Ga Reth
@ga-reth.bsky.social
Pragmatic anarchist and accidental ner-do-well.
Can be a bit swery at times, but mostly inconsequential.
Sails dinghies a bit.
Can be a bit swery at times, but mostly inconsequential.
Sails dinghies a bit.
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🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon!
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...
The importance of being malted: making malt and malt sugars from cereals in the Palaeolithic.
The Shanidar Cave: one of the places where the ancient magic of malt was first discovered. (image: Wikimedia) I should have presented this...
merryn.dineley.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon!
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...
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A very good point, and something we see in so many fields.
Screw it up beyond redemption, then ask people to pay for a version that works.
It's what successive UK governments have been trying to do with the NHS...
Screw it up beyond redemption, then ask people to pay for a version that works.
It's what successive UK governments have been trying to do with the NHS...
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A very good point, and something we see in so many fields.
Screw it up beyond redemption, then ask people to pay for a version that works.
It's what successive UK governments have been trying to do with the NHS...
Screw it up beyond redemption, then ask people to pay for a version that works.
It's what successive UK governments have been trying to do with the NHS...
Here's Margo.
Sleeping on top of her cat cave, where they can keep an eye on the street
Sleeping on top of her cat cave, where they can keep an eye on the street
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Here's Margo.
Sleeping on top of her cat cave, where they can keep an eye on the street
Sleeping on top of her cat cave, where they can keep an eye on the street
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3pm tomorrow I’m back on the Painting & Decorating Show on Fix Radio discussing all things decorating the wrap up 2025.
You can listen on the app or catch up on Spotify should you want to. 😊
You can listen on the app or catch up on Spotify should you want to. 😊
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
3pm tomorrow I’m back on the Painting & Decorating Show on Fix Radio discussing all things decorating the wrap up 2025.
You can listen on the app or catch up on Spotify should you want to. 😊
You can listen on the app or catch up on Spotify should you want to. 😊
My hobby is painting animals.
Tortoises are the easiest.
Tortoises are the easiest.
December 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My hobby is painting animals.
Tortoises are the easiest.
Tortoises are the easiest.
Went back to my old workplace yesterday.
Worrying morning as only the more timid one of the pair of crows showed at first.
Thankfully the other arrived later.
Food and instructions left with the team.
Worrying morning as only the more timid one of the pair of crows showed at first.
Thankfully the other arrived later.
Food and instructions left with the team.
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Went back to my old workplace yesterday.
Worrying morning as only the more timid one of the pair of crows showed at first.
Thankfully the other arrived later.
Food and instructions left with the team.
Worrying morning as only the more timid one of the pair of crows showed at first.
Thankfully the other arrived later.
Food and instructions left with the team.
'Look nobody is really poor.
At least nobody that matters.'
At least nobody that matters.'
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
'Look nobody is really poor.
At least nobody that matters.'
At least nobody that matters.'
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South African mine workers being X-rayed by radiologists at the end of each shift before leaving the DeBeers diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa.
This exposed them to radiation constantly.
This photo was shared by African and Black History. It was taken in 1956.
This exposed them to radiation constantly.
This photo was shared by African and Black History. It was taken in 1956.
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
South African mine workers being X-rayed by radiologists at the end of each shift before leaving the DeBeers diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa.
This exposed them to radiation constantly.
This photo was shared by African and Black History. It was taken in 1956.
This exposed them to radiation constantly.
This photo was shared by African and Black History. It was taken in 1956.
You went to a selective school?
My education was much more comprehensive.
My education was much more comprehensive.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
You went to a selective school?
My education was much more comprehensive.
My education was much more comprehensive.
Measure the length of the extension cord.
How exactly are they planning to measure and collect this new “per mile” electric car tax?
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Measure the length of the extension cord.
Perhaps it was just one guy who was never satisfied.
Nope, too windy here.
Nope view better over there.
Nope here I wont get the morning sun...
Nope, too windy here.
Nope view better over there.
Nope here I wont get the morning sun...
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Perhaps it was just one guy who was never satisfied.
Nope, too windy here.
Nope view better over there.
Nope here I wont get the morning sun...
Nope, too windy here.
Nope view better over there.
Nope here I wont get the morning sun...
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Just overheard this in Pizza Express:
Her: Do you have a red?
Waiter: We have a Malbec, Chianti…
Her: sorry i meant crayons
Her: Do you have a red?
Waiter: We have a Malbec, Chianti…
Her: sorry i meant crayons
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just overheard this in Pizza Express:
Her: Do you have a red?
Waiter: We have a Malbec, Chianti…
Her: sorry i meant crayons
Her: Do you have a red?
Waiter: We have a Malbec, Chianti…
Her: sorry i meant crayons
This is the reason I rarely truly hate anyone.
I'm not a good person.
I just can't be arsed.
I'm not a good person.
I just can't be arsed.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is the reason I rarely truly hate anyone.
I'm not a good person.
I just can't be arsed.
I'm not a good person.
I just can't be arsed.
Oh, so now someone remembers how to bat.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Oh, so now someone remembers how to bat.
Okay,
Hear me out.
Business idea.
Explains itself.
I introduce to you .....
'The Tasting Zoo'
Hear me out.
Business idea.
Explains itself.
I introduce to you .....
'The Tasting Zoo'
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Okay,
Hear me out.
Business idea.
Explains itself.
I introduce to you .....
'The Tasting Zoo'
Hear me out.
Business idea.
Explains itself.
I introduce to you .....
'The Tasting Zoo'
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14 years ago @privateeyenews.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
14 years ago @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Crown Inn, Stockport
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Crown Inn, Stockport
Here's a thought.
Perhaps China's ascendency shows how effective a planned economy can be.
Perhaps China's ascendency shows how effective a planned economy can be.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Here's a thought.
Perhaps China's ascendency shows how effective a planned economy can be.
Perhaps China's ascendency shows how effective a planned economy can be.
Retirement planning?
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Retirement planning?
Well. Good bye Todd Snider
We'll not see his like again.
We'll not see his like again.
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Well. Good bye Todd Snider
We'll not see his like again.
We'll not see his like again.
I've never found a whiskey twice as good as one half its price.
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I've never found a whiskey twice as good as one half its price.
Fuck off. Blocked.
It's the small pleasures on Bluesky.
It's the small pleasures on Bluesky.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fuck off. Blocked.
It's the small pleasures on Bluesky.
It's the small pleasures on Bluesky.
Well thanks everyone.
Reading all your stuff on here I didn't put a light under the beans
So now it's either undercooked beans or overdone pie.
Reading all your stuff on here I didn't put a light under the beans
So now it's either undercooked beans or overdone pie.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Well thanks everyone.
Reading all your stuff on here I didn't put a light under the beans
So now it's either undercooked beans or overdone pie.
Reading all your stuff on here I didn't put a light under the beans
So now it's either undercooked beans or overdone pie.
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Wall repair:
The secret here is to let the filler slightly go off, therefore making it more easier to create that sharp line & resist gravity by not sagging - being that it’s a repair with no support underneath. I used Tourpret Murex for its incredible strength. Finer fill to follow.
The secret here is to let the filler slightly go off, therefore making it more easier to create that sharp line & resist gravity by not sagging - being that it’s a repair with no support underneath. I used Tourpret Murex for its incredible strength. Finer fill to follow.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Wall repair:
The secret here is to let the filler slightly go off, therefore making it more easier to create that sharp line & resist gravity by not sagging - being that it’s a repair with no support underneath. I used Tourpret Murex for its incredible strength. Finer fill to follow.
The secret here is to let the filler slightly go off, therefore making it more easier to create that sharp line & resist gravity by not sagging - being that it’s a repair with no support underneath. I used Tourpret Murex for its incredible strength. Finer fill to follow.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools