so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵
Inspired by this fossil, I once again feel compelled to point you towards the time that @everywhereist.bsky.social psychologically terrorised her husband by sticking googly eyes and quote-bubbles on everyday household appliances.
www.everywhereist.com/2015/06/i-to...
An unfused vertebral epiphysis, stained dark brown and shaped like a perfect heart.
I think my bone assemblage loves me. ❤️
Might need to revisit this at Halloween, what a horror story. 🐟🐚🐟🐚🐟🐚🐟🐚
Happy 4th birthday to this stupid thing I was compelled to create!
LONGOOSE FACTS:
- Neck
- The idea came from a typo
- The music is a loop from Bandlab
- It has over 3 million views on TikTok!
- Those views translated directly into £0 and 500+ NFT bros hassling me 24/7 for a YEAR!
- HONK
We want to see your mice!
Mouse impression on a Roman roof tile 👇
I feel like I spend 10% of work time logging into devices and work websites and doing 2FA over and over. Guys, it’s me, nobody else would be using up their one precious lifetime going to your SharePoint site
Also takeaway soup. In terms of cooling from scalding hot while it's still lunchtime, but also as a generally positive facet of Winter.
...and it's dog friendly. It's an institution in the north-east, the first time I visited Northumberland I was told to go there by about four different people.
Barter Books in Alnwick. Secondhand bookshop in the old railway station, there are log fires in winter and a model railway and a cafe and I can spend hours there.
1 "well if that was orange it would be a firecrest but it's flown off now so I'll never know."
I've lived in York for getting on fifteen years now, and I still struggle with what to call a twitten up here when it isn't a twitten (but will always be a twitten).
Welcome to the North! Didn't know you were in my city.
A pen-and-ink drawing in a small sketchbook of ivy growing over a surface of old and cracked bricks.
Cranky as hell this evening, so here's a sketch I did of some ivy doing no good at all to a brick wall.
The purple cover of a large book entitled 'The Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset'. A blurb explaining the contents is on the back, along with sponsors logos. A reconstruction of the villa is the cover image. This image and all others from the book.
Our @antiquaries.bsky.social Low Ham book (myself, Roger Leech and @thepostexcox.bsky.social ) is now available OA - library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... - the first synthetic publication of one of Britannia's largest villas, with reports on strat, finds, & enviro remains, & fully contextualised. 1/10
Callanish , no drama , recent snow #StandingStoneSunday
A small tour of the Twelve Apostles on Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire, when the weather was rather better than it is now. Damaged, eroded, rebuilt, and not much left of its Neolithic self, but I've rarely been up there and not seen something left for the stones. #StandingStoneSunday
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
You call that innocuous?
A winter landscape. The setting sun is tinting the sky yellow to the left of the picture. A landscaped lake sits in the middle ground of the photo, with a ruined Abbey in the far distance. Bare tree branches frame the scene.
Winter light at Fountains Abbey. #Yorkshire
A panorama of rolling green hills under a brilliant blue sky, under a low winter sun. A gobby black-and-white collie-cross who we all love anyway is in the distant foreground, staring into the camera like the queen she is.
Seeing the old year out in the company of Bonnie and Caer Caradoc - may 2026 bring more of this sort of thing. #HillfortsWednesday #hillfort #Shropshire
Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
A sketch in ink and watercolour of the church at Rudston, Yorkshire, in the snow, with the Rudston monolith looming in the foreground, reimagined as a snowman with a carrot for a nose, twig arms, and a striped woolly hat. It looks a little like Olaf from Frozen. Next to it stands an elderly lady dressed in blue with a small handbag and a walking stick, in a blue bobble hat. The caption reads "Rudston in Winter, DMC 2011".
Something a bit different for #StandingStoneSunday... Back in 2011 my aunt, Di Cope, visited Rudston, E. Yorkshire, with my grandma and drew this from a photo she took. If you've not seen actual Rudston, it's a single monolith, the tallest in the UK, and looks a lot like this, minus the grin.
uh oh
also just thinking as someone who's a STEM educator interested in communicating ideas, poetry is *super* important to learn about because a lot of the devices in it are basically "how do i make a set of words and ideas stick in your brain", which is important!
A bronze statue of an extremely long duck with a knitted hat and scarf on him stands in front of grass and blocky sixties buildings. It looks to be a very damp afternoon.
Someone put a hat and scarf on LongBoi!
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
YES! Also my only really notable find while excavating was a baby burial and that is not the story anyone's looking for!
Portrait image of the Mayor of London wearing a white ribbon
Today the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence begin.
People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence.
Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
