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soultonhall.co.uk/event/fairer-f… Today @_Tim_Ashton of @SoultonHall gave evidence to Parliament, along with a statement given from notes. These notes are reproduced faithfully below, provided Tim before today. They concern unacceptable behaviour by @nfum and @TheFCA :

It seems impossible to get through to human being & staggering amount of my time being wasted here. Please resolve this. Get an actual human agent to contact me to resolve, or I will have no choice but to initiate chargeback process because I can’t get through to you

@VIVOBAREFOOT I have spent weeks emailing to arrange Revivo return (sent wrong pair): I get only a single AI-generated response asking for details I’ve already given (& then no reply). Just been on hold for an hour (est. cue time 6 mins) then cut off. At my wits end.

Big thanks to Karen on tills at @Tesco @tesconews who noticed my mum struggling to stand with her newly replaced knee and ran to get her a chair. This kind of care really helps and her quick thinking may have prevented a nasty fall.

@NorthAges Garnets, and a Rolo

The 7thC Holderness Cross was discovered by a farmer at Burton Pidsea, East Yorkshire, #OTD in 1965. It spent 30 years in a drawer before his granddaughter took it to a ‘finds day’ at a museum in Hull. The gold pectoral cross is set with garnets.

Friendly reminder, Fuck the Tories for partying during the 2020 lockdown: #DrWho #DoctorWho

Proud to announce that work by Thegns of Mercia members has featured in the British Museum’s innovative #SilkRoads temporary exhibition, which shares our goal of promoting awareness of the cultural richness, diversity and interconnectedness of the #earlymedieval world. ….

@simonmaechling Haven’t read any of this but I’m very concerned and angry about this thing I don’t understand and hadn’t heard about until 5 mins ago,

Lots of talk about Bovaer. Chemist speaking here. Time for some facts. Bovaer, also known as 3-nitrooxypropanol, is a small organic molecule with a nitrooxy group attached to a propane backbone. Its structure is simple yet powerful in targeting methane emissions in livestock.

Bit of a longshot, but anyone know of UK *seax* graves or hoards with radiocarbon data? / Access to any? #archaeology I’ve got Buttermarket, Butlers Field Lechlade, Mill Hill, Ford, Castledyke & St Peter’s Tip Broadstairs, but I need more…

@DemetriDeshone @AChillGhost So yeah we’re all depressed as fuck but the food ain’t the reason. Multiple generations of folks with roots from outside the drizzle-isles (particularly British-Asians) sorted us out.

@DemetriDeshone @AChillGhost We have essentially unlimited access to the best cuisines from around the world. Just because we’re known for grim slop served during WW2 rationing (& by boomers nostalgic for it) doesn’t mean that’s what we actually eat. In the same way USA, I assume, don’t live on ‘grits’.

Britain is a fascinating place. I had not previously understood that a state could suffer from clinical depression

I feel like we’re overdue an Adam Curtis documentary to unpack what’s gone down this year. With found footage he’d explain how it all stems back to some people, somewhere in 1959. Who thought they’d developed the perfect system. But then, something happened they didn’t expect…

Polite notice. Putting “1:2” on a drawing which could, in the future, be distributed digitally or printed at any size, does not constitute a scale.

Sometimes when I’m not making shiny things with metal, I make shiny things with data. It’s less sparkly but I’m hugely proud of having managed to write the R-code to do these bubble-maps this week… #R #archaeology #data

@SWHannahAuthor Subject 1 (m) attained conciousness at t=6:00. Inability to obey commands (confounding variable: physical restraint) capped GCS at 14. Ambient temperature (285K +/- 3) during observation was below baseline (p<0.05) with humidity above average but not significant (p=0.09).

Authors, a light-hearted challenge. Re-write the following deliberately bad sentence, in your own style, changing whatever you want, tense, structure, etc, to put it in your own authorial voice: He woke up. He realised he was handcuffed to the bed. The room was damp and cold.

@MartinSLewis @itvMLshow …way which meets the criteria. Instead, holding out this vague but unrealised hope will see savings kept in these products for decades, at lower interest rates (= bank profit at savers expense) than other products & then penalty (a tax) on withdrawal.

@MartinSLewis @itvMLshow Will be interested to, in the distant future, see analysis of who benefited from LISA & H2B-ISA vs. how many get penalty or miss bonus. Suspect it’s the most financially stable & privileged; poorer & gig-economy millennials & genZ will never first-buy soon enough or in a….

First-Time Buyers can get up to £1,000/yr free in a Lifetime ISA. Here’s my video briefing on how it works and why you should put at least £1 in one. Courtesy of @itvMLshow, watch the full first time buyers saving info on: itv.com/watch/the-mart…

A carefully chosen case in point: yilinwang.com/qiu-jin-transl…

IMO there’s no place for plagiarism, exploitation & academic misconduct in our top institutions. Anyone else out there been plagiarised / had IP stolen by a top UK #heritage /#archaeology institution? Wonder how many others have similar stories. (Seriously. DM me.) 🥊

@fotofacade Important that this lacks the stereotypical features of AS architecture folks are taught, none of which (presence/absence) are actually proof of an AS date positively or negatively. There’s a lot more AS architecture out there than has hitherto been recognised.

🚨 Texture overload alert! 🚨 The late Anglo-Saxon tower at St. Andrew’s, Bolam, Northumberland, is a masterpiece of weathered stone and tactile beauty. All 📸 my own. #thread