Anyway: Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!, as they say.
Shall we listen to The Toy Matinee again? Probably time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69D...
Don't get me wrong: there are any number of people in WMF who should be fired; probably most of them (also hi Lydia), but Brooke Vibber and the Community Tech team would not be amongst them.
Kame of Isbister: not monastic; martial. Probably.
Fuck's sake. This font change is not an improvement.
Does not HES have more important fish to fry, such as reimplementing functionality it removed as a result of the transition from Canmore to Trove?
* www.trove.scot/place/41326
In which the Wikimedia Foundation fires union organisers on its staff, so that it has more time available to it to count its money.
medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter.
With thanks to Sam McKeand
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...
The Met moved out of that building in 2016, and it was demolished in the 2016-2017 period, but other than that, BBC, finger on the pulse for a 2026 crime / investigation.
So a thing I learn is that printers of old, not having a superscript c, instead inverted a comma when dealing with your Scots person.
(Also known as a turned comma or "6-quote" ... I did wonder why so many Scots I encountered were M'Leods and M'Kenzies.)
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...
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My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o…
