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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 18h

I have just heard the term "phygital" A cursed portmanteau of physical and digital. #portmantno

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 20h

This is today! I'm here! Is anyone else?

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare example of the questioning sentence going against Betteridge's Law

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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fuck you cant tell me thats not Dana Carvey reprising the role of Garth in Waynes World?

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think much of the AI academic discourse on here, critical or otherwise, is often significantly detached from the general shoddiness of day to day business operations - staffed, in the main, by disinterested people who really just want to go home for the day.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday

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Andy Emery @andydoggerbank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our new paper out now in QSA models the Storegga tusnami wave using more realistic palaeobathymetry based on the most recent glacio-isostatic modelling outputs for the North Sea, and shows that significant wave propagation south of Dogger Bank is extremely unlikely.

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How accurately do our devices depict an ancient amphora? Our curator Ben Paites has inspected every version, and the results range from “solid Greek amphora” to “What in the Minecraft?!” Swipe for expert analysis, questionable handles and one surprisingly respectable 9/10. 🏺🧵

Blue graphic showing nine amphora emojis from different platforms arranged in a grid around the title: "Roman ceramic curator rates every amphora emoji". The emojis are labelled Facebook, JoyPixels, Skype, Twitter/X, Serenity OS, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and WhatsApp.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For all this talk of false positives, I should point out it's pretty good at finding actual barrows too. 🏺

A screenshot of the browser-based validation tool, with 60 chips showing probable barrows in identified in old mapping with bounding boxes around them

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I should really read the changelogs qgis.org/project/visu...

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Visual changelogs · QGIS

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cartography with a lava lamp aesthetic

contour polygons coloured in using the lava colour ramp

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a nice surprise to find on updating #Qgis

screenshot of the 'Legend items' properties panel with 'Synchronise to Visible Layers' highlighted. A godsend to all of us that have disorganised workspaces with loads of layers not currently being used.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I honestly suspect that the recent QAA podcast on the state department under Trump is a better overview for European governments than whatever briefings they’ve been getting. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...

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Great Replacement Theory at the State Department feat. Josef Burton (E390)

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 25 September · 1hr 26min

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technical debt and relying on third party vendors is the downfall of many a heritage database site. As someone who's stood awfy close to that fire a few times now: - Build and nurture internal capabilities. Try and retain people that know how it works.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old school analogue methodology, tons of enthusiasm and a simple research question: what was the topography and deposit sequence of the Flag Fen Basin at the time of the Flag Fen post alignment?

Badge: Flag Fen Auger Survey 2025 (green circle, white back ground and an image of a Dutch auger)

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

... it's just that the false positives are the most fun bit, because finding the thing you were looking for is kinda boring compared to stumbling across something beautiful and unexpected.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 27/09/2026

Today is Septidi the 7th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate carrots. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Carrots.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/09/2026

This march was designed to spread tensions and hatred, and to intimidate the community and families who live there. Scotland should not be providing policing resources for sectarian events like this that are called to inflame tensions.

The National. Questions over Police Scotland officers sent to Orange Order walk. Scottish Greens are seeking clarity over the role of Police Scotland officers and demanding a review of the agreement that enabled their deployment.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist : CF Tunnicliffe

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For all this talk of false positives, I should point out it's pretty good at finding actual barrows too. 🏺

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got excited and forgot the alt text. Look at it!

A legend from the 1779 map of Hvedstrup. The title text is framed by cornucopia. At the top these hold grain. On the sides flowers and apples and pears. All around agricultural implements: scythes, rakes, shovels, troughs. Below on a wee pediment thing is the map signature.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 16th- and early 17th- century tin-glazed wares in the Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid made me smile this morning.

A large plate with a stylised figure depicted in blue and orange on an off-white background surrounded by blue and orange flowers and leaves. Made in Talavera de la Reina, in Toledo province, the main production centre for decorated ceramics. In the second half of the 16th century about thirty Talavera potteries made ceramics in both the Gothic-Mudejar style and styles inspired by the Italian, Flemish and Chinese traditions.

A large plate with a stylised knight and a plant stem in the centre painted in blue, yellow and orange. The border is a stylised floral motif in blue, yellow and orange.

A large plate with a portrait of a woman with the name “Margaritina” behind her head. Probably a wedding gift, the lady's portrait on its surface is framed like a classical medallion, a style typical of the potters of Deruta, Italy. Dates to the second half of the 16th century.

A museum display case containing a variety of tin-glazed ceramics.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another flower pretending to be a round barrow. Look at it!

A hand-drawn flower with the a detection bounding box around it. It's beautiful.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

A soil matrix triangle showing percentages of sand, clay and silt, but with regions identified using punny song names like Clay Jude and Only the Loamy

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got excited and forgot the alt text. Look at it!

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just look at the legend it's from as well! I particularly love the wee beehive. 10 / 10 The #NorthArrow is a bit pedestrian though. 6/10. #NorthArrowsReviewed

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another flower pretending to be a round barrow. Look at it!

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Danny Tommo is basically a British Yukio Mishima and he should fully commit to the bit

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So awful to hear of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire today. A huge loss, and gone far too soon. She had a unique understanding of prehistory as intimately tethered to cultural history. I will miss that insight. Rest in peace.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The doorstep milk thief, 1966 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A blue-tit pecks at the silver top of a milk bottle on the doorstep

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dancing crabs, some time in the 1830s 🦀

Coloured lithograph of two dark green crabs (I have no idea what species they’re meant to be if any - C maenas I guess?) dancing a horn pipe or jig together, stood on their swimming legs on a bed of sand and shells. By Henry Monnier from Le Caricature magazine, probably 1831

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Disconcerting cover design

John Whitman

THE PSYCHIC POWER OF PLANTS

FANTASTIC REVELATIONS ABOUT THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS

Design shows a tree with a face

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's album is 15 minutes long. This makes a nice change from some of the interminable double albums on here. 1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/4vnif...

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Album Of The Day

Group Sex by Circle Jerks

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Beach ridge complex and dunes at Pointe aux Chenes, Michigan. I've got it in my slides for a case study on post-glacial rebound and other causes of lake level change on the Great Lakes, and I had to post it here again.

A shaded relief map of a very impressive set of concentric beach rdiges, and on the west side a coastal dune field, along the shore of northern Lake Michigan.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And that is how you do a cross-baulk children.

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Kath Page @orkat3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The snails in Helmsdale #Sutherland are stag-gering #Reddeer #Scotland Image: Helmsdale Facebook Page

Two antlered red deer stags sitting in front of two rolled straw bales giving the impression they are extra large snails!

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