Alastair MacIntosh

I can't imagine for a moment that Starmer was keen to help out, but this whole Diego Garcia thing has been an eye opener (certainly for me) as to how vulnerable we are to American influence. And threats.

Depends what he got threatened with.

BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Historic Environment Records (HERs) are an established part of archaeological practice.
With thanks to CIfA for allowing this cross over. and to Ben Wallace and Keith Elliot for writing the short guide to Historic Environment
Records: Signposts to the past

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So are they planning to do this entirely with air strikes and tomahawks? I mean what's the actual plan? Bomb the shit out of them and see what happens afterwards in the satellite feed?

I think you can do it on this site, but not with this approach. The applicant is trying to squeeze it for profit, and to hell with design. It's a corner plot so it has to be good! If it were me, I'd do a proper mansard to get the third storey sensitively, and take other design cues from next door.

That's genuinely awful, especially for a corner treatment. Whats that thing on the roof? And the cheeky attempt to take the building line from the apron of the adjacent buildings rather than their facade - just a bit greedy.

Worth looking at the case officer's report. It was also refused on lack of outdoor amenity for residents, and tbh the proposed elevations are utter dogshit. share.google/VT9hSQ2VEjb1...

It's hard to tell without seeing what was refused. It's perfectly plausible to me that the applicant wanted to build a very profitable load of old shit, especially as it's been refused by both the LPA and the inspector.

A bowler hat - the infallible sign of the capitalist predator.

All my research (10 minutes on google) has done nothing to disprove my hypothesis that so-called "Pancake Day" was created in the 1950s by Big Dairy and Be-Ro to increase their profits at a lean time of year.

This is the flaw with two-tier advice and service level agreements. All the benefits of the advice thatbyou identify are felt by the districts, so if the county is minded to cut posts there's no real downside to them apart from a very minor loss of income from the SLAs.

Surely the district councils will have something to say about that! How are Hampshire going to deliver on their existing Service Level Agreements?

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To be fair, even Abaddon would take one look at Vance/Miller and say "get away from me you grubby little freaks".

We should be clear: Reform are the quisling's party and just a extension of Trump.

This should be everywhere

old enough to remember this

Just ugh. It breaks any kind of immersion to have beautifully (or at least painstakingly) painted armies fighting over a table full of Homebase offcuts. Just so soulless.

The imperialis kits are absolutely god tier. For the benefit of a complete casual - what's driving the lack of availability? GW not carrying the sets because professional rules lawyers won't buy them?

*knapped* - stupid autocorrect.

That was in a tiny bit where they had to dig a drain. The rest of the site is "preserved" under about half a mile and half a million tons of embankment and road. I daresay that decision was made on cost grounds using the need to preserve the archaeology as a veneer.

There was a field not far from me, now under a dual carriageway, where the archaeologists found a massive scatter of late stone age flints. The one bit they actually dug revealed a spot where guy had sat and snapped a flint tool - you could tell from the pattern of chips that fell between his legs.

That's exactly why it's part of planning in the first place, but we seem to have wrapped it round our necks for the last thirty years to the extent that the really good stuff almost never gets dug.

Thats the dream! Personally, I didn't get into the biz to leave stuff in the ground under a hundred thousand tons of concrete and steel and pretend its somehow preserved, but that's where we find ourselves at the moment.

There's a new planning policy framework out for consultation right now that flips it on its head. Instead of forbidding you to treat archaeological knowledge as a public benefit at all, it now seems to say that you can, but it can't be the deciding factor in an approval. Completely changes the game.

In terms of planning policy, all of that archaeology is a byproduct, and an unwelcome one at that. We're meant to build round it if at all possible and leave it in the ground for all-powerful future archaeologists to dig instead.

Poster for new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon Saxon finds. Image of gold brooch

New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham

One step up from asking an octopus I suppose.