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Squiddy
@dr-squiddy.bsky.social
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Undercover museum curator, actual certified doctor of museum stuff, accidental catalyst for change, educator, newt botherer, and spooky idiot. She/Her
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Just screengrabbed this, which is an awful bit of writing.

'Whisky Galore!' is a film.
The Receiver is a job role.

Is Steve White a character in the film? No. He's a real person.

The goods involved that he's not getting involved with (!) are bananas.
People arrived from across the UK to scavenge motorbikes, carpets, beauty creams, shoes, golf clubs, oil paintings, even oak wine barrels (which made it feel more Whisky Galore!) This time the receiver, a former police detective called Steve White, is not needed. As the goods involved are perishable, he is not getting involved.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie:
A Poorly Drawn Lines comic in which a man is interviewing a grey cat: "Sir, what are your simple pleasures?" "Chaos and destruction... And naps."
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your voice for today using an image from your gallery.
A broken information screen that says "Your licence has expired. Please contact your system administrator."
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
dr-squiddy.bsky.social
When you order TV Geralt in his bath from Temu. 😢
A dish (probably) designed to look like some sort of skinny bat-man thing pulling a face like that guy from Kiss and extending his arm wings so the flappy parts cover, well, the flappy parts. Genuinely hideous.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I bought a ridiculous bathmat and I want more people to join me in enjoying how silly it is.
A purple bathroom with an orange 'tigerskin' bathmat on a lino floor.
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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FESTIVE PIE
A pub menu including Festive Pie - turkey, stuffing, cranberry pie with chips or mash, mushy peas and Hendos gravy. Bonbonbons optional.
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A vintage style engraving of a man in a tux kneeling on the floor and an elegant woman in a chair firing a 'NO!' in his face
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Tag yourself - I'm currently whatever the heck this embyonic little cthuloid horror is.
Some sort of white shrimp looking thing with way too many red legs, a face full of tentacles and a spiny carapace.
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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How the weekend is going. Drove halfway across the country to a festival when half the city I came from is on the bill.
#BloodyGoths #BloodyBrilliant
Huge projected lettering on a red background: #BLACKMETALGAYDISCO A back tabletop covered in miscellaneous things including a rubber duck in a santa hat, a red rose, and a beermat.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
An Obvious Plant product called 'Advice from frog. A lovely little green model frog with rosy cheeks lies down surrounded by helpful speech bubbles like "don't do murders"
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Without downloading new pics, what's it like dating you?
A carnival signpost that says: Marvellous Menagerie Dazzle and Delight Big Top
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Who doesn't love a fun little animal fren?
Nigerian dog type animal, made from brass and carrying some sort of small mammal in its mouth
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I was just checking for The Martian (didn't have any pics) - but I did find these! Love them! 😍
Fierce Harryhausen dinosaurs from 'The Valley of Gwangi'
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I popped in to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery yesterday and was really impressed by 'The Elephant in the Room' gallery, which explores the problematic (yet often ignored) histories of objects in the collection and highlights challenging aspects of their collection and display.

Well worth a visit.
A large panel titled 'Connections and Collections' which acknowledges that the museum's objects were collected "greedily and sometimes violently" during the colonial era and that "racist attitudes and politics" meant that accurate cultural information was not recorded. An empty display stand for a necklace A panel explaining that the museum will no longer exhibit a Widow's Necklace, possibly made by a member of the Darug, Dharawhal or Eora people, as it was made from the tissues of a deceased man and men are not allowed to look at it.
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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When you simply cannot with the dress code because you love your new hat and boots way too much.

The Feast of Peleus - Edward Burne Jones (1873), BMAG

(@museumbums.bsky.social must have done this one already but I enjoyed it so here you go!)
A god (probably Hermes) is kneeling in front of a table entirely in the nip save for some blue cowboy boots with wings on, and a matching blue hat with a wide brim. Seated nearby, an equally naked Bacchus (maybe?) is looking away, and next to him a goddess in a red dress is pressing her hands to her face in horror. Clearly the fit is too much for them.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to Bluesky:
Sign saying 'Explosives & Firearms Department'
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
The front of an old school pick up truck with a small orange shipping container on the back. The shipping container has windows cut in it, and an extremely dodgy looking scissor lift in the top. The secret ingredient is crime.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A tuxedo cat in the bottom of a wardrobe holding its paw in the air with the caption 'WOULD'.
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Hello! Are you into isopods? What are these little round guys? Ceratoserolis? They seem too... circular?
Two jars with preserved specimens of round, trilobitey looking isopods.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Just look at this beautiful baby, with all of his over active stem cells!
Photograph of an axolotl with three front legs.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Cheating this #FossilFriday with a cast of a claw from Theriznosaurus Chelonformis. These lads probably had the longest claws of any land animal (but they were tubby and ate plants).

I saw a CGI of one looking like Roger from American Dad with an extreme manicure, so that's where we're at.
A claw, which is maybe 30cm long, with a hand for scale (no bananas available in the museum). This is medium size for the species, BTW.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A tuxedo cat raising a paw with the caption 'would'.
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Phil Ellis rocking looks on #Taskmaster tonight that have made me all nostalgic for proper 90s WGW (which is something that current WGW could never do). Someone bring me a big bag of tubular crin, some springy New Rocks and a horrible alcopop - stat!
Nice boots and a customised black suit with some home made cyb0r style spikes, Phil's been off down Camden and is ready for some tasty 90s industrial on the main stage. All he needs now are the goggles. All ready for 80s night, Phil would not look out of place in Adam and the Ants. Waistcoat, bouffey hair, big blousey shirt, a lovely necktie (and a bottle of lube because it's all that was left in Bargain Booze).
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:
A comic by @extrafabulous.bsky.social showing two sailors on a boat. The older man in the hat advises "Yar! Beware of the siren's song, lad. 'Tis said to be a melody most sweet to men's ear." On a rock in the sea, a mermaid sings "Hello! Lemme get that dick" The old sailor is captivated. He says "Looks like this is the end, lad"
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Good afternoon. Please enjoy this epic yet misleading poster for Neil Morrisey classic 'I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle' (1990) that I found in A Bulgarian art gallery.
A poster with a splashy red background showing a vampire face with one yellow eye and massive fangs. There is a wheel where the tongue would be and handlebars sticking out like horns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM