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TV star visits Dorset in show airing next week Dorset is set to once again feature on TV screens as star visits county

Make a note in your diary. Sandi Toksvig's visit to @durotrigesdig.bsky.social this summer is on More4 on November 4th at 9pm, part of her Hidden Wonders series. There will be pots. and brooches. and snails. There will be digging. Lots of digging. And troweling. www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2557305...

TV presenter Sandi Toksvig in patterned shirt and hat lies next to an archaeological features with a paint brush in her right hand and green kneeling pads and a yellow bucket beside her

We can at last reveal that we had some very special visitors on the #Durotriges25 dig this summer

Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel

Can't wait to show you what we found

For #FindsFriday the stunning iron Gjermundbu helmet I saw this week at the KHM in Oslo 🇳🇴. It is the best preserved Viking helmet around with a cool visor. Found in 1943 in Ringerike in a ship-shaped burial mound, it dates to the 900s.

na jakiej wysokosci chcecie te drążki?
- o na takiej, mein führer

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Review + Steam Deck Performance Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an incredible RPG that is worthy to be called a truly non-linear experience, and it is playable on the Steam Deck.

Our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review has been updated with our #SteamDeck recommended settings. It is definitely playable at 30 FPS and you will be able to experience it fully on the go.

It's insane being able to play one of the best RPGs this way:

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The real lesson of Zuckerberg and Musk is that some people are just born with loser stink on them that no amount of wealth or power will ever scrub off

Is there a 'shoot yourself in a foot' team at FDEV? Because it seems like there is, and it started 2025 with a banger.

Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.

#MosaicMonday
Mosaic fragments of the Great Baths of Dion built in the 2nd century AD. destroyed by an #earthquake in the 3rd century AD. - #Dion Archaeological Park, #Greece
#Archaeology #art #History

Christmas TV: Gavin and Stacey tops ratings More than 12 million viewers tuned in to watch the finale of Gavin and Stacey on Christmas Day.

Most watched Christmas Day audience since 2008 www.bbc.com/news/article...

⌛NEW: Political Quiz of 2024💯

@pimlicat.bsky.social grills @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social, Caroline Wheeler, @adampayne26.bsky.social, Henry Hill, & @willhaycardiff.bsky.social.

Who triumphed? Who disgraced themselves?

Can you beat them? Share with your score!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HUMANS!
To celebrate, here are two presents you won’t find anywhere else:
- a brand new festive episode of Trash Talk, featuring an amazing exclusive from the other side of the Earth
- tonight I’m bringing you all-new CEEFAX, on the radio! 9pm @bbcradio4
Enjoy!

The midwinter #Roman festival of Saturnalia was celebrated by banqueting with friends & family, similar to that shown in this first century AD wall #painting from #Pompeii. Feasting, #games & gift-giving were popular activities in the #ancient #celebration
Merry Christmas all🎄♥️

And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.

#JeremyClarkson

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rozumiem hash browns, ale roasties? Dżizas.

A mosaic fragment from a Roman villa in Spain depicting a stylised, octopus using red, yellow, and black limestone tesserae. The front facing octopus has bulging eyes and eight tentacles

A charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 my own

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

A box of amazing-looking cantucci cookies. nom nom nom nom

Crispy veneti cookies in a box looking well delish

fruity panettone next to a gorgeous metal panettone tin.

So... meet my OFFICIAL Panettone sponsor! 😆

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I dearly want to confuse them by making them BlueSky's bakery www.panificiopasticceriarighetto.it/en/shop/

If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/?

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People of Bluesky. Let's get to know each other better. What is your favourite movie?
Quote share your answer only in gif form. #filmnoir

Initial sketchbook doodle (plus the end of an unrelated shopping list) for the cartoon below...

These Two Classic Shooters Just Became Completely Free, Forever Both Unreal and Unreal Tournament are freely shared via the Internet Archive, with Epic's blessing

In a world where Nintendo sues people for looking funny at a ROM for a 30-year-old game, Epic has allowed both Unreal and Unreal Tournament to be freely distributed via @archive.org.

This feels really important.

kotaku.com/unreal-engin...

Alarm bells are ringing.

Here we go. One more exit route from Elmo's hellscape.