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Sleep is always an option when lulled by a big diesel working hard
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"I can work on the train" = I can spend hours looking out the window.
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It really is. One of my favourite journeys. I'd do this, stay in Glasgow with my brother and the day after get the Oban train to see my folks. Spoiled I was.
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What a journey though. The Settle train was my regular Leeds-Carlisle-Glasgow route as a quirk of pricing made it very cheap
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This is only ok as a gateway drug to get kids hooked on Leadbelly.
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“Before we crack on with the meat raffle, could the owner of a yellow Vauxhall Corsa please move their vehicle? Dave from the mobile discotheque says he can’t get his van in”
Kim Jong Un speaking into a microphone.
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🚨 A Chinese APT hid inside ArcGIS for over a year.

They turned a legit Java extension into a web shell.

🔑 Added a hardcoded key → exclusive access
💾 Hid it in backups → survived restores
https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/chinese-hackers-exploit-arcgis-server.html
Chinese Hackers Exploit ArcGIS Server as Backdoor for Over a Year
Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon, which is also tracked as Ethereal Panda and RedJuliett. According to the U.S. government, it's assessed to be a publicly-traded
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by David Stott

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I love the wibblywobbly floor in this building.

Last time I was at a conference in Vienna I bunked off and went to a Henri Cartier Bresson exhibition at Kunst Haus. No regrets.
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A reminder that it's not just farmers that build big walls- hunter / forager / herders need them too.
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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS
Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...
doi.org
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by David Stott

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Very cool. Congratulations.
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🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS
Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...
doi.org
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good morning to the bike lane big finish designers
photo of a bike lane going down a ramp and leading to a concrete wall with a dumpster in front of it
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by David Stott

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So you'd think, but you do eventually get tired of burning through hats
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Reposted by David Stott, Keith Lilley, Graeme Warren

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Join us Monday 13 October at 7:30pm for the first of the IAI's online lecture series: "Characteristics and legacy effects of historic raised beds in Ireland".
Sign up here ▶️ buff.ly/q8bxsXN #archaeology #irisharchaeology #raisedbeds #modernarchaeology #postmedievalarchaeology
Characteristics and legacy effects of historic raised beds in Ireland
Learn about the distribution and properties of Raised Beds in Northwestern Ireland - a common and widespread agricultural practice
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by S. J. Holmes — Reposted by David Stott, S. J. Holmes

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Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.
A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.
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Doomscrolling break!
I imagine every historian has a list of Most Neglected Aspect of History. I welcome them in the replies. Here's a thread on my candidate:

The California steamship lines from 1849–1869, during the gold rush until the first transcontinental railroad's completion.

My case:
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by David Stott

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The Nobble peace prize

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Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.
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by David Stott

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Except instead of the Kraftwerk robot voice Trans- Pennine Express should be sung with sighing resignation in anticipation of inevitable delay
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Tirsdag er "befæstede landsbyer fra jernalderen"-dag.
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by David Stott

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Obligatory survey drone selfie
2 archaeologists standing on an eroded summit. One of them (called me) is waving at the drone. Behind us a steep valley.
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Nasty stuff this maquis. Still there's archaeology in there somewhere. It will just take some experimenting to classify which points are the ground and which are the vegetation.
Airborne laser scan data of dense maquis vegetation. The image shows the point cloud and in plan and profile through it. the points are coloured by return number. The blue ones are first returns, the teal ones the third. Although the L2 sensor is capable of recording 5 returns it doesn't help us much, as the vegetation is short and dense. This means we have to rely on CSF filtering and other classification techniques to identify ground points.
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by David Stott

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I don't lust after many things, but Gandolfi plate cameras are one of them

youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nf...
1974: Gandolfi Brothers Handmade Cameras | Industrial Grand Tour | Making of... | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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@heidewnoergaard.bsky.social made a pal in the bushes #moesgaard
A praying mantis on a WHS pointing trowel. A praying mantis resting on somebody's shoulder
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Survey continues at Matzanni. 🏺
A drone taking off beside a paddock. In the foreground an information sign about the site. In the background dense vegetation. More on that later A drone on an orange landing pad. In the background a signet to the site and maquis vegetation A GNSS base station high up on a mountain side.
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by David Stott

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I do keep calling them brochs by mistake.
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Must get back there while I still have a driving licence!
Nurage with cloud behind looking like beer foam
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Reposted by David Stott, Dorothy Bishop, Christina Pagel

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At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!

Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a Roman-era wooden toy sword made from oak. It is dark brown in colour, displayed against a cream and pale green background. It is carved to look like an adult sword, with a semi-circular handle, a blade with pointed tip, and a semi-circular guard embellished with a centrally-set oval polished stone. The wood is remarkably well-preserved except for a break across the hilt. Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, a fort on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Dated c. AD 120.
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by David Stott — Reposted by David Stott

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For something a bit different we're out surveying the Nuragic sanctuary at Matzanni in Sardinia with drone lidar.

We're part of the Augustinus Fonden supported Metals and Giants project.

#mosegaard #moesgaardmuseum 🏺
A drone, its case and in the background a GNSS base station on a Sardinian mountain side. An archaeologist surveys a ground control point using a GNSS receiver. They're on top of a robbed-out hut. In the background cork oak.
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A temptress in the desert, but be careful. Check out those feet! The Temptation of St Antony by Master Girard (c.1470-1500) on display in Sam Fogg Gallery, London. #LateAntiquityBluesky
A 15th century painting depicting a grey bearded man in brown and black monk’s robes looking at a most comely woman in richly adorned contemporary fashions. The feet peeking out beneath the hem of her dress are birdlike talons, the feet of a devil in disguise.
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