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David Stott
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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people. GIS 🗺️🖥️, remote sensing 🛰️📸, archaeology 🏺. Not that kind of doctor. Tinkerer. Aspiring bodger. Glaswegian 🏴🦄 in Jutland 🇩🇰🦢. Personal account. All views my own etc.
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This has the potential to be the next EVENTIN, according to SeaNews below, false flagged shadow fleet tanker MYRA has sent out a distress signal while being hit with storm level winds.
🚨SAR ALERT UK Coastguard is coordinating a response to an Inmarsat-C Distress Alert from vessel MYRA. 📍 56°18'N, 015°25'W Vessel: MYRA (CS: 5RA002 | MMSI: 647260302) Time: 12:38 UTC All vessels in the vicinity able to assist are requested to contact UK Coastguard. #SAR
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Today is Tridi the 3rd of Brumaire in the year 235. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate pears. #JacobinDay See today's page
Aside from the difficulties carving them, the smell of a Halloween tumshie gently warmed by a candle for a few days is something else...
Scotland, too (although the NMI’s Ghost Turnip is in a league of its own). They’re an absolute bastard to carve, requiring multiple stabbings with potato peelers to core out the neep. This is “Hallowe’en”, oil on canvas, c.1911, by William Stewart MacGeorge (1861–1931) artuk.org/discover/art...
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Peapod with Ten Biblical Scenes, North German, c. AD 1500. 10cm long. boxwood.ago.ca/object/peapo...
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Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Quincy Morgan: Curating the Pinhead map icon library pinhead.ink vector public domain AI-free Visually consistent As expansive as possible Visible at small sizes (on the head of a pin) #NACIS2026
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Dylan Moriarty (@moriartymaps.com): Oil Portraits and Sign Painting “Digital tools are their own kind of prison.“
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Colour plates from Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878). Babbit’s 600-page tome begins as a somewhat sober primer on color theory but goes on to explore the idea that our physical and psychic ills can be cured via “chromotherapy”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
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Det kan ik rigtig være andet end den PHP-sårbarhed, der ligger bag sådan en pludselig nedlukning. Det er lige oveni at forældrene begynder at skulle tjekke børnene ud, så ha lidt medfølelse med personalet derude i dag ❤️ De store #dkmedier har ikke fanget den endnu, så du hørte det på Bluesky først.
Gad vide om det er derfor, der er en uvarslet opdatering i gang lige nu 🤔 (Næste planlagte opdatering er først 24. oktober)
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I am once again bemused by this- aren't the differences and continuities better explained by geography than cultural traditions? The Danish sites used as a comparison are very coastal, adjacent to some of the richest inshore fisheries in the world, but the English sites are at least a day inland.
Did Viking settlers in England cook differently to their Danish counterparts? #InternationalChefsDay Lack of evidence for fish in ceramic cooking vessels from England suggests that Scandinavian settlers conformed to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
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The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?
From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.
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Et trick, jeg plejer at anbefale til folk, der skal præsentere noget, er at sige "Det handler i virkeligheden om mennesker". Men det her projekt, min arbejdsplads har lavet, handler ikke bare om mennesker, men om udsatte mennesker. De Anbragtes Danmarkskort: www.de-anbragtes-danmarkskort.dk/kort/
I am once again bemused by this- aren't the differences and continuities better explained by geography than cultural traditions? The Danish sites used as a comparison are very coastal, adjacent to some of the richest inshore fisheries in the world, but the English sites are at least a day inland.
Did Viking settlers in England cook differently to their Danish counterparts? #InternationalChefsDay Lack of evidence for fish in ceramic cooking vessels from England suggests that Scandinavian settlers conformed to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
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Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/1272/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_sylvestris #plants #roots #illustration
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1/3 New recommendation: Anamarija Belošić, Peter Thomas (2026). Reducing Time and Effort: A Method for Documenting Large Ceramic Assemblages through Photogrammetry. V2 peer-reviewed & recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess