Stockport Gloom: From Rostron Brow To St. Mark’s, pencil drawing by Dave Hartley.
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Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
If I disappear from here, it is not because I don't like you all, but because an influx of bawbags will have taken the fun out of it.
I once worked on a site with Hellenistic (6th century BCE) sling bullets, early post medieval round shot, Second World War .303 and 6.5mm Carcano bullets (spent) and modern 7.62 Soviet (also spent). I have a photo of them all lined up, but it is in the archive somewhere (on 35mm slide)
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · yesterday📰 Ancient sling bullets reveal the location of a Roman camp in the Pyrenees 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Not a humorous #thread, this one, but interesting nonetheless. I didn't know sales from independent bookshops don't count towards (meaningless) rankings.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d agoChanged my bio here to "ex-bestselling author" as I'm a big pedant for factual accuracy.
Führage - is he painting himself orange too now? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage admission over timing of Reform leadership talks raises fresh doubts over £5m gift
Nigel Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months before election, appearing to undermine previous claims
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Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
HMS Thunder Child had it easy. HMS Rodney has to contend with a giant cat...
Appalling. I hope the unions are busily recruiting amongst the guards. @unitetheunion.bsky.social @prospectunion.bsky.social ??
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago'Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.' 1/2
I did run today, but have been too busy to post. Anyway, #RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub. I took my love for the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub way out west. Bonus #heron, too.
Quote of the weekend came from a break in a long car journey: 'My legs have entered the chat'
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli is not hard for me...
Repo Man Drink
Alt: Emilio Estevez as Otto Maddox pouring out a can of beer in the office of the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation in the film Repoman.
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Roger Rimbaud@rogerday.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
🧵The buildings in Swales Yard, behind 5–9 Corn Market in Pontefract comprise a range of two-storey timber-framed structures. Dendrochronology has provided a date of 1609 for the timber although their origins could be earlier. Originally constructed as commercial buildings serving
Labour failing trans people: the most anti-LGBT+ government since Thatcher. An update for the Burnham era. Part 1/2.
Ok. There is one more detail. Of course, the actions of the Israeli government in commiting genocide didn't help. But you don't have to hand it to bigots when their bigotry finds a something they can point to. You are either against genocide on principle or you are not against genocide at all.
Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last wk.How? Because there was no substantial movement within the anti-war/anti-genocide/Free Palestine faction to call out and drive away hatred of Jews. That's how. It was too much work and bad for business. And it sowed rampant antisemitism.
So long as they kept the dialogue in keeping... www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bri...
The Tay Bridge Disaster
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! / Alas! I am very sorry to say / That ninety lives have been taken away / On the...
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Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I went digging, and despite Sex Matters, and NI WRN claiming they stand up for the rights and safety of women, Sex Matters didn't mention any of the 30 women murdered in Northern Ireland on their X page once.
Book Review: “Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s Discarded Bride” by Elizabeth Norton adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/07/28/b...
Book Review: “Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s Discarded Bride” by Elizabeth Norton
When we think about the wives of Henry VIII, we often think about the ones who made an impact. Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Kathryn Parr all left their own …
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Making jam in a heatwave because I am not uncomfortable enough.
"‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
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Bill Oddie?!? We are fast running out of Goodies... #SadDay
Outright nazi salutes at the “anti immigration” protest in Glasgow. One of the arrested “protectors of women and children” has been exposed by his ex partners as an abuser himself. Will the government do anything about this, or will they keep arresting grans for protesting against genocide?
Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
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Post a perfect album from the 90s
spacealpaka@spacealpaka.bsky.social · last wk.post a perfect album from the 90s
#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Apparently Emperor Tiberius had a mullet' 'What, you mean like Senate at the front and orgy at the back?'
Mullet Haircut Duo Posing
Alt: Mullet Haircut Duo Posing
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Looking at my address book has earwormed me with I'm Not Always So Stupid, by the Wedding Present. Which I am singing in the traditional David Gedge voice. All together now: 'Ran I to Jane and she told me to drop dead'...
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #thread klaxon! Genius. Saving up for one of his books (and plotting how to get it past the book ban)
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last wk.THREAD. In today's exclusive newspaper interview the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world... (more in alt text)
Not about ships or steam engines, but I'll bet it is a cracking read anyway.
Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · last wk.Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
