Conversation Kenge
@fenken.bsky.social
Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
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Conversation Kenge
@fenken.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I have made a Maritime Archaeologists Starter Pack. I need to go through my follow/followers lists to populate it more fully, but please share and let me know who I should be including!
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“The books would have all looked new,” I scream impotently at another costume drama.
August 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“The books would have all looked new,” I scream impotently at another costume drama.
'Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.' @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
'Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.' @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
YES! This and so much this.
It would be easy to speciously pick holes in the specifics here, but looking at the bigger picture this is a good start.
#aDNA #Ethics #Archaeology
It would be easy to speciously pick holes in the specifics here, but looking at the bigger picture this is a good start.
#aDNA #Ethics #Archaeology
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
YES! This and so much this.
It would be easy to speciously pick holes in the specifics here, but looking at the bigger picture this is a good start.
#aDNA #Ethics #Archaeology
It would be easy to speciously pick holes in the specifics here, but looking at the bigger picture this is a good start.
#aDNA #Ethics #Archaeology
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike
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🎄 Tickets for our Christmas event are going fast! 🎄 Over 100 gone since Monday afternoon. Book now to join us as we celebrate and share the amazing discoveries of 2025… including a buried Roman temple! 🏛️✨ zurl.co/DSJZz
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🎄 Tickets for our Christmas event are going fast! 🎄 Over 100 gone since Monday afternoon. Book now to join us as we celebrate and share the amazing discoveries of 2025… including a buried Roman temple! 🏛️✨ zurl.co/DSJZz
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
#Discovering #Wales #CItyOfLiterature
#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Wuthering Heights is a book about romance in the same way that Lord of the Flies is a book about childhood'...
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Wuthering Heights is a book about romance in the same way that Lord of the Flies is a book about childhood'...
This week's #StrongMessageHere includes @rialina.com @aiannucci.bsky.social giving @sophyridge.bsky.social advice on treating politician interviewees as if they were comedy hecklers.
Absolutely glorious!
Absolutely glorious!
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This week's #StrongMessageHere includes @rialina.com @aiannucci.bsky.social giving @sophyridge.bsky.social advice on treating politician interviewees as if they were comedy hecklers.
Absolutely glorious!
Absolutely glorious!
Are there any podcasts that couldn't just be a whole lot more focussed and less repetitive? A 13 hour series could be about 45 minutes long and we could all move on.
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Are there any podcasts that couldn't just be a whole lot more focussed and less repetitive? A 13 hour series could be about 45 minutes long and we could all move on.
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JFC...people obsessed with Hitler's genitalia are SO FUCKING WEIRD.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
Did Hitler really have a ‘micropenis’? The dubious documentary analysing the dictator’s DNA
Did Hitler really have a ‘micropenis’? The dubious documentary analysing the dictator’s DNA
Was the wartime chant about his solitary testicle correct? Did he have Jewish ancestry? New documentary Hitler’s DNA is trying to answer these, and more contentious, questions – but should it have gone there at all?
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
JFC...people obsessed with Hitler's genitalia are SO FUCKING WEIRD.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
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To err is human, and people in the past made mistakes just as often as we do today. Why, then, are archaeologists often reluctant to consider failure as a driving factor when investigating unexpected findings? #WorldQualityDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
To err is human, and people in the past made mistakes just as often as we do today. Why, then, are archaeologists often reluctant to consider failure as a driving factor when investigating unexpected findings? #WorldQualityDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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🧵A few years ago a man would call me with a withheld number and have a masturbate. I always hung up. Then I started yelling at him to stop calling before hanging up. Then I would tell him I knew who he was (I didn't).
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🧵A few years ago a man would call me with a withheld number and have a masturbate. I always hung up. Then I started yelling at him to stop calling before hanging up. Then I would tell him I knew who he was (I didn't).
Latest @msdsmarine.bsky.social blog features a summary of the recent #UKMHF2025 conference, by your humble narrator
#MaritimeHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology
#CoastalHeritage
msdsmarine.com/ukmhf-2025/
#MaritimeHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology
#CoastalHeritage
msdsmarine.com/ukmhf-2025/
UKMHF 2025
Ken Hamilton from MSDS attended the annual meeting of the UK Maritime Heritage Forum in October, this year as guests of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The themes of the conference were ...
msdsmarine.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Latest @msdsmarine.bsky.social blog features a summary of the recent #UKMHF2025 conference, by your humble narrator
#MaritimeHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology
#CoastalHeritage
msdsmarine.com/ukmhf-2025/
#MaritimeHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology
#CoastalHeritage
msdsmarine.com/ukmhf-2025/
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It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
'Cutting off or denying people access to safe water violates international humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions, constituting a war crime.'
I remember being taught about the role of the control of water to oppress Palestinians when I was in college.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I remember being taught about the role of the control of water to oppress Palestinians when I was in college.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
'Cutting off or denying people access to safe water violates international humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions, constituting a war crime.'
I remember being taught about the role of the control of water to oppress Palestinians when I was in college.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I remember being taught about the role of the control of water to oppress Palestinians when I was in college.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov.
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
Queer Maritimes
From tours about merpeople to creative workshops on personalised maps, discover some of the LGBTQ+ histories connected to Royal Museums Greenwich's collections
www.rmg.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov.
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases.
#PattiSmith
#Horses
#PattiSmith
#Horses
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases.
#PattiSmith
#Horses
#PattiSmith
#Horses
Early morning cat
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Early morning cat
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As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
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I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
I see your 'April 1805... Oceans are now battlefields', and I raise you...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I see your 'April 1805... Oceans are now battlefields', and I raise you...
Share to the original post, rather than to me.
Again I am asking trans people to share something good that is happening in your life. Can be something really small or even the absence of a bad thing! Hearing the good things in your lives gives me life and hope.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Share to the original post, rather than to me.