Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

Not claiming any great artistic merit for this pic, just wanted to show the rough weather in Scotland today!

#scotland #photography #waves #aberdeen

Amazing what some positive social media interaction can do for your paper-writers' block!

Thank you lovely tootlers for being inspiring- the troublesome 'dating of Iron Age gold torcs' paper is underwayyyyyy! 2500 words done!! Woohoo!

And to say thank you, here's a photo from my recent research trip to the British Museum of the rather lovely Snettisham bracelet (except it's not, its an arm-ring, but more of that in the paper!! 😉)

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #Writing

There's nowt new in archaeological woowoo.

Well worth watching these BBC Horizon programmes from 1999 & 2000 which shredded the same nonsense!!!

https://dai.ly/x223jd8
https://dai.ly/x33mfs5

#Archaeology #AncientApocalypse #WooWoo

If you don't do so yet, follow @auschwitzmuseum. It is important to remember, and to realize what should never happen again.

Another year, another increase in carbon dioxide emissions. ☹️

A few years ago, the IPCC issued a Special Report on keeping global warming below 1.5 °C (https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/).

All the scenarios for reaching that ambitious goal require emissions to fall sharply and soon.

Instead, we are continuing higher.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CarbonDioxide

Morning all, may a pigeon with a bug crap over Nigel Pharage today

Will the #BBC at long last cover this story that's been brewing for months.....

Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Water companies dumping sewage during dry weather, SAS report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/24/water-companies-dumping-sewage-during-dry-weather-sas-report-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is bombshell reporting into what must now be a raging national scandal.

For govt buddies to take many millions from the public purse for unusable equipment during a pandemic when people are dying - and then lie about it…

…is sick and unforgivable.

#MichelleMone #PPE
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/michelle-mones-ppe-denials-v-what-we-know

Flights going to Qatar for the World Cup.
Tell me how climate change is going.

I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

🧵 1 of 3/ (or 4!)
😱 Michele Mone. PPEMedpro. She leveraged the Gov VIP Lane ( High Court says unlawful)

£203 million contracts awarded. £65 m profits to PPE MEDPRO. £45.8 mill of that landed in Mone’s then fiancé now husband, Douglas Barrowman off shore trust, the Warren Trust. He then diverted £28.8 mill of that to a Mone family off shore Trust, the Keristal Trust, of which Mone & her adult children are beneficiaries.

So there are rumours that government *might* *perhaps*, on a very good day… consider a Swiss style arrangement with the EU.
We should be so bloody lucky.
That’s not a model that either the EU or Switzerland particularly like and we think we can just swagger in and propose that do we? With our ugly rejection of freedom of movement? While the zealots still scream about betrayal? And we threaten to break the treaty we already have? Staggering.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.