Alex Carter
@resistancebegins.bsky.social
Standing up for facts, the oppressed and marginalised.
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social. A surrender, cheese monkey? Discuss.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social. A surrender, cheese monkey? Discuss.
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Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
A very good piece.
I was wrongly painted by Steve Coogan as a pantomime villain
The wilful destruction of Richard Taylor's reputation began when actor Steve Coogan (pictured, with Sally Hawkins in the film) decided to cast him as a grotesque 'pantomime villain'.
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A very good piece.
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The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…
bigbookoftorcs.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
This is great:
Richard Taylor wins major settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case | News | University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is great:
Absolutely fantastic news:
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film
Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Absolutely fantastic news:
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One for you @wittspat.bsky.social ! Lovely Oplontis!
September 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
One for you @wittspat.bsky.social ! Lovely Oplontis!
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My wife Bunty & I decided to have a romantic weekend in Paris.
It has truly been très magnifique!
❤️
Imagine our surprise then, as we decided to walk up to the Arc de Triomphe, to be confronted by 3 million English patriots proudly marching & beating up the local gendarmerie!
🤦♂️
It has truly been très magnifique!
❤️
Imagine our surprise then, as we decided to walk up to the Arc de Triomphe, to be confronted by 3 million English patriots proudly marching & beating up the local gendarmerie!
🤦♂️
September 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My wife Bunty & I decided to have a romantic weekend in Paris.
It has truly been très magnifique!
❤️
Imagine our surprise then, as we decided to walk up to the Arc de Triomphe, to be confronted by 3 million English patriots proudly marching & beating up the local gendarmerie!
🤦♂️
It has truly been très magnifique!
❤️
Imagine our surprise then, as we decided to walk up to the Arc de Triomphe, to be confronted by 3 million English patriots proudly marching & beating up the local gendarmerie!
🤦♂️
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There is a new paper as well - just released some hours after the press release. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Diverse feasting networks at the end of the Bronze Age in Britain (c. 900-500 BCE) evidenced by multi-isotope analysis
During the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition, climatic change and economic upheaval signaled societal shifts across Europe. Longstanding trade networks b…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There is a new paper as well - just released some hours after the press release. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD.
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
July 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD.
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
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‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The ancient wounded of Maiden Castle yield their secrets - with Dr Miles Russell concluding, “The Roman army committed many atrocities, but this does not appear to be one of them.”
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site
www.bournemouth.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The ancient wounded of Maiden Castle yield their secrets - with Dr Miles Russell concluding, “The Roman army committed many atrocities, but this does not appear to be one of them.”
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
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Our coalition is all tuned into the Supreme Court hearing, hoping they choose the Constitution! 🙏
May 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our coalition is all tuned into the Supreme Court hearing, hoping they choose the Constitution! 🙏
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'Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks'
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks'
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology
Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
'Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks'
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks'
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology
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You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.
April 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.
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If Jesus Christ showed up today, this regime would immediately deport him to a foreign supermax prison without due process. And then they would brag about it on Twitter.
They'd Deport Jesus
`An op-ed by God.
www.thegodpodcast.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If Jesus Christ showed up today, this regime would immediately deport him to a foreign supermax prison without due process. And then they would brag about it on Twitter.
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So much money available to the reactionary right wing. Wealth taxes are long overdue
A company called "The Woodlander Initiative Ltd" (TWI) has been purchasing plots of land in Cymru.
According to HOPE not hate, TWI is “a land-buying scheme aimed at far-right activists and conspiracy theorists with links to Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s largest fascist group”.
According to HOPE not hate, TWI is “a land-buying scheme aimed at far-right activists and conspiracy theorists with links to Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s largest fascist group”.
The Woodlander Initiative is buying Welsh land for ‘the British people’ – what should shareholders know?
Those investing in such purchases, through a group with ties to what The Times called the UK’s largest white supremacist movement, have little control
bylines.cymru
April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So much money available to the reactionary right wing. Wealth taxes are long overdue
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Twenty-seven. Eighty-three.
April 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Twenty-seven. Eighty-three.
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Could only have been bettered if he'd then run his hand through his hair
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Could only have been bettered if he'd then run his hand through his hair
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Just downright absofuckinglutely evil.
apnews.com/article/trum... pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
apnews.com/article/trum... pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.
apnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Just downright absofuckinglutely evil.
apnews.com/article/trum... pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
apnews.com/article/trum... pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
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Reposted by Alex Carter
Hi All, with all the news swirling around today of Trump trying to force Ukraine into a bad deal--and threatening to walk away if the Ukrainians refuse, I wrote this piece about the positive or negative ways that could work out for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
What Happens If Trump Does Say He's "Done" With The War?
It Could Make Things Somewhat Better For Ukraine--Or Much Worse
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Hi All, with all the news swirling around today of Trump trying to force Ukraine into a bad deal--and threatening to walk away if the Ukrainians refuse, I wrote this piece about the positive or negative ways that could work out for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Hello folks! It's time for the Great #DodecaBakeOff Photo Parade! Huge thanks to everyone for taking part, there's been some amazing makes - breaks - & brilliant interpretations!
Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'.
(Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣)
#Archaeology ⚱️
Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'.
(Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣)
#Archaeology ⚱️
April 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Hello folks! It's time for the Great #DodecaBakeOff Photo Parade! Huge thanks to everyone for taking part, there's been some amazing makes - breaks - & brilliant interpretations!
Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'.
(Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣)
#Archaeology ⚱️
Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'.
(Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣)
#Archaeology ⚱️
Reposted by Alex Carter
Oh. My. Goodness!!! That's stunning...and yet another example of the perfect use of naturally holed biscuits in a make!
👏👏👏
#DodecaBakeOff #Archaeology ⚱️
👏👏👏
#DodecaBakeOff #Archaeology ⚱️
@tessmachling.bsky.social Maybe not up to Potted History's usual "Museum quality replica" standard, but definitely "an accurate replica" Happy Easter Dodecahedron 😀
April 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Oh. My. Goodness!!! That's stunning...and yet another example of the perfect use of naturally holed biscuits in a make!
👏👏👏
#DodecaBakeOff #Archaeology ⚱️
👏👏👏
#DodecaBakeOff #Archaeology ⚱️
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know