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David Stott
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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Tinkerer.

Glaswegian in Jutland.

Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13
There's enough of us now to do one of these!

go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K

🏺

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 4h
This is a fun read but it doesn’t really reckon with the fact that these theories are inherently racist, rooted in the idea that ancient non-western civilizations *couldn’t* make these structures. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7h
Yes- I'm only a couple of weeks in but so far I'm really enjoying it. It's exciting starting the day with something new.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 8h
Doing the 1001albumsgenerator.com thing.

I listened to this all the way through (I'm determined to give things a fair shake), and now i want some kind of award or medal because this album was *torture*. Self indulgent snivelling pish.
Screenshot of the 1001 albums generator, showing the cover of the Bee Gees album Trafalgar (1971).

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 13h
Meal team six.

The gravy seals.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 13h
Are these not drop scones?
nigella.bsky.social Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 1d
American Breakfast Pancakes are #RecipeOfTheDay! If I were writing this recipe now, I’d probably just call them Pancakes, as the thin, crêpe-style ones I grew up with are no longer the norm here. But whatever they’re called, they’re good! www.nigella.com/recipes/amer...
American Breakfast Pancakes
These are those thick, spongy American pancakes that are often eaten with warm maple syrup and crisp fried bacon. I love them with the syrup alone, but if you do want bacon, I think streaky is best. Y...
www.nigella.com

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23h
That is a terrifying prospect we're collectively unprepared for.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d
In 1931, German engineer Herr Richter attached 12 solid-fuel rockets to a bicycle, which were ignited by a large battery. One report says he managed to reach 88 kmh before being thrown from the bike. He wasn't seriously injured, but that's the last anyone heard of his Raketenrad.
Photo of a man wearing a helmet while looking at a rocket propulsion device affixed to the back of a bicycle.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
Sledging!

I do wonder how many more times our weans will get to enjoy this as our winters get warmer.
Two kids pull red plastic sledges along the side of a road towards a sledging hill in the near distance. Golden sunlight peeks through from behind some mature beech woodland. There is snow.

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Cyco @cyco1414.bsky.social · 1d
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
caillou en forme de manette xbox

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 1d
American Breakfast Pancakes are #RecipeOfTheDay! If I were writing this recipe now, I’d probably just call them Pancakes, as the thin, crêpe-style ones I grew up with are no longer the norm here. But whatever they’re called, they’re good! www.nigella.com/recipes/amer...
American Breakfast Pancakes
These are those thick, spongy American pancakes that are often eaten with warm maple syrup and crisp fried bacon. I love them with the syrup alone, but if you do want bacon, I think streaky is best. Y...
www.nigella.com

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d
The school run was more interesting than usual today. Snow drifts and everything.
A Christiana cykel cargo bike in a snowy driveway. Wheels are covered in slush.

Reposted by Keith Lilley, David Stott

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d
Pictures that explain things

Contour lines
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(Understanding Map, 1967)
A diagram into parts, the upper part showing a simplified landscape of hills and lake and the lower part showing the same landscape in contour lines

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d
Still, 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d
Somehow Ubuntu decided my desktop didn't need any network interfaces this morning and I had to boot into safe mode using an old kernel to fix it. That'll teach me for evangelising Linux to the masses.

I hate all OSs equally (just some more equally than others)

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 7d
Today is Sextidi the 16th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate flint.#JacobinDay

More information on flint
An old time-y illustration of a Flint.

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Budget Cycling @budgetcycling.bsky.social · 7d
A cartoon: Cycling on a budget. Summarising just a small amount of the info you'll find on budgetcycling.uk.
(Image from the book 'From A to B', by Dave Walker, published by Bloomsbury.)
Cartoon: Cycling on a budget Some ideas for getting going without spending too much money. Lots of people have bikes they don't use in their garages and sheds. Lots of bikes are bought with good intentions, but hardly used. A 'hybrid' is a good choice. See whether any of your friends or family have a bike they don't need. You can get a really good bike by buying secondhand Don't buy a really cheap new bike from the internet or non-specialist shop (Heavy; Cheap full-suspension worse than no suspension; Has it been properly set up?; Will probably break down) Advantage of a budget bike: Far less risk of it being stolen This year's model is often last year's, painted differently You don't need all the bells and whistles to enjoy cycling* *You need one bell Cartoon from 'From A to B', by Dave Walker

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d
Introducing gdalcli by Andrew Brown -- an R frontend to GDAL’s unified CLI (≥3.11) 🌐

Compose and execute GDAL workflows with pipe-friendly functions.

Learn more: https://github.com/brownag/gdalcli

#rstats #gdal #geospatial #opensource #rspatial
GitHub - brownag/gdalcli: An R Frontend for the GDAL CLI
An R Frontend for the GDAL CLI. Contribute to brownag/gdalcli development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d
Well said.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d
We'll probably have to, but the planned obsolescence of it makes me taste bile.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d
True- maybe I should turn browser sync off in Firefox.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 8d
This is a worthy quest, but a sizable proportion of my open browser tabs are unrequited searches for spare parts for our dying tumble dryer, what the error code on the dishwasher means and Python exceptions.

I should probably just nuke the lot...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d
They have moved the website to here: science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

This is one of the things that NASA GSFC brought you, and Trump is trying to destroy GSFC.
Landsat images spelling out “fascists”

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Efpeel @efpeel.bsky.social · 8d
A narco-state is a country where legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt inherited from his opium trading grandparents (Mary Aspinwall Roosevelt and Warren Delano II) smuggling opium using fast "tea" clippers[1]
A painting by unknown Chinese artist of the American clipper Sea Witch near Whampoa Island, Guangdong Province, China.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 8d
Too bad, slopguy

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 9d
All of this is fine. It's the wind that kills me. How is it invariably in my face the whole time?

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10d
Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵
Photo of a man in the early to mid 1870s in a three-piece suit with watchchain. He has centre-parted, possibly brylcreemed hair, a Roman nose and luxuriant moustache, and looks sternly out of the right of the frame. The caption reads: In his prime just before a social disaster sent him into permanent exile

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10d
The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d
It's over the sprocket holes so it's not a lazy shutter curtain.

Might be the light seals on the take up side?

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10d
Happy CET new year.

Lang may yer lums reek.