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Cat Rees

@catrees.bsky.social

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Archaeologist in North Wales. Currently studying PhD looking at death in Pre-Roman Wales. Other interests include making random stuff and scruffing my hounds.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · Nov 12

New to the site so reaching out to follow archaeologists. I've worked in commercial archaeology since 2002 and am currently in the final year of a PhD studying death in Pre-Roman Wales. Also interested in how sites are reinterpreted by later generations. Recent blog annwnbccymru.com/2024/11/06/c...

Connecting with the Past – The Llanbadarn Fawr Bronze Age Urn Gravestone

Focus has always been something which I have struggled massively with, and when researching I tend to wander off on little side missions before coming back to what I am supposed to be doing. I love…

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 22h

Further details on the theft - clearly carefully planned. Seems crazy to hope that the thieves realise that the value of the items is far, far more than the value of the gold they are made from. They are irreplaceable

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold

Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 1d

It's devastating for the nation. I can't see whether the museum has released which specific artefacts have been stolen but all are irreplaceable.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024,now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff

South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry I had to delete original post as the wrong emoji was there!

Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely devastating news about a major theft from Amgueddfa Cymru - thieves have stolen Bronze Age gold artefacts held at the St Fagans galleries 😭! St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem - BBC News share.google/wHR1bDtJxDq4...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem - BBC News

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship.

Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.

And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.

Thank you Zack. 💪

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6d

…“The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn’t a psychopath”

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-trumpa...

The Trumpanyahu "Peace" Plan, And Other Notes

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Haydyn Williams @tine119.bsky.social · 6d

20 #Israeli vessels have surrounded the #lead boats of the #Flotilla. #SeaMines have also been deployed. Comms on all vessels are currently extant, but that won't be the case for much longer.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 8d

The more air time away from Reform the better! It's driving me mad how Farage and his hate are spun as the people's voice when he offers nothing - and will actively hurt a lot of people. Zack is discussing workable solutions and nationalisation of essential services -traditional labour politics!

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 10d

100%, while also making sure that people in precarious positions were made aware of how vulnerable their employment was every time anyone spoke up

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 11d

So much labour done by women to demonstrate in the way in which the industry will find undeniable what we all know 😭. Amazing work by you both and let's see them try and dismiss this as 'lady data' xxx.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 11d

My suspicion is this will end up as another failed UK attempt to introduce ID cards because Starmer won't last long enough to implement it and his replacement will be the candidate promising to abandon the scheme, not least given the way it has been sold.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 11d

Downloading for later - although as a woman who has worked in archaeology since 2002 I suspect that absolutely nothing is going to come as a surprise.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 11d

that immaculate vetting process strikes again

Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 11d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15d

Waiting for them to ask the question what if it did and they are just awful people who don't deserve to be saved....

Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15d

She's come a long way since the first version

My first attempt at a needle felt Mari Llwyd on top of the Christmas tree last year. This one has red ears and red, green and white ribbon. Room is painted yellow and tree has bluey white lights

Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks so much, she's a present for a wonderful friend

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 16d

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16d

I have no set order I do things so it was a very welcome surprise - and explained why it had taken me so long to get to this stage 🤣

Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16d

That feeling where the endless brain fog works for you and you discover that you have already done the illustrations for a report but you had forgotten. That's a definite win in my book!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 19d

Rethinking my Mari Llwyd from last year to give her more strength and support with a stronger wire frame. Still need to get the make time down if going to produce to sell but loving her development. Folk horror meets cottage core vibes 🤣 #FolkloreFriday #MariLlwyd #needlefelt

Needle felt Mari Llwyd sculpture. Horse skull with purple, pink and green ribbons. On a brass colored stand in the garden

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 20d

I’m not saying Britain has gone entirely batshit crazy but a Reform councillor in Wales has just stormed out of a local Torfaen Council meeting in Gwent because it failed to acknowledge the killing of a man in America.

In other news, Britain has gone entirely batshit crazy.

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