Rohan Jayasekera

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

Ol’ Jaydee did seem to think of the late Pope as a feeble old woke Latino, but poisoning his Earl Grey does seem a bit Putinesque. I worry how Elizabeth II’s last service to her country was to kick Bozza out the door only to let in something worse. As moderate papal successors are in short supply…

Bexhill

Ok.

The Conspiracy Lounge. Closed.

Or is that what they want you to think…

Christmas treats: daughter, smoothie, black coffee, Irish whiskey, London…

Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...

AI - Alcohol Idiocy.

BBC Radio 4 - Today Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen returns to a now abandoned Syrian presidential palace. I love the idea that Bashar Assad’s leave-on-the-desk-to-impress choice of book was Piers Morgan’s autobiography. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.

Proof perfect. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” especially when allied with extraordinary human beings, and shared with beautiful purpose.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tyrannosaur teeth in southern England reveal Cretaceous dinosaur ecosystem Spinosaurs, tyrannosaurs and relatives of Velociraptor once stalked England’s south coast.

The Natural History Museum picks at @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social's dinosaur teeth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Counter Culture An exhibition looking at 175 years of shopping at Boots, take a walk through the history of this Nottingham brand, in our Djanogly Gallery.

Best. Ever. Exhibition title.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/c...

Remember, remember the fifth of December (is when we'll be (re)launching our new Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund)

What’s missing from this picture?

Zoe from Fit & Fab Families warms up the participants in the #Bexhill Lions annual Santa Dash…

Tara Donovan’s Bluffs. Intricate, natural, beautiful (and made of thousands of clear plastic buttons). Hastings Contemporary.

Just a quick heads up:
@museumsassociation.bsky.social are currently offering 25% discount on all membership packages.
MA membership is available for all people involved within the museum sector, including freelancers and volunteers, & monthly payment options are available too 🙂

Definitely interested for a possible display at Bexhill.

Thanks!

Swans give him a bit of a wide berth…

Black coastal bird on a stopover - Cormorant or Black Heron?

Black coastal bird on a stopover - Cormorant or Black Heron? #bexhill Taken in Egerton Park.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

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A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants| Kate Maltby Mark Rylance’s sensitive portrayal blinds us to the lessons Henry VIII’s righthand man could offer for Donald Trump 2.0

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

a man in a black hat is smiling and holding a book ALT: a man in a black hat is smiling and holding a book

Pretty much all I thought about both Wolf Hall book & series is here: “A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants.”

2 weeks until our next members’ meeting at Norwich Castle 🏰

Join us (it’s free!) to network with your sector colleagues, hear about what we’re up to at the MA, and find out more about Royal Palace Reborn, one of the UK’s largest ongoing heritage projects: www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

Charles Arthur: "I am now officially begging you not to use chatbots of any ilk as search engines. Absolutely begging you. And where search engines stick a chatbot on the top (looking at you, Google), ignore that too." 👍 theoverspill.blog/2024/11/22/g...

And they are? :-)