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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉
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Senior Curator at Colchester Museums. Mainly Roman archaeology and LGBTQ+ history. Also cat dad to Artemis and enthusiastic Gaymer. He/Him Author of 50 LGBTQ+ Finds: https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html Website: https://www.ben-paites.com
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · Apr 15
Today is the day! My book is finally available to buy. After years of work, I’m so excited to finally share it with the world! But this isn’t the end. I will be promoting the book across the country over the next year, so stay tuned for more info.
#BookLaunch
A man with short dark hair and a short beard in a cream jumper holding a book. The book title reads “50 LGBTQ+ Finds” and is dark brown in colour with a picture of an object on the front in the form of a bust that is green in colour.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 1d
Not me talking about piss on Sky TV. 😅
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s another example of how to do a misogyny when talking about misogyny. Don’t expect much better from OK magazine to be fair…

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social was the co-presenter in this show and definitely deserves the Kudos. I mean, she’s literally in the picture!
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ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 8d
Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.
Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show
Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.
www.ok.co.uk
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 1d
I swear some of these news outlets must be doing it on purpose. How can anyone be so stupid as to not see the irony of what they’re doing and writing! 🙄
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 1d
Went to see the stage show of My Neighbour Totoro yesterday as a treat for the end of a very busy week. What an amazing show! I was brought to tears at moments 🥰 10000 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A stage with a large sign for My Neighbour Totoro with a blue background and large white letters. The letters for Totoro are larger and thicker and made of fabric.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 3d
Had a wonderful time in Cardiff this week for the @museumsassociation.org conference. Met some wonderful people and hung out with some familiar faces (thanks @sachacoward.bsky.social for a great after after party each night). Fantastic insights from across UK museums too.
#Museums2025
A large cavernous hall with people milling around and talking to one another. Blue and red lights illuminate walls at the far end. A large white tall imposing building at the top of a hill with steep stairs leading up to it, running from right to left in the photo. Cardiff castle’s exterior walls lit with a blue light. They are very tall with several square towers at various points. Grass is in front with a short chain fence running along a path in the bottom left.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 5d
Just opened my laptop on the train and there was an episode of “UNHhh” playing… 💀
two drag queens are sitting next to each other with the letter u in the corner
Alt: Two drag queens with a white background are sitting next to each, left in all black and right in all red. Behind them the word unhhhh scrolls past.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 6d
Huge congrats! 🥳
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
Day 6 - Moirai
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25
White chalk on black background style design. A young short girl stands to the left, a woman in the centre and older woman to the right kneeling. Each holds a spindle with thread connecting them. Below is the Greek word Moirai.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
The Romans got EVERYWHERE so I wouldn’t be too surprised.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve watched to much true crime and horror to know that barns are where you keep the bodies 😶
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 8d
so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...
Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick
University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.
www.lancashire.ac.uk
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
That’s so old it’s almost Roman?!
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve just found out Jilly Cooper was born in the town next to where I grew up?! 🙃
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe I’ll need naps in between sessions this week…
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
I don’t think I was clear-headed a single morning of that conference. Now I’m a little older I’m not sure I could handle that.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
That pub quiz was wonderful!
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you! 😁
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 8d
See you there! 😄
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 9d
I’m speaking at the #MAConference this Wednesday. Very excited to hear the other speakers for what will be an incredible few days in Cardiff.
Who else will be there?

This was me during the Brighton conference in 2019 (Photo by Dan Vo)
@museumsassociation.org #Museums2025
A man with a rainbow cape pouting at the camera.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 9d
Day 5 - Hermes Psychopompos
#ClassicTober #ClassicsTober25
An image of the god Hermes with a winged hat and a short tunic, holding a torch in his left hand and reaching out to a spirit, covered in a shroud, with his right arm. Below is the Greek for Hermes Psychompos.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 10d
“Gay 3” 🤦‍♂️
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 10d
Day 4 - Shroud
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25
A drawing like chalk on a black background. A shrouded figure with the word shroud written beneath.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 10d
Serenity
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 11d
Gay 3 - Graiai
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25
A black background with white chalk like drawing of three faces. One central with a single eye and single tooth sticking out of their lips and long hair. The figures either side are facing the central figure, with no eyes and a faint smile on their closed mouths. Below is the Greek word Graiai.
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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 12d
Day 2 - Thanatos
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25
A ghostly figure drawing like chalk on black paper. It shows a winged skeleton with a long sword on his left hip. Below are Greek letters which read Thanatos.
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