Liz
@justeaj.bsky.social
Ex pub landlady, current archaeologist. Old stuff and Pubs and Dogs - the order and importance varies on any given day.
I'm not a gambling man, but if I were, I'd put 50p on at least Saddam's was actually (mostly) marble.
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm not a gambling man, but if I were, I'd put 50p on at least Saddam's was actually (mostly) marble.
If there's something you want to do or go to and no-one wants to do it with you, go on your own. And take yourself out for a nice meal while you're at it. Doll up a bit if you fancy. Take yourself on a date goddammit.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If there's something you want to do or go to and no-one wants to do it with you, go on your own. And take yourself out for a nice meal while you're at it. Doll up a bit if you fancy. Take yourself on a date goddammit.
First world problem: stuck in a queue at airport security while a white lady with dreadlocks and lip filler has her bag searched because she's brought her Pure Copper dowsing rods in her carry on.
October 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
First world problem: stuck in a queue at airport security while a white lady with dreadlocks and lip filler has her bag searched because she's brought her Pure Copper dowsing rods in her carry on.
If it wasn't actually happening, I'm not sure the gods themselves could make this up.
An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.
September 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If it wasn't actually happening, I'm not sure the gods themselves could make this up.
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I’m fine being old this shit is bonkers
September 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’m fine being old this shit is bonkers
The origins of curry and curry houses as a British food is literally in the Life in the UK test. Y'know, that exam dirty foreigners like me have to take if we want to stay here.
Fun discourse related fact - curries have been a part of British cuisine for longer than the USA has been a country.
September 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The origins of curry and curry houses as a British food is literally in the Life in the UK test. Y'know, that exam dirty foreigners like me have to take if we want to stay here.
In Australia (at least in NSW) you have to have an annual medical, including an eye test, from 75 onwards. It got my dad to the doctor for the first time in 25 years and has almost certainly saved his life every year since.
I am over 70 (just), and I dont see that asking us to take a vision test when we renew our driving licences is a terrible infringement of our liberty, If we can't see, we shouldn't be driving. That's not the same as "banning". tinyurl.com/56mc4vky
The right to drive?
What shocked me more than almost anything else over the eight months I recently spent in Washington DC was the uncomfortable coarsening of political
tinyurl.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In Australia (at least in NSW) you have to have an annual medical, including an eye test, from 75 onwards. It got my dad to the doctor for the first time in 25 years and has almost certainly saved his life every year since.
Coughs in Gig Guest List.
I specifically order things from my friends when they're NOT having a sale.
a thing I have noticed in my line of work is that complete strangers will ask for mate's rates and actual mates are like you will absolutely NOT give me a discount for this is your livelihood
July 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Coughs in Gig Guest List.
We've moved into a block of new build flats for work, and no-one in the building quite has the bin routine figured out yet. Because My Brain, I spent almost all of yesterday (blue bin day it turns out) with What Day Is Bins looping through my brain to the tune of What Time Is Love. Help.
Dilemma. One of my neighbours has put the wrong bin out. Do I tell them, or is it a shame they need to discover for themselves?
July 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We've moved into a block of new build flats for work, and no-one in the building quite has the bin routine figured out yet. Because My Brain, I spent almost all of yesterday (blue bin day it turns out) with What Day Is Bins looping through my brain to the tune of What Time Is Love. Help.
I have no experience of AI, I've mostly managed to avoid it this far. But the crux of this rings true: The long journey back from quite profound burnout for me has meant not only discovering this but practising it too. You are your own friend, first.
any talk of AI friendship is inherently tragic, points at the incomprehensible well of loneliness from which all drink at some point in our lives, some so deeply that we get sick and stay sick, and it's Romper Room level basic to say "you're your own friend!" but Jesus you must know that & live it
July 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I have no experience of AI, I've mostly managed to avoid it this far. But the crux of this rings true: The long journey back from quite profound burnout for me has meant not only discovering this but practising it too. You are your own friend, first.
Sign at the entrance to the cemetery where half my mum's extended family are buried:
June 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sign at the entrance to the cemetery where half my mum's extended family are buried:
When I was in primary school, in a very small rural Australian town, we used to have to do parade marching as part of our school PE sports days. A troop of 11 year old farmer's kids had better form than this.
Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck
June 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
When I was in primary school, in a very small rural Australian town, we used to have to do parade marching as part of our school PE sports days. A troop of 11 year old farmer's kids had better form than this.
I have taken myself off for some quiet time in the fens, and this campsite is *utterly* delightful.
June 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I have taken myself off for some quiet time in the fens, and this campsite is *utterly* delightful.
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the problem with "echo chamber" as metaphor is that echoes produce new sounds and resonances. you just need harmonious tones to make those new sounds and resonances something you actually wanna hear. good sounds echoing produce overtones: new sounds consisting of resonant tones. Good, Actually!
June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the problem with "echo chamber" as metaphor is that echoes produce new sounds and resonances. you just need harmonious tones to make those new sounds and resonances something you actually wanna hear. good sounds echoing produce overtones: new sounds consisting of resonant tones. Good, Actually!
Most recently, sold Stanley Tucci a pint at Duxford Air Show and he had to wait while I changed the keg. He was very nice about it.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Most recently, sold Stanley Tucci a pint at Duxford Air Show and he had to wait while I changed the keg. He was very nice about it.
Archaeologist and (out of practice) human remains specialist here.
No, they did not.
No, they did not.
Humans were never supposed to need to brush their teeth. Our prehistoric ancestors managed just fine before we started stuffing our faces with sugar. And other apes also manage just fine. Something needs to be done about humanity's obsession with sugar.
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Archaeologist and (out of practice) human remains specialist here.
No, they did not.
No, they did not.
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The other night I took a late night taxi from the airport & my driver was from Sudan. We got to talking, & he asked what I do - he is a sports journalist who writes about soccer & has been to many World Cups - so I explained what I write...
June 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The other night I took a late night taxi from the airport & my driver was from Sudan. We got to talking, & he asked what I do - he is a sports journalist who writes about soccer & has been to many World Cups - so I explained what I write...
Dunno about anyone else, but I got offered British Citizenship, AND a ticket to Bruce Springsteen today.
Winning? Winning.
(And in both instances, about bloody time)
Winning? Winning.
(And in both instances, about bloody time)
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Dunno about anyone else, but I got offered British Citizenship, AND a ticket to Bruce Springsteen today.
Winning? Winning.
(And in both instances, about bloody time)
Winning? Winning.
(And in both instances, about bloody time)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas vs. Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72 mashup.
For all his *numerous* flaws, I do sometimes wonder what HST would have made of this.
For all his *numerous* flaws, I do sometimes wonder what HST would have made of this.
its kinda bad that they allowed a Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas type situation in government
Let the leaking and backstabbing begin. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
May 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas vs. Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72 mashup.
For all his *numerous* flaws, I do sometimes wonder what HST would have made of this.
For all his *numerous* flaws, I do sometimes wonder what HST would have made of this.
I am in a field. Attended a very good talk by the author of this book, followed later by an extremely disappointing set by the Sister of Mercy. Currently, Book = 1, Sisters = 0.
May 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I am in a field. Attended a very good talk by the author of this book, followed later by an extremely disappointing set by the Sister of Mercy. Currently, Book = 1, Sisters = 0.
Bloke in the pitch behind me has bought a guitar and is playing Wonderwall, I believe unironically, and the festival doesn't start 'till tomorrow and I want to know what the rules are about doing a murder early doors...
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bloke in the pitch behind me has bought a guitar and is playing Wonderwall, I believe unironically, and the festival doesn't start 'till tomorrow and I want to know what the rules are about doing a murder early doors...
In today's 'google AI overview is not to be trusted'
(Hint: that's my hand, I am in suffolk today, not Iran).
(Hint: that's my hand, I am in suffolk today, not Iran).
May 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In today's 'google AI overview is not to be trusted'
(Hint: that's my hand, I am in suffolk today, not Iran).
(Hint: that's my hand, I am in suffolk today, not Iran).
Roman Salute.
When the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.
May 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Roman Salute.
Signed. Forwarded to my colleagues.
UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
docs.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Signed. Forwarded to my colleagues.
This.
Also, 'Gamete-Calliper-Weilding Freaks' is superb.
Also, 'Gamete-Calliper-Weilding Freaks' is superb.
I’d feel so much safer in a space with trans people than with any of these gamete-calliper-wielding freaks.
You might think your life has gone a bit wrong somewhere if you find yourself standing in front of a court holding a large sign reading "LARGE GAMETES"
April 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This.
Also, 'Gamete-Calliper-Weilding Freaks' is superb.
Also, 'Gamete-Calliper-Weilding Freaks' is superb.