An archaeological trench showing various gullys and ditches. Some of these contain runs of short orange ceramic water pipes that fit together not unlike lego to create continuous lengths of pipe.
We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨🔧💦
So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.
(1960s excavation photo)
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11.03.2026 11:03
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✍🏻 "Beowulf" the funeral of Scyld Scefing
📸 Valerie Fenwick "Possible ship's ‘cresset’...replicated and fired
#WyrdWednesday "Men ne cunnon...hwa þæm hlæste onfeng/ No-one knows who received that cargo". And so Scyld Scefing, Germanic prince, takes his final voyage. His funeral ship may be magnificent, but he shares this destination with all of us drifting, in the end, into the unknown #MedievalSky
11.03.2026 09:50
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The EU’s agri-food system must prepare for rising climate risks and accelerate emission reductions, according to the @esabcc.bsky.social.
A new report, co-authored by Imperial's Prof @joerirogelj.bsky.social, highlights rising climate risks to Europe's food system about provides 6 recommendations 🧵
11.03.2026 10:43
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My photo shows a small clay aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog. It has a rounded, squat body with a long pointed snout. At the top of the body is a small spout for filling with oil. Sculpted details include eyes and ears ears. The light tan surface is painted with dark spots representing the hedgehog’s spines. It measures 4.8 cm in length and 3 cm in height. Dated circa 550 BC. From Naucratis, Egypt.
Tiny terracotta aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog.
East Greek from Naucratis, Egypt, 550 BC.
British Museum 📷 by me
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11.03.2026 09:25
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In my depressive moments I do suspect that this is the feature, not the bug.
11.03.2026 08:49
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Morning
11.03.2026 08:35
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I had a wonderful month backpacking in Morocco in nov 2000 - Marrakech one highlight among many. This was before cheap flights, so travelled across France/Spain by train from Avignon, crossed by ferry to Tangier, train to Marrakech
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Conlabourators?
11.03.2026 08:24
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Welcome! There are some corkers on war on the album - 'the headless thomson gunner' is another, and of course 'excitable boy' describes so many of the venal, exploiting, rapey members of the elite. I am also dated :-)
11.03.2026 08:18
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"You are wrecking the environment so that terrible people who make bad decisions can be enriched. You are destroying entire fields of creativity so that unsuspecting people can get bad information and “advice” from inaccurate, dumbly predictive slop machines. "
11.03.2026 08:12
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Warren Zevon - Veracruz
YouTube video by Circumpunk
No more new world orders... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2q...
11.03.2026 08:04
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Pretty obvious. But when will Russia be held to account?
11.03.2026 07:07
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No surprise his opening gambit is great replacement theory (the same ideology that inspired the Christchurch shooter)
11.03.2026 06:51
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No plan, no endgame, Trump is careering towards disaster.
11.03.2026 01:08
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Ah
11.03.2026 06:26
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Imagine if right-whingers spent all this energy on doing something positive....
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Fantastic
10.03.2026 19:01
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That would be a good thing
10.03.2026 19:00
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Yes, me too.
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🎯
10.03.2026 15:26
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Hegseth says today will be 'most intense' of US war on Iran, as people in Tehran describe strikes to BBC
Well, whaddya know. Krasnov delivers again for Putin "Russia is benefiting from the disruption of the global oil supply and the resulting higher energy prices, as well as from the easing of sanctions on Russian oil." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
10.03.2026 15:29
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Rachel Reeves faces growing calls to ditch fuel tax hike after Iran war
Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.
Farage's proposals to ditch green investments would effectively increase dependence on volatile fossil fuel prices. Once again he is working for his owners in the oil industry and not the voters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
10.03.2026 15:28
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Same here :-(
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Not a good look. Long live indy bookshops, subversive and not
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