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🥣 = ⛏️💀🏺🗿🏛️⛩️🪦🗺️ 📚 📽️🎬 🎨 🛠️🗜️ ✍️🥁🕶️🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Archaeogist, Education, Film, Art, Making. Mr Bump personified. Welsh. Wallsend, Hadrian’s Wall. A bit of everything goes in to the 'Soup!

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The Watching Brief @watchingbrief.bsky.social · 13h

The Legal Loophole which Destroys Battlefield Archaeology!

Battle of Edgecote.

youtu.be/5fYOoVLE4DU

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The Legal Loophole which Destroys Battlefield Archaeology!

YouTube video by The Watching Brief

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 1d

NEW ON LEGENDS AND LECTURES:

WHAT IS A WEREWOLF?
Join us and Dr Kaja Frank on the history of werewolves in literature and learn about all things lupine!
Awoooo! 🐺
youtu.be/ms5toyktZKo

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 2d

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 3d

Bah.

www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts - Museums Association

Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies

www.museumsassociation.org

𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 3d

Where will it lead, I wonder?

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 3d

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 3d

Look at the lean and those windows!

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 3d

Cool books and a helmet I would have liked as a kid :)

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 4d

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 4d

@michellefranklin.bsky.social

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 4d

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Stopped the car in the middle of the (quiet) road to take this photo because I have NEVER seen a more perfect October sky. Well done, universe. 10/10.

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

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

"Supporters say the flags are an expression of English pride and deny they are stoking division.

But some have expressed discomfort due to tensions running high across England over immigration.

But the flag itself has a complex history."

England's on-off relationship with the cross of St George

St George's flags are flying across the country this summer and its origins link to Worcestershire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

Gif drop @michellefranklin.bsky.social

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

Ok BBC, now recognize the clear use of George's Cross...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

www.bbc.com

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

Just focus on the church... Unless you can focus on persecuting women, queer, Muslim, non-Americans and folks who aren't ultra conservative!

What's the point of religion if you're not doing those things!?- They Say

Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 5d

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

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As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 15

No one who cares about wildlife and ecosystems is now likely to vote Labour in 2029.
Or about Gaza.
Or poverty.
Or inequality.
Or international aid.
Or corporate power.
Or democratic reform.
Or racism.
Or trans rights.
So that's goodbye to just about its entire vote.
What are they playing at?

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

Actually we use air drying clay :)

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 5d

Primary School Prehistory going well this morning :D

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

I said that @greenparty.org.uk membership is rising by 1000 new people a day.

I was wrong.

Yesterday we welcomed 2000 new people.

We now have 88,000 members! 🎉

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Gen Existential Crisis @ru12bseen.com · 9d

While here in Vegas, we stopped by the Pinball Hall of Fame. This place is a much better place to throw away money than slots. 😂🤘🏼🤘🏼

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 11d

What Would YOU Wear to a 'Met Gala' at the British Museum?

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#archaeologynews #archaeoscoop

What Would YOU Wear to a 'Met Gala' at the British Museum?

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Stephen "Blunderdoom" Young @young-steveo.bsky.social · 12d

This year, I overheard my kids design a game to play using their imagination.

So, I paused working on the RPG I'd been making to turn "Kitty Cat Castle" real. It's a metroidvania-lite where a cat defends their castle from aliens.

This thread is about my experience so far

#godot #gamedev #indiedev

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