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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 2h

This is what an origin in Canterbury leads to.

Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 2h

Rick.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 9h

Wait, what?

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 3d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 11h

This is almost certainly because she thinks she is Lord Vetinari, which in a way is correct because she is in fact Cosmo Lavish.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 11h

I wished I'd known this was an option before I used up all my material not pulling.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 12h

I've got my coat.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 15h

Just typical anti-frog propaganda from the Toadygraph. And to think they used to be a newtspaper

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 5d

"So you're saying it goes round and round in circles before careering wildly to the right and flying off-track when there's too much power?"

"Yes, but enough about the Tory Party, let's play Scalextric."

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 5d

Would you like to have a go on the Scalextric, it's great fun

Kemi -

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 5d

When I was working in London 15 years ago we'd sometimes manage to gather a few of these orphan sites around one of the big projects being done and wrap their remaining post-ex up in the big one.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 5d

No worries. Looks like a fairly classic 60s/70s bit of urban archaeological mitigation- desperately dig the bits you can get to and try to tie a much larger site together from these keyholes. Usually meant that the post-ex was horrible/not fully done/they did their best with what they had.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 5d

Got a wee bit ahead of myself- there was some earlier material found in the area, just not quite back to the C6th: www.oxoniensia.org/volumes/1977...

www.oxoniensia.org

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 5d

Speedwell House apparently built in early 1970s (www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/sites/defaul...), excavations and survey done in 1969/70 but don't seem to have found much prior to C13th. Possibly because some of it was declared unsafe and excavation prohibited (www.oxoniensia.org/volumes/1971...).

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 6d

Dammit.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 6d

This all feels very Death of Stalin

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 6d

If he has carked it, he'll have died as he lived: dodging the military.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 6d

Three strokes and out?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump is now 40 minutes late and counting. Naval cadets still standing around in total and increasingly uncomfortable silence.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 6d

Why isn't this a short series called 'French Letters'?

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 7d

If they will call part of their quite boggy country the Waffle-botherer's equivalent of Sealand then they can't be surprised when honest English tars ram it under the misapprehension that it's the briny deep.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 7d

Damn tricky the Dutch.

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7d

Given HMS Satisfaction was on its way to Jamaica, negligence doesn't begin to describe it...

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

To my office till 9 at night, among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence of the pilott.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 7d

"Sir, I must beg to express my regrets that my late command the Satisfaction is lost on her way to the Caribbean station."

"Jamaica?"

"That's a matter for the courts martial sir but I deny all."

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 8d

"We've always been in a trade war with Eastasia"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Joni Ernst: "Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. So we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe ... but if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump."

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 9d

Just keep trying, it's largely a case of trowel and error

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 10d

Durham just hanging around, desperately asking for a threesome.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 10d

Switches depends on who wins the Boat Race?

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