazz Sheffield organisation: a remarkable tale of community resilience www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk/sheffield-ja...

Recent build of a 1969 Chevy Camaro in 1/25. Utterly gorgeous. Had to do it weathered because I couldn’t get the glossy pant finish right. Still nice. Will be part of a weird diorama. #scalemodelling

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

Whenever I see this map, I think about the way things are lost or disappear or are not learned for diaspora, even if your parents only moved from Bromley to North Hampshire. Our neighbours called them cheesy bugs because that's the local term but we didn't because we were incomers. #LondonOverspill

"The money Exxon sent to Atlas Network helped finance... translations of English books denying that human-caused climate change is real; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians."

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." - Elon Musk "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt

Excellent, must-read thread. It’s easy and lazy to paint archaeologists and indeed any academic researchers as establishment stooges but it is not just utterly wrong in most instances - academics have little political power and less wealth - but it’s also an attack on liberalism and rationality.

Happy Halloween from Uncle Bill.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I carved a pumpkin! Happy Halloween to all who celebrate ☺️

My Halloween playlist goes harder than yours. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great piece by Daniel Dylan Wray on the Quietus, he has a better way with words than I do. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Amazing seeing cabaret Voltaire in a massive rave warehouse to a packed crowd with mind bending visuals. Surely a relaunch rather than a farewell.

Good thread on solar alignments with formal evidence. Also: 33. 1080. 360. And on the other side, 56. #robinheath

Excellent

Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920. Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society. Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1

Some screen grabs from video I took at the amazing The Utopia Strong show on Tuesday night. Video is too big to post here but it’s on my Insta. Steve Davis is seated at the front. Said hello to him afterwards, he was as nice as ever. I’d love to have a recording of that performance.