"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

I've been fucking about on TikTok just to keep Up To Date and somehow managed to get 26k views on a video, reinforcing my belief that social media strategy can be boiled down to: keep fucking about until it works

The fun thing about doing work for smaller organisations is that getting 100 extra followers feels just as rewarding as 1000 for a bigger place

checking the museums association conference page to remind myself whatever the fuck I promised I'd say in my talk

My toddler is crying because I wouldn't give her lager

MERL yet again showing what it means to be all about the community

some good content wot I saw in the last couple of weeks which is in my newsletter

are there any smaller/regional theatres doing a really good job on social media? Like, not just treading water or spamming ads

I can't stress enough how good you need to be at sounding natural to do TikTok properly and it's really really difficult

all the strategy in the world isn't worth shit if you haven't employed a poster

just realised it's because it stands for crea(tive) med(iterranean)

*banging the lectern at the Reform rally* THE FUTURE OF DRIVEWAYS IS POROUS RESIN

After having to use hootsuite for a client, I feel I may have been too harsh on Meta Business Suite in the past

Doing one of my favourite hobbies: walking around East Reading and wondering how people afford such nice massive fucking houses

I'm doing a talk and they're using this online platform called 'Creamed' and I worry incessantly about when and how I will be creamed

The journalist who wrote this needs a pulitzer yorkmix.com/global-flags...

I just want everyone at Historic England to know that their website's Listing search is really easy to use and I like it

Employing Mandelson is truly that arrested development meme of it never working for anybody else, but it just might work for us

the @museumsassociation.org asked me to promote my talk at the conference it is called the art of museum shitposting it will be a moment to relax and not try and be worthy there are screenshots of dril tweets i will be saying the word shit in front of potential employers multiple times

I knew I couldn't survive working for an American company when my manager at Tesla asked me 'are you happy with what you've achieved today?' and I just said Yes, when she was actually passive-aggressively saying that I wasn't working hard enough

Can't wait to tell my baby that we sacrificed going on holidays because of her, but it actually wasn't because of money it would just be a fucking nightmare to go on holiday with her

Yet another one for the Taylor Swift bandwagon

☺️ my dentist 🦷 said I have very strong 💪 jaw muscles 🙂‍↕️ because I am constantly clenching my jaw at night due to stress 🙃

Interviews that entirely focus on what you've done rather than at least a *bit* of what you would do in the role are entirely pointless

the true benefit of doing a talk on shitposting is that my presentation can be absolute dogshit quality and will fit the brief

Born for the stage

this is not a drill. Radiohead are playing in november.

Everyone's always anxious about living up to Bluey's parents but what if it's your kid that's the boring unimaginative fucker

Didn't know how much I needed to hear the words 'animatronic dinosaurs' in a west country accent until I came to Wookey Hole

yer da paints roundabouts

Just doing a contract with a university that uses the word 'timeously' and then I found it it's a Scottish thing

After dipping my toe in the private sector, the pay for this looks good for museums but is absolutely rock bottom for comparable roles

no drug can match the high of finishing a task and then systematically closing down every tab you had open for it

The most impactful legacy you can leave at any museum/gallery/archive/library is to take a load of good stock photos. they'll be using those bad boys for decades.

I feel patriotic when we achieve something. When positive culture and vibes and investment push us to achieve scientific breakthroughs like the COVID vaccine, or a local group springs up to clean the streets, or a band I like breaks America. A badly painted flag on a utility closet doesn't cut it.

I cannot stress enough how much opportunity there is here.

Just drove over our fist At George's roundabout. I asked my 22-month old daughter if it made her proud to be English. She looked at me then said 'Two world wars and one world cup', and my dog clapped

honestly hard to tell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

it is still very funny that the no.1 thing to do in Reading on Tripadvisor is the railway station

I used to live near Weoley Castle and let me tell you, the entire vibe of the place is flat roof pub

please, a left-wing party that cares about the majority but also doesn't want to leave NATO

I got asked to write an article about alt-text, social media and museums. The BM, the V&A and the National Gallery historic images were all in copyright. So instead I chose a photo from the Rijksmuseum which has probably rarely been seen before, and now a whole magazine of people will see it.

My newsletter template is sending out text in a compltely different format that it's designed for and it's ILLEGIBLE. Sorry about that, I'm going to just switch to something super basic next week.

My irrational hatred of musicals is my biggest blocker to a theatre marketing career

simple but effective change is instead of writing down shit like 'Workshop outline' writing 'What we'll be doing' 'What we want at the end' instead of 'Objectives' just the constant unlearning of writing like I work in a university or council

Wikipedia will always know how many 'b's are in 'blackberry'

Re-listening to Daft Punk, transported back to being 16 years old listening to Discovery on a portable CD player on the number 9 to Stourbridge, thinking 'this isn't rock and roll'