Grievous Angel
@grievousangel.net
UKG and UKfunky producer and DJ.
Music, photography, weirdness, tech / AV, mainstream stuff, some scale modelling nerdery.
Music, photography, weirdness, tech / AV, mainstream stuff, some scale modelling nerdery.
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Over the past 10 years climate impacts have got objectively worse and clean technologies have got demonstrably better, and yet during this time a group of Tories have gone from vocally supporting climate action to vigorously opposing it. It is bizarre they are not challenged on it more.
And that none of these chancers is being interrogated in the media about how they have gone from supporting Net Zero and agreeing climate crisis is real to joining a party of deniers and coal-mine enthusiasts.
January 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Over the past 10 years climate impacts have got objectively worse and clean technologies have got demonstrably better, and yet during this time a group of Tories have gone from vocally supporting climate action to vigorously opposing it. It is bizarre they are not challenged on it more.
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Erich von Daniken began Chariots of the Gods with the words "It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it."
It's a perfect encapsulation of how modern 'contrarian' influencers lure in their followings - 'only you can be brave enough to believe this' (and vice versa).
It's a perfect encapsulation of how modern 'contrarian' influencers lure in their followings - 'only you can be brave enough to believe this' (and vice versa).
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Erich von Daniken began Chariots of the Gods with the words "It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it."
It's a perfect encapsulation of how modern 'contrarian' influencers lure in their followings - 'only you can be brave enough to believe this' (and vice versa).
It's a perfect encapsulation of how modern 'contrarian' influencers lure in their followings - 'only you can be brave enough to believe this' (and vice versa).
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I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
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Knowing that the earliest form of art in human and pre-human history could be an Indonesian shell that some Homo erectus dude engraved with zigzags 500,000 years ago definitely satisfies the shell nerd in me.
#FossilFriday #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑
#FossilFriday #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑
January 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Knowing that the earliest form of art in human and pre-human history could be an Indonesian shell that some Homo erectus dude engraved with zigzags 500,000 years ago definitely satisfies the shell nerd in me.
#FossilFriday #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑
#FossilFriday #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑
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Today we started teaching the first ever co-designed and taught joint MA module between the University of London (ICS/KCL) and British Museum (Greece & Rome)!
The module provides hands-on experience in a real-world #museum environment, with half the classes taught behind the scenes at the BM.
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The module provides hands-on experience in a real-world #museum environment, with half the classes taught behind the scenes at the BM.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Today we started teaching the first ever co-designed and taught joint MA module between the University of London (ICS/KCL) and British Museum (Greece & Rome)!
The module provides hands-on experience in a real-world #museum environment, with half the classes taught behind the scenes at the BM.
/1
The module provides hands-on experience in a real-world #museum environment, with half the classes taught behind the scenes at the BM.
/1
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Archaeologists uncover evidence for interaction between the first Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic foragers in Central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer never-before observed.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Archaeologists uncover evidence for interaction between the first Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic foragers in Central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer never-before observed.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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#FrescoFriday takes us back into the White Bedroom of the #domus of the #Farnesina in #Rome, where an illusionistic shuttered window opens into a boudoir where a woman whose dress is slipping off her shoulder is kissing... another woman? A lesbian moment in Agrippa's bedroom? #AncientBluesky 🏺
January 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
#FrescoFriday takes us back into the White Bedroom of the #domus of the #Farnesina in #Rome, where an illusionistic shuttered window opens into a boudoir where a woman whose dress is slipping off her shoulder is kissing... another woman? A lesbian moment in Agrippa's bedroom? #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Eminently relatable and applicable to any group space, activity, etc.
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Eminently relatable and applicable to any group space, activity, etc.
I recently completed this modelling artwork inspired by @hookland.bsky.social: more aircraft repair by the sepulchral inhabitants of the county’s airfield, only this time they have travelled to the south Pacific on the invitation of local Stay-Belows.
A mini 🧵
#scalemodelling #histscalemodelling
A mini 🧵
#scalemodelling #histscalemodelling
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I recently completed this modelling artwork inspired by @hookland.bsky.social: more aircraft repair by the sepulchral inhabitants of the county’s airfield, only this time they have travelled to the south Pacific on the invitation of local Stay-Belows.
A mini 🧵
#scalemodelling #histscalemodelling
A mini 🧵
#scalemodelling #histscalemodelling
An Ekranoplan model!
Cc @cstross.bsky.social
Cc @cstross.bsky.social
Spotted in this week's uploads #2
A 1:144th scale Ekranoplan A-90 Orljonok from Zvezda.
These Soviet ground effect aircraft are fascinating, if not particularly successful.
Note that Zvezda is a Russian manufacturer.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40531153...
#histScaleModel
A 1:144th scale Ekranoplan A-90 Orljonok from Zvezda.
These Soviet ground effect aircraft are fascinating, if not particularly successful.
Note that Zvezda is a Russian manufacturer.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40531153...
#histScaleModel
January 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
An Ekranoplan model!
Cc @cstross.bsky.social
Cc @cstross.bsky.social
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The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025. Report by Neil Transpontine from the upcoming new issue of datacide online now: datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a...
Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms - Datacide
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025.
datacide-magazine.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025. Report by Neil Transpontine from the upcoming new issue of datacide online now: datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a...
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Of the many 'end-of-25' 'what's next' pieces you'll see, this by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social is probably the most important. Not just for its analysis but for the challenge to all who want to preserve (and hopefully want to strengthen and reinvigorate) liberal democracy worldwide. Read it, pass on!
On the last day of 2025, I tried to sum up in this free piece the big stories of the year. Boil it down, however, and one story surpasses all others, be that for the Russo-Ukraine war or global geopolitics overall.
2025 was the year when the USA changed sides
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
2025 was the year when the USA changed sides
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides
Amongst many stories, one stands out
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Of the many 'end-of-25' 'what's next' pieces you'll see, this by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social is probably the most important. Not just for its analysis but for the challenge to all who want to preserve (and hopefully want to strengthen and reinvigorate) liberal democracy worldwide. Read it, pass on!
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Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.
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Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a.... Great write up by Neil @transpontine.bsky.social
Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms - Datacide
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025.
datacide-magazine.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a.... Great write up by Neil @transpontine.bsky.social
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So why can't we do this with detecting?
Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...?
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...?
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Many new UK drone users must take theory test for outdoor use
The Civil Aviation Authority reckons up to half a million people in the UK may be impacted by its new requirements.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
So why can't we do this with detecting?
Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...?
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...?
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just walked out of Marty Supreme, which is basically Timothy Chalamet being the biggest tit in the whole world and ratcheting up the toe curling irritation in every single scene. Everyone else in the film is a victim of his selfishness. No idea why people like films like this, utterly excruciating.
December 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just walked out of Marty Supreme, which is basically Timothy Chalamet being the biggest tit in the whole world and ratcheting up the toe curling irritation in every single scene. Everyone else in the film is a victim of his selfishness. No idea why people like films like this, utterly excruciating.
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The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age.
Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...
emergencemagazine.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age.
Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
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Hookland is a deliberate re-wilding of folklore, but it is also an act of reminding people that you only have to scratch in the right places to reveal yourself as an animist, a knower of scarelore and someone whose immunity to the strange is a lot less complete than imagined.
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hookland is a deliberate re-wilding of folklore, but it is also an act of reminding people that you only have to scratch in the right places to reveal yourself as an animist, a knower of scarelore and someone whose immunity to the strange is a lot less complete than imagined.
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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A 'sun stone' from #Neolithic Bornholm, Denmark. They were deposited en-masse, and ice cores showed that this deposition coincided with a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, suggesting they were buried as part of a ritual to bring it back.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A 'sun stone' from #Neolithic Bornholm, Denmark. They were deposited en-masse, and ice cores showed that this deposition coincided with a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, suggesting they were buried as part of a ritual to bring it back.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Ach, und bevor wir's vergessen: Da ist was GROSSES im Anmarsch im @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social!
#SaveTheDate und so. 😉
www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausste...
#SaveTheDate und so. 😉
www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausste...
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ach, und bevor wir's vergessen: Da ist was GROSSES im Anmarsch im @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social!
#SaveTheDate und so. 😉
www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausste...
#SaveTheDate und so. 😉
www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausste...
Listening to the interview with @theblackdog.bsky.social on 6Music from last week. Absolutely excellent!
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Listening to the interview with @theblackdog.bsky.social on 6Music from last week. Absolutely excellent!
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The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time