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David Gould @drdavidgould.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My book on historic rabbit warrens in England is published on 13th Nov by Liverpool Uni Press and I'm pleased to have received my advance copies. The perfect Xmas gift for any rabbit warren-obsessed nerd, of which there are no doubt many such people. #landscapearchaeology #rabbits #medievalsky

Me in a dapper shirt pointing at the cover of my soon to be published book.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework @clydevalleyarf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some nice coverage of our ongoing project with @gbptrust.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social exploring the remains of Harvie’s Dyke - a site of radical community action in the east end of Glasgow. share.google/CFZxMmcwGyOW...

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Archaeologists to probe radical riot that brought down Glasgow tycoon's walls

The 1823 riot was a victory for the people, and now the hunt is on to find the evidence

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amount a pensioner receives in the UK is the lowest in Europe, just 2/3rds of France and barely 50% of Italy who are considered a 'poorer' country. Why is our pension 'unaffordable' when it is so low, and where is all our money actually going?

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're near Manchester I really recommend this show. Loads of fun - who doesn't love a sing-a-long?

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please share with Manchester pals... this week's show still has some tickets left - www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today about 100 people took part in a mass trespass in the Prime Minister’s constituency. There’s a right to roam over just 1% of Makerfield, & today the landowner proved our point for us: putting up fencing & calling the police. @andyburnham.bsky.social - please open the door to the countryside!

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We had a lovely time at The Box, Fargo Village, the other night in Coventry. Certainly the most chipboard ever seen in one venue!

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You often hear that the Welsh uplands are naturally treeless — too high, too wet, too exposed — and that the evidence for it is upland tree cover declining from the late Mesolithic, before farming even arrived. In Eryri, the pollen record shows the opposite. 1/🧵

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I see that OpenAI's messaging of "if you give us all the money on Earth we will annoy some mathematicians" is being somewhat overshadowed by Anthropic's messaging of "if you give us all the money on Earth we will kill everyone". I'm slightly worried about what a compromise position might look like.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'Most of Britain was covered with wild, sprawling forest' is a common misconception about the time of the Norman Conquest. Usborne history books were an important part of my early obsession with archaeology but it's disappointing to see such a huge inaccuracy still being published.

Flap in an illustrated children's book reading 'Most of Brian was covered with wild, sprawling forest.'

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Agree, a better question is how much power, wealth & influence do the descendants of the original Norman families that arrived with William, still have in today's UK. And is this power, wealth & influence something which is better for the whole population of the UK, its economy & society, or worse.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

through the House of Commons, where MPs couldn't get out of each others' way in their rush to shove through a rights-destroying shit sandwich of a bill. Only in the Lords did the Law Society win any amendments, and these were few and weak. So many fundamental rights died in 9/11, killed by Labour/

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

/ to amend the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, a hodge podge of draconian measures across every kind of law the Home Office covered It was literally cobbled together from measures cut out of previous acts for being too illiberal, or unconstitutional Home Sec. David Blunkett rammed it/

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago I was doing maternity cover at the Law Society of England & Wales, tending the Electronic Law Committee. We knew instantly that the Labour govt would gut human rights, especially privacy from surveillance, but also asylum and criminal law. They did. Within weeks we were fighting/

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The huge environmental, safety, and potential health scandal that no government seems willing to do a thing about.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nearly time for our autumn tour, no sweaty heatwave gigs this time, hopefully? Tickets from threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ Join us and be moo-ved!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t mean to be rude here, but we *already* had the peer review on these racist doctrines decades ago. Hence why ‘race realism’ is a paradigmatic instance of pseudoscience: it’s been thrown in the dustbin of history long before many of us were even born. We don’t have to have this same ‘debate’

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Landowners release ~50million pheasants a year into the countryside. It’s long past time this was regulated, such as through a stringent licensing regime. The government announced they’d explore licensing earlier this year; this piece is a useful update: www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

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New licensing for game shoots could stop poisoning of birds of prey

Scheme planned for England could also curtail tradition of releasing pheasants for people to pay to shoot

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Count Binface has lots of perfectly sensible policies, but I’m horrified by his ignorance of frozen dairy product history. 99 ice creams are so called because they were invented at a shop at 99 Portobello High Street, in 1922. They won’t have cost 99p then - that was the equivalent of £50.04 today.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

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Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.

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Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We herd that it’s Cow Appreciation Day... So we thought we'd share this delightful recipe book containing cures for cows from Ascott dated 1778-1813 Not sure how much the cows would have appreciated the Mercurial Ointment however, despite the inclusion of brandy...

The front page of the recipe book with the title 'A book of Valueable Receipt for Cows May 1778, R.Parrott, Astcott, Feb 8 1813'.

Two inside pages of the recipe book containing descriptions of remedies and their ingredients for treating illnesses and diseases in cows.

A recipe for Mercurial Ointment containing brandy, marshmallow ointment, tobacco ointment and mercury sublimate.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Land Explorer is a superb resource for finding out who owns land in Britain. They are on their last day of crowdfunding and well worth supporting. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...

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Help us build a better Land Explorer!

LandExplorer makes it simple to find out who owns the land & buildings in your community. Help us keep it free for everyone who needs it!

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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Don’t be condescending to the pheasantry

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I absolutely refuse to believe the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

The pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad's garden, looking straight on us while daring us to suggest he is partly made of fuzzy felt.

My mum and dad's local pheasant showing his more lighthearted side as he jokes about how much he looks like he's been felted.

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today the government repealed the 1824 Vagrancy Act. The focus has been on rough sleeping but the government has also accidentality repealed one of the most anti-Romani pieces of legislation. I've been researching the act and here's why its interesting www.gov.uk/government/n... 1/5

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Rough sleeping no longer a crime as Vagrancy Act repealed

The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law “It became a crime just to express an opinion. It was an extraordinary interference with the law of free expression.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Government Estate Nature Plan has been published – revealing the first official map of all central government land, and that 37% of the public estate is being protected & managed for nature (thereby counting towards the 30by30 goal). Thread 1/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a3ce5...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today

It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/06/2026

Accurate.

Screenshot of a social media post by Angus McIntyre (@angusm@mastodon.social). The post humorously claims that the UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs could become one of the largest IT education projects ever. It jokes that experts support the scheme because peer education and incentives will help it succeed, and includes a mock quote saying that, with the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN literacy is more important than ever and that the project comes at the right time. The humour derives from the implication that government internet restrictions would encourage widespread VPN use among young people.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Aw, thanks folks. Always glad to hear people are being moo-ved! More shows coming up later in the year… threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.