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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 14h

I know there’s a meme about your biggest unexpected enemy in adulthood being the person who owned your house before you, and I get that, but for me, it’s whoever decided to plant a laurel border hedge on the street side of my garden fence, may their socks always be wet and their pillow warm.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.

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Building on a fairy fort?

Dickie1985
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Does anybody know if it is legal build a house on a
Fairy Fort?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fuck-, and I cannot emphasise this enough, -ing hell! That is some nazi shit right there.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Best thing a Pope has done since the Cadaver Synod

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The model created from the Flag Fen auger survey shows that the basin around the post-alignment has a gentle gradient across its western half, beside a deeper 250-300m wide “valley” across the eastern half. This eastern deeper, wetter zone corresponds to the location of the Flag Fen platform.

The deposit model created during the Flag Fen auger survey, with differing colours indicating the variations in depth across the Flag Fen basin.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God, they’re such pathetic losers.

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To celebrate national poetry day here is a haiku about autism: I cannot eat this There are too many textures I shall bounce my knee

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My favourite part was measuring one point at a very soggy nearly three metres in what is now the Iron Age house paddock, and then the next one towards Northey being a sandy, gritty about 40cm. Amazing to see the difference between the basin and the (relatively) high and dry land.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Bluesky is dying” yeah cool that just means more mushrooms will grow

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rewatching Shadow & Bone because I miss my criminal children, and goddamn I am once again so annoyed that Netflix cancelled this.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see Hope Again it’s reminded me of something but I can’t think what, and I’ve just realised it’s Whole Again by Atomic Kitten.

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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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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I limited replies on a post where I was moaning about something that I didn't need or want advice on and I knew that people (men) would be unable to resist. A guy tagged me in on his own timeline in order to bypass that, so I told him why I'd turned off replies and he blocked me.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last year’s Flag Fen auger survey was designed to accurately map the pre-Holocene land surface and surviving Holocene sediment sequence in the area around the Flag Fen post-alignment. This week we’ll be exploring the project and some of its findings. Photo: Emma Bothamley.

A group of people examining sediment from the Flag Fen auger survey.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s interesting to hear Alan Lee and John Howe talking about imagining and creating the remains of the ancient Númenorian civilisation in the landscape of Middle Earth in the extended edition Lord of the Rings DVDs and how Egyptian ruins influenced that. Love this thread of nerdy goodness.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RIP Madeline’s mentions indeed, but this has reminded me that this exists, and there is honestly no accounting for the late noughties. youtu.be/eELH0ivexKA?...

youtu.be

Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental

YouTube video by Rapscallion And Chums

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the last group of people that might realistically be called "indigenous" inhabitants of the British Isles a bunch of hunter-gatherers that we don't have a name for, from Doggerland, a place that is now fully under the sea, and who haven't existed for 6,000 years.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And the Neolithic farmers who migrated to the British Isles first came from Anatolia in modern-day Turkey (fuck off, I'm not calling it "Türkiye" that's ethnonationalist bullshit itself). They replaced about 90% of the genepool of the prior Mesolithic inhabitants who were culturally hunter-gatherers

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I cannot overstate how much the Bronze Age revolution changed the cultural fabric of Britain. Stonehenge is a cultural hybrid - the earlier phases of it we constructed by Neolithic people with no knowledge of metal-working, and the later phases by Bronze Age early Celtic-speaking Britons.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And prior to that the introduction of Celtic languages happened through various periods of migration during the Bronze Age, starting with the Bell Beaker people (fucking Beakers, coming over here, drinking out of cups). This totally upended neolithic society.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anything, Iron Age Britain (England did not exist, remember) was even *less* culturally homogenous as the various Celtic tribes all had their own traditions, beliefs and political interests, and (in the south at least) were also mixing with, and yes fucking, their Gallic and Belgic counterparts.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prior to that, the concept of "England" didn't exist at all. It was just "Britannia". Romano-British culture was, as the name implies, a hybrid of Roman and "native" (I'll get to that in a minute) Celtic cultures, and pre-Roman Celtic Britain was just a bunch of tribes who all shared an island.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As for "Anglo-Saxon" as an ethnicity: my brother in Christ, have you heard of the Heptarchy? Have you heard of the Danelaw? Fuckssake, in the 6th Century Herefordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire were still essentially in Wales.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1,000 years you might note, takes you back to AD 1026, and 40 years after that was the Norman Invasion. So, if you are of European desecent, among the various Celtic Britons, "Anglo-Saxons" (not real) and Normans, there is a bunch of them that you, and I, are ALL genealogically descended from..

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again, speaking as a professional archaeologist: "English" is not an ethnicity in any meaningful sense. You only have to go back about 1,000 years before everyone in Europe has the same group of common genealogical ancestors. Humans have lived on the British Isles for almost a million years.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Re the Englishness discourse, an American colleague once asked me, “What are you?” meaning ethnicity, and could not comprehend everyone in my very boring family tree being an English person born in England back to at least the mid 1700s, and ended up going, “Well, you must be SOMETHING!”

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This post can GTFO, but also Pluto baby, you’ll always be a planet to me, ignore these size-obsessives

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those absolute head bangers have convinced themselves that Churchill, King Charles, Henry V and Brunel aren’t proper English. Robert the Bruce isn’t Scottish. They are modern phrenologists. They spend the weekend working out what George Best was.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know all the technology is spyware at this point, but I am once again struck by the fact that I can tell my friends that I will be dressing up as a Victorian maid for living history day at work on Saturday, and behold! my sponsored ads are now all for (very expensive) Edwardian style boots.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would like our Government to be outlawing, vociferously speaking out against and ruthlessly prosecuting members of what is clearly a paramilitary fascist organisation.

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Patrick Reid @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fundamentally so much of this action against the people crossing the channel and against the RNLI- rests upon a fundamental and twisted logic that its better to let these people drown then it is to bring them to our shores. And frankly it should be said more often this is a barbaric view

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Working lunch of champions, courtesy of phone photo album memories. God, I miss proper street food koshari, and that (concerningly green) green apple Mirinda.

Photo shows a can of green apple flavour Mirinda drink and a plastic takeaway tub with a disposable fork, containing koshari, a classic Egyptian dish of rice, lentils, macaroni, and vermicelli, topped with chickpeas and a garlicky tomato sauce, and a spicy drizzle.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the last stage of making slow cooker apple butter, which is two hours on low with the lid off after puréeing the spiced apple and sugar mixture and adding vanilla, and my house smells delicious #TinyJoys

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026

Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart

Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs

It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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The Egypt Exploration Society @theees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's wonderful to see how our archives continue to inform new research 🤩 Read about Dr Susan Kelly's investigation which provides proof that Meretneith was a female king of Egypt over 5,000 years ago! Read more in the latest volume of Prague Egyptological Studies (2026).

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not to be a tragic millennial nerd, but I love that the first music you hear in the opening of The Fellowship of the Ring is a choral version of a couple of lines of the Lothlórien theme because Galadriel is narrating the prologue.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I miss my baby girl, who was a very good dog.

Photo shows Tessa, a mostly white dog with black patches and long black ears, snoozing on the grass in my garden.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Putting myself in jail for thinking about Chr*stmas baking two weeks into September.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many enslaved people were also branded with “DY” (Duke of York, cursed title), for James, later James II, as the piece says the most important English slave trader of C17th. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. I’ve often said it should be taken down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times.

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Katherine Piper @katherinepiper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well, I went to see Practical Magic 2 yesterday evening, and it was actually pretty good. You have to be prepared to fully suspend your disbelief, but Practical Magic was always a vibes movie rather than a plot movie anyway, so it’s a great film if you’re the target audience.

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