Paul Blinkhorn
@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social
Grumpy Old Archaeologist/Time Team Pot Monkey/Beer Drinker/Biker/Green Socialist/Gardener/Bird Feeder/Pond botherer. Meetings Secretary and Tea-Boy for the Merseyside chapter of Antifa. SaintsRL/LiverpoolFC/ChicagoWhiteSox
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Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
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I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
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I run a cash-based business and declare literally every penny. When people (a surprising number) tell me I'm a fool, I tell them I use roads to reach customers. If something's stolen I'd call the police. If staff were ill, I'd want the NHS to make them well again. Sometimes I feel they get it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I run a cash-based business and declare literally every penny. When people (a surprising number) tell me I'm a fool, I tell them I use roads to reach customers. If something's stolen I'd call the police. If staff were ill, I'd want the NHS to make them well again. Sometimes I feel they get it.
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We are looking for experienced Dragonfly recorders to oversee recording efforts in the Isle of Wight and South-East Yorkshire. Find out more: british-dragonflies.org.uk/vacancies-co...
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We are looking for experienced Dragonfly recorders to oversee recording efforts in the Isle of Wight and South-East Yorkshire. Find out more: british-dragonflies.org.uk/vacancies-co...
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NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Want to put your savings into a reliable, steady savings account? Well you can't, you've got to play the casino, peasants, because There Is No Alternative to the cyclical boom and bust of stock market capitalism. None. #Reevesisatory
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to put your savings into a reliable, steady savings account? Well you can't, you've got to play the casino, peasants, because There Is No Alternative to the cyclical boom and bust of stock market capitalism. None. #Reevesisatory
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No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
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"I said that Nigel Farage never abused anyone in a hurtful or insulting way. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a racist twat"
"You said he's a racist twat"
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"I said that Nigel Farage never abused anyone in a hurtful or insulting way. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a racist twat"
"You said he's a racist twat"
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Yes, they were horrific on civil liberties in the 2000s and they’ve only dumber and nastier in the interim, so it should be no surprise that they’re worse now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yes, they were horrific on civil liberties in the 2000s and they’ve only dumber and nastier in the interim, so it should be no surprise that they’re worse now.
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Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank.
Israel’s push to displace thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank
Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank.
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“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”
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Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
BBC does a programme on Ancient Egypt, gets in "experts" who know absolutely nothing about the period such as Daily Heil-scribbling Thatcherite revisionist shithouse Dominic Sandbrook and *checks notes* Alastair Campbell. No, me either.
Does BBC Civilisations get its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
BBC does a programme on Ancient Egypt, gets in "experts" who know absolutely nothing about the period such as Daily Heil-scribbling Thatcherite revisionist shithouse Dominic Sandbrook and *checks notes* Alastair Campbell. No, me either.
Needless to say, this story is nowhere near the front page of the BBC website despite only being posted 4 hrs ago. So where have the BBC put a story about Farage, an MP who leads a Westminster party and whose seat is in Essex? In the "Wales" news section, obviously
Reform UK's Nigel Farage challenged by BBC reporter over school racism claims
Nigel Farage insisted he has never engaged in 'direct, personal' abuse, following accusations of racism.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Needless to say, this story is nowhere near the front page of the BBC website despite only being posted 4 hrs ago. So where have the BBC put a story about Farage, an MP who leads a Westminster party and whose seat is in Essex? In the "Wales" news section, obviously
"Higher-end vehicles account for about 50,000 of the vehicles ... with customers paying the additional cost for a premium vehicle using their own money." So despite the fact that having more expensive cars costs the public purse nothing, it's going to be scrapped. What is WRONG with thse people???
'Premium' cars like BMW and Mercedes cut from Motability scheme
Motability says it will provide vehicles that meet disabled peoples' needs and are safe and affordable.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Higher-end vehicles account for about 50,000 of the vehicles ... with customers paying the additional cost for a premium vehicle using their own money." So despite the fact that having more expensive cars costs the public purse nothing, it's going to be scrapped. What is WRONG with thse people???
This should be on billboards throughout the entire country. Actually, make that the entire planet. Nailed it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This should be on billboards throughout the entire country. Actually, make that the entire planet. Nailed it.
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Old Tory grandees might share many critiques of current politics with folks on the left, esp Brexit & even immigration. Just because they can't see that their politics led to these politics doesn't mean they don't have responsibility. Thatcherites poisoned our well in many ways, it's their legacy
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Old Tory grandees might share many critiques of current politics with folks on the left, esp Brexit & even immigration. Just because they can't see that their politics led to these politics doesn't mean they don't have responsibility. Thatcherites poisoned our well in many ways, it's their legacy
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Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
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Watching Civilisations: Rise and Fall on the BBC and we wonder why there are 1st century AD legionaries in late 4th century Rome 🤔
Ok so armour and uniforms could last a long time, but isn't this like having the 1640s Parliamentarian New Model Army defend London during the Blitz?
#AskingForAFriend
Ok so armour and uniforms could last a long time, but isn't this like having the 1640s Parliamentarian New Model Army defend London during the Blitz?
#AskingForAFriend
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Watching Civilisations: Rise and Fall on the BBC and we wonder why there are 1st century AD legionaries in late 4th century Rome 🤔
Ok so armour and uniforms could last a long time, but isn't this like having the 1640s Parliamentarian New Model Army defend London during the Blitz?
#AskingForAFriend
Ok so armour and uniforms could last a long time, but isn't this like having the 1640s Parliamentarian New Model Army defend London during the Blitz?
#AskingForAFriend
No idea if this nationwide, but our local Morrison's has 750ml bottles of Tripel Karmeliet @ £6 each, and there's a 4 for 3 offer. £4.50 for 750ml of one of the finest beers on earth??? They're virtually giving it away! @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @danherb10.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No idea if this nationwide, but our local Morrison's has 750ml bottles of Tripel Karmeliet @ £6 each, and there's a 4 for 3 offer. £4.50 for 750ml of one of the finest beers on earth??? They're virtually giving it away! @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @danherb10.bsky.social
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"If you go back a million minutes, get to the start of 2023. If you go back a billion minutes, you get to the Roman Empire. That's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski
Such a brilliant illustration.
Such a brilliant illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"If you go back a million minutes, get to the start of 2023. If you go back a billion minutes, you get to the Roman Empire. That's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski
Such a brilliant illustration.
Such a brilliant illustration.