Mark
@thehistoryboy.bsky.social
📸/museums/🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑
I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks.
Bristol, UK
Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑
I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks.
Bristol, UK
I think Spotify just called me a homosexual 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I think Spotify just called me a homosexual 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
What an incredible deal! I think I'll buy 30 copies... 😜📚
Black Friday Weekend Deal! Buy our book from an indy bookstore and get a free warm fuzzy feeling for being a good person with every purchase 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/muse... 📚 @bertsbooks.bsky.social 😁
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/muse... 📚 @bertsbooks.bsky.social 😁
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
What an incredible deal! I think I'll buy 30 copies... 😜📚
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Hans Borrebach was a Dutch comics artist and advertising illustrator, with works in the Rotterdam City Archives, Anne Frank House, and the Rijksmuseum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Hans Borrebach was a Dutch comics artist and advertising illustrator, with works in the Rotterdam City Archives, Anne Frank House, and the Rijksmuseum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
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This painting thinks classical statues should be covered up! It's immoral!!! 🤣
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This painting thinks classical statues should be covered up! It's immoral!!! 🤣
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
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It took an embarrassingly long time for the lost friends to realise all three were looking at different maps 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It took an embarrassingly long time for the lost friends to realise all three were looking at different maps 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
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We've had a few monochrome sketches in a row, so here's some bright, colourful, camp dopamine hits from the film "Pink Narcissus", by James Bidgood, 1963, screened at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in March 2025 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
We've had a few monochrome sketches in a row, so here's some bright, colourful, camp dopamine hits from the film "Pink Narcissus", by James Bidgood, 1963, screened at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in March 2025 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
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500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
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The shopping list got lost hours ago, you can only find the brandy kind of butter, you've given up on gifts for unliked relatives, *but* you managed to win a garland tug of war at the checkouts! 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums #BlackFriday
From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The shopping list got lost hours ago, you can only find the brandy kind of butter, you've given up on gifts for unliked relatives, *but* you managed to win a garland tug of war at the checkouts! 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums #BlackFriday
From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
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Mary Shelley's cook book wasn't as big a hit as her other work.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Mary Shelley's cook book wasn't as big a hit as her other work.
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a reminder that addams’ family values is, in fact, the best thanksgiving movie you’ll find
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
a reminder that addams’ family values is, in fact, the best thanksgiving movie you’ll find
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After about eight mythical beasts and forces of nature, the gods started losing inspiration for Hercules' trials...
"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
After about eight mythical beasts and forces of nature, the gods started losing inspiration for Hercules' trials...
"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
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A bonus #TodayInQueerHistory
November 23 (1963)
Ooooo-wwweeeeeee-oooooo
Doctor Who first airs!
The beloved sci-fi show has given us loads of LGBTQIA+ moments over the years, what are your favourites?
November 23 (1963)
Ooooo-wwweeeeeee-oooooo
Doctor Who first airs!
The beloved sci-fi show has given us loads of LGBTQIA+ moments over the years, what are your favourites?
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A bonus #TodayInQueerHistory
November 23 (1963)
Ooooo-wwweeeeeee-oooooo
Doctor Who first airs!
The beloved sci-fi show has given us loads of LGBTQIA+ moments over the years, what are your favourites?
November 23 (1963)
Ooooo-wwweeeeeee-oooooo
Doctor Who first airs!
The beloved sci-fi show has given us loads of LGBTQIA+ moments over the years, what are your favourites?
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The way Sutton Hoo dismiss and look down upon the silliness and joy of the "Boaty Mc Boatface" competition has really riled me
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The way Sutton Hoo dismiss and look down upon the silliness and joy of the "Boaty Mc Boatface" competition has really riled me
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Fed up with the wet cold dark already? Get yourself a copy of "Museum Bums" and dive into our Beach Bums chapter for an escape to the height of summer (and remember your suncream!) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...
HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...
HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fed up with the wet cold dark already? Get yourself a copy of "Museum Bums" and dive into our Beach Bums chapter for an escape to the height of summer (and remember your suncream!) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...
HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...
HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
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I would call the Sutton Hoo recreation boat "Princess Fi-Hoo-na" 😁💚
a woman in a green dress with a tiara on her head says i 've always been a morning person
Alt: a woman in a green dress with a tiara on her head says i 've always been a morning person
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I would call the Sutton Hoo recreation boat "Princess Fi-Hoo-na" 😁💚
Muppet Batman Returns!
Miss Piggy is Catwomanpig 😁
Miss Piggy is Catwomanpig 😁
Seasonally Appropriate Film season has kicked off with my favourite Super Hero film: Batman Returns.
The seasonal depression; capitalism; strained relationships with family - has any film summed up winter better?
The seasonal depression; capitalism; strained relationships with family - has any film summed up winter better?
a woman in a catsuit is holding a mafia sign above her head
ALT: a woman in a catsuit is holding a mafia sign above her head
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Muppet Batman Returns!
Miss Piggy is Catwomanpig 😁
Miss Piggy is Catwomanpig 😁
The way Sutton Hoo dismiss and look down upon the silliness and joy of the "Boaty Mc Boatface" competition has really riled me
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The way Sutton Hoo dismiss and look down upon the silliness and joy of the "Boaty Mc Boatface" competition has really riled me
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've already formulated the competition so they shortlist out any names they don't approve of, there's no need for their sneering 😤
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I would like to be an early 20th century queer artist who walks into a hotel elevator in Boston and meets the man who I immediately know looks like so many gods 😁🥰
John Singer Sargent met his muse, Thomas McKellar when TM was working as a hotel elevator operator. TM became "The Boston Apollo", posing for many of JSS' classical characters 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This is JSS' Study for Eros and Psyche for the Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916–1921 😁
This is JSS' Study for Eros and Psyche for the Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916–1921 😁
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I would like to be an early 20th century queer artist who walks into a hotel elevator in Boston and meets the man who I immediately know looks like so many gods 😁🥰
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 20 (1999)
#TransDayOfRemembrance was set up to remember Rita Hester (pictured), who was murdered in 1998. Organised by Gwendolyn Anne Smith, who said the day is: "Not something to trot out ... and forget about. We should be working every day for all of us."
November 20 (1999)
#TransDayOfRemembrance was set up to remember Rita Hester (pictured), who was murdered in 1998. Organised by Gwendolyn Anne Smith, who said the day is: "Not something to trot out ... and forget about. We should be working every day for all of us."
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 20 (1999)
#TransDayOfRemembrance was set up to remember Rita Hester (pictured), who was murdered in 1998. Organised by Gwendolyn Anne Smith, who said the day is: "Not something to trot out ... and forget about. We should be working every day for all of us."
November 20 (1999)
#TransDayOfRemembrance was set up to remember Rita Hester (pictured), who was murdered in 1998. Organised by Gwendolyn Anne Smith, who said the day is: "Not something to trot out ... and forget about. We should be working every day for all of us."
It's in the "THIS HERE AINT AMERCUN, OK? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🏈🦅🌎🇺🇸" collection
Here's a tiny little blue guy with their bum out for you 💙
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"One figure of a male", c305 BCE, from @brooklynmuseum.org from their "Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art" (which feels like a very broad category)
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"One figure of a male", c305 BCE, from @brooklynmuseum.org from their "Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art" (which feels like a very broad category)
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's in the "THIS HERE AINT AMERCUN, OK? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🏈🦅🌎🇺🇸" collection
On our run earlier, @jackshoulder.bsky.social reminded me that this work of art exists open.spotify.com/track/3DBErz... ❤️
Can't Get Blue Monday out of My Head
open.spotify.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
On our run earlier, @jackshoulder.bsky.social reminded me that this work of art exists open.spotify.com/track/3DBErz... ❤️
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Last Friday, Miles Greenberg performed their epic durational artwork "The Flaying of Marsyas", at @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social in Holland from 11am-6pm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)
Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Last Friday, Miles Greenberg performed their epic durational artwork "The Flaying of Marsyas", at @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social in Holland from 11am-6pm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)
Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)
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I bet popping feels good as hell for the corn
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I bet popping feels good as hell for the corn