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*
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Missed it by heading south for work, but we did have snow flurries yesterday morning.
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Missed it by heading south for work, but we did have snow flurries yesterday morning.
Meant to share these ages ago but life got in the way. Metal detectors for sale at Go Outdoors back before the summer, explicitly with the goal of finding "treasure" and "relics"...
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Meant to share these ages ago but life got in the way. Metal detectors for sale at Go Outdoors back before the summer, explicitly with the goal of finding "treasure" and "relics"...
It did result in a very funny advert that Google put out of our head of IT doing his best "as a history teacher, I love the Google software" impression, that got played a lot in the school in random lessons as adverts on YouTube had realised that school/teacher accounts needed to be targeted to.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It did result in a very funny advert that Google put out of our head of IT doing his best "as a history teacher, I love the Google software" impression, that got played a lot in the school in random lessons as adverts on YouTube had realised that school/teacher accounts needed to be targeted to.
It's a poster of some research I did in undergrad. No one needs this.
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's a poster of some research I did in undergrad. No one needs this.
Genuinely my reaction when Renfield and Van Helsing were first mentioned
a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing
Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing
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October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Genuinely my reaction when Renfield and Van Helsing were first mentioned
Seasonally appropriate reading
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Seasonally appropriate reading
Reposted by Daniel Cockling
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
Rained all of yesterday and the Internet was crap so I got three books off the TBR pile...
September 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Rained all of yesterday and the Internet was crap so I got three books off the TBR pile...
Reposted by Daniel Cockling
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.
Lighthearted reading for a Sunday afternoon about global pollution
September 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lighthearted reading for a Sunday afternoon about global pollution