I know other people have much worse lives than me. In the last 5 months I have moved my 90 year old parents from a house to a flat. My dad died, and I had to find a care home for my mum. I've sold the house and cleared their belongings from the flat and house. I'm feeling the worse for wear.

Julius Caesar knife holder.

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Has it considered simply adopting the Mediterranean lifestyle? www.thetimes.com/article/a3ad...

Suffolk wildfire: nuclear power station on ‘high alert’

Sizewell B is said to be concerned about the fire changing directions and affecting its ventilation after evactuations in nearby village

thetimes.com

1 woman is murdered, by a man, every 3 days in Britain. 350,000 women and girls are raped every year in Britain. 1 million women and girls are sexually assaulted every year in Britain. Yet some people pretend to be worried about migrants from ‘cultures’ with bad attitudes towards women.

I saw this and had to share.

I'm very much looking forward to Harry Sussex coming to town. After dealing with my elderly parents house move in mid March, my dad's subsequent death, finding mum a great care home and clearing a house and half a flat, finally something I don't have to give a single shit about.

September/October General Election? Conference speech outlining new manifesto and date for GE announced at the end of the speech? I've put 50p on it, I'm that confident.

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

Saunders' law: "There is no gap in a window so narrow that a fly cannot find a way in. And there is no gap so large that it will ever find its way out".

Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts

Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

Six reasons to save archaeology from funding cuts

The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.

theconversation.com

Hurting.

Ken Agate. 11 Nov 1932 - 21 May 2026. You didn't know him, but he was my dad and he was brilliant.

I think Wes Streeting looks too much like Piers 'Morgan' Moron to be any use. I know this observation doesn't help.

As if rats didn't already have bad PR, now they have rat-virus on the front pages.

So it was a blitz attack? On a ballroom??

a close up of a woman singing into a microphone with her eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a woman singing into a microphone with her eyes closed

media.tenor.com

It’s probably best to live your life in such a way that in the wake of an assassination attempt most people will have sympathy for you rather than reflexively assume that you faked it. Again.

For those interested in #vikings, Anglo-Saxons and #medievalsky in general, I've just discovered that James Graham-Campbell's invaluable study of the Cuerdale hoard is now Open Access: dokumen.pub/download/the...

A favourite place not far from Wooler (where there's an Anglo-Saxon museum at the distillery). #Archaeology

Archaeological Research Services Ltd@arsltd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In exciting news, The Gefrin Trust has acquired the lease on the Maelmin Heritage Trail in Northumberland. This development will unite the management of Maelmin with its Royal Anglo-Saxon sister site of Ad Gefrin at Yeavering – read more here: archaeologicalresearchservices.com/gefrin-trust...

“I say, old man, are you a dragon? It would be awfully helpful if you were.” “Dragon? I’m a dinosaur FFS. The Greek origin of my name means Terrible Lizard! You’re looking for a geezer whose name means Serpent. On your way. Honestly…” #StGeorge #LeaveTheDragonAlone #PlaymobilInfestation

I was the swimming Nirvana baby's understudy.

Boris Johnson was made Foreign Secretary in 2016, after failing a security vetting and being denied sensitive Government information during his time as a Minister. The media didn't care then, they don't care now, and it wasn't the reason why Theresa May resigned. The media are hypocrites.

A friend today described AI as "Dunning-Krueger in a box", which might be even better than "Mediocre White Male Talent Simulator". AI is not the telephone or the internet. It's 1980s synthesizers, 1990s CGI, or 2000s autotune.

Can everyone please stop excusing the US president by saying that he has dementia. He's always been like this. It's not dementia. He's a deluded, arrogant, nepo baby, chock full of Dunning Kruger degrees of self-belief and deep rooted stupidity and rich and influential enough to get away with it

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks.'

This is fucking brilliant

The Jase@thejase.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Marco Rubio exits, with commentary from One Man and his Dog.

Passing this on to you in case of interest #archaeology #earlymedieval