museumsmith
@museumsmith.bsky.social
Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.
Nothing beside remains.
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nothing beside remains.
Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
Thanks to the BBC we've just learnt that the effigies of Gog and Magog, appearing in the Lady Mayors Show are:
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
Re-purl, please.
www.yoursouthport.com/blog/life-si...
In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Re-purl, please.
#Palestine36 powerful otherwise, but I doubt a Cockney private would have quite so much issue with the idea of a married priest given that the C of E had had such things for 400 or so years by then ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#Palestine36 powerful otherwise, but I doubt a Cockney private would have quite so much issue with the idea of a married priest given that the C of E had had such things for 400 or so years by then ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
Chance of getting one on the NHS, even after jumping through a soul-destroying amount of bureaucratic hoops to prove one's worthiness: practically zero.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Chance of getting one on the NHS, even after jumping through a soul-destroying amount of bureaucratic hoops to prove one's worthiness: practically zero.
TFW the only T*RF of your acquaintance gives you a hectoring lecture about 'sex worker' being an anti feminist term ...
a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a blue wall
Alt: a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a blue wall
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
TFW the only T*RF of your acquaintance gives you a hectoring lecture about 'sex worker' being an anti feminist term ...
Attending a confirmation on (actual) All Saints Day, then today (at Sunday mass back in the parish) All Saints transferred to All Souls ...🤔 #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️ #AllSaints #AllSouls
Timeywimey Dr GIF
Alt: Timeywimey Dr GIF
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Attending a confirmation on (actual) All Saints Day, then today (at Sunday mass back in the parish) All Saints transferred to All Souls ...🤔 #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️ #AllSaints #AllSouls
*"but it might work for us" meme*
The government has announced that it will convert two military bases to house up to 900 asylum seekers
When the Conservatives attempted a similar strategy, it cost millions more than predicted and was hit by delays, legal challenges and local opposition
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
When the Conservatives attempted a similar strategy, it cost millions more than predicted and was hit by delays, legal challenges and local opposition
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
Britain Plans to Convert Two Military Bases to House Asylum Seekers
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
*"but it might work for us" meme*
When the cold hand of a vicar's fragile ego is used to veto even the smallest of changes during his long-term sick leave ... #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓
a cartoon dog is laying on a purple couch with the words sighs deeply below it
Alt: a cartoon dog is laying on a purple couch with the words sighs deeply below it
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
When the cold hand of a vicar's fragile ego is used to veto even the smallest of changes during his long-term sick leave ... #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓
Comin' over 'ere, leaving their potsherds ...
yeah I can't think of a reason roman artifacts would be in britain
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Comin' over 'ere, leaving their potsherds ...
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This #Gafcon statement is schismatic and needs naming as such.
Gafcon is different from the Global South Anglican Fellowship (GSAF), which, though critical of the Anglican Communion, is not schismatic.
www.thegsfa.org
Gafcon is different from the Global South Anglican Fellowship (GSAF), which, though critical of the Anglican Communion, is not schismatic.
www.thegsfa.org
The Future Has Arrived - GAFCON: Global Anglicans
To our dear Anglican brothers and sisters in Christ. Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Commemoration of the martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. The f...
gafcon.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This #Gafcon statement is schismatic and needs naming as such.
Gafcon is different from the Global South Anglican Fellowship (GSAF), which, though critical of the Anglican Communion, is not schismatic.
www.thegsfa.org
Gafcon is different from the Global South Anglican Fellowship (GSAF), which, though critical of the Anglican Communion, is not schismatic.
www.thegsfa.org
Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...
Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.
www.thepinknews.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Dukey McDukeFace
My proposal to heal Britain and save the monarchy: pick the people’s Duke of York through prestige reality tv and public vote. Hosted by Davina, of course.
Breaking News: Prince Andrew surrendered the title Duke of York after years of scrutiny of his ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Dukey McDukeFace
I was married but I'm not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I was married but I'm not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
It's a permanent loan.
#museums
It's a permanent loan.
#museums
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
It's a permanent loan.
#museums
It's a permanent loan.
#museums
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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.
"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.
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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.
"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.
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!
A: It's not a Tooo-dur!
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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!
A: It's not a Tooo-dur!
Got any.... grapes?
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
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
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Got any.... grapes?
... of my esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Gaga. #emma #intervalskeets #austen250 #janeausten @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
... of my esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Gaga. #emma #intervalskeets #austen250 #janeausten @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social
A Sh*g Of One's Own
October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A Sh*g Of One's Own
Unfortunately evergreen ...
October 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Unfortunately evergreen ...
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 ? .
media.tenor.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Tfw the last hymn is 'Bread of Heaven' but there's no Wales match on ... #CymruAmByth #ConBeltoNotBelleCanto #cofepeeps