David Stott
@davstott.bsky.social
Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.
GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.
Tinkerer.
Glaswegian in Jutland.
Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc.
GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.
Tinkerer.
Glaswegian in Jutland.
Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc.
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David Stott
@davstott.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I wonder if she, like Anders Holch Povlesen, pays more tax on her Scottish estates to the Danish Government than the 0% that goes to the UK exchequer.
Scotland badly needs land reform.
www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...
Scotland badly needs land reform.
www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I wonder if she, like Anders Holch Povlesen, pays more tax on her Scottish estates to the Danish Government than the 0% that goes to the UK exchequer.
Scotland badly needs land reform.
www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...
Scotland badly needs land reform.
www.holyrood.com/news/view,tu...
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Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...
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Iron oxide rings, deposited around decomposed organic matter (possibly plant roots) in a recently exposed mud bank.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Iron oxide rings, deposited around decomposed organic matter (possibly plant roots) in a recently exposed mud bank.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.
Good news, but a shame it's Rosyth-Dunkirk and not Leith-Esbjerg (for purely selfish reasons)
The Scottish Government is set to intervene on plans for a Scotland to Europe ferry, marking a significant step forward in plans
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Good news, but a shame it's Rosyth-Dunkirk and not Leith-Esbjerg (for purely selfish reasons)
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Love this book. Also online:
rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...
rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Love this book. Also online:
rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...
rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/defa...
Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Elon thinks empathy is a weakness, but here JCO demonstrates that by understanding your foe and feeling his emptiness you can verbally eviscerate him and consume his shriveled, still quivering heart.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
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Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
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For me it's this, from Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Hobbes' Scotland- and I swear you can see the house I grew up in.
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For me it's this, from Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Hobbes' Scotland- and I swear you can see the house I grew up in.
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I like to imagine that this is how he gets his daily spray tan.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I like to imagine that this is how he gets his daily spray tan.
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The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
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Relief Map of Idaho. Published in 1912.https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~308530~90078318
#map #maps #historicalmaps
#map #maps #historicalmaps
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Relief Map of Idaho. Published in 1912.https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~308530~90078318
#map #maps #historicalmaps
#map #maps #historicalmaps
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Today is Nonidi the 19th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pomegranates.#JacobinDay
More information on pomegranates
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pomegranates.#JacobinDay
More information on pomegranates
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Nonidi the 19th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pomegranates.#JacobinDay
More information on pomegranates
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pomegranates.#JacobinDay
More information on pomegranates
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A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
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happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]
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TRUE FACT:
Die Hard (1988) is based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" published in 1979 as a SEQUEL to Roderick Thorp's 1966 novel "The Detective" which was turned into a film in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra.
Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
Die Hard (1988) is based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" published in 1979 as a SEQUEL to Roderick Thorp's 1966 novel "The Detective" which was turned into a film in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra.
Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
TRUE FACT:
Die Hard (1988) is based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" published in 1979 as a SEQUEL to Roderick Thorp's 1966 novel "The Detective" which was turned into a film in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra.
Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
Die Hard (1988) is based on the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" published in 1979 as a SEQUEL to Roderick Thorp's 1966 novel "The Detective" which was turned into a film in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra.
Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
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In Victoria Park, Glasgow, there's a chap who guerilla-posts unofficial notices.
More of this, please.
More of this, please.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In Victoria Park, Glasgow, there's a chap who guerilla-posts unofficial notices.
More of this, please.
More of this, please.
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"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"
Now do the show but only with senior academics.
The Traitors is a very different game when the players are either friends already or in an industry where, if you’re making a project together, you are used to quickly bonding and making fast friends for the duration.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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Your occasional reminder that Tidal offers vastly superior sound quality, higher royalties to artists per stream, and - perhaps crucially - isn't owned by worthless wet wanks who want to see the world burn.
Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."
www.latimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Your occasional reminder that Tidal offers vastly superior sound quality, higher royalties to artists per stream, and - perhaps crucially - isn't owned by worthless wet wanks who want to see the world burn.