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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 3m

It's not a bad idea, especially in old towns and villages. There's invariably something there.

Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 31m

Well you can't just bulldoze human remains. If he couldn't afford to have them removed he shouldn't have started building.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 38m

It always is.

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 1d

The elephant pretends to eat this guy's hat.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 1h

#HeritageCrime News

Gavin Burnett, 43, and Darren Burnett, 50, were due to appear at Northampton Magistrates Court today, charged with the theft of Bronze Age artifacts stolen from St Fagans Museum, Cardiff on Monday, as well as other offences.

The objects remain missing.

Two men charged over gold artefacts stolen from Cardiff museum - BBC News

Jewellery from the Bronze Age collection held at the St Fagans Museum was taken in a break-in on Monday.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 42m

Who decided that we now only have to dig half of an Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured building and on what grounds other than saving money for property developers? #archaeology

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 3h

18,457 children. Murdered by Israel.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 3h

...and yet AFAIK, despite this gov'ts track record in loosening planning laws, our lords and masters don't appear to have made any sort of approach to them to get reassurances that they won't be coming for planning-led archaeology next. Or have I missed something?

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 18h

If any of you had Tarzan retooling himself as a fearless crusader against the rising tide of neo-fascism *in his fucking 90s* on *your* 2025 bingo card, then as far as I'm concerned, you can just take the pot now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 18h

As archaeologists we bear witness to the destruction of the natural environment. Up close. In real time. We are entangled in that destruction and it impacts us. A callous and uncaring approach to planning behind Reeve's comments should be sickening to everyone involved in such grave undertakings. 🏺

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 4h

Apart from billionaires, obvs.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 9h

196 years ago, on the 8th of October 1829, Stephenson’s Rocket won the Rainhill Trails in which five locomotives competed. Stephenson’s Rocket was the only one to complete the rails. A light engine running speed of 30 mph (48 km/h) was reached. Prize money was £500. #otd #history 🗃️

Later conjectural drawing of the Rainhill trials. In the foreground is Rocket and in the background are Sans Pareil (right) and Novelty.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 5h

If it waddles like fascism, swims like fascism, and quacks like fascism...

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 5h

We have now reached the "holding up a magazine is an arrestable offence" stage of Starmerrhoid fascism

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 15h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 5h

"Putin's communists" like that's...a thing. A capitalist authoritarian is a capitalist authoritarian. Unless it's in Russia. THEN it's just communism.

I'm glad Zack is terrifying the establishment. People are just angry enough to not buy in to Voldemort mock-ups on Newsnight.

PS it's "principles".

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 18h

Looks to me like she's only a couple of steps away from "it was just some Roman villa that was scheduled or something". Is ANYONE in British archaeology asking these people if they intend to change the laws regarding planning archaeology? Because they appear to loosening the regs on everything else

Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 21h

...and now we can add "snails" to "swifts, newts, bats, and allotments" on the list "Things that Starmer and his soulless billionaire-fellating shills hate"

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 19h

Reform's brilliant DOGE team at Kent council found zero savings and now want to raise council tax. It's almost as if they were lying and haven't got a clue what they're doing.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

That is the context for this rank insult to the public’s intelligence: a desperate plea to our horrible national press to crank up the hate campaign against members of the public, again, because the government has nothing else to say that anyone wants to hear.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

The whole world watched Britain pretending to believe the UN aid agency was a terrorist organisation, then we all watched as UNRWA was replaced by criminals firing machine guns at starving people trying to get bags of flour, while press and politicians pretended not to understand what was happening.

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The prime minister has described plans for pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the UK today as
'un-British' and has called for them not to go ahead.
Students from several universities are expected to gather in London and other cities.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 20h

She's a classic Centrist drone. No soul, no imagination, no interest in anything other than how she can line her pockets.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21h

An attack on a young Palestinian shows just how much Israel is surveilling the West Bank

Israeli forces beat Abdul Hadi Masharqa after finding a photo of Al-Aqsa mosque on his phone - with digital surveillance like this increasing
www.thecanary.co/global/world...

An attack on a young Palestinian shows just how much Israel is surveilling the West Bank

Israeli forces beat Abdul Hadi Masharqa after finding a photo of Al-Aqsa mosque on his phone - with digital surveillance like this increasing

www.thecanary.co

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 21h

...and now we can add "snails" to "swifts, newts, bats, and allotments" on the list "Things that Starmer and his soulless billionaire-fellating shills hate"

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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