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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 2d

By winning the true or false quiz. I got about 5 questions in and then failed at the "Australia is wider than the moon, true or false" round.

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 3d

I love this so much.
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 3d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 3d

Spent Monday evening with Sandi Toksvig...and several hundred other people too. So good, so funny, so human.
Gutted not to win a Toksvig Masculinity t-shirt though.

Stage at Birmingham Symphony Hall with a screen reading Nobody is Perfekt and a red sofa in front of it

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 9d

That was a roller coaster 30 minutes of screen refreshing, shouting at the screen refreshing and general wailing, but I have them in the palm of my hot little inbox...Super Furry Animal tickets! TICKETS!
Orkney, SFA, Paris...2026 Planned.

White text on black background confirming Super Furry Animal tickets purchase

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 10d

I am being watched...
What's the rhyme? One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a literary agent to pick up your manuscript.

7 magpies sat in an evergreen tree against a blue sky

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 10d

I'd happily take on besom making, but I'll need the appropriate crooked cottage in a wood to really excel at the role

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · 10d

This is one of my favourite Lee Miller images. Caption appropriately surreal! Hats off, sir.

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Behold! I have written two new toolkits for #AIM! I am also horribly bad at self promotion, so this is a week late. But I'm rather proud of these, they are labours of love and my first ever published writing.

aim-museums.co.uk/news/new-con...

New Connected Communities resources available - AIM - Association of Independent Museums

Guides on tackling chronic loneliness and improving access to high quality volunteering – alongside film toolkits now available.

aim-museums.co.uk

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Sep 3

I actually can't watch what happens. My understanding friend is on standby to tell me who it is and if they are any good.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jul 25

News | New research sheds light on changing visitor behaviour and demographics – families becoming significantly more selective and booking tickets later

New research sheds light on changing visitor behaviour and demographics - Museums Association

Families becoming significantly more selective and booking tickets later

www.museumsassociation.org

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jul 25

I LOVE BorrowBox! It's financially free, Amazon-free, and will keep your lugs entertained for HOURS.
Download, download!
Currently listening to Moon Over Soho by B Aaronovitch and laughing out loud in public places.

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Jul 25

Also if you're an Orkney Library member then don't go on holiday without downloading the FREE BorrowBox App and signing up for our FREE eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines to keep yourself reading while you're on the go (or on the beach.) 🏖📷 ✈️

A scene from The Talented Mr Ripley with Marge and Dickie relaxing on the beach. Marge is holding a mobile phone and Dickie has a tablet beside him. They both have Borrowbox on the screen.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Welsh Government are doing a consultation on its pro-trans schools policy. UK GCs are trying to push it in an anti-trans direction. If you possibly can, please join me in filling out the consultation to reinforce the pro-trans stance.
Deadline 31 July.

www.gov.wales/rights-respe...

Rights, respect, equality anti-bullying guidance | GOV.WALES

We are seeking your views on revising the draft statutory guidance on anti-bullying.

www.gov.wales

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Jun 28

Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.

A large gray cat sits on a partially-closed shoebox. Another cat’s face pokes out of the open corner of the box.

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 24

I keep getting the "leave a gift, not a burden" ad on my browser homepage. As if I'm going to be in a position to leave *anything*.

Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 23

"Sometimes, however, an airhead is simply an airhead. Modern women deserve better than Marie Antoinette as a model."

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

History’s women have more to tell us than their fashion c...

Let them wear Manolos! The Victoria & Albert Museum has unveiled plans for an exhibition on the fashion legacy of Marie Antoinette.The museum bills ...

observer.co.uk

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 23

It's #NCVO #smallcharityweek! Use this week to support the small do big things. #TheBigGive has a raft of them (donate.biggive.org/small-charit...) to chose from...

Small Charity Week 2025 – Big Give

Big Give, Global’s Make Some Noise and NCVO are championing vital, small charities across the UK. Between 12pm (midday) 23rd June and 12pm (midday) 30th June, donate to a small charity and we'll doub...

donate.biggive.org

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jun 18

News | National museum security guards secure ‘life-changing’ pay rises after strike – victory for workers who took more than 50 days of industrial action

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National museum security guards secure ‘life-changing’ pay rises after strike - Museums Association

Victory for workers who took more than 50 days of industrial action

www.museumsassociation.org

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 18

A visit to Dove Cottage at Grasmere last week, an example of a writers house done right. Massively impressed, as was my non-poetry-interested husband. Atmospheric not stagey, thoughtful not staid.
#wordsworth #lakedistrict

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Oh my word, those look good!

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Maudie @maudiestokes.bsky.social · Jun 17

Tuesday

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Every once in a while, the moons align, the stars form the pattern and the gods smile nicely on my mango destoning game...

A ripe mango split perfectly into 2 halves

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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · Jun 7

Excited about our next #photography 📷 #exhibition opening next week. Stay tuned for further details!

hundredheroines.org/poisoned-fut...

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Tonia Collett @museumstonia.bsky.social · May 28

“Because frankly, I don’t tell anybody what to think. I can’t bear it when people tell me what to think. That’s not what we do. We want to provide multiple perspectives to equip people to navigate this crazy world we’re in, to understand it, to build empathy..." 🎉
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester Museum named European museum of the year

‘Gobsmacked’ director says 138-year-old museum aims to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’

www.theguardian.com