Daniel Cockling
@danielcockling.bsky.social
Archaeologist, particularly of the early medieval persuasion. Lives in the North. *insert bit about this nonsense not being the views of my employer*
He/Him
He/Him
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The bookings for the 2026 season are now open!
The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us!
Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!
The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us!
Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The bookings for the 2026 season are now open!
The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us!
Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!
The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us!
Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!
Doesn't add much, but that's my old school uniform (them having made money on selling loads of stock photos one year), and that school had absolutely bought into the tech bro nonsense. We were even a 'Google school' at one point, using Chromebooks and their own e-classroom website.
Shhhhhh with your freakin expertise and insight headteachers - can’t you see we’ve sold your souls to tax-avoiding tech bros in Trumpland? www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
School heads call for blanket ban on smartphones
Hundreds of education leaders sign letter to government warning that leaving decisions to individual institutions fails to protect pupils and learning standards
www.thetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Doesn't add much, but that's my old school uniform (them having made money on selling loads of stock photos one year), and that school had absolutely bought into the tech bro nonsense. We were even a 'Google school' at one point, using Chromebooks and their own e-classroom website.
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It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
survey.app.do
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Who is asking for this?
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Who is asking for this?
Operating 'a one for you, one for me' policy with my treat bowl tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Operating 'a one for you, one for me' policy with my treat bowl tonight.
Went out last night to see the local regional orchestra perform* and it was nice to see people still make the effort to dress up** to go out to the theatre.
*How To Train Your Dragon play along
**as vikings
*How To Train Your Dragon play along
**as vikings
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Went out last night to see the local regional orchestra perform* and it was nice to see people still make the effort to dress up** to go out to the theatre.
*How To Train Your Dragon play along
**as vikings
*How To Train Your Dragon play along
**as vikings
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And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...
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Boxes of Roses and Whiskas for kittens,
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Boxes of Roses and Whiskas for kittens,
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
If anything, his position adds to the viewing experience
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If anything, his position adds to the viewing experience
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Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over
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Typical, isn’t it? You wait 14 years for a Labour Government and then none come along all at once.
September 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Typical, isn’t it? You wait 14 years for a Labour Government and then none come along all at once.
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[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.
September 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Extremely funny watching the presenter realise in horror there's no way they can cut away now
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Extremely funny watching the presenter realise in horror there's no way they can cut away now
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Its only fascism if it comes from the nazi region of history otherwise its just sparkling authoritarian white supremacy
August 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Its only fascism if it comes from the nazi region of history otherwise its just sparkling authoritarian white supremacy
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When the Beano starts taking pops at you then it's probably time to question your amazing comms and policy strategy.
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
When the Beano starts taking pops at you then it's probably time to question your amazing comms and policy strategy.
Barely recovered from August bank holiday
August 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Barely recovered from August bank holiday
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At some point the rubber of ‘legitimate concerns’ will meet the road: That said concerns largely concern the terror of seeing non-white people existing in public. And at that point, the threads Labour have woven to bind these people to their party will transform into the noose around their necks.
As we walked through the car park to the beach we saw the coach and thought nothing of it. Apparently it was a group of Sikhs having a fun dayout at the seaside. They played on the beach + had a picnic. Some rascist woman filmed them, including all of the children and claimed on tik tok that Haven
August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
At some point the rubber of ‘legitimate concerns’ will meet the road: That said concerns largely concern the terror of seeing non-white people existing in public. And at that point, the threads Labour have woven to bind these people to their party will transform into the noose around their necks.
(Biscoff is caramelised biscuit)
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
(Biscoff is caramelised biscuit)