Andy Agate
@andyagate.bsky.social
Archaeologist, Finds Liason Officer for Northumberland and Newcastle, Visiting Fellow Newcastle University.
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Finds Liaison Officers with the Portable Antiquities Scheme face many challenges. Imagine my surprise when a metal detectorist phoned me at 11.30pm last Tuesday, on my personal mobile, after leaving a series of voice notes earlier that evening. In other news, I'm leaving the PAS on 31st March.
February 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Finds Liaison Officers with the Portable Antiquities Scheme face many challenges. Imagine my surprise when a metal detectorist phoned me at 11.30pm last Tuesday, on my personal mobile, after leaving a series of voice notes earlier that evening. In other news, I'm leaving the PAS on 31st March.
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Just going to leave this here
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Just going to leave this here
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Is this satire?
Your entire political career has been based on self enrichment — you are venality incarnate and among the easiest politicians on the planet to buy.
Your entire political career has been based on self enrichment — you are venality incarnate and among the easiest politicians on the planet to buy.
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Is this satire?
Your entire political career has been based on self enrichment — you are venality incarnate and among the easiest politicians on the planet to buy.
Your entire political career has been based on self enrichment — you are venality incarnate and among the easiest politicians on the planet to buy.
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I think the people of this country have had enough of tax-exile billionaires.
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I think the people of this country have had enough of tax-exile billionaires.
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You can be a self-employed, a part-time tutor, a project employee, a grant holder without job security, working in a museum or in archaeological fieldwork, in admin to pay the bills, there are different situations there. Join us! #MCRHumNetwork
I created a PRIVATE Facebook group 'Non-permanent MCRs in Humanities' at www.facebook.com/groups/14504...
This is a temporary measure and aims at carrying out a survey among the MCRs and offering initial peer support and advice while gathering together those with 7+ years from PhD... #MCRNetwork
This is a temporary measure and aims at carrying out a survey among the MCRs and offering initial peer support and advice while gathering together those with 7+ years from PhD... #MCRNetwork
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
You can be a self-employed, a part-time tutor, a project employee, a grant holder without job security, working in a museum or in archaeological fieldwork, in admin to pay the bills, there are different situations there. Join us! #MCRHumNetwork
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Today I will mostly be playing an elitist sport badly. #JDRTC #realtennis
February 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Today I will mostly be playing an elitist sport badly. #JDRTC #realtennis
Turns out Trump's a racist. Who knew?
February 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Turns out Trump's a racist. Who knew?
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Amazing news that Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK a mere 194 days since her husband, Rael Braverman, left Reform UK for comments they made criticising his wife.
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Amazing news that Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK a mere 194 days since her husband, Rael Braverman, left Reform UK for comments they made criticising his wife.
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"Iris Agate" is a name used for a finely-banded agate producing a spectacular display of color when it is cut properly and illuminated through its very thin bands. [📷 Cosmic Aura Crystals]
January 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Iris Agate" is a name used for a finely-banded agate producing a spectacular display of color when it is cut properly and illuminated through its very thin bands. [📷 Cosmic Aura Crystals]
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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January 22, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Is there someone in the first row that could hold up a big card with the number 1 on it please? #ramble #madman #stop #activeshooter
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Is there someone in the first row that could hold up a big card with the number 1 on it please? #ramble #madman #stop #activeshooter
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The true heroes of any Trump presidency have to be the simultaneous translators.
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The true heroes of any Trump presidency have to be the simultaneous translators.
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I DONT WANT TO BE SMARTER THAN THE PERSON WITH THE NUCLEAR CODES
Q: What goals do you have for '26 in Congress for your agenda?
TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn't come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don't have to be paper anymore. I'd like to have all that confirmed.
TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn't come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don't have to be paper anymore. I'd like to have all that confirmed.
January 21, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I DONT WANT TO BE SMARTER THAN THE PERSON WITH THE NUCLEAR CODES
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New Reform UK constituencies want by-elections!
Dark patches on the map:
East Wiltshire = Danny Kruger
Newark = Robert Jenrick
Romford = Andrew Rosindell
By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
Sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Dark patches on the map:
East Wiltshire = Danny Kruger
Newark = Robert Jenrick
Romford = Andrew Rosindell
By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
Sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 21, 2026 at 12:06 PM
New Reform UK constituencies want by-elections!
Dark patches on the map:
East Wiltshire = Danny Kruger
Newark = Robert Jenrick
Romford = Andrew Rosindell
By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
Sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Dark patches on the map:
East Wiltshire = Danny Kruger
Newark = Robert Jenrick
Romford = Andrew Rosindell
By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
Sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Today that deal has been broken by the USA.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
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What kind of person endures 14 yrs of Tory incompetence & corruption, votes to oust them, & is then hoodwinked by a master grifter to vote the very worst of them back in again for more of the same.
It’d be lunacy on a grand scale.
Turquoise Tories.
Careful what you wish for.
It’d be lunacy on a grand scale.
Turquoise Tories.
Careful what you wish for.
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
What kind of person endures 14 yrs of Tory incompetence & corruption, votes to oust them, & is then hoodwinked by a master grifter to vote the very worst of them back in again for more of the same.
It’d be lunacy on a grand scale.
Turquoise Tories.
Careful what you wish for.
It’d be lunacy on a grand scale.
Turquoise Tories.
Careful what you wish for.
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So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.*
I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.
I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.
Sweden is over Trump's nonsense about Greenland and is sending in troops.
SWEDEN, PEOPLE.
SWEDEN, PEOPLE.
January 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.*
I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.
I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.
Bronze Age 'ring money' - yes or no? I'm engaged in a discussion with someone. #prehistory #ringmoney #nonsense
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Bronze Age 'ring money' - yes or no? I'm engaged in a discussion with someone. #prehistory #ringmoney #nonsense
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Excellent
January 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Excellent
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