We can't believe its been just over a year since we made the leap over to @bsky.app! We are now at 448 followers, so please do share us far and wide if you have an interest in #Kents Archaeology so we can hit 500 before the end of the year! #Archaeology #History #Heritage #Research #Education 🏺

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Quick, loose watercolour of Barclay Church on the edge of Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh. One of many Edinburgh buildings I sketched when I first picked up watercolours. I thought I'd revisit a few with a more relaxed approach...

Sarah Evans ~ Scotland, 2023 sarahevanswelshartist.com

New blog post, Announcements simonicity.com/2025/11/22/a...

If you see this, post your bird art 🪶 #birds — #kleinekunstklasse

... and for those interested in wider public law challenges to accommodating asylum seekers in a particular area, check out Friday's judgment in R(Coventry) v. Home Secretary.

Never heard this before. Wow!

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Hello lawyer connections, can anyone help my PhD candidate with her research study (details below). Drop me a DM or contact Nicola directly if you can spare some time. Please share.

Am I alone in thinking it bizarre that Trump has waited over a year to threaten to sue the BBC for something which patently did not cost him the election? Makes you wonder whether the BBC's apology isn't an even more spectacular own goal than it realised ...

Domination is now available as an audiobook - read by me! books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

If you’ve not seen this before, it’s well worth 2 minutes of your day. One take drone footage. Also a great soundtrack. #Bikes

Microsoft if I needed your help I would ask for it

I miss the days when autocorrect only changed things when what you typed wasn't a word, rather than jumping in every time it reckons it's thought of a better one than you.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media (everyday edition)

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

Yorkshire Dale's Autumn #ArtDD2025 not #dailydrawing but want to It's just raining so I need some #Yorkshire sun 🌞 #watercolour little doodle @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

InfraSisters in Edinburgh campaign for safer cycling, especially for women riding after dark. This Friday night they will hold a mass glowride in Edinburgh. Ladies in the lead, but everyone is welcome to light up the night. www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-r... #OurStreetsOurNight #MyRideOurRight

Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…

K20 Cycling Club annual sportive. So proud of what we have built in just 5 years. youtu.be/tdBeA2dafDM

How do we get 100 Mr Blobby suits over to Portland?

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

Old fishing huts #ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing Experimenting with new paper and a big brush #watercolour #landscape #öland @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

A few months ago, a friend visited me in Utrecht. As we biked around to do daily errands, she kept saying, "This is like a dream. This is like a dream." I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.

Excellent photograph... It is something you have to do if you are in the area....well worth the effort ☀️👋

Thank you Paul....but I was going to say, how could you cycle up there? ... At least you got a view ... All I had was mist and fog, couldn't see a thing! .. 😁.. ☀️👋

P for Pica pica #birds #magpie 🦉

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

New blog post, Hillside: Every Journey Starts With The First Step simonicity.com/2025/10/03/h...

Join the Four Inns of Court to hear about our scholarships and hear from a panel of practising barristers about their journeys to the Bar ⚖️ 🎤 💻 Joint Inns Insight Online 📆 Wednesday, 8 October ⌚️ 6-8pm online (Zoom) 🎟️ Book your ticket: nrtm.pl/4o6ZGOC

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Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Oh boy - Headline grabber Would be nice to get more detail. That dot map of high weald so misleading. I strongly suspect many of those apps/competitions are eg conversions and other planning classes with no loss of land 1/n www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Arrested/not arrested:

So exhausting..

The 12 recommended locations for new towns are... www.gov.uk/government/p...

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

Sadiq Khan meanwhile is an intensely popular three-times elected mayor of a city that is still majority white and previously voted for Boris Fucking Johnson. It’s clearly not some far out left-wing Islamic theocracy (if such a thing even exists).

I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic. My letter in the Oxford Times today

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Become my colleague We are recruiting a PhD student in Physical geography with a focus on Glaciological remote sensing 🌍⚒️ #science #glaciology #remotesensing #phd @stockholm-uni.bsky.social share.google/n5eQOzCf35wO...

Competition for most British sign on the Trump March won handily by: “Don’t give him the good biscuits!”

This exchange says it all.