VMRS! 😉 (wykyk)
Nasty woman (and occasionally proud of it). Dog mom, citizen of the Earth, history & archaeology afficionada, all-around observer, faithful commentator on the ridiculous. Warning: there will be puns. Also at: @ArdentArchivist@archaeo.social
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VMRS! 😉 (wykyk)
Yes, they are all pretty, and yes they are the best! 🥰
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(And completely agreed, hope they do it up right!)
Be gor it (future tense of begorra, with or without the faith) 🤣🤣🤣 Apologies, I do LOVE me a good tyop and that one was just too juicy to pass up! 😋😃😉
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Damn. Sorry, if unsurprised, to hear it. *hugs* It really doesn’t help when it feels like government policy is still "let the bodies pile high".
The last, best description of Trump from British writer Nate White.
Happy to play Fuflunian Frisbee with you any day - let the libations commence! 👍😃👍
TIL that the Etruscans named one of their cities Fufluna, after their god of wine and happiness (now, sadly, known by its unimaginative Greek name of Populonia). I think I would have liked being a Fuflunian. 🏺 🍷 📸 BBC History Magazine
NEW What was life like for the animals that fought in the amphitheatres of the #Roman Empire? New research tells the story of a fighting bear from Roman Serbia. Strap in for a gladiatorial #AntiquityThread 1/9 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Exactly what I was thinking! 🤣🤣
...has confirmed that the wooden dwellings were constructed between 3738 and 3731 BC. The settlement comprised around twenty-four buildings. It is considered to be one of the most important wetland sites in southwestern Germany. 🧵2/2
Today, I had the opportunity to visit my colleagues from the Department of Wetland Archaeology at the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments at the excavation site of the prehistoric settlement in Reute-Schorrenried, Bad Waldsee. Dendrochronological analysis... 🧵1/2 📷me 🏺
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Absolutism vs relativism. Fair enough.
Same.
F*ck yes.
This. Oh this...
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 567456: Varying the length of your sentences allows you to vary the pace of your narrative. Long sentences tend to slow the pace down: short ones speed it up again.
Dalriada redux! 💙🤍💚
There are always eejits.
Somebody’s lost their marlies! 🤣 They’re great - would love to just sit & hold them for an hour, imagining the stories they could tell.
Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age. This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
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Now you’re talking! Human beings are not sardines. FFS sardines shouldn’t be sardines.
How about we go back to decent sized seats. I'm 6 foot 3 and about 220lbs. Not small but by no means a giant and even I struggle to fit in seats these days
Well I wouldn’t go quite that far, but I wouldn’t exactly disagree, either! Them’uns over the water don’t want us. 🤷♀️ Trouble is, not everyone down South wants us, either, and they have their own 'foibles' as well. But I have to say I’m leaning in the same direction. It can’t be rushed, though.
Have you heard of the Overton Window?
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
They're calling it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Unbelievable. Except it’s all too believable. And we can’t count on the CDC any more, thanks to the Orange Idiot. The best anyone can do now is follow those who are best placed to know what is/isn’t going on, and I’m sure you’re already doing that. Happy to compare follows via DM if you want. 🤷♀️
FFS!
Long Covid clinic contact after god knows how long. Would you like to be added to our events newsletter. I’d like information on immune damage and treatment. We can’t do that.
I.E. Beware of the Pyramidiots (Credit: Dr. Zahi Hawass)
Some really good introduction and overview here by David Connolly into and onto the pitfalls and misconceptions of #pseudoarchaeology - and the insight #RealArchaeology can offer in contrast: 🏺 www.bajr.org/raiders-of-m... via @bajr-badger.bsky.social
Smaller peripheral settlements farmed a more diverse range of crops, making them better able to deal with unexpected climate fluctuations. This may have caused the mysterious de-urbanisation of Late Harappan society 2/2 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
How did ancient civilisations contend with #ClimateChange? The 4.2kya event was an abrupt arid phase that lasted a few centuries from ~2150BC. In the Indus Valley, reliance on wheat and barley monocultures led to the decline of urban centres. 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
Here's something nice for September: A NARROW DOOR for just 99p on Kindle UK till the end of the month! www.amazon.co.uk/Narrow-Door-...
This whole thread and replies. Start the day with a smile at the wittiness
One of my favourite words.
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
And this morning the Shed is a party bus with tinted windows, minibar, quadrophonic sound, and lavishly padded seats around a plunge pool filled with champagne…
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Beeindruckend! Als Berliner kenne ich deutlich jüngere Straßen in deutlich schlechterem Zustand. 😉 One of the "World’s Oldest Streets" - dating Back 9,750 Years - unearthed at #Canhasan 3 in #Türkiye: 🏺 arkeonews.net/one-of-the-w... via @kayra7.bsky.social
Bless you! 👏👏👏👏 I’ve been using Duck Duck Go for years now, and they have a way of turning off the AI crap but if you clear your cookies etc. all the time like I do, it doesn’t stick. So I wish there was something like this for the Duck. :(
A few days ago I learned you can skip the AI summary feature in Google by adding "-AI" to your search. I love it!
Not at all. They really should get it right. And you earned it.
Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, "lt's indoor work with no heavy Iifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father? Terry Pratchett
👍👍😃👏👏 Jealous of those youngsters!
September is here and I’m out and about again in various guises … On 12th, it’s an evening of poetry and music with The Catenary Wires at the Ramsgate Music Hall. It’s our first gig together. There’s only 50 tickets left so grab them while you can.
A certain tout ( cough cough @bikesnbukes.bsky.social ) said @bellacaledonia.bsky.social has a soft spot for holy wells.This is a lovely wee booklet and if you ask them nicely I'd be near sure they could magic a hard copy for you.. www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...
Clearly not a tree cat!
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18100: We all process the world individually. Yours characters can, too. Touch, scent, taste, sound - which is your protagonist's main sensory point of reference? What's most important to them? Why? How do they express them? What does that tell you about them?
I can certainly see why he’d think that: emphasising this world rather than the next. Very cool.
You go, grrl! 👏👏👏👏
And moved on. It was a shame as id had a lovely time feeding into a bigger project and loved the whole science aspect. And then I was allowed to tell the story of the landscape. And here it is. :) A story of accepting what goes around comes around and just keeping on working as good things happen
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A close-up of the spiral design of a mosaic glass bowl, one of the principal patterns employed by #Hellenistic glassmakers. The three-dimensional effect is truly mesmerising. 2nd century BC 📸 me
The blackberries are already done, here! But sure there’s no such thing as climate change… 🙄
That’s gorgeous!
The vilest swear word in the English language? Metrics. METRICS! 🔥🔥🔥😱🔥🔥🔥
Sin ceart! I’m freezing. 👀
And this morning the Shed is an embroidered design upon an old school blazer, depicting a shed against a scroll bearing a Latin inscription…
The blackberries are pretty much finished and it’s still August! But yes, definitely autumn now.
No, that’s not odd at all. That’s misogyny, which half the human race is expected to live with. (Kudos to the good guys who call it out.)
If you do a foreign tour, if you win a foreign prize, if you do interviews with foreign press, always be aware that your translator deserves half the credit. You didn't create this success. They did. Remember them. Name them. Acknowledge them.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 13: If you are lucky enough to be translated into other languages, always know this: you are NOTHING without your translator. Your translator has skills far beyond just putting words into another language. A good translator is a stylist, an interpreter, a composer.
Our September UAS lecture is titled ‘Church Island in Lough Beg, an enduring spiritual place in the landscape’ and will be given by Thomas McErlean on Monday 29th September at 19.30 at QUB and online. YT: youtube.com/live/IxV_S6i...
Missed #Storytime live earlier? Here it is, all in one place. Buy me a cup of tea if the spirit moves you, or just read it here for free... ko-fi.com/post/The-Hye...
Indeed. I’m too old to stop speaking my mind now. I’d inevitably get into trouble.
I never did like hyenas.
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Of course, the phallus-flashing guy got all the headlines, but these early #Neolithic reliefs from #Sayburc, SE #Türkiye are much more fascinating, even beyond that. 🏺 From the blog: trowelandpen.com/2022/12/14/w...
Those are brilliant, Ciara!
Three hand-drawn pieces for the @dublinmaker.bsky.social event this weekend, celebrating traditional crafts and Irish makers, and the process of creating. They're also available as prints here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Years ago, I stood at a pedestrian crossing in Damascus, Syria. I watched two soldiers on far side, & two soldiers on this side-all in ill-assorted, camouflage uniforms. Their role was to wait for the traffic lights, & wave us all across …pointless in one sense, but a warning to the population
Fun fact for Sunday. The gold used to make one Snettisham Great torc (that cube in the centre, c.4cm x 4cm x 4cm, which weighs 1084g) would make ten of the tubular torcs found at Snettisham (which weigh c.110g) Tubular torcs - more bang for your buck! 😊 #Archaeology #Torcs #Snettisham #IronAge 🏺
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26 states, here. And with equally huge regret, I’ll never go back until they sort themselves out.
Ooohh, I wonder did you read Rosemary Sutcliff and Henry Treece as a kid? (I hope so!) 👏😃👍 Would love to see a book of short stories about the Shed’s adventures... 😋
And this morning the Shed is a burial mound, out on the crest of a heather moor, under which an undiscovered hoard of scarlet gold lies burning…
These stunning golden #duck heads flanking the head of Hathor were found in the royal tomb at Qatna/#Syria, dating 15th/14th century BC. The unique object may have been part of a cosmetic container. National Museum Damascus #archaeology 🏺 🦆
Ta, I’ll make a note of that.
Gotcha. Of course their shop isn’t online (I just looked). Well, it’s been too long since I was there.
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It’s not this one? obrien.ie/wild-ireland
I’m very tempted!
That’s beautiful.
Mmmm. More people should realise how satisfying it is to do a stir-fry. That’s good eating! 👏👏
I'm just gonna leave this here 😆
Please add your name to our open letter urging Ministers to act now lnkd.in/ejJ2nrva 3/3
They’re excluded from Government support that's available for other museums, art galleries and theatres. The Association of Science and Discovery Centres is calling on the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to safeguard these vital institutions for the next generation… 2/3
For over 25 years, science and discovery centres have been at the heart of inspiring millions of people to explore, question, and be part of UK science and technology. But they're seriously under threat… 1/3
Sadly no - and I wish I had!
The day had finally come: it was Spike’s turn to go to the Great Toy Cupboard in the Sky…
Oh, read the books!
Neigh/nay.
Yup. Look at this BS paragraph just casually dropped into the Times front page story.
So. Cute.
Dunno, but I’m pretty damn sure where he’ll end up.