@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social. A surrender, cheese monkey? Discuss.

Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15

A very good piece.

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this? (Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.) #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

This is great:

Absolutely fantastic news: BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One for you @wittspat.bsky.social ! Lovely Oplontis!

My wife Bunty & I decided to have a romantic weekend in Paris. It has truly been très magnifique! ❤️ Imagine our surprise then, as we decided to walk up to the Arc de Triomphe, to be confronted by 3 million English patriots proudly marching & beating up the local gendarmerie! 🤦‍♂️

There is a new paper as well - just released some hours after the press release. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD. Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier #Archaeology 🏺

‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ancient wounded of Maiden Castle yield their secrets - with Dr Miles Russell concluding, “The Roman army committed many atrocities, but this does not appear to be one of them.” www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

Our coalition is all tuned into the Supreme Court hearing, hoping they choose the Constitution! 🙏

'Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks' 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology

You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

If Jesus Christ showed up today, this regime would immediately deport him to a foreign supermax prison without due process. And then they would brag about it on Twitter.

So much money available to the reactionary right wing. Wealth taxes are long overdue

Twenty-seven. Eighty-three.

Could only have been bettered if he'd then run his hand through his hair

Just downright absofuckinglutely evil. apnews.com/article/trum... pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer

Hi All, with all the news swirling around today of Trump trying to force Ukraine into a bad deal--and threatening to walk away if the Ukrainians refuse, I wrote this piece about the positive or negative ways that could work out for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Hello folks! It's time for the Great #DodecaBakeOff Photo Parade! Huge thanks to everyone for taking part, there's been some amazing makes - breaks - & brilliant interpretations! Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'. (Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣) #Archaeology ⚱️

Oh. My. Goodness!!! That's stunning...and yet another example of the perfect use of naturally holed biscuits in a make! 👏👏👏 #DodecaBakeOff #Archaeology ⚱️

If you know, you know

I wrote a thing... #Archaeology #Torcs #Treasure #Dodecahedron bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/04/09/m...

Here are a few more photos (my own) for reference

Chinese Neolithic period shocked face Pikachu. Found the source. 5000 years old. How awesome is that. www.alaintruong.com/2024/10/hedg...

It's 2025 and a new front in UK heritage opens up. Who knew that owning replica artefact could become the most effective way to oppose the commercialisation of our past. Unleash the STLs, retask the 3D printer-bots, reclaim the shape and form of our past through inflationary replication!

Another addition to the Moley Virtual Museum…

This, so much this! ❤️

ISHGR regret that we have been forced to cancel CHAGS14, which was to have been held June 2026 in University of Nevada, Reno, USA. This decision reflects our concern about the current political situation in America and the uncertainties and risks for those travelling there. 1/2

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Check out @itsluke on instagram

Needs Greenland to fend off Russia and China? If only we had a mutual defence alliance where an attack on one is an attack on all...🤔 @altnps.bsky.social

The official Durham University pages for the Melsonby assemblage: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Uncovering Roman Carlisle reveals 'incredibly rare' finds | News and Star www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2495161...

Some AI is going to tell a college age nazi to fire almost every incident and natural disaster response team in the federal government because they didn’t have much to do during February 16-23, 2025.

Dear God.

Trump and Musk are purging federal workers by email silence now—and as always their own supporters are getting burned. One of them took to X to is beg Elon for his job back.

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

What is notable here (amidst the editorialising) is that Nandy comes across as far more positive than in that recent op-ed. Are government comms really this poor? The mixed-messaging is terrible.

🏺 Researchers in #Poland have discovered that some artefacts excavated in the Early Iron Age cemetery near Częstochowa contain meteoritic iron mixed with smelted iron. https://buff.ly/3Xbi0uI Scientific article here: https://buff.ly/4bcOYka

The figure I suspect we'll all find ourselves quoting is the one on how Net Zero industry is now a bigger part of GDP that farming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!