Getting my dog groomed at what I can only describe as the most eastern european post-Soviet collapse coded place possible

I like Reading but sometimes I think it'd be nice to be able to take a walk with my daughter without dirt bikes on the tow path and drug deals in the park

Every arts org in a crisis

We're watching Beauty and I can suspend belief for the exploding sex virus but not the clichéd fight/chase scene in Venice. You're telling me the streets are deserted in this over-touristed city? That builders leave pallets of bricks suspended by rope, ready to fall on villains?

I've got a job on at the moment just creating stories from paintings, and all I can think while doing it is 'this is the good shit. This is mana.'

i saw this picture and never noticed the Levi's. Levi's didn't come up with the message. Nothing about this makes me want to buy jeans. LinkedIn is a fucking nightmare.

The primary purpose of the Like button is to say 'I acknowledge you've said this but I'm too tired to think of a reply'

this looks like a great job at the IWM but these kind of roles are always mixing PR with digital engagement. In my experience those worlds are fairly far apart and specialised? imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

I can't connect with 50% of job adverts because they always have some variation of "You're the kind of person who turns water to wine, inspires others and are at the top of their game' and all I can think is 'but I'm just a sad twat, does that qualify'

You know you're on a good tour when the guide spends a good five minutes explaining the local recycling scheme

Kourion. Top tier ruins.

Can someone please employ me to do museum social media at a salary that can support a child

As someone who's terrible at raising their voice, someone gave me a great technique for bringing a workshop/group back to attention: ask whoever can hear you to do a single loud clap, then again for two claps, and by that point the ripple effect will reach everyone

Agree to do a workshop in 6 months time Do a flurry of work Forget about it Stress about it Put it off Finally just sit down and have a crack Get stressed Have another go and it's actually fine, this should be good <---I am here Do the workshop Stress that it was shit

I love going to EU workshops/projects because they invariably start with pictures of devastated cities and a guy saying 'remember when we all killed each other? Let's maybe collaborate so we never do that again' I'd say USA never learned the same lesson, but, we have the AfD too

behind every social media post

truly forgot how much I love mooching around a museum, dipping into labels, examining a little pot, imagining the life of people 4000 years ago

I am 9 followers away from reaching the 10k microinfluencer threshold on TikTok, when I can finally be invited to sad heritage events with travel expenses

I should call her*

Me driving around in my little fiat punto

Yellowed labels ✅ Fluorescent lighting ✅ Underfunded ✅ The closest we get to paradise ✅ I've made it to a local authority museum

"Rain has fallen on every day bar one since 6 January, 25 which were consecutive days." 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'll say one thing for Cypriots they love to park on pavements

Another log in the 'always money for the capital development, never for payroll' www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

people pay me for this

I am very tired of pretending I could be a graphic designer

Nothing will shake my belief that bar service is superior to table

banning dril is like censoring martin luther that fucker will be stapling posts to church doors and cause the revolution of all social media

This is just...weird. It's not like the BM don't have enough stock images of people looking at stuff? Or is the classic case of someone higher up paying an AI company money for whatever reason, then they have to use it? news.artnet.com/art-world/br...

me typing on my mechanical keyboard at home: I am a god, I am productive, I could hack into the pentagon me out of home typing on a normal laptop: I am a worm, I am weak, I should apply to ICE

It'd be nice to have a song referencing my daughter's name (i.e. Michelle by the Beatles) but unfortunately her name's Stella and the Interpol song is definitely about prostitutes

Does anyone know what's worth doing in Limassol? I'm leaving the country for the first time in about 4 years and all I've got to go on is the Maximo Park song

all this stuff reminds me that there's a shit ton of money being used by bad people for bad things while most of the world starves, and it radicalises me all over again

I did an interview about tone of voice at @themerl.bsky.social! We talked about: - The MERL pre- and post- absolute unit (the @adamkoszary.bsky.social era) - How I got to work in museums - Why you should be nice to your comms staff open.substack.com/pub/stratcommsurgery/p/comms-care-5

Peter Jackson did an intro for the Fellowship of the Ring for the 25th anniversary screening I saw last night and I can only describe it as this www.youtube.com/watch?v=yujF...

nothing beats getting an early train and watching a massive cathedral slowly loom out of the morning mist

I've reached peak powerpoint. I've got options for workshop exercises animated to glide along a picture of the conveyor belt challenge from the Generation Game while Bruce Forysth looks on sadly

My toddler is bringing me biscuits. Finally a return on my investment

wonder if the preachers scene in Life of Brian drew on this print by Gustave Dore - I know Gilliam used some of his stuff in his animations

This thread about underrated or overrated museums is so nice because instead of sticking it to overrated places it's mainly full of so much love for the underrated ones (people seem to really like Museum of the Home) <3 reddit.com/r/AskUK/comm...

I've done it. I've made a presentation that isn't dogshit. And all it took was screen-capping and stealing articles and presentations by about 50 people who are better than me.

you would not believe the amount of catfishing content there is on TikTok. Whenever I'm logged into a clean account it's one in five videos. Just pure thirst traps for the hornily lonely.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Hoo boy

always shocked and awed by the people I meet in real life who are just normal funny people but they post on LinkedIn like they're on the Apprentice (not in a good way)

I just immediately assumed this was a metaphor for centrists and trump

my body is sat at a desk in Reading but my heart is and always will be on the ramp in birmingham

It is with great pleasure I can report: The Bone Temple is very good