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Film and television and food and technology and words. Toronto. 🇨🇦🇭🇰🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) Avatar: My Memoji - a person with shoulder-length wavy brown hair, green eyes, wearing black rectangular glasses, freckles across the nose and cheeks. http://ianwday.me
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 1 (1512)
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is unveiled to the public. Art historian Vasari said "When the chapel was uncovered, people from everywhere [rushed] to see it, and the sight of it alone was sufficient to leave them amazed and speechless."
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“The wall comes down in 1989. People think world conflict is over. We’re just going to go shopping and we’ll all be fine. Capitalism has won. But if you destabilise a world order like that, people come in to fill the vacuum.” – Margaret Atwood

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
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Ten years since Ash vs Evil Dead hit the telly. What a bloody fun ride. Cast and crew were beautifully brilliant.

#ashvsevildead
Got my flu shot today 💉😷
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On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
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I love my neighbourhood
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#TodayInQueerHistory
October 30 (130)
While on a cruise down the Nile, Antinous, beloved of Hadrian, mysteriously dies.
Hadrian's grief is immense: he declares Antinous a god, commissions statues made in his likeness and names cities after him.
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nobody wants to hear about your problems
How to Hibernate. From the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
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So it's 7:43, right? But the clock on the oven says 9:43? The phone says 8:43, but did I disable the automatic change settings? Let's all stay in bed until someone works out what time it is 🤔
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Il Riposo, 1881, by Dionisio Cortés Mesa
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) #Watching
The Hedge Knight graphic novel by George R.R. Martin #Reading
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It's fair to say we would need more than a flimsy ladder if we ever went shopping for our favourites at the Louvre... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is Cupid and Psyche, by Antonio Canova, 1787 😁 (and we've got the perfect space in Museum Bums HQ living room for it ... 🤔)
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Nigel, we know you ate all the brie last night. We had artist, Luis Egidio Meléndez watching the fridge! The evidence he presented is undeniable. 👍🏛️🍑🧀 #MuseumBums

LE Meléndez' "Self portrait with academic drawing", 1746, from the Louvre 😁
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#TodayInQueerHistory
October 22 (1870)
'Bosie' Douglas, an OG Demon Twink, is born. Bosie is known for his affair with Oscar Wilde and his father's crusade to bring Oscar down.

Bosie once described Wilde as "the greatest force for evil" but still made money writing about their relationship.
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This new coffee table is a great conversation starter, but it's difficult to find somewhere to put your coffee 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Villa Fontanelle, Lake Como by Helmut Newton, 1996. Thanks @domhnallnolan.bsky.social for sharing 😁
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#TodayInQueerHistory
October 19 (1998)
George Michael releases Outside, in response to his arrest for lewd behaviour in a public loo.
Speaking to @attitudemag.bsky.social about Outside he said "I felt that lightening the stigma around cruising was the most immediately beneficial thing I could do.
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Autumn is finally falling. The colours are beautiful on the way back home!
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#MuseumBums loves the story of the Lucifer Statues of Liége Cathedral 👍🏛️🍑

~1848, Josef Geef was tasked to sculpt Lucifer. Unfortunately Lucifer was too sexy for the church. Without paying him, they commissioned his brother to replace it, so Guillaume Geef made his Lucifer *even* sexier 😁