Chris Down 🏳️‍🌈

The attack line on Green Drugs Policy by Reform entirely echoed and exaggerated by David Blunkett on #bbcaq

Wherever you stand on drugs and legalisation, this country needs a grown-up debate on this complex subject rather than this dismissive stuff about "Polanski wanting to legalise crack".

Yes, certainly of the larger ones I know are definitely still accepting. 😬

This is indeed a massive, massive problem as I know from my current role in archaeological archives.

The number of museums in the South East currently accepting archaeological archives is, off the top of my head, now in single figures.

Probably the most beautiful archaeological store you have ever seen. Rows of boxes on shelves receding into the distance with a tantalizing light at the end.

Check out our artefact archive!! 🤩

(serious face...)
Archives like ours are filling up fast. Soon there will be no space in Britain to store newly-excavated artefacts and this will be catastrophic for research in archaeology as well as innovation, society, growth and the renewal of nature 😢

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Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Where do I start?! 1/4

Reform’s crusade for ‘Christian values’ offers false comfort The announcement by Reform UK that they will “restore Britain’s Christian heritage” and that the nation must “uphold its Christian values” captures the contradictory essence of modern populist politic...

'Attempts to resurrect Christian Britain prey on the anxieties of a changing world by offering the false comfort of a mythical past,' says @andrewcopson.bsky.social. www.politics.co.uk/opinion/2026...

A section of the embroidery showing Daleks fighting mounted Normans

As the excitement over the displaying of the Bayeux Tapestry (embroidery) builds I feel the experience will only be worthwhile if the long suppressed section of the work is included.
@gingertrevtrev.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

It’s also a return to actually having local candidates who know the constituency rather than bussed in pricks like Goodwin. A good win all round

This is rather good news to wake up to😁

How does he look with pink hair while striding purposefully over hill forts?

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

We Can Make an Impact. Lower the NHS bowel screening age to 30 across the UK

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Please will share this petition? Thank you

c.org/kkcLDWLyhK

Paul nails exactly what annoys me so much about these cases: it is pretty rare to dig on a site and be shocked by what you find! It certainly happens but if you’ve done prelim research appropriately, you should know enough to budget enough.

I used to know a woman who's deeply tedious mantra was "Don't take shit from these people, be firm"

Her technique was to hurl abuse at call centre staff and then wonder why they hung up on her

There's a certain broadband provider I'll be using this line on soon, I hope.

Archaeological finds push Castlegate scheme £8m over budget Council is bidding for more funds to complete the public park and events space in Sheffield city centre.

Or to put it another way, "Council officials planned a development on the well-known site of an important castle without budgeting sufficiently for the archaeology"

Does anyone else think Danny Kruger gives off the air of the dead Tory MP in Ghosts who had to spend his afterlife with no trousers on?

Slightly embarrassed to admit I'd never clocked that mosaic fragment before 😬😳

*raises hand*

Why would you have to stand in the hypocaust to clean a mosaic when the nearest one is, (from memory) about three metres away?

Are you looking for very tall, flexible people? 🧐

#NotbeingawkwardReally

Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc The Leicestershire Torc is a stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and is the only torc ever discovered in the county. It was a piece of very high-status jewellery...

Help save the Leicestershire Torc!

“A stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and the only torc ever discovered in the county”.

leicestershirecollections.org.uk/behind-the-s...

And it's not just this one.. there's also the Ellastone dress fastener which the Potteries Museum are desperately trying to raise £150,000 to buy...

www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-ell...

Greenland Prime Minister Frederik Nielsen speaking to reporters. PHOTO BY LEON NEAL /Getty Images

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

How far back will the investigation go?

He is still a Lord.

What are the odds these politically connected people will eventually face only derisory punishments?

Bromsgrove museum celebrates red phone boxes in their 100th year The Worcestershire venue includes various examples of a once-familiar object on UK streets.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I was on Twitter, I had email inbox folders labeled death threats and bomb threats. I received hundreds of them over the years. After I left, I haven't received any in the last year. That peace of mind was worth leaving that fucking hell site.

The importance of good surveys - with random samples: the much reported resurgence of religiosity in young adults evaporates in the face of good data…

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition

weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...