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submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Watching the orange glowing jet exhausts of two RAF Typhoons furiously dogfighting in the dark skies over the village tonight. A weirdly spectacular (if chilling re: world events) display.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Work on Roundhouse One on our 2024 project in Bedfordshire involved digging slots in the structure’s ring gully. The building was 12m in diameter with an entrance positioned to the southeast, a typical feature of Iron Age roundhouses to help sunlight enter throughout the day.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We're hiring a Paper Conservator to join our team at the University of Reading's Museums and Collections! You'll deliver conservation treatments across archive, museum, art and library materials (including Three designated collections). Apply now: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

If anyone thinks they have a Bowl more Super than ours, they are sadly deluded. 😎

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

*Clark Ashton Smith used to fire his carvings in his kitchen stove inside junked tin cans filled with straw, I'm liking the technical production footnote there www.dissolvesf.org/issue-2/carv...

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Stopped at one of the red telephone box book exchanges in a nearby village today. There was a lady arriving at the same time. We both did the British thing of saying "After you - No, after you" Then we laughed & concluded it would be just easier to swap the books we brought. So I'm reading this.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Illustrating flint tools isn’t just about recording their shape—it helps capture the subtleties of flake scars, texture & wear that can reveal how they were made and used. This drawing shows last week’s #FindsFriday Palaeolithic handaxe. #Archaeology #Prehistory #FindsIllustration #FlintFriday

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Steve Bannon in 2019 on the power of distraction: “And the media, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time…All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day, we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done.”

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A lavish recreation of Badbury Rings hillfort #Dorset in its Iron Age heyday © Julia Lillo 2021 Created for the Martin Papworth @nattrustarch.bsky.social guide Love it 🤩 For more on how this was created see: archaeologynationaltrustsw.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/d... Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

I made a grid with a ruler and a pencil and 5 colors of highlighters on card-stock so I could figure something out. And what I figured out was that I love making lines with a pencil and ruler and 5 colors of highlighters. On card-stock.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.

submitted 25 days ago • 214 comments

Magnus Brahe's mourning ensemble for the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844... Please, bring this kind of energy to every funeral you attend.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/ar... Today we release the BAJR Poverty Impact Report 2024, continuing the work begun with the first Report in 2022. Contained within are the voices of 644 colleagues. Read, absorb and act. Discussions on BAJR Facebook [ this time with Image ]

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

Seeing Ai developers angrily up in arms and aghast about someone using THEIR data to train someone else's Ai model, is just... Chef's Kiss

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Well this is interesting. wikenigma.org.uk/start A wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to listing scientific & academic questions to which no-one has yet been able to provide a definitive answer. No 'woo' or paranormal, just genuine scientific head-scratchers such as "Squeaky Sand"

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

submitted 37 days ago • 97 comments

Being the owner of a puppy, 95% of time right now seems to consist of me exclaiming... "What have you got?" or "Spit that out!" or variants thereof!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

With David Lynch's exit the world gets a little 'less' weird... and is the worse for it.

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