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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

Dammit.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 4d

This all feels very Death of Stalin

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

Three strokes and out?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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

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 · 5d

Damn tricky the Dutch.

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5d

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

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

"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 · 6d

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

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 · 7d

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

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

Durham just hanging around, desperately asking for a threesome.

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

Switches depends on who wins the Boat Race?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · Aug 9

Harry Potter fan who fell into a coma shortly after reading The Deathly Hallows wakes up in 2025

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy excitedly sits down at their laptop, saying: Boy o’ boy, I wonder what my favourite Author’s up to!

Panel 2: Close up of a J K Rowling tweet where she says “If you are born with egg producing equipment, even if faulty, it’s proof you are a woman.”

Panels 3 to 5: Purple Guy slowly closes their laptop, wondering how the billionaire author they loved has become so obsessed with the lives of people who have absolutely no effect on her existence.

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

The cost of doing even the RCF Free Fringe is an arm and a leg.

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

Sure, go and see all the big acts doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival but don't forget those just starting out by doing the RCF Free Fringe in tiny blacked-out rooms in embassy basements.

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

Some of this is all Greek to me (but it's also all geek to me, and more importantly all very funny).

Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · Oct 3

I've edited a video! Of some of my standup! Like you're supposed to when you're a comedian!
Please enjoy "My jokes are good, actually, and here are the reasons why".

Shares/fawning praise etc obviously appreciated x

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93X...

My jokes are good, actually, and here are the reasons why.

YouTube video by Guy Kelly

www.youtube.com

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 12d

#booksky

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

There's always money in the donkey sanctuary.

two men are sitting at a table and one of them says there 's always money in the banana stand ..

Alt: two men are sitting at a table and one of them says there 's always money in the banana stand ..

media.tenor.com

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

"Taking the nuns mudlarking" feels like it should be a euphemism but probably for something actually quite cute and nice.

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 12d

Took some nuns mudlarking, then watched as they wandered around, hands filled with vertebrae and shards of bone, showing people their finds.

I'm a good influence.

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

The State Visit went so well he's declaring war on Dorset.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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