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museumsmith

@museumsmith.bsky.social

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Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, strolling player, cishet 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Dilexi Te this morning, and it rips! God's love for the poor and oppressed is being PREACHED! 🕯

"God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest.

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 1d

As above, but for the next +London ... 😉

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Q: What did Mr Schwarzenegger say when he was asked about the British royal dynasty from 1603 to 1714?
A: It's not a Tooo-dur!

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Got any.... grapes?

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 1d

"Mein Führer! I mean, Mister President ..."

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 1d

... though such a rush is rather dampened by the majority of the largest party. #MakeReformWhigAgain #1832AndAllThat

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Quite the opposite of badly done ...

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 2d

... of my esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Gaga. #emma #intervalskeets #austen250 #janeausten @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Irish Noah: Who dya think you are, God Almighty?!
Yorkshire God: As it 'appens, lad ...

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 4d

A Sh*g Of One's Own

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 5d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 4d

"Yes, Herr Reichsmarshal - a squadron of drinks trollies."

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

#cofepeeps ⚓🕯️

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

"There's a Primate in that nebula!"

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

#RuledByAnOrange #IYKYK #2025AndAllThat

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

Alt: Captain America sitting in a room and saying "I understood that reference''.

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

The BNP by any other name would stink as foul ...

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately evergreen ...

Two frame meme with a goose chasing a man whilst asking 'What are you conserving, huh? WHAT ARE YOU CONSERVING?'.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

Tfw the last hymn is 'Bread of Heaven' but there's no Wales match on ... #CymruAmByth #ConBeltoNotBelleCanto #cofepeeps

a white cat with a black spot on its head is standing in front of a sign that says huh ? .

Alt: a white cat with a black spot on its head is standing below a caption that says huh ? .

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 6d

*Beanism intensifies*

a man is giving a presentation in front of a group of people in a room .

Alt: Sean Bean is giving a presentation in front of a group of people in a room, waving a cutlass and shouting 'Do it for Yorkshire!'.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 6d

The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous.

What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 7d

".... I'm off to eat all the fish dishes off the buff-ay."

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 7d

*Heavens Above! intensifies*

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 7d

Facing the documentation backlog like ...

a man and a woman are standing next to each other with their eyes closed

Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with their eyes closed

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Bill Braviner @billbraviner.bsky.social · 8d

#MorningPrayer
Deflect our hearts
and minds, Lord,
from a preoccupation
with the temporalities
of human kingdoms,
the empires that we seek
to build for ourselves.
Turn us instead to pursue
the eternalities of your kingdom,
that we may share a passion
for justice, mercy and peace.

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