Fiona Campbell-Howes

A lovely thread.

Haaaaa. I've already seen this in my day-job world of corporate copywriting. Turns out clients don't have time for prompting and re-prompting, so they're all going back to hiring actual human writers.

I knew it was discovered by underhand means, but I never knew the 'finder' was dating Kit Williams's ex!

The Masquerade Hare could only be found by solving a set of devilishly devious clues.

Or by dating Kit Williams' ex, who in a moment of incredibly poor OPSEC had been with him when he buried it.

Guess which happened first?

Oh, gosh, this is a nationally-important artefact and should absolutely be preserved for all.

I will concede that the salmon is pretty good too.

So many icons, yet none as glorious as the Roseisle goose.

A black sweatshirt with the Roseisle Pictish goose symbol on the front in yellow, a navy-coloured mug with the Roseisle goose symbol in white, and a smooth pink pebble with the Roseisle goose symbol carved on it in relief.

Behold my Roseisle goose merch, courtesy of @northernpicts.bsky.social (sweatshirt) @monikierockart.bsky.social (carved sea-stone), and National Museums Scotland (mug).

I mean, some people say it's a swan. But I reckon goose all the way.

The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.

Photo by Kernow Skies on Wikimedia Commons of an individual stargazy pie served at the Old Coastguard Hotel in Mousehole, Cornwall, UK. It's a pastry-topped fish pie with a whole pilchard's head and tail sticking out of it.

Learned the other day that one of my clients has nicknamed one of its hardware products 'Stargazy' because it's too big for a standard server rack and sticks out either side.

The ornately carved throne and footstool on display.

An oak throne drawn from a Pictish cross-slab from Fowlis Wester, Perthshire, was unveiled in Edinburgh #OTD in 2009. National Museums Scotland and distillers Glenmorangie commissioned it. Master furniture maker Adrian McCurdy built it. Sculptor Barry Grove made the footstool. #medievalsky

‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’: Printed Version An opportunity to be part of history. Help us print a nationally important book that will transform our understanding of the Picts.

Our latest stretch goal achieved - you folks are amazing!! Thanks so much for all the support! You can still sign up for a copy though till the end of the Kickstarter on 6 December.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

I use my blog for this - although all my blog posts seem to expand to 3,000+ words, even if I initially think it's just a neat throwaway idea.

This is helpful info.

TLDR - Google isn't in fact training LLMs on your Gmail content and you can turn the Smart stuff back on.

I've seen enough episodes of The Bill to know that they should be filled with stolen goods and murder weapons, if not actual bodies.

This is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. (Sadly I can't actually buy any lock-ups as I am completely skint.)

Why do I find the prospect of owning these lock-ups so tempting?

Re. last repost, be warned that this is what happens if you turn AI off in Gmail...

Erk, yes, that repost should have come with a warning, sorry!

This was turned off by default for me, but worth checking.

Historic centre of Penzance uncovered during road works - Penzance Council Recently, during excavations for the essential gas pipes replacement in Greenmarket, Penzance, Wales & West Utilities unexpectedly uncovered a fascinating piece of the town’s history.

A lovely bit of Penzance urban history uncovered here - nice work @tom.goskar.com et al.

Hmm, fairly equally matched, I'd say.

Writing up the lecture I gave earlier this year about bishop Curetán (aka Boniface) of Easter Ross, and I keep typing 'Boniface' as 'Binface'. Poor Curetán.

Great thread.

Ha, me too - since 6.30 this morning!

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts The AI boom has been an

🎶 The AI bust is coming / and everybody's jumping 🎶

It's lovely to see a fully-realised Pictish world, complete with flora and wildlife. Every time I see one of those TV dramas that show the early Middle Ages as grim and murky, I think 'but surely the sun shone sometimes, and birds sang, and people felt joy in their hearts'. This book shows that.

The NLS digitised map site is a hugely valuable resource, available for free. Definitely worth checking out, and not just for Scotland.

I got my entire £327 return ticket from Truro to Glasgow refunded earlier this year, making TransPennine Express effectively a funder of my PhD research.