Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸: As both a professional archaeologist of 10 years and a political activist, this is fucking dumb, but if this is the thing you're mad about just know that if the A303 judicial review fails this year we're going to dig a 2 mile long tunnel through the site and get it stripped of World Heritage status.

As both a professional archaeologist of 10 years and a political activist, this is fucking dumb, but if this is the thing you're mad about just know that if the A303 judicial review fails this year we're going to dig a 2 mile long tunnel through the site and get it stripped of World Heritage status.

Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk The move comes the day before celebrations for the Summer Solstice.

Also tomorrow is the solstice so they're gonna let a guy who lives in the A303 lay-by and thinks he's the literal reincarnation of King Arthur Pendragon come and flick cooking oil all over the stones as part of some nonsense ceremony he made up.

Come on. We all know that Arthur can't be reincarnated, because he's not dead: he's asleep under a mountain, recovering from the wounds suffered in his final battle. Or in Avalon, doing the same.

You go and tell the bloke in the A303 lay-by that. HE CARRIES A LITERAL FUCKING SWORD.

Did he get it from a stone, or from a moistened bint?

I think he probably got it from a shop in Glastonbury.

That's not particularly good proof of being the rightful king, then, is it?

So, moistened bint

Simple I'll challenge him to trial by combat for his title!

Bet, I'll bring one of mine

I'm kidding, I will absolutely cheat and use broadheads with Aconite paste lmao

idk i feel like occasion calls for this bsky.app/profile/theu...

I made a Cool S sword

Ah, so doing a Breath of the Wild

haha amazing

I'm literally not joking. He's lived there for years. He's constantly getting in trouble for filing frivolous legal actions against English Heritage and has what seems to be a harem of middle-aged women. He's fucking bananas.

Holy shit this guy is nuts en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

Arthur Uther Pendragon - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

That's right.

Druids are devoted to preserving all the most annoying aspects of our collective heritage

"In 1986 he bought a sword called Excalibur in a Farnborough shop; its seller stated that it had been the prop in the 1981 film Excalibur" Not quite as glamorous as it being bestowed by lakemilf Nimuë.

Lol, I didn't know about being from the film, that rules.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, the ancient deep magic of Beltane is played out by *checks notes* an American May Queen and an American Green Man. www.bbc.com/news/article...

May Queen and Green Man - What is the Beltane Fire Festival?www.bbc.com

No-one knows who they were, or, what they were doing Especially not this bell end

I mean that's not fully true, we know a reasonable amount, it's just nowhere near a full picture and never will be, and being generous I think Arthur is (and I say this without value judgement) probably just not very well.

What does he do for...money?

Hit and run raids against the Anglo-Saxons.

King Arthur Pendragon, leader of the Arthurian Warband

Sounds like the Sovereign Citizens over here stateside.

It’s time to play: Salisbury Loonie and his dress-up gang or Metal Singer plus band?

This is impossible, since we all know king Arthur was actually a teenage anime girl

(You can track the spread of arthuriana interest through the Japanese 90s!)

Still confused why the official English translation is Altria instead of Artoria

That seems like a fun harmless local eccentric

I think he's mostly pretty harmless, although he is by definition an ethno-nationalist.

Nvm that’s never harmless.

Ah! I saw him mentioned in the story and wondered if that was his name or if he’d taken it as an honorific. Did not expect reincarnation to figure in, but there you go.

is Just Stop Oil even an activist group, i feel like they only exist to give activist groups a bad rep by being in shitty headlines

It's totally possible, but again, I don't really care compared to the stuff our government and private industries are doing

Last year JSO proudly announced they were emulating a suffragette by attacking the same painting she'd gone after. Said suffragette would go on to become a Mosleyite fascist, which anyone can find out with 5 minutes on Wikipedia. I'm very suspicious of them.

I don't like using this term much but this just reeks of psyop. Who the fuck just thinks "paint stonehenge" helps in any circumstance except to piss people off?

This group is funded by an oil heiress.

It pisses off the shitlibs, what other reason is needed?

JSO *are* the shitlibs. Wait until someone does something with the Doohickey that I'm not going to say or encourage here to an oil exec or whatever and see how quick they condemn it.

Just Stop Oil biggest donator is a company founded by a grandchild of an oil baron so maybe

And then people were like "well maybe she doesn't agree with her filthy rich oil baron relatives and wants to protect the environment" and when I read that I felt like I was going insane because how do you take someone that rich in such good faith given how inhuman they are

Yeah, you do not in fact have to give the benefit of the doubt to a millionaire oil heiress. She's not exactly Patty Hearst.

Their actions are custom-tailored to fulfill exactly one agenda: "what would make the greatest number of disaffected people lower their opinion of environmental activism?" Throw in their Anonymous-styled decentralization (preventing accountability) and donors, and they don't pass the sniff test.

JSO is supposedly funded by big oil companies to make activist groups look bad. I can't remember the source anymore

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