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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 16h

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 🏺

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The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 2d

2 commended and 1 notable !!!

Didn't thought my Trans Pride Skink would do so well.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC

The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 1d

Our frenchie cross lost her eye, she was fine after a couple of weeks of adjusting

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lizzybeesoraya.bsky.social @lizzybeesoraya.bsky.social · 1d

Daily Fail has outdone itself now, with its homophobia. They're terrified a gay man might be in charge of something, someone please pass them the smelling salts.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Are the right ok?

This is next level of "journalistic* " slop.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The artist known as Zack Polanski so am astute communicator. His voice is fluffed in a lisp. Glib radicalism of the rampant egomaniac.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Are the right ok?

This is next level of "journalistic* " slop.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 2d

None of them live on the East coast

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d

Second-screen content is for cunts. Fucking well pay attention to what's being shown. If you miss a plot point because you weren't paying attention, that's on you.

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 2d

Painted up a unit for the Special (w)Aargh Service, I really enjoyed painting them, used the #thearmypainter Speed paint markers for all the straps and bits and bobs like sticks of dynamite on the back. #visuallyimpairedpainter #nerdlings #warhammmercommunity #orcs #Warhammer40k #onepagerules

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Leeds United @leedsunited.com · 3d

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Leeds United @leedsunited.com · 3d

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Beren Cross @berencross.bsky.social · 3d

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Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social · 3d

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 4d

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 4d

Great game of ##horusheresy tonight @hullsangelsclub the knights of House Coldshroud vs. #deathguard30k #30K
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 7d

Wild to come home from work at 10pm and discover that UK university tuition fees *may* rise in line with inflation (i.e. stand still) *if* we meet "tough standards", thank you to the Labour government for your enlightened stewardship of higher ed www.theguardian.com/education/20...

English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson

Measure, which will allow increase in line with inflation, is part of white paper on post-16 education and skills

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 4d

Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2

Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract:

"Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds."

Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 5d

Universities have obligation to ensure staff can express their views freely

Universities have obligation to protect safety of staff

What is happening is bullying & harassment of Prof Ben-Gad

This is true whether or not one agrees with his views

www.standard.co.uk/news/educati...

Masked thugs 'threaten to behead Israeli professor' at City University

Michael Ben-Gad, a lecturer at City St George’s, has faced calls to resign because he served in the IDF

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 5d

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 5d

If every follower I have donated 50 cents I would have enough to cover Benny's surgery.

If you can afford it please throw me anything you can, if you can't please share the link.

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#animalsinneed #catsinneed #helpme #donatetoday #donate #donations #catsurgery

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Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social · 7d

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