Johnny McGonigal
@flyingcoracle.bsky.social
Archaeology grad. Museum worker. Dysgwr Cymraeg 🏴
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On day 11 of our Advent Shop Calendar, you might wonder: what do you get for a warrior rebel queen?! 👕 Our pick: is the Boudicca T-shirt – bold and iconic!
📍 Available at Verulamium Museum Shop
#ShopLocal #VerulamiumMuseum #MuseumShop #Boudicca #ChristmasGifts #SupportLocal
📍 Available at Verulamium Museum Shop
#ShopLocal #VerulamiumMuseum #MuseumShop #Boudicca #ChristmasGifts #SupportLocal
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
On day 11 of our Advent Shop Calendar, you might wonder: what do you get for a warrior rebel queen?! 👕 Our pick: is the Boudicca T-shirt – bold and iconic!
📍 Available at Verulamium Museum Shop
#ShopLocal #VerulamiumMuseum #MuseumShop #Boudicca #ChristmasGifts #SupportLocal
📍 Available at Verulamium Museum Shop
#ShopLocal #VerulamiumMuseum #MuseumShop #Boudicca #ChristmasGifts #SupportLocal
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Burn it all down
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Burn it all down
Freedom of speech warrior eh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Freedom of speech warrior eh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
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Hey @reuters.com What a journalistic FAIL. Bottom of the class
You’d never in a million years think that Plaid Cymru won from your headlining - not ReFuk
Who writes this junk?
You’d never in a million years think that Plaid Cymru won from your headlining - not ReFuk
Who writes this junk?
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hey @reuters.com What a journalistic FAIL. Bottom of the class
You’d never in a million years think that Plaid Cymru won from your headlining - not ReFuk
Who writes this junk?
You’d never in a million years think that Plaid Cymru won from your headlining - not ReFuk
Who writes this junk?
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The reason that I try and draw attention to this every year is that the UK government still haven't properly funded the clean up the tips nearly 60yrs later. They've extracted resources from Wales for a couple of centuries, bled it dry and dgaf. It should shock people, everyone should be reminded.
On 21st of October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in the horrific Aberfan disaster, caused by the failure of the National Coal Board.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The reason that I try and draw attention to this every year is that the UK government still haven't properly funded the clean up the tips nearly 60yrs later. They've extracted resources from Wales for a couple of centuries, bled it dry and dgaf. It should shock people, everyone should be reminded.
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Robin Cook quote of the day: “We must shed the British double standard that labels spending on welfare benefits as wasted, but expenditure on health or education as a valid priority. There is an entire library of literature on the correlation between poverty and ill health.”
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Robin Cook quote of the day: “We must shed the British double standard that labels spending on welfare benefits as wasted, but expenditure on health or education as a valid priority. There is an entire library of literature on the correlation between poverty and ill health.”
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"Yes, this gang stole from the most famous museum in the world but it’s in the name of training their AI software so it can do good doodle of jewels and maximise shareholder value so we are powerless to stand in the way"
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l... #Louvre
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l... #Louvre
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...
waterfordwhispersnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Yes, this gang stole from the most famous museum in the world but it’s in the name of training their AI software so it can do good doodle of jewels and maximise shareholder value so we are powerless to stand in the way"
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l... #Louvre
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l... #Louvre
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Going to work knowing or suspecting that you have flu or covid should be a criminal offence.
October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Going to work knowing or suspecting that you have flu or covid should be a criminal offence.
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And he’s back!!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME
STEWART LEE
www.thenerve.news
October 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And he’s back!!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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Remember that pic of the Caerphilly Reform candidate which looked edited?
Well I asked Reform UK about it.
Apparently it wasn't edited. The party indicated that the camera "glitched" which happened to "glitch out" of the photo the former UKIP politician and Reform supporter Mark Reckless...
1/2
Well I asked Reform UK about it.
Apparently it wasn't edited. The party indicated that the camera "glitched" which happened to "glitch out" of the photo the former UKIP politician and Reform supporter Mark Reckless...
1/2
October 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Remember that pic of the Caerphilly Reform candidate which looked edited?
Well I asked Reform UK about it.
Apparently it wasn't edited. The party indicated that the camera "glitched" which happened to "glitch out" of the photo the former UKIP politician and Reform supporter Mark Reckless...
1/2
Well I asked Reform UK about it.
Apparently it wasn't edited. The party indicated that the camera "glitched" which happened to "glitch out" of the photo the former UKIP politician and Reform supporter Mark Reckless...
1/2
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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In light of Nathan Gill (ex Reform leader in Wales)pleading guiltyto accepting Russian money, I assume the #Newsnight team are currently working on a similar image for when they next have Reform on.
September 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In light of Nathan Gill (ex Reform leader in Wales)pleading guiltyto accepting Russian money, I assume the #Newsnight team are currently working on a similar image for when they next have Reform on.
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This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
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“This Oxfordshire hoard, buried nearly 2,000 years ago, really belongs to all of Oxfordshire residents.'
Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service
But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.
Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service
But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.
Time running out to save metal detectorist's hoard
Time is running out to help Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum acquire an Iron Age hoard discovered by a metal detectorist near Henley.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“This Oxfordshire hoard, buried nearly 2,000 years ago, really belongs to all of Oxfordshire residents.'
Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service
But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.
Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service
But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.
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Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
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Today Reform UK widened their scapegoating - moving from illegal migrants to people with Indefinite Leave to Remain.
I must ask: how long before the shift goes from Trans people to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community?
I suspect not very long.
I must ask: how long before the shift goes from Trans people to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community?
I suspect not very long.
Nigel Farage Wants to Tear Up Indefinite Leave to Remain - and Deport Legal Migrants in Britain
Reform UK’s so-called “Boriswave” rhetoric is a fantasy built on cruelty, cooked-up numbers, and Trump-style authoritarianism.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Today Reform UK widened their scapegoating - moving from illegal migrants to people with Indefinite Leave to Remain.
I must ask: how long before the shift goes from Trans people to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community?
I suspect not very long.
I must ask: how long before the shift goes from Trans people to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community?
I suspect not very long.
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Lots of terrible stuff in this but "banning dual citizenship" a bit of a buried lede
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Reform would scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants
Hundreds of thousands will be eligible for permanent residence next year after arriving in what Nigel Farage calls the ‘Boriswave’
www.thetimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Lots of terrible stuff in this but "banning dual citizenship" a bit of a buried lede
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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We discovered that at least 32 Israeli military officers have been trained at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, including numerous senior figures now engaged in the genocide in Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
Exclusive: Declassified has obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. We’re publishing it for the first time.
www.declassifieduk.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We discovered that at least 32 Israeli military officers have been trained at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, including numerous senior figures now engaged in the genocide in Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
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Why anyone in Wales would vote for an English nationalist party is beyond me.
No more free prescriptions
No more free parking in hospitals
No more NHS
No more free prescriptions
No more free parking in hospitals
No more NHS
September 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Why anyone in Wales would vote for an English nationalist party is beyond me.
No more free prescriptions
No more free parking in hospitals
No more NHS
No more free prescriptions
No more free parking in hospitals
No more NHS
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“Their silence, because they’re afraid, is their support to the genocide.” 👏👏👏
September 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Their silence, because they’re afraid, is their support to the genocide.” 👏👏👏