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.
Our Band of Brothers
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our Band of Brothers
consobrinus germanicus Minimi, @minimuslatin.bsky.social ?
Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
consobrinus germanicus Minimi, @minimuslatin.bsky.social ?
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Today is #InternationalHumanRightsDay, and also the day when UK and EU leaders discuss weaken the rights of people fleeing war and persecution.
If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it.
Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇
If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it.
Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today is #InternationalHumanRightsDay, and also the day when UK and EU leaders discuss weaken the rights of people fleeing war and persecution.
If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it.
Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇
If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it.
Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇
Painted onto trains the Great British Public don't actually own ...
Great British Railways branding, train livery and logo unveiled https://bit.ly/4rIz0pF
Great British Railways branding, train livery and logo unveiled
Great British Railways branding, train livery and logo unveiled https://bit.ly/4rIz0pF
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Painted onto trains the Great British Public don't actually own ...
Sitting in a greasy spoon in Golders Green, wolfing down a bacon-based set breakfast, a table away from two women (a Peruvian and a white-haired Australian) who are discussing colonialism, indigenous rights, mestizos, and hippy tourism in India. #VivatLondinium #SmallJoys #TinyJoys
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sitting in a greasy spoon in Golders Green, wolfing down a bacon-based set breakfast, a table away from two women (a Peruvian and a white-haired Australian) who are discussing colonialism, indigenous rights, mestizos, and hippy tourism in India. #VivatLondinium #SmallJoys #TinyJoys
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Thanks to Tommy Robinson for reminding us of the importance of welcoming the stranger this Christmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Thanks to Tommy Robinson for reminding us of the importance of welcoming the stranger this Christmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
My takeaway from today's #advent course on the O antiphons is 'what on earth was J M Neale translating for his 'Radix Jesse' verse, cos it sure as heck isn't the original Latin !?'. #FreeTranslation #LapsedClassicist #advent2025
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My takeaway from today's #advent course on the O antiphons is 'what on earth was J M Neale translating for his 'Radix Jesse' verse, cos it sure as heck isn't the original Latin !?'. #FreeTranslation #LapsedClassicist #advent2025
An openly fascist broadsheet puffing two middle-aged white men trivialising the brutal deaths of five women doesn't come as a surprise, but it's still nauseating nonetheless.
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
An openly fascist broadsheet puffing two middle-aged white men trivialising the brutal deaths of five women doesn't come as a surprise, but it's still nauseating nonetheless.
Do you want to see a T*RF in Piccadilly? Do you want to see that raggedy a*se wizard woman your king?! *rousing 'No-s' and cheers*
Turning off replies and quotes before some wanker uses it to briefly have a go at people I love.
I don't speak out often on this here - everybody needs a space away all that from time to time - but I am LIVID right now and want to nail my colours to the mast.
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP.
I don't speak out often on this here - everybody needs a space away all that from time to time - but I am LIVID right now and want to nail my colours to the mast.
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP.
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do you want to see a T*RF in Piccadilly? Do you want to see that raggedy a*se wizard woman your king?! *rousing 'No-s' and cheers*
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Richard's coronation at Westminster Abbey draws near.
Premiere: 🦁 RICHARD THE LIONHEART (1963) 11am #DermotWalsh #AlanHaywood in 'The People's King,' the final episode in the series #TPTVsubtitles
Premiere: 🦁 RICHARD THE LIONHEART (1963) 11am #DermotWalsh #AlanHaywood in 'The People's King,' the final episode in the series #TPTVsubtitles
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The idols of the nations are copper and silicon,
made by human hands.
They generate, but cannot write;
imitate, but cannot create.
They give advice but cannot think,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
Psalm 135 (updated)
made by human hands.
They generate, but cannot write;
imitate, but cannot create.
They give advice but cannot think,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
Psalm 135 (updated)
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The idols of the nations are copper and silicon,
made by human hands.
They generate, but cannot write;
imitate, but cannot create.
They give advice but cannot think,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
Psalm 135 (updated)
made by human hands.
They generate, but cannot write;
imitate, but cannot create.
They give advice but cannot think,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
Psalm 135 (updated)
Meanwhile, Northern Ireland deploys countermeasures ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Meanwhile, Northern Ireland deploys countermeasures ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
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Juries are one of our most important safeguards against authoritarianism.
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
David Lammy expected to water down plans to scrap most jury trials
Justice secretary suggests he will stick to Leveson’s recommended three-year sentence threshold, after ‘cabinet feedback’
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Juries are one of our most important safeguards against authoritarianism.
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
No, Sister Bond, I expect you to pray ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
⚡️ Sweden is warning churches to steer clear of Belarusian nuns tied to Russia’s military intelligence.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
No, Sister Bond, I expect you to pray ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
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📌Maybe stop using the term "double-tap" as if you've been doing it your whole life, and not just the past 48 hours.
You sound stupid, but worse (much worse), are helping to sanitize a heinous war crime and mass murder.
-thx
You sound stupid, but worse (much worse), are helping to sanitize a heinous war crime and mass murder.
-thx
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📌Maybe stop using the term "double-tap" as if you've been doing it your whole life, and not just the past 48 hours.
You sound stupid, but worse (much worse), are helping to sanitize a heinous war crime and mass murder.
-thx
You sound stupid, but worse (much worse), are helping to sanitize a heinous war crime and mass murder.
-thx
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Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year.
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What you can't see are the Dutch ships towing that navy away ...
Armed Britannia Surveying Her Navies [reverse of a medal of Charles II], 1667 by Jan Roettiers (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What you can't see are the Dutch ships towing that navy away ...
Royal Mail in 'Christ and His earthly family were brown' shocker ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
These Little Englanders are furious with the Royal Mail’s Christmas stamps and of all the first class comebacks this one knocked the rest out of the park
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/t...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/t...
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Royal Mail in 'Christ and His earthly family were brown' shocker ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
To me, to you. Down a bit. Mind the arch ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
Emperor Heraclius returning the true Cross to Jerusalem
Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31; Expositio in Apocalypsim, Alexander Minorita; 1249-1250 CE; Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony; f.81v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31; Expositio in Apocalypsim, Alexander Minorita; 1249-1250 CE; Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony; f.81v @camdiglib.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
To me, to you. Down a bit. Mind the arch ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
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None of the actual solutions to tackling channel crossings are new. Governments have been told them, and shown examples of how such policies work elsewhere, for years. They don't implement them because of the biggest obstacle to a functioning asylum system, appeasing racists. 11/
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
None of the actual solutions to tackling channel crossings are new. Governments have been told them, and shown examples of how such policies work elsewhere, for years. They don't implement them because of the biggest obstacle to a functioning asylum system, appeasing racists. 11/
*rites
Jeff (no, the building super powered jet turbines in garage one)
@jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social
· 20d
GET UP
STAND UP
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS
STAND UP
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
*rites
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The LGBTQ community has been saying that targeting trans people will disproportionately affect cis women for FUCKING YEARS. And it does. LGBAliiance treat them like their abuse is acceptable collateral damage to their prejudicial grift crusade.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The LGBTQ community has been saying that targeting trans people will disproportionately affect cis women for FUCKING YEARS. And it does. LGBAliiance treat them like their abuse is acceptable collateral damage to their prejudicial grift crusade.