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Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

This is insane! Trump, Vance & Zelensky

Foul

Based on the past month: Land of the free? Or land of the compliant? To be fair, I've never heard 'do you have a permit?' as often as I do on US TV. Guns don't even to factor as much as permits for Home Owner Associations haha

NEW: "There is no set of measures the DWP can cook up that will achieve the savings the Treasury is demanding, on the timescale it is demanding them, without blanket-bombing disabled people." My deep dive on what the DWP isn't trumpeting about its latest research: www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

"In its nearly 250-year history, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the U.S., the byproduct of the country’s long history of taking in immigrants from around the world." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

YET ANOTHER medical organisation comes to the conclusion that The Cass Scandal is total junk

One for Alexandra Morton-Hayward? www.popsci.com/science/moun...

I shared this article a few weeks ago, but I keep thinking about how inspirational Alexandra Morton-Hayward is, that I thought it was worth sharing again so others can read about her. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

The HUMAN Cost of Trump & Musk Cutting Federal Employees w/ @archaeowolf.bsky.social! @andybrockman.bsky.social & @mrsoup.bsky.social #archaeologynews #news #USgovernment #trump #musk #doge #forestry #interview youtu.be/_tX0hGuxFMo?...

Kaos was revealed to be (Netflix's) most-watched cancelled series in the second half of 2024 and achieved 20.3 million views in that six-month period. www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/k...

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

He's wearing a fucking baseball cap...

In conversation with a German-Italian friend: They were horrified to learn that Brits made a board game about Colditz, heavily featuring Nazi iconography!? When they first learned about this, it was in the context of UK friends unthinkingly getting it out of the cupboard to play. 🤔

Oh I see... Won't somebody think of the poor collections! www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Fascinating! Benin Bronze Makers

Northwestern University Libraries, a leader among its peers in the speed in which it's removing the word "diversity" from its website. 🫠 dailynorthwestern.com/2025/02/23/c... 📚

Accurate holographic posters about Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Please. No more speeches in the Senate about “freedom” until one Republican has the guts to stand up to Trump’s lies about Ukraine & Putin. Ukraine did not start this horrific war. Russia did. Zelensky isn't a dictator. Putin is. The US must not enter into an alliance with Putin.

📢 Ever wondered what the past used to smell like? The latest TEtrARCHs Seminar is on Friday, 28th February, 2025, at 13:00 BST. Dr. Marieke van Erp will present on "Smelling the past through big data". 🔍 Find out more here : https://buff.ly/3EPxRJ5 👉 Register here: https://buff.ly/4iatpTw

Just a GIF you can use if you search for a combination of the following... "cifa, cba, fame, archaeologyuk, archaeology, tea, blow over, bad management, ceo, management" For example 'CIfA & Tea'

The speed of destroying people’s lives in USA is remarkable

hey, so, if you're a federal worker or contractor and you want to talk about why your work is important, you can contact someone who actually *cares* about it and wants to learn about it, rather than elon musk, who does not.

Art by: www.instagram.com/captainmatts...

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

Naturally had to reference the old classic from the Daily Heil at the end @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social @andybrockman.bsky.social haha!

Just saw a video of Steve Bannon saying the Daily Mail is the left wing media...

How Much is Too Much to Spend on RECRUITING a CEO Who Stays for Less than 8 Months? | CIfA youtu.be/3XWTvQwntQg w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social & @mrsoup.bsky.social #archaeologynews #cifa #ukarchaeology #news

My first ever issue of White Dwarf (currently in the office) was 201. I always wondered what was in the celebratory issue 200, and when I saw a job lot on eBay, including 160 with *those* dwarves for £1 each... I clicked! Haha

What makes the current crop of rich people in this country so intolerable is that they could easily bail this institute out–and who doesn't like dinosaurs–and gain some popularity. But they are so greedy, they just won't help anyone but themselves. www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm always joking about how 'bad I am at relaxing'. But it's more like I cannot settle on one thing, particularly when I'm alone for the evening with access to all the books, art supplies, streaming internet and games I could ever need... 🤔

Uh oh. This one is new to me, folks! That hardly ever happens. 💞 #Stonehenge #Australia

This is a great article about folk horror with some great recommendations for further reading at the end: litreactor.com/columns/folk... #folklore #folkhorror #folkloring #horror #booksky

We are planning an exhibition on Ancient DNA at The Crick! If you are an artist and are interested in being involved please consider applying to lend us a hand. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

Congratulations to Josie Stewart, who blew the whistle on the UK's chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan - the Employment Tribunal has ruled that she was entitled to go to the media with what she knew, creating an important precedent for all UK civil servants.

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

“Many say that while they still love their work — and particularly working with students — they don’t know how long they can maintain their current pace. ‘Most of us are working seven days a week just to keep up… That’s not sustainable at all.’”

Working on a mini video essay...

Waiting for a PC process: Watching 'How the Nazis Lost the War'. Mussolini looks like a brash incompetent in episode 1. I remember a friend's Dad driving us to the bus station in L'Aquila. I noticed a looming block which they scoffed at as a fascist building. Such times have always been so close!

Mexico is threatening to take Google to court over its “Gulf of America” name change on maps for users in the United States, pointing out that much of the body of water lies outside U.S. maritime borders in regions controlled by Mexico and Cuba.

Coming Soon to thePipeLine: Another Twist in the CIfA CEO Saga Meanwhile, if you are a CIfA member and had any official interaction with short lived CEO Nathan Baker please let us know in confidence. DM's Open Signal ID: AndyBrockman.25 <[email protected]> Here is the original story,

Following up on the most recent #WatchingBrief, we are wondering what experience CIfA members have had of former CEO Nick Baker's leadership? Did you take part in conversations between June and Sept 2024 where he consulted with membership to get a sense of the field? What was that experience like?

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