Neon Ferret

This is our Rural Telephone Exchange.
It used to be a fuel store many moons ago but now houses equipment from the 1940s.
It runs our internal telephone system.
And it still works when we have a power cut!

We've got lots happening at the Museum this month!
Head to our website for full details: buff.ly/o2TRNpN

Good morning - it’s Day 3 at the Rose & Crown dig! Here are a few moments from yesterday’s work, with the team in action and plenty happening at the site. 

Don’t forget you can visit the dig at our free public drop‑ins:
📅 28 February or 7 March
⏰ 11am–2pm
📍 Rose & Crown, St Michael’s Street

Thank you for telling Simon the ship’s cat’s story

🤣🐑🧶 #knit #knitsky

Update: B, C, D

C, D

Chicken sitting a computer. Computer says "Absolutely! You've got this!" The computer sits smiling while, off camera, the chicken yells "AUUGH!" Caption: Don't ask A.I. if you should take up chainsaw juggling.

Encouraging. www.patreon.com/posts/encour...

fifteen picture flat books, i'm giving away to a school.

SCHOOLS!

Here are fifteen books.

I'm giving them away.

If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know.

I'll pick one of you this evening.

You can share it too, if you like.

Ta.

A young mule deer buck looks toward the camera, but his entire body is shrouded in a spooky haze, with glowing eyes most visible.

The condensation on the lens turned our mule #deer buck with the little antlers into something spectral! #cameratrap

A plea for help from Bluesky #Academia
Does anyone have a (book) copy of "Credibility Assessment (J C Yuille 1989)? I'm interested in the chapter "Recent Developments in Statement Analysis (Steller 1989) for an article I'm writing. I can't find it anywhere online.

Cartoon.

#Cartoon

A grey squirrel (roughly in the centre of the picture) sits in a tree. Being winter, the tree has no leaves, although there’s an evergreen bush in the hedge in the background. Behind the hedge is a brick wall. Overall, not a great photo of a squirrel, but it rarely sits still enough for a closer, better photo.

On a sunny winter day, a squirrel visits.

Some goats with long horns that curve backwards (I assume they are handily for scratching their backs!). The goats have black hair on their heads, faces and necks, with white hair everywhere else. The hair is quite shaggy. They are in a green field, with a tree-based hedgerow at the back. The sky is blue and there are no clouds.

The goats are enjoying the Christmas Day sun, despite the cold wind.

Merry Christmas!

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Yey for the #NHS!
Stay well WulfHelm.

Survived getting my hair done, so still in

Scarlett sighed as Algernon started his “I’m a little teapot” routine again. Would she have no peace from his music hall rehearsals?
#GirlsOwnCC

A green parakeet with an orange beak sits on a twiggy tree branch. In the background is a tiled roof, with some moss visible on the tiles. A small bit of sky is in the upper left hand corner.

Makes a change from the usual pigeons. Don’t often get a parakeet perching here

Uggi the dog and a copy of The Night Guest

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!

Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)

Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

Hoping for your speedy recovery

YouTube video by Duval Guillaume Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'

When ever I think about how we are empowering #AI agents to do the the shopping for us it reminds me of this incredible mind reader from Belgium that wasn’t so incredibly after all. #Online #fraudsters just got a super weapon.

youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I

Is there a native English speaking writer online that would be so kind as to let me slip into their dms and help me come up with a plausible sounding 12th century euphuism for a thing?

This is hilarious! Not seen it before 🤣

🦇 We are still receiving calls for injured and grounded bats, if you do find a bat that needs help, please contact the Bat Conservation Trust National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228 or report it via our website www.kentbatgroup.org.uk or simply google "help I've found a bat" for advice

Headless bird thread for Halloween 🎃

Basketwork Sutton hoo mask

Millstones!

Great exhibition photo of technology advances. Eg a bunch of machinery

Sick note

Favourite @themerl.bsky.social items

This thread went in an unexpected direction for an unexpected connection 😀

In the foreground is a goat eating something off a branch this laying on the ground. The patch of ground is brown because it is covered in leaves that have fallen. The goat has a black head and neck. Its body is mainly white. It’s a bit shaggy haired and has two smallish horns. A bit further back is a second goat. It sits on the ground. It has two big horns that curve backwards over its back. Beyond this goat is a green field edged by trees. As it’s a sunny morning and where the goats are in relation to the direction of the sun, they are a bit backlit

The goats were enjoying the sun this morning. I’m not sure what breed of goat they are - some had impressive curved horns that appeared handy for scratching their backs.