David Stott

@davstott.bsky.social

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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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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 7h

Today is Nonidi the 9th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate juniper.#JacobinDay

More information on juniper

An old time-y illustration of a Juniper.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Octidi the 8th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay

More information on honey

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

www.clockworkpi.com/home-uconsole

ClockworkPi | Open Source Hardware

ClockworkPi - Creators of uConsole DevTerm and GameShell, Open Source Portable Hardware for Every Dev.

www.clockworkpi.com

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

fibula (leg)?

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone doing stuff like this should be aware that a hi-vis vest, a hard hat and a wee bit of a swagger are the best urban camouflage out there.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 1d

He is risen

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

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Hackaday @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 2d

A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data

Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants …read more

hackaday.com

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

... need a second car because it's possible to get around daily life with a cargo bike and public transport.

Then there's all the stuff you can deduct from the income tax, and free the truly weird and regressive council tax.

Say suspect because it's all a bit woolly

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

It's an interesting comparison to make- suspect our household would be worse off in the UK than we are in Denmark given the same income and despite the much lower income tax.
A lot of this because costs like childcare are lower (subsidised by the taxes). Functional infrastructure means we don't...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 2d

HM Bateman: "The Man Who Asked For Salt 'n' Soss In A Glasgow French Fry Restaurant".

Etiquette is outraged at a white-tie dinner.

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Simon Fitch @sef049.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to my colleague Dr Ben Jennings on his recent publication in Antiquity - a must read if you're into Wetlands and Archaeology.

Find the article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology

www.cambridge.org

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Now is the time of fly tying and day-dreaming about being on the water.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

It's all fun and games until you need a shibboleth to spot infiltrators from the neighbouring polity.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 3d

Medieval agricultural and trade practices in southwestern Germany boosted plant diversity for centuries, with biodiversity peaking around 1000 CE and declining only when human activity contracted during the Black Death. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Q6ca50XxIvC

Woodcut illustration to Michael Beuther’s Calendarium Historicum, published in Frankfurt by David Zephelius in 1557. Image shows a person pollarding a tree and another person sowing seeds.
CREDIT: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Just realised this exists as the 3 Blue 1 Brown YouTube channel

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

See also salt and vinegar vs salt and sauce.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

TV pitch: Numberblocks for grownups.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

I thought adulthood would be all spreadsheets and parties, but it turns out a lot of it is spent dealing with drainage and cleaning up shite.

madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

so I have finally started digging the trench in the garden for the French drain

would you all like to guess what I found

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

so I have finally started digging the trench in the garden for the French drain

would you all like to guess what I found

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 3d

🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures!

Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here:

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures:

echo360.org.uk/section/e305...

Information about the Dalrymple Lectures with Prof. Steve Driscoll.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 5d

Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay

More information on medlar

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…

—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay

Doctor Wha
by James Robertson

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality?
Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae,
yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha
maks mair or less or better sense ava
nor whit we ithers ken, or think we dae?
The universe is fou o parallels:
wha’s like us? Hunners? Thoosans? We oorsels
micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be.
Whit’s real? Whaur’s here? When’s noo? Wha’s quick or deid?
Wha’s jist a thochtie in anither’s heid?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he?

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 6d

Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️

Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills

Incredible🤯

📷 My own

An autumnal upland valley with a central winding river

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...

www.thenerve.news

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 7d

Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on cattle turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Cattle turnips.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Nice. Thanks!

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Should be a yawning maw of an open goal for labour as well, but I suspect that they won't do much to capitalise on it because they are abjectly incompetent and afraid of taking a stand on anything.

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 7d

By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)

1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

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