Alastair MacIntosh
@alastairmac.bsky.social
Archaeologist after a fashion.
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It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game.
January 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game.
When I was a student I was lectured in archaeology by the brother of Tom Hingley of the Inspiral Carpets. He had me wash some sherds of pot from a fieldwalking project that came out of a bag initialled TH. It is therefore possible, though not likely, that I've washed of Tom Hingley's finds.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
When I was a student I was lectured in archaeology by the brother of Tom Hingley of the Inspiral Carpets. He had me wash some sherds of pot from a fieldwalking project that came out of a bag initialled TH. It is therefore possible, though not likely, that I've washed of Tom Hingley's finds.
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Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
A perfectly reasonable question. My admittedly hypothetical answer is that I reckon on the whole smaller family run farms are better for rural communities than large estates. Revenue stays in the area and is spent locally, supporting lots of ancillary businesses and keeping communities sustainable.
Why should I, someone who doesn’t own a family farm nor stand to inherit one, particularly care whether a farm is farmed by a family?
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A perfectly reasonable question. My admittedly hypothetical answer is that I reckon on the whole smaller family run farms are better for rural communities than large estates. Revenue stays in the area and is spent locally, supporting lots of ancillary businesses and keeping communities sustainable.
Hedgerows are not a feature of fenland landscapes. The appropriate way to deal with declining biodiversity in this area is to crack down on pesticides and runoff, not to create some weird pastiche of 19th century planned enclosure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
South Holland council to tackle lack of trees and hedgerows
South Holland District Council says it will work with local groups to plant more trees and hedges.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hedgerows are not a feature of fenland landscapes. The appropriate way to deal with declining biodiversity in this area is to crack down on pesticides and runoff, not to create some weird pastiche of 19th century planned enclosure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For more about the Arches UK Interest Group, including how to engage with group members on the forum and how to sign up for the group’s mailing list, visit
Arches UK Interest Group | Arches Project
The Arches UK Interest Group is an opportunity for implementers, those wanting to implement, and service providers in the United Kingdom to collaborate on Arches.
www.archesproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For more about the Arches UK Interest Group, including how to engage with group members on the forum and how to sign up for the group’s mailing list, visit
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Now available: Video recording from the Nov 27 Arches UK Interest Group meeting. Learn about Arches software developments related to the recent v8 release, as well as Historic England’s new Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record database:
Arches UK Interest Group Meeting (November 27, 2025)
A recording of the Arches UK Interest Group meeting, held virtually on November 27, 2025
Chair: Stuart Cakebread, Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER); Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service (GLAAS); Historic England
Secretary: Jana Lorencova, Information Scientist, Flax & Teal Lt
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Now available: Video recording from the Nov 27 Arches UK Interest Group meeting. Learn about Arches software developments related to the recent v8 release, as well as Historic England’s new Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record database:
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📣 Introducing the new Arches Lingo webpage! Learn about this new Arches application (currently in development) and how it will support the creation, management, and sharing of authority data.
🔗 www.archesproject.or...
🔗 www.archesproject.or...
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📣 Introducing the new Arches Lingo webpage! Learn about this new Arches application (currently in development) and how it will support the creation, management, and sharing of authority data.
🔗 www.archesproject.or...
🔗 www.archesproject.or...
I'd love to think that the CofE has a sufficiently strong immune system to keep these people out, but just in case the declining congregations of 60-80 year olds aren't up to it we should probably take church schools out of their hands and get bishops out of the lords pdq.
Far right has ‘parked its tanks on the front lawn of the Church of England’, bishop says.
Priest warns of emerging US-style nationalism within Christianity and of a looming battle against a Maga agenda, writes John Simpson.
https://bit.ly/3YokA0C
Priest warns of emerging US-style nationalism within Christianity and of a looming battle against a Maga agenda, writes John Simpson.
https://bit.ly/3YokA0C
Far right has ‘parked its tanks on the front lawn of the Church of England’, bishop says | The Observer
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December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'd love to think that the CofE has a sufficiently strong immune system to keep these people out, but just in case the declining congregations of 60-80 year olds aren't up to it we should probably take church schools out of their hands and get bishops out of the lords pdq.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Wise words from Your Party
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Wise words from Your Party
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This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
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Save the date! The Arches UK Interest Group (formerly known as the UK User Group) returns with its first hour-long session on Thursday, November 27 at 1:00 PM GMT.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Save the date! The Arches UK Interest Group (formerly known as the UK User Group) returns with its first hour-long session on Thursday, November 27 at 1:00 PM GMT.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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HistoricPlacesLA, an Arches powered system that helps the City of Los Angeles inventory, map, and help protect significant cultural and historic resources, has announced HistoricPlacesLA Revealed.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
HistoricPlacesLA, an Arches powered system that helps the City of Los Angeles inventory, map, and help protect significant cultural and historic resources, has announced HistoricPlacesLA Revealed.
Finally our Silicon Valley overlords will liberate us from our toil as artists, historians and geographers and allow us to follow our true calling as hazardous waste removal operatives. Truly a new golden age awaits.
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Finally our Silicon Valley overlords will liberate us from our toil as artists, historians and geographers and allow us to follow our true calling as hazardous waste removal operatives. Truly a new golden age awaits.
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Huge news for science fiction writers
October 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Huge news for science fiction writers
Share your favourite black & white film
September 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Share your favourite black & white film
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day 46 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't
December 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
day 46 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't
What an utterly spurious, facile analysis. Apparently by receiving the generous support of the workhouse, your 19th century pauper stained his hands with the sin of slavery so we should all cough up for reparations today, not just the aristocrat families that walked off scot-free with all the cash.
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
They were places of crushing hardship for the poorest people in Britain for centuries but a new report highlights how closely workhouses in England and Wales were linked with slavery and British imperialism.
Workhouses, perhaps best known in popular culture through the Charles Dickens story Oliver Twist, were routinely funded and administered by people involved in the slave trade, the study says.
The paper Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World was published in Antipode. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
What an utterly spurious, facile analysis. Apparently by receiving the generous support of the workhouse, your 19th century pauper stained his hands with the sin of slavery so we should all cough up for reparations today, not just the aristocrat families that walked off scot-free with all the cash.
Just finished this episode yesterday, and while I enjoyed it very much, nobody mentioned my favourite scene, when Jack gave over his duty, chasing the Acheron, because his best friend Stephen urgently needed to be taken ashore for treatment. That to me is the absolute heart of the film!
July 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just finished this episode yesterday, and while I enjoyed it very much, nobody mentioned my favourite scene, when Jack gave over his duty, chasing the Acheron, because his best friend Stephen urgently needed to be taken ashore for treatment. That to me is the absolute heart of the film!