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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 14h

SW queers! Fancy a private tour of Clevedon Court?

Fancy raising some cash for OutStories Bristol LGBTQ+ history society?

outstoriesbristol.org.uk/2025/09/22-n...

Book now! Limited spaces 👍😁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

22 Nov 2025 – private tour of Clevedon Court – OutStories Bristol

outstoriesbristol.org.uk

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 14h

SW queers! Fancy a private tour of Clevedon Court?

Fancy raising some cash for OutStories Bristol LGBTQ+ history society?

outstoriesbristol.org.uk/2025/09/22-n...

Book now! Limited spaces 👍😁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

22 Nov 2025 – private tour of Clevedon Court – OutStories Bristol

outstoriesbristol.org.uk

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 2d

No to brag, but uh - *toss toss hair* I think this might be one of my best shop drops yet. 😌✨💅

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 4d

😘😘😘

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 4d

Aww thank you so much Ruth! 🥰 Woohoo!! 😁

Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, gang, there's less than £20 to go for me to hit my £1000 fundraising target, and there's just over a month to go until me and @jackshoulder.bsky.social run the Athens Marathon 😁

Does anyone want to finish me off? 😁 www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru... 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🇬🇷

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 4d

Big run done for the week! I'm running the Athens Marathon this year to raise money to support LGBTQIA+ youth.

If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...

Jack's fundraiser for Freedom Youth at OTR Bristol

Help Jack Shoulder raise money to support OTR Bristol

www.justgiving.com

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 5d

🥰 honoured to have provided such inspiration!

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 5d

... What?

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's #MuralMonday! 🎨🏳️‍🌈

As we continue to add many murals to Art UK, we have gathered a Curation of murals by LGBTQI+ artists, take a look 👉 https://buff.ly/4jIAV9T #LGBTplusHM25

'You Are Loved' by Mister Samo (b.1986) © the artist. 📷 Mike Parry / Art UK

LGBTQI+ Mural Artists | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 5d

Herefordshire? Or...? 😳

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 5d

Terrible first date ideas: getting felsted in Herefordshire 😳

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 6d

#TodayInQueerHistory
October 4 (1974)
John Waters' Female Trouble is unleashed in cinemas. Divine wants cha-cha heels. Aunt Ida says:
“Queers are just better[...] I worry you’ll work in an office, have children, celebrate wedding anniversaries. The world of a heterosexual is a sick and boring life!”

The poster for John Waters' Female Trouble

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 5d

The silliness allegations turned out to be accurate 😁

Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 6d

Help, help! I'm trapped in a *reads the museum panel* Cameo; onyx; irregular form; imperfect; mounted in enamelled gold pendant frame set with single garnet, 16th century, in an early 17th century frame! Heeeeeeeeelp! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

From the British Museum 😊

A cameo where the figure looks as if they're reading their own interpretation panel

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7d

This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades

Denver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 8d

🕵️‍♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 7d

I think we can all agree @jackshoulder.bsky.social looks cute with his hair pushed back 😍

Happy October 3rd 😁

a woman wearing a white tank top that says a little bit on it

Alt: a woman wearing a white tank top that says a little bit on it

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Drew @drwsplnd.com · 8d

That's no way to talk about Queen Camilla, etc

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 8d

This cow has no decowrum

Prize cow tramples King’s hedges at Clarence House
Award-winning pedigree animal urinates and knocks over table during Duchy Originals reception

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 9d

Think of your favourite hand-painted movie poster, and it was probably done by Renato Cassaro. He did Conan, Dune, Terminator, Flash Gordon, Neverending Story etc etc 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is the alternative poster art for "The Sheltering Sky" (Schirokko), 1990 😊

A hand painted movie poster showing two figures embracing in a desert

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 9d

Now September is done, that's 9/12 or 3/4 or 75% of the year completed.

Every day I've been sharing an important moment in Queer history using #TodayInQueerHistory.

LGBTQIA+ people have always been here. We always will be. And we'll always be doing cool stuff along the way.

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 9d

Ooooh, new kitchen though!

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 11d

The @nhm-london.bsky.social 's human evolution exhibition, includes models of a neanderthal and homosapien looking at each other, like dads comparing barbecue-ing techniques 🥰👍🏛️🍑🍖 #MuseumBums

Thanks @thelabandfield.bsky.social for directing us to the rare humanish bums in a natural history museum ❤️

A photo from a museum display showing two models of hominids looking at each other

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 11d

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 12d

Shocked to discover the @nhm-london.bsky.social has a whole store of genies, but never exhibits them!! 😱

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 12d

Here's 2 ideas for you, lads.

1️⃣ Tax the rich
2️⃣ Don't blow billions of pounds on warmed-over ID cards plans that won't achieve any of your aims but would hand dangerous potential to authoritarian governments (future or present)

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

"Benefits bill is unsustainable, says Starmer’s right-hand man

"Sir Keir Starmer is seeking to bring down Britain’s “unsustainable” out-of -work benefits bill, his newly appointed chief secretary has said." [Telegraph]

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