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Charles

@cmount1

Archaeologist, Epicurean, nerd, gym rat & flâneur.

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Joined July 2009
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Not being rude! I can only see replies by manually checking each tweet.
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Is excavations.ie down for anyone else?
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Hey @grok , based on my tweets and public statements, where do I fall politically on a scale from 1 to 100? 1 is far left, 100 is far right.
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Look at what they took from us
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The Irish planning system is the greatest obstacle to the development of Ireland. jrnl.ie/6771819
Dublin Airport operator refused permission to demolish spiral parking ramps at Terminal 1

Dublin Airport operator refused permission to demolish spiral parking ramps at Terminal 1

The planning commission said the concrete finish of the spirals, which were constructed in 1972, reflects a distinctive architectural look typical of the brutalist period.

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Nice to see a reasoned approach to the Newgrange DNA evidence.
UCD Archaeology, Dublin (@ucdarchaeology) profile pictureUCD Archaeology, Dublin@ucdarchaeology24 Jun 2025
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jessica Smyth & Associate Professor Dr Neil Carlin, and colleagues, on their publication in Antiquity, The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber" ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2…
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Zepbound and Mounjaro behind Ireland’s apparent prosperity.
Dan O'Brien (@danobrien20) profile pictureDan O'Brien
@danobrien2020 Jun 2025
Great reporting here on how just one pharma company likely accounted for so much of the explosive growth in Irish exports to the US in recent months. wsj.com/health/pharma/how-we…
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Whoever thought Irish OS map sheets should just stop dead at county borders was a moron.
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Happy Waterloo day for those who celebrate.
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What a cool Father’s Day gift. Vinyl!
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Fascinating the way the wars are channeling air traffic into a few narrow corridors.
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“Did someone order pizza?”
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Someone check if the office lights are on in the Pentagon.
Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) profile picturePentagon Pizza Report
@PenPizzaReport12 Jun 2025
With minutes left before close District Pizza Palace which is not too far from the Pentagon is experiencing a huge surge in traffic.
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Excavation of children’s remains from Tuam mother and baby home site to begin on 16 June (via @thejournal_ie) jrnl.ie/6729919
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The grid goes down. The Wi-Fi dies. Somewhere in a field, an experimental archaeologist calmly lights a fire with horse dung and flint.
saila (he/him) (@sailaunderscore) profile picturesaila (he/him)
@sailaunderscore10 Jun 2025
Deep down every single man believes he could recreate society to at least an iron-age level of infrastructure if we suffered total collapse tomorrow.
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Beware! Tesco are selling Coke cans from NI in the Republic of Ireland and charging the Deposit. But they don’t have barcodes and you can’t get your deposit back! @TescoIrl
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I’ve stopped reading the news. I’ll just wait for the historians to fact-check it and publish the highlights.
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There are no AI supercomputers with 16 bit op/s in Ireland!
Konstantin F. Pilz (@KonstantinPilz) profile pictureKonstantin F. Pilz
@KonstantinPilz5 Jun 2025
People keep asking me ‘Konstantin, where are all the data centers?’ Today, I can finally give you the answer. Explore our new dataset of 750 AI supercomputers, both those that already exist and those planned over the next five years. Some of my own analysis 🧵
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Omaha Beach
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Special birthday today 🎂
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Why doesn’t X have a birthday reminder so we can wish all our mutuals a happy birthday!
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