Andrew Rich (Mad Elmo)
@asrich.bsky.social
Twitter Survivor, Archaeologist in Torpor; Scifi/Fantasy/TTRPG fan (SW, ST, D20, CR, TLT) Studying Romans,Soldiers and Ancient Iron Tools and plodding along. Newfie fan; (He/Him)
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The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
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With shades of The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog this RCHME plan of Coney's Castle hillfort has a Dorset mega-bunny on the N arrow 🐇
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
With shades of The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog this RCHME plan of Coney's Castle hillfort has a Dorset mega-bunny on the N arrow 🐇
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
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Day 3 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 haar — ‘a cold sea-fog’
Found especially along the east coast of Scotland and England, alongside "sea-fret", "sea-roke".
Photo: Sea fret, St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay, hayley green (CC BY-SA 2.0)
🌊 haar — ‘a cold sea-fog’
Found especially along the east coast of Scotland and England, alongside "sea-fret", "sea-roke".
Photo: Sea fret, St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay, hayley green (CC BY-SA 2.0)
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Day 3 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 haar — ‘a cold sea-fog’
Found especially along the east coast of Scotland and England, alongside "sea-fret", "sea-roke".
Photo: Sea fret, St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay, hayley green (CC BY-SA 2.0)
🌊 haar — ‘a cold sea-fog’
Found especially along the east coast of Scotland and England, alongside "sea-fret", "sea-roke".
Photo: Sea fret, St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay, hayley green (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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good morning, virtually everyone
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
good morning, virtually everyone
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for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
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Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
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Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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ghosts say “boo” because it’s present tense Latin for “alarm”
“I am alarm”
carry on
“I am alarm”
carry on
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ghosts say “boo” because it’s present tense Latin for “alarm”
“I am alarm”
carry on
“I am alarm”
carry on
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Almost forgot!
28 November = special day!
It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!
We've only known about them for <60 years.
Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte...
🔭
#SpaceAustralia
📸 Uni. of Cambridge
28 November = special day!
It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!
We've only known about them for <60 years.
Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte...
🔭
#SpaceAustralia
📸 Uni. of Cambridge
November 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Almost forgot!
28 November = special day!
It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!
We've only known about them for <60 years.
Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte...
🔭
#SpaceAustralia
📸 Uni. of Cambridge
28 November = special day!
It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!
We've only known about them for <60 years.
Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte...
🔭
#SpaceAustralia
📸 Uni. of Cambridge
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
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The C10th Huxley Hoard was discovered by detectorist Steve Reynoldson near Huxley, Cheshire, #OTD in 2004. The 22 items of Viking silver comprise 21 arm rings and one ingot. Fragments of lead suggest the hoard may have been wrapped in a sheet of the metal. 📸Museum of Liverpool #medievalsky
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The C10th Huxley Hoard was discovered by detectorist Steve Reynoldson near Huxley, Cheshire, #OTD in 2004. The 22 items of Viking silver comprise 21 arm rings and one ingot. Fragments of lead suggest the hoard may have been wrapped in a sheet of the metal. 📸Museum of Liverpool #medievalsky
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(I went anyway and made their refusal part of the story.) www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...
Are museums celebrating cultural heritage—or clinging to stolen treasure?
Curators are realizing that returning looted artifacts isn’t closing museums—it’s opening new doors. “The ethnographic museum of the past is making its way to the exit.”
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
(I went anyway and made their refusal part of the story.) www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...
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The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
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Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US.
Find full details on our blog post.
Find full details on our blog post.
Microgrants Temporarily Paused
Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US. This status was required for maintaining our US PayPal Business account, which we use to accept, hold and disburse funds. Without it, we’re unable to manage the account or process any payments. We’re currently exploring how to get our non-profit status reinstated, but until that happens, we’re unable to accept new applications.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US.
Find full details on our blog post.
Find full details on our blog post.
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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“started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetit”
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetit”
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@durotrigesdig.bsky.social following on from the Civilisations show chat the other day, this just popped up in my Photo Memories - it’s one of the garments worn by both Richard Burton in Cleopatra, & Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo 🙂
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social following on from the Civilisations show chat the other day, this just popped up in my Photo Memories - it’s one of the garments worn by both Richard Burton in Cleopatra, & Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo 🙂
*walks in*
🎵 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant 🎵
*walks out*
🎵 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant 🎵
*walks out*
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
*walks in*
🎵 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant 🎵
*walks out*
🎵 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant 🎵
*walks out*
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Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording
YouTube video by Stiletto
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I love these, and corollary to them are the cat ones at Lullingstone Roman Villa 😂🥰
A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
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#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I love these, and corollary to them are the cat ones at Lullingstone Roman Villa 😂🥰