museumsmith
@museumsmith.bsky.social
Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.
What you can't see are the Dutch ships towing that navy away ...
Armed Britannia Surveying Her Navies [reverse of a medal of Charles II], 1667 by Jan Roettiers (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What you can't see are the Dutch ships towing that navy away ...
Royal Mail in 'Christ and His earthly family were brown' shocker ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
These Little Englanders are furious with the Royal Mail’s Christmas stamps and of all the first class comebacks this one knocked the rest out of the park
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November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Royal Mail in 'Christ and His earthly family were brown' shocker ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
To me, to you. Down a bit. Mind the arch ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
Emperor Heraclius returning the true Cross to Jerusalem
Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31; Expositio in Apocalypsim, Alexander Minorita; 1249-1250 CE; Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony; f.81v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31; Expositio in Apocalypsim, Alexander Minorita; 1249-1250 CE; Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony; f.81v @camdiglib.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
To me, to you. Down a bit. Mind the arch ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
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None of the actual solutions to tackling channel crossings are new. Governments have been told them, and shown examples of how such policies work elsewhere, for years. They don't implement them because of the biggest obstacle to a functioning asylum system, appeasing racists. 11/
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
None of the actual solutions to tackling channel crossings are new. Governments have been told them, and shown examples of how such policies work elsewhere, for years. They don't implement them because of the biggest obstacle to a functioning asylum system, appeasing racists. 11/
*rites
GET UP
STAND UP
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS
STAND UP
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
*rites
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The LGBTQ community has been saying that targeting trans people will disproportionately affect cis women for FUCKING YEARS. And it does. LGBAliiance treat them like their abuse is acceptable collateral damage to their prejudicial grift crusade.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The LGBTQ community has been saying that targeting trans people will disproportionately affect cis women for FUCKING YEARS. And it does. LGBAliiance treat them like their abuse is acceptable collateral damage to their prejudicial grift crusade.
"If it is, try playing it safer
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
Two, four, six, eight -
Time to transubstantiate!"
⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
Two, four, six, eight -
Time to transubstantiate!"
⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
That's great, we transubstantiate
Bread and wine to mangod veins
Simon Peter's not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
We serve up the god-bleeds
Feed it off a plate, grunt, no, amen there's
Latin for the matins and confession for a session
Bread and wine to mangod veins
Simon Peter's not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
We serve up the god-bleeds
Feed it off a plate, grunt, no, amen there's
Latin for the matins and confession for a session
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"If it is, try playing it safer
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
Two, four, six, eight -
Time to transubstantiate!"
⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
Two, four, six, eight -
Time to transubstantiate!"
⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
Fish [Day After] Friday ...
Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem. Nehemiah 13.16 (NRSV)
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fish [Day After] Friday ...
To me, pas de deux ...
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To me, pas de deux ...
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Prayer service for #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance.
Remembering the dead, and praying for a world where all can flourish.
Remembering the dead, and praying for a world where all can flourish.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Prayer service for #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance.
Remembering the dead, and praying for a world where all can flourish.
Remembering the dead, and praying for a world where all can flourish.
It's by no means an original observation, but reading through Revelations in tandem with Daniel really is looking at the fanfic in parallel with the original... ⚓🕯️ #eveningprayer #cofepeeps
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's by no means an original observation, but reading through Revelations in tandem with Daniel really is looking at the fanfic in parallel with the original... ⚓🕯️ #eveningprayer #cofepeeps
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Tumbleweed from his #ReformLite (sorry, Labour) neighbour @miketapp.bsky.social, however ...
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Tumbleweed from his #ReformLite (sorry, Labour) neighbour @miketapp.bsky.social, however ...
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Illegal immigration is not tearing Britain apart. A media-driven obsession with illegal immigration is tearing Britain apart.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Illegal immigration is not tearing Britain apart. A media-driven obsession with illegal immigration is tearing Britain apart.
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When multiple supernova explosions and stellar winds combine, you get something super!
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When multiple supernova explosions and stellar winds combine, you get something super!
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
"The Church shall protect her own in her own way, not
As oak and stone; stone and oak decay,
Give no stay ..."
As oak and stone; stone and oak decay,
Give no stay ..."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"The Church shall protect her own in her own way, not
As oak and stone; stone and oak decay,
Give no stay ..."
As oak and stone; stone and oak decay,
Give no stay ..."
TFW the director asks you to put your palms on your stage lover's cheeks and all you can think of is Eric and Ernie ... #MrPreview
a man in a tuxedo is holding a woman 's collar
Alt: a man in a tuxedo is holding a man 's collar after playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
TFW the director asks you to put your palms on your stage lover's cheeks and all you can think of is Eric and Ernie ... #MrPreview
This 👏 is 👏 not 👏 what 👏 "The 👏 Police 👏 are👏 the 👏 People 👏 and 👏 the 👏 People 👏 are 👏 the 👏 Police"👏 means 👏
OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This 👏 is 👏 not 👏 what 👏 "The 👏 Police 👏 are👏 the 👏 People 👏 and 👏 the 👏 People 👏 are 👏 the 👏 Police"👏 means 👏
There's a collect somewhere in St Martin being the patron saint of Dover, along the lines of its citizens not being divided by hate but instead dividing their cloak with refugees. Give me another year and I might be able to write it ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
There's a collect somewhere in St Martin being the patron saint of Dover, along the lines of its citizens not being divided by hate but instead dividing their cloak with refugees. Give me another year and I might be able to write it ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
Nothing beside remains.
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nothing beside remains.
Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
Thanks to the BBC we've just learnt that the effigies of Gog and Magog, appearing in the Lady Mayors Show are:
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
Re-purl, please.
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In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Re-purl, please.
#Palestine36 powerful otherwise, but I doubt a Cockney private would have quite so much issue with the idea of a married priest given that the C of E had had such things for 400 or so years by then ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#Palestine36 powerful otherwise, but I doubt a Cockney private would have quite so much issue with the idea of a married priest given that the C of E had had such things for 400 or so years by then ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps