museumsmith

"How long does she have?"
"About two more episodes."
#CallTheMidwife

"I hoped it might be something treatable, but given that it's the final series ..." #CallTheMidwife

Dragon posting

The request to use someone’s preferred pronouns is not an act of violence or oppression. It is a summons to courtesy. Refusal to do so is performative cruelty masquerading as self-proclaimed integrity.

Perhaps they might prefer "Judea and Samaria" like the masacrer-in-chief himself? /s

‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining

This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Belated felicitations!

"Can one be pardoned and retain th'offence?"

Wait, what now ...

"Alas, poor Horatio. I knew him, Yorick ..."

"In 1911 he was the surgeon on the scene at Sidney Street ..." - also a decent tongue-twister if I say so myself ...

Having played Horatio, I never thought I'd see a #Hamlet where *he* was cut but Fortinbras survived ...

Pffft, I can make helmet at home! All I need is onnnee metallll aubergine ...

Still in his packing case near the Corona at @cburycathedral.bsky.social ...

... and Dover Castle almost certainly recycled the ramparts from which Britons chucked spears down at Caesar! #WoadRage

*TOC TOC TOC* Ils sont fous, ces artilleurs!

My father (first ever UKC cohort, first uni student in his family) would be spinning in his grave if we'd opted for inhumation ...

Crêpe menu extract showing three jam options, including "myrtiles sauvages" (wild blueberries).

Sauvages? Ils étaient furieux! #SmithAbroad #EatingLikeCrêpe

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a car and talking to her . Alt: A man in a suit and tie is sitting next to a woman in a car and telling a standing man next to the car "win some, lose some".

Successfully defending repatriation of colonial objects to an 'oh, but it'll empty all our museums' proponent in a departure lounge on 7 hours' sleep. ✅
Advertising my museum to the same interlocutor and correcting him that the Met Police was not in fact founded by Sir John Peel. ❎

#ArsonInHisMajesty'sDockyards

@billybragg.bsky.social
Billy Bragg

"The ghost of Martin Niemöller
Haunts the halls of history
When they came for the communists
He said ‘It’s nothing to do with me,'
What excuses would you tell yourself
If this ever happened to you?
Well I live in a city of heroes
I know what I would do."

Angel? Being a fascist she should be being led into a hellmouth, surely?

"I need your loudest Whataboutery klaxon. No, that's still not loud enough ..."

Smiley orange dog with white snout, belly and paws under a table on a TGV.

Le Chien à Grande Vitesse... #BonChien #GoodBoy #TonguesOutTuesday #SmithAbroad #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky @groupe-sncf.com

#SmithAbroad

If you hear a creaking sound, it's my English Reformation module during an ancient history BA at an ultra-secular uni early this century coming back to life ...

a cartoon pirate is sitting at a table giving a thumbs up and saying `` well yes '' . Alt: The Pirate Captain sits at a desk and says "Well yes, but actually no"

When a French museum label about their Wars of Religion claims "Henry VIII of England founded the Anglican church" ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️